I see you missed the part where I very clearly stated I did not want the usa invading iran. Saying that from a violent dictatorship is actually crazy, though. Really being a pot here.

You are. Don’t pretend you aren’t, on climate issues. You’re doing more than the usa, yes, but no where even close to enough.

You can eh? Then do it. I’m not so naive to think that uprising without outside intervention always succeed. Historically, outside support is very helpful for successful uprising.

You can’t just take out a dictatorship. And I don’t think that. You need long standing dedicated occupation that builds up the country over decades to have successes like japan.

“private individuals or companies that own and control businesses and property”, the simplest definition of capitalism

That’s not the simplest definition because it’s not the definition of capitalism at all. You can have property ownership without capitalism.

Because the average American and European feels their convenient lifestyle is more important than the life of the planet. They’ll talk the talk about the environment, but they won’t walk the wall with their votes or actions.

Exactly. People love to pretend they aren’t part of the problem as they keep their houses at 70 throughout 100° heat, roll car while driving their cars, and order boat loads of temu junk.

That’s why I think it’s horrifying that the usa is the one invading, yes

Iran is a horrifying dictatorship that deserves nothing less to be taken out with force. The only travesty is that American, on our own path of dictatorship and horrifying capitalism is the one who might do it.

Be a lot better if workers were more serious about organizing and striking

Lemmy calls anything left of Communism liberal.

When are leftists going to actually do something? Like. Sure. I’d be happy under Communism, but the momentum just isn’t there in America, unfortunately

I didn’t know blahaj.zone banned many

Bit of confirmation bias in that, no?

Fascists understand threats. The possiblity of violence is enough to scare them before they gain too much power. Once they feel they’re not at risk or just their goons are, they’ll be happy crushing anything with pure violence

Yes. I would, if they were still mad at the present german government.

Jury trials force more careful deliberation of facts, and reduce risks of intimidation, misleading, and bribery from the pool. By no means perfect, they reduce impulsivity and lack of evidence, the 2 primary issues of mob justice.

Well they still allow investment in themselves so clearly the fascist part isn’t the problem they have …

When it comes to interpersonal disputes, community members stepping up could be as effective as cops.

…mob justice is rarely ever a good idea, and best avoided if at all possible, excluding cases where the legal systems have blatantly failed. I feel that may fly too close to that, depending on how it’s organized.

The people bring the violence to organized crime as much as the organized crime brings the violence to people.

That’s a complete fantasy. People don’t rape, don’t assault, others because of only money. Yes, capitalism increases those harms. But drug addicts will exist in any society, for a variety of reasons, as long as drugs are possible to access (so off the bat there is questionable), and you can do harm reduction for that. But beyond that, there people out there who get a power high off of abusive others. There will still be that crime.

I’m well aware of everything you said, I just have a bit less faith in the default good of humanity. There will still be abusers and rapists.

I have to admit we need arms and to train and organise ourselves well. Not voting has never helped do anything (unless if a minimum turnout is necessary to validify the results), other than democracies strongly disapproving of results.

Of course. To defeat fascism, at a minimum we need to be doing protests that have a real threat behind them. A lot harder to break up a crowd when we have assault rifles.

You need some law enforcement. There will always be violent criminals, no matter what form of society you want. They’re poisonous and awful, and the system should be burned to the ground---- but we will need a replacement.