42davenant [none/use name]
Just as awful is the fact that every potential job asks about your employment history, and why you aren’t working there now. You are not supposed to say that you left because of bad working conditions or a bad boss. And god forbid if you’ve ever been fired in your life, then you don’t deserve another job. Glad we don’t have a system of social credit here!
That’s a fair point, I’m not sure there’s a lot of historical indicators either way. I guess my thought it is, say there was a serious drop in material conditions in say Norway - a drop large enough to potentially foment revolution. Do you think their social democratic setup would push people towards socialism? My gut says yes. Compare that to what we have in the US right now. It seems to me that we are so deeply ingrained with capitalism, that if we have revolutionary conditions here yeah socialism one direction we could go, but a lot others that are even worse.
But this is all admittedly conjecture, I don’t really know for sure and thus don’t have a particularly strong opinion on it.
I think AOC, Tlaib and Omar are not only good, but are very good. “But they aren’t socialists!” - yeah well chocolate long johns aren’t socialist, but they are fucking delicious and I’m glad they exist.
Which speaks to my even more unpopular opinion: I think social democracy, while of course is not the end goal, is good. Like, materially improving people’s lives via social democracy while at the same time working via direct action and organizing to bring about socialism, is good. I’m not gonna thumb my nose at making the lives of the working class better by pushing for universal healthcare, a strong social safety net, public pensions, and mass unionization.
Which leads me to what is definitely my most unpopular opinion: I get the idea that social democracy only prolongs capitalist exploitation… but I’m not convinced that it absolutely is not one path to socialism, in the right circumstances.
I deleted my main when Chapo got banned but I have another I use for local news and a few hobbies.
As an aside, I had a post on my main that hit the front page, something like 30k upvotes. That unlocked some secret sub for people who have posted and hit the front page. If you think normal reddit is insufferable OMG, you have no idea. That secret sub was a black hole o’cringe…
Yeah all the lame Kerry / Gorn / whatever posting drove me away from the discord pretty dang quick.