Material conditions enforces coercion(, bargaining power). His decision upon the Washington Post, and admittance that only Internet criticizes the capitalist viewpoints/mistakes, is also an illustration of how capitalism enforces its decisions upon its possessions, long live democracy in the workplace instead. No master except God(, by definition one can’t escape its/our determinism, and shouldn’t reject Idea(l)s).
State-driven innovation is obviously more efficient than a company driven by profits instead of goals/vision/values(, who’ll choose planned obsolescence, monopolies, stealing from other companies, …, over genuine progress). Their theory states that the price would end up so low that they wouldn’t waste profits in dividends and huge salary gap, but that’s only one of the discrepancies between their theory and reality.

Most of the world is capitalist and most of the world is poor, americans aren’t even able to describe what socialism/communism is, so the debate is as biased as usual. When people are working two jobs and still barely pay the rent you’re living in a failed state.
And blah blah blah, the usual. You’ll continue to prevent other countries from choosing their destiny by themselves instead of working on a supra-national institution protecting you&them from each other influence. And you’ll prevent them from choosing a different path in the name of freedom of course.
Purpose-driven competitive hard work is good, and should be rewarded with the results, but money or power should never be the goal but only a mean towards an (hopefully virtuous )end, the exploitation of noble families already hurt us enough in the past. And the real innovators aren’t the wealthy investors but are in r&d, and ignored, they’re the real heroes that don’t care about money/power but about results instead, offering their discoveries to ignorant&useless capitalists/masters/employers/middlemen who aren’t as disinterested or purpose-driven. Elon Musk has goals, he’s very clearly awesome but i don’t see a second capitalist like him, even if there’s probably 1-3% of them who don’t care as much about wealth/power as about ‘the common good’/‘walking towards a better world’, who have multiple original ideas for improvements and are realizing them. Capitalists aren’t proving that the wealth they’ve stolen from customers&employees is put to a better use than if the state got that money instead.
(Vinted and Manomano have good filters on their website but Amazon is far from it and it wouldn’t be that hard(, it could start with only the new products and some categories, it’d cost money to pay a team for testing themselves a given sample but that’s how it should be done, to avoid annoying the seller and to control the test environment with custom tests and filters, Temu, Alibaba, french websites, … should also do that if they want to do/be better), among other improvements. Asking for customers do round up their order by giving to a charity of their choice(, among a selection and/or freely,) would also improve their image, etc.)

That countries should selfishly think about themselves, and not serve the common good instead by helping each other, is the exact same trash “ideology”(, and certainly a consequence of the mindset of individuals,) than encouraging citizens’ selfishness instead of altruism/empathy, even if it’s at their own expenses.
They said that (the religious )empathy/goodness failed, and that selfishness/individuality would end up producing the same results in every single case.
I don’t care if westerners fail as long as we don’t bring the rest of the world with us, but i’m not the one deciding, the strong do what it can and the weak suffer what it must.

Huh. I didn’t take a look at your links and kinda expected to have problems with the mods for that comment anyway.
Seems like we have the same opinion and lemmy.ml is indeed not Reddit.

Sorry for such a bad comment, i’m french and our president, but far from only him, said a few annoying things that made me want to vent out, honestly i don’t know why, just that it’s one of these times when everything i’m hearing from the radio or t.v. or some twitter accounts of politicians just annoy me, it was a pointless comment in that sense, probably the equivalent of seeking a (verbal )fight in a pub, i was just getting ready to be angry at a poor pro-ukrainian as if it was productive, 🤷

So Ukraine wasn’t building up an army to recover Crimea and fight against anti-n.a.t.o. separatism in its south-east ? Zelensky was elected as an alternative to anti-russians(, without the vote of south-eastern ukrainians under an economic blocus among other things), and did the opposite.
It’s just like saying that Russia will invade the rest of Europe or other lies(, probably the russian interferences as well since Russiagate was debunked and we have a strong history of lying, Georgia was the aggressor during the Beijing olympics), we just can’t tell the truth and our population is even ignoring the talking points of the opponent. The non-westerners know our point of view, never difficult to understand, we’re the ones systematically ignoring theirs, and lying with biases visible even to those agreeing with us.
Netanyahu is also a liar but that’s what we(sterners) do, the end justifies the means our leaders/representatives don’t speak from/with their heart, there’s an assumed propaganda of talking points, e.g. unprovoked for Russia or terrorists for Palestine, what are palestinians supposed to do to stop the ongoing colonization and live peacefully together ? What is Russia supposed to do if it’s rejected by the west because of their desire to be independent and in favor of multipolarity, supporting the declared enemies of the “policemen of the world” ? Iran wouldn’t be considered authoritarian if it was zionist.
What matters here is that there are solutions for each problem, we have a strong tendency to consider our opponents crazy/incomprehensible, without explaining/justifying in order to seek a national unity.
Now we’re censoring people for their opinions even more than before, it comes from the state and not platforms, with jail time and fees, but since we’re not killing people for posting unapproved opinions it could be worse. JD Vance was right to criticize the censorship wave of these last years in Europe(, and the US as well in a lesser measure), liberty is our only answer for a lack of egality 🤷(, in some forms, « poverty is slavery » though)

One day he’s criticized for saying that Hitler was a communist, the other for apparently assuming his love of nazis.
There’s an old series of books by Terry Goodkind that i’ve read as a child, named the Sword of Truth, each book has a wizard’s rule, and here’s the first one :

People are stupid. They believe things mainly because they either want them to be true or fear them to be true.

I’m not particularly fond of these books nor do i agree with this rule, but if you’re political then you’re judging real political actions, such as enacted laws, like adults do, or you’re eventually discussing assumed theories, but not unfair little excerpts regretted afterwards by the one who did them, and we can hopefully both agree that we should not explain our worldview or vote based on the latter, its ‘just for fun’/‘not serious’.
At least most journalists know that it’s only about influencing his future decisions, but you don’t if you believe it was ‘a coming out’/‘something to be discussed seriously’.
That’s just my two cents, thanks for reading my insults towards ~you, and let’s continue not changing.

conspiracy theorists taking us for idiots, nothing new(, even if you’re taking it quite farther than usual).

On the side of real stuff happening : D.Trump said a lot in his inauguration speech, and just put Cuba back on the terrorist states list, as well as signing over twenty executive orders, etc. Seems worth more discussion than your fantasies.

Just unfortunate that, like for D.Trump, you’re too used to discussing the form instead of the content, we’re worth more than selected/biased excerpts.