I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Capitalism is not directly the problem

    Unregulated capitalism is

    Nay unregulated system is bad. If you think communism is great, ask people from back then how much fun the purges were, the forced labor, the gulags, etc.

    Put fucking wealth caps in place already. Nobody can have a net worth over a million, the rest to tax. THAT makes a difference, that will actually change the world

    Putting any other unregulated system in place is just replacing one turd with another, and we’ve done that a thousand times with no success

    Capitalism, like it or not, is the strongest system to generate wealth. The real problem is that we let that wealth just go to a few. Put fucking Wealth caps in place.

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      1 day ago

      You just listed several things related to Authoritarianism, and called them communist

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        22 hours ago

        You just listed several things related to Authoritarianism, and called them communist

        Spoiler: they are the same thing. OK, fine. Not everything Authoritarian is Communist, but everything Communist will end up Authoritarian. Ask East-Europe.

        Not everything Social is bad, mind you, but holy shit can it go sideways.

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      I never said communism is great. I don’t know what the solution is, but capitalism isn’t it. Just like I don’t know the solution to the US voting problem is, but a two party system isn’t it.