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“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
Ok I've tuned out of a lot of American politics recently. Anyone want to clue me into what the dems excuses were and what Trump has accomplished?
Whenever Dems have had the opportunity to enact substantive laws, they stumble across 'the parliamentarian' or some other hurdle that prevents [progressive thing] from happening.
Trump has let Elon's sycophantic minions loose in DC as the DOGE: Department of Govt Efficiency. They have full admin on multiple systems in the Treasury Dept, they are 'fixing problems' with the aviation safety systems, they were supposed to be visiting Labor Dept today, etc. Basically, the old ratchet effect of US politics.
they are 'fixing problems' with the aviation safety systems
In my opinion this is because of that account that existed on Twitter entirely to track and publish the location of Musk's private jet.
GOOD post
They aren't laissez-faire, they just want slightly different types of control. Deregulating a group and adding some subsidies is just a different way to reward your buddies, but neither is representative of a free market.
I'm not sure how you guys view regulation as a whole, but an inordinate amount of it exists to help corps rather than us.
lawfare, regulatory capture, monopolies, proprietary lock-in, planned obsolescence are all attempts to cope with the tendency of the rate of profit to decline
this is another reason a large portion of the US economy is now the trading of financial assets and services associated with trading, doing actual production is much more difficult to keep profitable
There's a reason it's somehow profitable to have trees of businesses larger than some cities when nobody in any of that structure makes a fucking thing.
I'd be interested in seeing what things would look like if we didn't let people offload liability to society.
I think workers owning their means of production is about as short as you can make that line of connection
capitalism is based in the abstraction and obfuscation of that line of connection
That is the shortest chain and ultimate goal. Peeps can group up, but still have to be able to handle the risk they take on. Once people become chess pieces or statistics in an org there's no way for a human to consider them as individuals, regardless of that person's psychology - the structures we have turn good people into monsters as surely as religious zealotry.
