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From an already uncomfortable capitalism to an even less comfortable one, one that might be recognised as hostile by some.

Fascism is capitalist.

My thoughts exactly. All thought when I read about what might make one a socialist was that these are basically the positions of left liberal/greens in Europe. Up until recently, before joining NATO, the centre-right parties in Sweden would have agreed with these positions.

Critique of the Gotha Programme

These manifestations are the best way to induce critical consciousness about colonialism.

That’s an issue of burger icons and so forth, not one of access.

People can learn and with the internet they’re able to learn things that would otherwise be completely out of reach. I think anything that obfuscates can’t be termed accessibility. The internet doesn’t keep users ignorant. It does the very opposite. I would agree about there being issues inherent to making things accessible, but to me these are puerile disorders anyone can grow out of. Once that happens the benefits far outweigh the negative aspects. What is the greatest conveyor of critique against the tech industry? The internet. This whole thing self-corrects. What is most true about the internet is it having a profound effect on anyone who uses it, and that is a hard reality to deal with.

The internet started out as information infrastructure in the US in order to beat the USSR and other competing powers, the aim was to centralise military data.

No, making things accessible is great. Exclusion is stupid.

government and oligarchs have been dead set on controlling it and killing off anything outside of their walled gardens

They will not succeed. Twitter got a lot less appealing after Musk bought it. Whenever the internet is used as a weapon by capitalists it backfires and renders the internet less useful than before to the capitalist. Frictionless communication finds its equilibrium outside of private property and outside of capitalist ideology.

It was capitalist from the get-go. That said, capitalism even being capable of creating something like the internet is incredible in exactly the way going to the moon is. The internet is also one of those technologies that will help in going beyond capitalism thanks to open source software and (in effect) barrier free communication. It’s an internationalist technology. No use in moralising against the internet.

The heart is a nice touch.

So, have they done anything or what?

He is the reason I voted for the Green Party.

I am not ignoring their initial statement, in fact I acknowledge this. In fact I am being very rigorous. Don’t accuse me of falsehoods.

[earlier] Glad you can afford housing and food on one paycheck!

I don’t need to assume your tone. Just simply assuming things like being able to afford things when someone is not (as they have stated in their first reply to you) is arrogant, albeit unintentionally. How do you think this reads to the other person? Personally, I would feel like as if someone punched me in the face. To then say that the other party simply misunderstood you after they rightfully corrected you, is only fuel to that fact, or will seen as such.

How does them stating they get by better in this situation help someone that doesn’t?

Does them stating that bar people from being helped, are they necessarily doing better than people working two jobs? I would say the former is not an issue, i.e. it doesn’t demean the struggles of someone with two jobs. With the latter it’s hard to make any good conclusions about concretely. They didn’t say that they are doing better, therefore the people dealing with two or more jobs jobs should whine less.

Edit: phrasing/clarification

demeaning by implying that it’s possible to survive on a single income, albeit minimally, and that anyone doing more is choosing that.

However, you can’t just say they’re implying this or that. This is guesswork with respect to the commentator; You are putting words in their mouth.

It’s arrogant because they can’t afford much at all and you’re talking past what they’re saying. Poverty is the condition of much of the working class. Having enough to eat and having a place to live doesn’t mean all that much when the content of your life is doing work as an anonymous drone and maybe being able to watch Netflix after you get home. Any medical emergency can uproot your already frail social existence. The worker is treated like cattle, who, as you should know, have housing and food aplenty. The latter two facts are not the core of the argument here.

This guy is saying there’s a huge spot of black mould on the wall and you’re derailing what they’re saying with a nonargument.

That is still extremely arrogant of you.