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Buy, Sell, Eat, Repeat,

Buy, Sell, Eat, Repeat,

Buy, Sell, Eat, Repeat.

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  • The main difference is who owns the means of production. In communism, the government does. In socialism, the people do.

    What would we call a hybrid system in which the government is made up of the people and owns the means of production? Direct Democratic Communism?

    Edit to add:

    A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision, neither by the component states nor the federal political body without constitutional amendment.

    Seems relevant considering “The Federation”.





  • LengAwaits@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
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    3 months ago

    I think people (not me, I agree with glitchdx, overall) are probably down voting because it’s a classic example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, with a healthy dose of smug mixed in. Smugness is a great dialectical tactic if you hope to entrench people deeper into their views, rather than convince them to consider alternatives through reasoned discussion.

    Do I agree that ideally we’d have robust public transit and increased usage of smaller, greener personal transport solutions? Of course I do.

    But, incrementalism is progress. Valuable progress. We could argue whether it’s more likely to get us to the aforementioned vision of robust public transit or not, but history has proven time and time again that progress takes time and is resisted tooth and nail by monied interests. I don’t like it either. I want to wave a wand and have everything change. OP is right. Electric cars are not the solution. But treating symptoms while you work on curing the disease is best practice.