Tedesche

I’m sure all the Cubans who voted for Trump are quite pleased by this.

No, seriously, I’m sure they are.

Not meant as a defense of him.

I watched the clip. Anyone who thinks he’s admitting to rigging the election is really reaching for something that just ain’t true. Apparently Lemmy likes its alternative facts fantasies too.

You really think the “they” he’s referring to is himself or his team? No, he was referring to the Democrats, he just has trouble forming grammatical sentences.

Yes, I did. Trump admittedly has trouble forming cogent sentences, but you have to be be be engaging in wishful thinking to think he’s admitting to rigging the election.

Judging from the downvotes, I guess there are a lot of lemmings that are that pathetic.

This is not a clip of Trump admitting he or his team rigged the 2024 election, it’s willful misconstrual by whoever posted this bullshit clip. This is disinformation and should be taken down.

Trump’s SCOTUS will take care of this, no problem.

Only because you’re prejudiced.

Yes, but I was referring solely to DEI programs, which have nothing to do with systemic racism in police brutality or judicial prejudice areas.

You can externalize your assumptions all you want; it doesn’t change the fact that interpersonal communication is the responsibility of all involved.

I.e., grow up and stop winging about minor details on internet forums.

I never said addressing systemic racism was limited to addressing said issues in educational attainment alone. Clearly, it’s a multifaceted problem that requires a broad range of fixes.

I would argue that if your goal is to fix systemic racism, a much more effective approach would be to target the pipeline problem early on by focusing on improving education systems in poor/racial minority communities. Their difficulties in competing later on in life stem directly (and I would argue most strenuously) from disadvantages they experience early on. If companies see improvements in the resumes of racial minorities, they will naturally be more likely to hire them; I would argue that their greed for having the best employees will override the racial biases of White CEOs and HR managers.

Tipping culture and systems need to die off. Sadly, because they often get paid more via tips than they would by increased hourly wages, tipped employees are often against such reforms.

And, to be fair, for most restaurants, it would be really hard for them to pay their wait staff appropriate wages in many cities where rent is extremely high and the cost of the food products they use to create their meals is rising as well. It’s not a simple matter of “the employer should pay their employees’ wages, not the customer.” The industry is built around tipping, and that’s not something that can be changed overnight.

Still, I firmly believe it needs to happen. And if that means increasing the price of restaurant meals, so be it. I suspect people eat out too much these days anyway and should learn to cook themselves. I used to eat out a lot until I did some calculations and realized I was spending way too much on it. Since learning to cook, I’ve saved a lot of money and now prefer my own cooking to a lot of restaurant fare out there (although not the really good stuff—I’m no professional chef).

ITT: a bunch of lemmings who apparently aren’t big fans of law and order.

You make any society worse, you asshats.

Simple - it’s the ideal.

Not in my view. I don’t want the State owning all sources of wealth and material goods. The problem with capitalism is that too much of that stuff gets funneled into too few hands. Communism is the same problem, just different people. No thanks.

How’s about a website that generates money, like Facebook or YouTube? Can you own that?

What about products that designed to create ongoing streams of revenue, like a patent on an invention or a piece of art you can collect royalties from every time it is displayed? The USSR famously took ownership of Tetris away from its creator.

Under communism, how does the stock market work? I’m not a big fan of it, but it’s pretty hard to imagine getting rid of it now that the global economy is pretty much dependent on it.

Today, five countries exist that can be said to be communist: China, Russia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. Of those five, none have achieved actual communism, and several have inarguably embraced capitalism to a great extent. All of them have essentially authoritarian governments. Which is unsurprising, since a dictatorship of the proletariat is central to the Marxist vision of how to create a communist society, and involves the creation of a single-party transitional government that forcibly suppresses all its critics and rivals.

I’m not big into capitalism and I think we should implement plenty of socialist reforms, but I will never understand why some people on the Left—or anyone for that matter—think communism is what we should be striving for.