I’ve seen The Expanse, I know how this goes 🤔

Yeah? Well I blew into your mom’s mold last night!

Soulseek, my beloved ❤️

Something interesting about this is that Bourgeois neoclassical economics manages to acknowledge that people won’t simply consume greedily, even if things are free.

Marginal Utility asserts that people will only consume commodities such that they satisfy some want or need. If I’m hungry, I’ll buy a banana, maybe a bunch to have later.

But my hunger won’t drive me to buy 800 bunches in one go, because that many bananas has a deminishing return in their marginal utility to satiate my hunger.

If that’s true, it doesn’t require market mechanisms for the distribution of goods and services to continue being true. Re: your healthcare example

Longhouses probably would have, but Tipi’s definitely didn’t.

That said, putting sharp objects where children can’t reach them seems like a pretty universal solution to a common problem. Rafters or not

Right, I’m pretty sure the outer space treaty is based on the Antarctica Treaty, and countries can still establish research facilities down there. This feels similar

Sokoto has a population of Muslim pastoralists, who are undergoing proletarianization.

Their frustration with this gets expressed through a fascistic Islamism, with appeals to the Golden Age of the independent Sokoto Caliphate (hence the name of the Nigerian state).

Insurgent movements like this are a bit problem for States in the region, and it’s part of why AES formed. ECOWAS was largely incapable of dealing with internal security issues, due to its main role as a mechanism of Imperialist value extraction

The CCP is slowly killing us all right now, with the passage of time 😔

I know you already mentioned it, but shout out to Wandering Son for cracking my egg for the second time lmao

I had a friendship with another trans kid in highschool that was very similar to what Nitori and Takatsuki had, and I tossed that shit down the memory hole after things went wrong. And watching the Wandering Son anime, without knowing what it was about beforehand, brought all that stuff back to the surface.

The manga has its problems, but that anime is a masterpiece of adaptation

And here I thought Gooning was just Edging, but for terminally online NEETs

…but the people who coined the word Tankie were also MLs

Lemmy is by far mostly actual leftists and fake leftists like tankies.

I know I have a scary .ml handle, but please bear with me, because I genuinely want to understand.

Marxism-Leninism, whatever you think of the vicissitudes of its theoretical claims, has been the form of socialism which has seized power, more than any other.

Otherwise there are maoist insurgencies that dot south Asia, some anarchist projects throughout the world, and Trotskyists haven’t made Revolution anywhere.

If you ask me, those other tendencies are still my comrades, I support their struggles, and their histories are mine as well. But I don’t see them proliferating themselves much further than they already have.

What Socialist experiments would you consider “real”, and how are they more real than ML?

No but we can make it mean that 😎

Now we just need Posadist Lemmy

No? FDR famously stacked the court, but he was only able to do that because the Constitution does not specify the number of justices on the court.

Something that the Bidden admin could have done (and I think even campaigned on doing) to override the court’s conservative bent, but didn’t.

Further, power of Judicial Review, where the court can rule laws as being Constitutional or not, and thus for justices to legislate from the bench, was not outlined in the Constitution either. That was a power that the court effectively granted to itself in Marbury v. Madison, in 1803.

The problems here are far more systemic.

“Everyone I consider an edgelord is a bot”

Please, this is Lemmy, not Reddit. I prefer my edgelord posts to be more analog

Ah yes… The ol’ Whataboutism. Classic

But to humor you, Instead of quoting an un-cited block of text, I’ll recommend that everyone in this thread read Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela for a look at an aspect of Venezuelan politics that often gets drowned out by the usual screeching about Maduro, or supposed drug trafficking

Is the genocide of indigenous americans somehow not brutal authoritarianism to you?

Please learn how the ‘social credit’ system actually works before spouting off

Idk I’d live there if I had the chance. The trains seem neat ¯_(ツ)_/¯