Note that the reason they called themselves socialists and communists is because a lot of people at the time considered this good, it’s like how many countries these days have “democratic republic” in their name, despite obviously being neither of those things.
Evil people can’t call themselves evil, they have to lie about what they are for people to get tricked into accepting them.
Minor massive correction: The world is run by very rich people who benefit from the current system
Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders…
And ask them what policies they want to see enacted, and they’ll give you a list that looks suspiciously like that of a socialist party.
I mean i’d imagine there were quite a lot of kings that were much like the modern king of e.g. Norway, where they really don’t do much other than PR and rubber stamping decisions.
Any ruler needs support from other powerful people, and since crowns were usually hereditary that means sometimes the new king won’t be a miserable sack of shit.
I mean put yourself in the position of some medieval prince whose dad was poisoned by an advisor or something, yeah sure you can live in luxury but it’s fucking risky, so if you don’t just opt to flee 5 countries over in hope of peace you’d probably try to be as inoffensive as possible and just gently nudge things in a non-shitty direction whenever possible.
So granted, not “good” kings, but considering how many rulers have and continue to be absolutely horrible i’d be pretty happy to live under a king who does nothing…
you realize “I’ll wait.” just makes you look like a ponce, right?
It’s like slamming open the door of a library, sneeringly declaring that books are for nerds, and just fucking standing there as if everyone will respond by throwing their books away and declaring you king.
genuinely what does that even mean? can you try rephrasing that?
But also, communism isn’t bad either.
It’s basically advanced socialism, not whateverthefuck stalin and mao were doing. It’s like how the full name of the nazi party was “national-socialist worker’s party”, obviously the nazis aren’t actually socialists, the only reason they use that word is because people at the time actually wanted socialism.
seriously, do this! it’s extremely fucking depressing!
Get a list of policies for a socialist party, read it to someone, then at the end say “and that’s the policies the socialist party want to implement” and watch the killswitch in their brain activate.
even before modern logistics we were broadly post-scarcity, that’s kind of the whole reason why humans are so successful, after we invented stone tools and fire we had basically won.
also like, he’s already been hard and genuine, why does he need to keep trying? he made it, he got popular and make music about how his life sucked and whatnot, just retire.
i have changed your gender, pray i do not alter it further
i’m becoming increasingly convinced that a lot of admin workers are just a bit evil, every decision seems to be guided by “what is the most egregious way i can misinterpret and mangle this paperwork?”
just recently there was a guy here in sweden who was fucking pronounced dead for absolutely no reason whatsoever, and courts ruled that it was an honest mistake??? like what the fuck, why are random admin workers seemingly a separate untouchable ruling class?? We’re not even talking about rich people, it’s just Mary in accounting who is arbitrarily allowed to redirect your wage to her bank account and go unpunished.
“100% US” will never cease being funny to me, the US is a fucking continent! Imagine if we in europe had “100% european milk!”, only place you wouldn’t see that seal is like, greece and bulgaria because they might import turkish milk…
these fish plushies are unironically the ideal cat toy: they’re the perfect size for the cat to latch onto and bunny kick to their heart’s content, there’s nothing on them that would harm the cat, and i bet they absolutely soak up scents like a sponge (which cats love).
have you looked at simplex? at a glance it seems robust and it actually works without much fiddling which is nice.
“HUMAN, BRING ME THE SECOND BRAIN CELL”
are you severely low on blood sugar or something?
I just want to note that “A system where people take care of themselves and neighbours” is called Mutualism, and is absolutely the single best concept in the world.
Basically everyone can and should practice it in their daily lives, just be kind to and try to greet or at least acknowledge those you meet, and if anyone needs help then do the best you can.
We tend to instinctively engage in mutualism with our family and friends, so just extend that feeling towards as many people as possible.