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.

It’s still a problem. Never forget that today’s friend can be tomorrow’s enemy.

Dems are a large tent. There’s subsets, like my district, that refuse that kind of money.

No government organization should ever be using foreign hosting, period, but using usa’s is an especially awful idea

I know. It’s also easier to ever than flee, and that’s also meaningless to this point

Constantly. And it’s not just ai.

I understand what you’re saying about immigration, but that holds less true with respect to war forcing people to move.

So?

I was more pointing towards the suggestion that market forces kept everything in check, which, no, they don’t. The market does not magically stay afloat without intervention. Production is not just regulated by market forces.

But most importantly, countries have capacities. America, for example, can hold many more people than it is, comfortably. But if you have a place that’s smaller, like Britain or sweden, free border immigration will result in strains in both the cultural and infrastructure situation in the countries at hand as they rapidly grow beyond present capacity, which they will if free immigration is allowed.

Excess workers willing to work for lower pay can also drive wages down, and allow companies to exploit workers more easily(often regardless of the actual law).

I’m generally in favor of reasonably lax immigration policies, but free border immigration is not a good idea. People need time to adjust to the culture of where they’re going, and you don’t want to overload that

Government funded news programs are generally a good thing IF they’re mostly their own entity and importantly as long as they don’t block other sources. I think bbc being funded is good

Because no one wants to leave their family and entire home behind just to move to a wealthy country to live on the street as a homeless person

Life as a homeless person can be better than life in a war torn country.

The flow in both directions is kept in check by market forces, the same way we regulate the production of every good and service in our economies.

Libertarian ah take

Bikes and feet for last mile transit. A car is completely unnecessary for that.