POV more like PIV amirite

POV* someone on lemmy is using POV incorrectly

* it’s yours. You’re the POV

I figured you would not agree. I’m probably not going to change your mind on this in a forum thread if you don’t see the same pattern that I do in the historical and recent examples. I do appreciate hearing your thoughts on this matter so clearly though.

Capitalists do these things, yes. My point is that the Republican party is much more friendly to Capitalists and their policies and much more influenced by them.

the drive for fascism is related to the ability for the capitalist class to continue to effectively control the population

You mean like through the media, where republicans are less truthful, own the means to control what news people see, and intervene (as on Twitter and Facebook) to prevent certain information from spreading? Or how Ronald Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine and vetoed its reinstatement?

Or do you mean through economic means, where republicans push to keep costs high for the poor and low for the rich (healthcare, tariffs, tax policy)?

Or maybe directly through force, like with ICE or historical examples like President Harding taking the side of the mining companies in the battle of blair mountain?

There is always a risk of fascism. My point is that fascist policies are implemented and acted upon far more often under R rule than D, and prosecuted more under D than R.

Fascism is when the capitalist class oversteps the legal boundaries and restricts the civil rights of the country, when bourgeois democracy is replaced with outright direct rule by capital.

Seems like democrats getting elected does help alleviate fascism then?

Also, what do you mean by “fighting it directly”?

That sounds amazing, but somehow our methods for achieving it always end up opposed.

If you don’t usually click video links this one is worth it, one of my all-time favorite videos and fairly short

I’m not going to lie, as an outsider this always seems to be the case. Could you explain what you actually want and what you could see realistically happening if the fascists won?

I’ve always been a fan of the color red. Imagine if (let me dream) the republican party falls and the DSA can take red as their color against the establishment dems’ blue. Fighting on the red side would feel good then!

Syllabaries ftw

Sorry God I didn’t know your gender was based on US politics in Texas

This guy gets it

Uh, no.

10 feet = 1 decafoot

100 centiyards = 1 yard

1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre

An example might be helpful.

In the 1800s, aluminum was more valuable than gold. It was very difficult to produce and it was valued very highly. Then someone figured out a way to extract it from the ore much more efficiently, making it much easier to obtain and much more common. If you had owned a $500 chunk of aluminum, it had that value because of its rarity; other people recognized it as being more valuable because it was more difficult to get. When it became more common, its value could have dropped to $50 (I don’t know how much the price actually dropped, but it was a lot).

Where did the $450 go? Nowhere, because monetary value is based on how much people are willing to pay, and unlike a physical substance it is not necessarily conserved; it can be created or destroyed. This is also how stocks work.

You can also create monetary value by transforming materials into a worked product (think knitting a sweater) or destroying something that took work to make (burning that same sweater). Unlike the stock market though, the price of physical goods is often based on their usefulness rather than speculation, so it tends to be more stable.

I don’t make new friends on forums. If I were to try, I’d probably find people who post things I’m interested in and DM them.

Wow thanks for the advice

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