Mokey [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 24th, 2023
  • Mokey [none/use name]tonews@hexbear.net•The answer will NOT shock you.English
    37•9 months ago

    Theres some thread ive been pulling lately that in a developed society, only a generation or two is going to want to grind out of poverty and its unreasonable to think that society will want to do this forever, theres no point to living if you cant expect a good future or any fruit from your labor

    The only thing a capitalist country can really do to combat this is to enshittify which i think is what the US has been doing and Japan is doing in their own way

    When you have to start enshittifying your country i believe thats when you can instead move to the stages of socialism

  • Mokey [none/use name]tolatam@hexbear.net•Blas Roca Calderio - New General Megathread for the 22nd-23th of July 2024English
    11•9 months ago

    Venezuelan elections are on the 28th.

    All my Venezuelan friends are anti Maduro and they say hes corrupt and hes a modern populist figure like Trump. They blame him for the failures of the government.

    They never know what an embargo is and what it does. The other conclusion I reached is that corruption is not why a government fails, sure it can be, but the US is corrupt and we are still “successful.”

    The other problem I have is the amount of evangelist and religious people in the country, it seems like a real problem. One of my friends cousins is a Trump dipshit, worships white people and is super religious.

    My other problem is the selection bias regarding the people I know, theyre all musicians and generally not poor and not black. They say that theyre not racist over there and that Maduro bad is a common opinion but I’ve never met a black Venezuelan or someone who disagrees with them.

    What frustrates me is the most is really the embargo thing, that destroys economies and your opinion on socialism is flawed if you dont understand or care what the context around your own country is. “I’m from Venezuela, I know it better than you do. You don’t know” Maybe but that doesn’t fly if you apply that same logic to Americans. Most of us are completely ignorant animals.