First that shit is not something you can pop like candy, your teeth can and will fall off if you use it as a “basic” antibiotics (which you shouldn’t be using as anyways without a pressing need? These things are nuclear bombs in your system, you might experience organ failure just from one pill excessive use)
Second the Chinese quality pills usage have been leading all of us to an antibiotic resistance catastrophe
Fun times when this things will be needed and they won’t even work anymore thanks to overuse
Bottom right pic hits hard. I plan to die in some fashion long before that. Fuck planning or saving for retirement if it doesn’t matter.
In other news, Denmark raised their retirement age to 70 recently, and our conservatives in the US have been squawking about the same. LOL.
What the fuck is the point of this shit existence for anyone who can’t become rich as a celebrity or wall street psycho? 90% of us are just here so the wealthy can have yachts, Lamborghinis, and mansions.
This place sucks.
The right wing party in Australia (a few elections ago) increased retirement age but with a “rolling date”. Meaning they all get to retire on time with the earlier date but the later you were born the later your retirement age. They literally set their retirement age in stone then fucked younger generations on their way out. It’s still currently rolling out, recently increased to 67 in 2023.
(In more ways than one bit this one is particularly obvious and idk how they got away with it).
This is the kind of socialist hellscape the capitalist is protecting us from.
Edit: Dense mixed used urban development, biking to work, walking to your nearest weekly market, buying unprocessed food for groceries and common public area easily accessible by foot for old people where they can mix with other generations.
Hmm but what if I want to make thousands of people work for me without giving any excess value created by their labour to anyone else?
What City is this?
That’s actually Chess, a board game that came out several years ago.
It looks like it was taken from the tower in Crest, France, but I might be wrong
It is, it’s a great place to visit or live in.
Image search says you’re right. Looks idyllic
The photo on the top left is of Crest, France.
All these pictures are from capitalist countries
No, honey, we have European Cities at home
Actually, this is what you’re fighting for in Capitalism:
Not for yourself, though, rather for a few who add up to less than 0.0000375% of Humanity.
Weren’t they going to build a 5-mile wide boat that looked like a turtle. Where’s that, I’m fighting for that.
Don’t you miss:
EDIT: Oh dang, people don’t like to fight for this either :(
There are many reasons to dislike the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but these tenements are not it. Quite a lot of people prefer to buy these sorts of apartments over newer ones simply because they are built better. Keep in mind that those in these sorts of pictures haven’t been properly maintained in years. They are 40-50 years old, it’s normal for any building that has not been taken care of to look worn down - but if the owners of these apartments put in the effort to modernise their buildings, they are very comfortable. I live in one and it’s great!
That highly depends on the country and city. Communist decay is a real thing.
In Yugoslavia it was actually quite the opposite. Old commie blocks in Serbia all have big green spaces around them and playgrounds, while new buildings are all built on top of each other with no room to breathe and no greenery in sight.
though this pic is in winter, and there could well be a bunch of trees just to the right off-camera
(also the cars and the satellite dish give away that this is what a commieblock looks 50 years after being built)
Road of Bones:
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Yes because communist countries have ellegant urban planning 🤡
If only there were more than these two dreary instantiations of differing economic frameworks, but as alas, I know only of these two pictures.
Bro this could be literally any large east-Asian city on an overcast day, most (all?) of which have better urban planning than the rest of the world by a large margin, and most of which fall firmly on the “capitalist” side of the spectrum. “Bloc” housing (or as we call them over here, big-ass apartment buildings) aren’t some communist-exclusive phenomenon.
Not sure about this picture, but generally Soviet blocs were built with lots of surrounding green space, all the amenities you’d need within walking distance, and the rest of the city connected by public transport. Way more human-friendly than the US suburban hellscape.
Westoids think bloc housing is uglier than homelessness.
That can literally be the US with roads 2 miles wide
I dont have a house or a retirement to fight for.
I kinda hate this pic.
- There are worse fates than living in the suburbs, lol, what? If the experience seems bland remember it’s not an infrastructure ‘problem’ but a demographics one. And bland beats ghetto -> warzone.
- You can easily opt out of consumerism, they haven’t made it illegal yet! Of course, if your life has mostly just consisted of ‘going from little kids’ toys to bigger boi toys’, that’s vacuous and depressing but, again, it’s a personal decision.
- Car-centric cities and infrastructure is a result of greed and bribes. An argument can be made that capitalist societies more easily push people into antisocial selfishness though, of course.
- Retirement homes are, again, a ‘skill issue’ that’s very prevalent in certain well known communities and almost nonexistent everywhere else. Raise and love your kids and be family oriented and one of them will take care of you (as it happened to my grandma, and it’ll happen to my mom and MIL, and I assume, God willing, to my wife after my passing). Again, I don’t know how much of this behaviour can be ascribed to capitalism.
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I fight for managed democracy
Truly Managed Democracy is a mellifluous clarion, ringing throughout the galaxy
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Urban sprawl, car dependency, vinyl rubbish, famine pensions.
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What -is- communism to you?
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Sounds like you’re describing authoritarianism to me.
Socialism, Communism, and even Capitalism are not inherently authoritarian.
Also, take a look into the history of CIA intervention on socialist governments. Unless you believe we brought “democracy” to them out of the kindness of our hearts.
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Good argument. I yield to you.
(/s just in case)
Didn’t answer the question.
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Come on, eli5 communism. I want to know what these idiot youth are imagining, not your opinion about it.
This is a terrible definition that could be applied to any form of government the speaker dislikes.
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But that doesn’t make any sense. Words mean things. When people say “communism”, they usually mean something more concrete than whatever you said. Usually it has to do with who owns the means of production.
You didn’t even come close to answering the question. You didn’t say anything about who owns and benefits from production.
Simple question here. No gotcha: Do you believe that people deserve to be ruled by kings?
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Should people, in your opinion, be ruled by kings?
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I literally did as you asked. There’s no gotcha here. I’m just trying to ascertain whether or not you value democracy or not. That’s a crucial first step to understand why you have such a fundamental misunderstanding of communism. That’s all.
Do we have a Lemmy equivalent to iamverysmart because ffs…
Both systems are crap because humans suck and will let people with type b personality disorders ruin it.
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Why are those the only options in everyone’s head. China is a mercantilist nation. Why is it capitalism vs communism and no one talking about how Chinese classic mercantilism seems to be doing pretty OK right now.
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Do you know what mercantilism is and why it’s working well for China? Nothing you said has anything to do with mercantilism.
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I’m talking about mercantilism. China just happens to be the biggest country that does it. Just like the US is the biggest one doing capitalism. Communism isn’t really even on the board so not sure why people like you keep bringing it up.
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But injecting it into a discussion specifically about capitalism vs communism?
A hugely ironic comment from the person who injected talk about communism into a discussion of capitalism.
Because in the modern world it’s really a competition between capitalism and mercantilism, and self congratulating the capitalist nations on beating communism seems like masturbation to me.
First one looks okay to me, id love to have my own quiet home
Cars, yeah no, i don’t like to drive
I don’t get the funky pops and the old man houses, might as well complain about action figures and schools
Neighborhoods like that are not quiet and you’ll be driving everywhere because there’s nothing other than more houses for miles.
Plus it’s not saying that houses are bad, it’s saying that single family homes in exclusively residential zones are bad.
Action figures are toys that people buy for their children to play with. Funko pops represent worthless plastic trash that people buy because of marketing brainwashing.
And “old man house”? oh ok I can see I that I’ve wasted my time.
But at least I get funkopops
