The missiles targeting hospitals and schools are just for you!

Modern day fascist. This time the “in group” is defined as Jewish Israelis.

Have you seen Gaza bro?

Cop skull is real

Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.

I appreciate it. This has been a nice instance. Good luck in your future endeavors.

I think you might be confused (maybe).

Lemmings.world != lemmy.world

Let’s take a famous adage of “teach a man to fish” and attempt to demonstrate these two business strategies. Let’s bend this metaphor to the point of breaking. Fish are the analog for energy.

Business model #1: (solar panels) You make fishing poles so that people can fish on the lake for themselves. After you sell someone a pole, you no longer have that person paying you more money unless they break it. It’s a fairly straightforward business that allows people to get their own food.

Business model #2: (oil) You own the lake, you own the boats and fishing poles. You pay people a wage to fish, that are yours too. You pay people to sell your fish, you build infrastructure to wall off the lake. You pay guards a wage to protect your lake from people that want “free fish”. If people want food, you have leverage over people through ownership of all the assets and lake. You can raise prices when you want. As your fish business is successful you buy up all the lakes around and get a monopoly. Maybe you intentionally don’t merge with 1 or 2 other companies to prevent government regulation against monopolies and effectively raise prices in unison (it’s called price leadership). A freer market will just make this control worse and more pronounced. A new fuedalism will emerge of a few kings and serfs that own nothing and rent from people that own.

It’s more expensive, less efficient, less egalitarian, but it will be more profitable because you own it.

OK. Oil is only profitable for a select few people now. Why don’t we rise up in arms to change production and seize the means of production now? More people have incentive to now than not (most people are not oil billionaires), why doesn’t it change?

Coercion through state violence, a propaganda apparatus telling you the only way to structure society is through capitalism, and treats to sedate the masses from revolting against their living conditions.

A magic nebulous “more free” market doesn’t change that.

I struggle with this feeling a lot as well. I think it’s partly due to labor alienation, at least partially.

Exactly? Of course not

Almost exactly? Yes

That’s… the point

Cheaper is not the same as more profitable. It’s an important distinction. You can’t own and control the sun and charge people to harvest the energy. Monopolizing and gatekeeping are the end goals of capital owners.

Unless you think the Chinese market is more free. They’re producing solar panels like crazy.

Kind of. It’s the system they operate under, capitalism.

Get rid of those specific people and you would have others people take their place.

However, not to say that it isn’t worthwhile to also bust out the guillotines

Light the region’s oil fields on fire and mine the straight of hormuz.

Liberals seething rn

Yeah… Why punch up? We should leave old rich white people alone!

Jdpon Don we call him

The confederacy also didn’t want to be occupied and some people would like to go back to pre-invasion confederacy.

Tibet as localized governance and a federal government. They have some control, similar to how the US has a federal government. Obviously the government structure is different and China has more control at the federal level. I don’t care.

The US killed far far more people during the Civil War. Still justified.

Gonna give you a hint about what was going on in Tibet before reunification with China…

It was slavery. 95% of the population was a peasant class.