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Except that’s not freedom.

It is not freedom to have a, and this really isn’t an exaggeration, more than 10,000x personal cost for transportation. It’s freedom for the rich, but the rich aren’t a part of society and cannot be generalized into society.

It is not freedom to have to personally rely on the US to do the right thing.

It is not freedom to take on the massive legal and financial risk that is driving a death machine.

It is only freedom in the most infantile, ‘Anarkiddie’ sense of the word freedom. The ‘Hurr durr we’d all be more free if we had less laws’ kind of idiocracy most humans abandon by the age of 15 when they learn about the concept of government.

Except there is absolutely no reason it has to be like that in rural areas. Period. At all. Even a little. Look at China (or if you still believe the NED puts out legitimate stories, Denmark or Sweden or Norway) which has public transit to nearly all rural areas at least a couple times a week, and inter-village public transit in pretty much all villages that have more than a dozen people.

Busses are more efficient than independent vehicle ownership in all settings. All of them.

Bro look up median publisher and dsitrbutor fees. There’s a reason steam became the defacto publishing platform, it was the cheapest option by far.

If I say ‘death to nazi germany,’ it’s pretty clear to people with a functional pre-frontal cortext that I mean that the regime should no longer exist, the state in its current form shouldn’t exist, and anyone wanting to enforce such a harmful ideology likely shouldn’t exist.

Israel, a state younger than the invention of computer programming; a state which was born from terrorism and genocide and just never stopped; a state whose history has not seen a single day of peace, nor been the victim in a single conflict it has been involved in; should not be protected nor praised – its ideology is hate, Zionism is a direct copy of nazi ideology, down to its finest point of taking unrelated esoteric religious practices to justify its monsterous behavior, the only noticeable difference being the poorly defined ‘German’ scratched out hastily and a even more poorly defined ‘Jew’ written in its place like a slur.

There is no overexaggeration of any crimes you have ever heard performed in the name of zionism; there is no actual known limit to their depravity. If you can imagine something awful, the IDF have not only done it, they’ve done it on camera then made a Tiktok dancing in their victim’s clothing afterwards.

The entire society is rotted, and has been since its birth, which again was closer in time to us than the invention of the Jet airplane.

Death to Israel is the only possible moral stance.

Their admins are literally genocidal zionists who advocate for the eradication of brown people.

I agree, the people in charge of your instance, who happen to full-throatedly support the genocide of the palestinian people, do not however agree. That is something for your to wrestle with, and maybe choose a better instance should you wish to both advocate for or participate in acts prohibited to be discussed by lemmy.world’s rules.

According to lemmy.world’s rules, as written by the Zionists in charge; advocating for any sort of violence would be against the rules. You have to go to those instances to see both proof of action plus advocating of further action.

Borther 30 years 60 years, it does not matter; you are sending swat to raves literally this week. under labor, for a law written by monty python that literally criminalizes every single march or statistically every group of 20^2 people walking in any given space..

This wild idea perpetuated in the US that we live in some sort of Police State is absurd.

It’s not the US, it’s the entire rest of the world. All europeans make fun of your prison island. Heck the only reason most European countries interacted with you all pre-brexit was because you were on the right side of WWII… eventually.

Are you quite a police state? You are the closest thing one could describe as a police state, from prison time for criticizing the government, saying the UK shouldn’t participate in a genocide, to not being able to buy a butter knife without ID.

The only thing you are missing is harsher punishments for your ridiculous ‘crimes,’ but I think that might actually cause a revolution in your country.

Keir was one of the few who (finally) stood up to that blustering man-child that you guys have.

Keir is a blustering man child, and a genocidal monster.

And no, plenty of leaders have stood up to Trump, the UK was slow on the uptake to that but the world has been resisting Trump.

Labour are far, far from perfect, but to say they’re more right wing than UKIP is a seriously odd take.

UKIP does not support Israel’s genocide, somehow. The Labour Party, after removing all the progressives and socialists because of ‘antiemitism’ does. Actively endorsing and participating in genocide makes you more right wing that just planning and endorsing one.

This is for devices sold, specifically new devices sold. Not the existence (or making of) and it only affects specifically consumer-grade devices sold explicitly for the consumer market. So it wouldn’t affect universities, homelabs, or any corporation.

It is just a shake down for bribes to continue selling routers in the US, that’s it.

Compared to the US you’re advanced, sure. So is Mexico, South Africa, China, and 40 other countries… The problem is the NK-propaganda level of silly laws and procedures that have come from your nightmare island.

This is one of them, 5-years for roleplay. For adults pretending to be something in an adult setting meant for adults. Are you going to ban every show that has murder? Are you going to say anyone that pretends to be a pedophile of a TV show gets 20 years in therapy for daring to bring that immorality to the British public? Are you going to give ten years for interracial? How about go full US and ban sodomy? Will you be banning doggy style for promoting bestiality?

And don’t get me wrong, it’s not just this particular bit of nonsense. Raves, for instance. Recently the UK sent multiple SWAT teams to a rave because, and I quote “The UK’s Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (specifically Sections 63-65) empowers police to stop outdoor gatherings of 20 or more people (100 in some definitions) playing music “wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”.”

I’m sorry but that law is so ridiculously vague and hilariously worded that Monty Python could sue. Literally this is ‘man goes shopping for his ant’ era of the Flying Circus in how specifically ridiculous that is.

And you can’t say this is olden time nonsense – these are modern laws written for modern Britain. This is post Thatcher. And it’s this level of silly. Every story that comes out of the UK falls into three categories:

1. Monty Python’s Law and Order SVU.

2. Benny Hill’s The Rise of the Fourth Reich (seriously why is the labor party more right wing that UKIP now?)

3. Jimmy Carr’s Here’s another English word the English don’t use right.

Would.

The UK truly is one of the biggest jokes of a country.

That’s nice, and genuinely good for you if that’s your calling, but that is something you choose, not something that you need to do. Again the total number of people on the planet contributing practically 100% of the food grown for sale is 2%. Down from 98% less than two centuries ago.

The reason people are able to do things other than farm for 6-9 months out of the year, is because productivity in that field is so incredibly high we can feed the world off the labor of 2 people in a hundred. And this is already, currently, true for nearly all production fields. A single textile worker produces more textiles than a 1,000 could have a century ago. Similar increases in productivity are true for nearly every field save for incredibly niche (but still important) industries.

Automation is just going to keep increasing this over time. We will never completely eliminate human labor, at least not while we resemble anything close to human, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have already dropped the 40 hour work week down to 10 hours (we’d still have more production than at any point in human history) and that doesn’t mean we can’t strive to eliminate work to the furthest extent possible so we can actually enjoy life; even if that enjoyment for people like you is spending your time farming manually.

You’re right that I’m relatively hostile and in general this platform breeds hostility due to the ideological differences between those that created and originally populated the platform, and reddit ‘refugees’ that disagree with reddit’s management but not the far-right ideologies so ever present in all aspects of that website (fostered of course by bots). Those with your viewpoint tend not to want to learn, and instead decide anyone to the left of burning orphans for warmth is a ‘tankie.’ That’s not fair to you.

To clarify, you have a transactional worldview, you assume that in order to exist, one must be useful to society. This incidentally narrows down the number of countries you could be from, as it’s not actually a common idea. Protestants, and generally former global empires are the two places you’ll see this so readily codified into the public conscious to be fed down to a general idea of jealousy of your fellow worker; i.e. you believe that all things must be earned, and if you feel someone is getting something that by your estimation they have not earned, you feel slighted.

This is a greedy and self-interested idea, but can be worked with until you limit the essentials. So I’d like to refocus on that.

In a normal human household, for nearly all of human history and human present, in nearly all cultures and societies that have ever existed, the family dynamic is the one least commonly likely to be transactional. You wouldn’t keep food away from your child if they failed to do a chore, you wouldn’t take medicine away from your grandparents because they are too sick to sweep up, you wouldn’t stop showing affection towards your lover just because the dishes weren’t done. This is a non-transactional relationship. Everyone gets what they need, unconditionally. Now luxuries, that might be withheld; that might entirely be absent; that might be a reward for hard work – but the essentials everyone gets, even if they come at great personal loss.

Now, one might say, that is just family, and that could not work beyond that unit – again we look at history and the present. In most societies, in most cultures, in most of human history the ‘family’ and the ‘village’ had little differences beyond who is a possible (and societally acceptable) mate. Human behavioral biology (free course btw) is an interesting field that shows us that we didn’t evolve to protect the clan, those related to us; we evolved to protect everyone we saw as a tribe – including those not genetically related to us. How and why would evolution do that? What possible ‘survival of the fittest’ category could that fulfill? In short (but seriously watch the course) when we take care of others, and others take care of us, we all prosper and are more likely to pass on our genes. When we compete we are less likely to pass on our genes. Because competition narrows both the genetic field and makes it harder for those that survive the competition to continue surviving. We are not polar bears who can go off independently for half our adult lives and come back only to mate; we are weak tribal apes that have evolved to rely on each other.

Now… that background out of the way;

Imagine a world where we extend that family unit. We extend that tribe. We have an essential set of things that all humans are entitled to, that we all work to fulfill. Luxuries, again, may be withheld or rewarded, but not food, water, shelter, or any of the necessary items we all have come to rely on.

But, you will likely say, what if someone is greedy? – Greed is primarily a learned trait, although there is a clear genetic component, most people are not greedy. Those that are, we could treat like we treat any other person that breaks the social contract; i.e. education, imprisonment, or similar corrective action.

But, you might ask, how do we know who is actually contributing? – And I ask, why does that actually matter? To alay this concern I would point to the mountain of evidence that people want to work, especially when they are not alienated from the effects of their work; but I would still ask why does it matter? Does your toddler need to work in order to eat? Does your grandmother? Again we should be extending the idea of the tribe beyond our immediate web of connections, and that requires trust. And through research we can see the trust will always statistically be well placed.

But, you might ask, how do people get rewarded for their work? What’s the incentive? – The incentive, primarily, is the same incentive a mother has to clean up a spill or a child has to help their sibling with homework. Not love or anything so immeasurable – but good will, the direct understanding of the good that work does, and the satisfaction of knowing you made a positive change in your environment. Now that’s not to say there can’t be other rewards. Not every job has someone that wants to do it (though we’ve all seen enough kink videos to know most every job has someone way too into doing it that they’d do it for free), and maybe there can be additional incentive structures for luxuries; but the goal would be through education and showing people the direct positive results of their actions that everyone helps how they can, when they can, as much as they can.

But, you might ask, about those that are genetically greedy, those that would ‘take advantage’ and try to hoard wealth? Well my friend, there are a myriad of solutions for that, again from education and imprisonment, to the good ol’ French Micro Press.. Setting up a trust-based, family-oriented (actually family oriented) society means there are still rules, and those that would tear down society for their own gain would be on the level of murderers and child molesters.

• Not directly linked but the ideas referenced throughout:

Crash Course, What is socialism?

The Communist Manifesto

Plato’s The Republic

It’s better than pretending that repeating history and failed ideas will magically generate a different outcome. Pretending that we can ‘fix’ capitalism with more regulations or more reforms is silly when there has never been a successful capitalist country in history.

They, at best, have to adopt socialist-adjacent policies paid for by the explicit rape of slave countries and colonies just to survive a few more decades; with no actual plans for what happens if those colonies throw off their chains or how to ever stop exploiting people to survive.

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Then we punish them.

‘Oh you can’t outlaw murder, even in a perfect system people just do that so why even improve society.’

Why would there be transactions at all? What use is money if you can just get what you need?

The idea is to remove, albeit slowly, all of the distrust-based systems in society as we grow beyond simple fear-based order.

‘funding’ is a capitalist term, but yes a simplification of socialist and post-currency economics would be ‘the government funds treating the sick’… like it does in 109 countries, including every developed nation, and a majority of recognized developing nations except the US.