Cowbee

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[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The best product should not be what's most popular in Capitalism, what's profitable to produce is what's most profitable. With tons of competition, you just have competing levels of automation, corner cutting, and exploitation.

Competition and markets in general are the cause of enshittification.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Increasing taxation is an incomplete band-aid.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Competition doesn't lead to innovation in improving people's lives, but company profits. See: enshittification.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

As much as I can without harming those who depend on me.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years ago

Christo-fascists openly revealing that they are genuinely terrible people held together with duct tape and faith in a genocidal God will never cease to be both hilarious and terrifying.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, which is why you have to combine that with grassroots movements. Just voting third party or for Trump gets fascists elected, and voting is therefore just loss prevention. To move to the left and improve things, Unionization, protesting, and organizing from the bottom-up is necessary.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Neither was I. An activist Socialist can't do much except in local and state levels, at a national level it takes a mass worker party for electoralism to have any real bite.

That's why I call national elections loss prevention, because you can either vote to maintain the status quo, or let marginalized groups be attacked and vilified as fascists gain power.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Even there, though, even as a president, you can't meaningfully move much without the support of the party. The difference for fascists is that the Republican party legitimately has a ton of actual fascists, so fascist presidents are extremely dangerous. If a Socialist led the DNC, it would be spoiled and wouldn't have much of a chance to move left.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you do that with voting?

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago

If conservatives knew the concept of solidarity, they'd be leftists.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Depends on the country, honestly. In America, I'm more inclined to believe Syndicalism would work, reform won't meaningfully happen from within.

In general, I'm anti-tendency and believe that the material conditions of each space need to be analyzed independently.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

The DNC's strongest warrior. Rails against Republicans for being the fascists they clearly are, but will absolutely cut you if you dare suggest moving to the left.

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