That makes no sense. How is our economic system highly controlled in the US? Corporations run rampant, with scant regulation compared to some places like Europe.

A government’s size being big doesn’t instantly equal less capitalism if that government doesn’t do as much as it could to reel in corporate interests.

Case in point, our government here in the US is big but is controlled by corporate interests to such a degree that despite knowing about human made climate change since the late 60s, basically nothing has actually been done about it. Or how whenever there is any push for even a public option to live alongside private insurance, insurance companies go into overdrive running ads and paying politicians to push back against it so it never gets brought up after an election season.

Capitalism is a system of economics. It can exist with or without a government also existing.

Yes as a long time PC gamer, I don’t understand why people act as if steam and valve are gods. Like ok cool it has the most games and whatever, but they’ve been going downhill. There’s so many random asset flips and porn games now, and their sales have been shit for years now. I remember games going on sale for 90% off during seasonal sales, and all the % off coupons they’d just randomly give out. That never happens now.

There were still people that lived in the streets in the USSR. Also, the housing the USSR provided wasn’t really that… great… I watch a Russian YouTuber (NFKRZ) who has talked about Soviet architecture in not just Russia, but other former USSR countries and shows that yes it’s good they were built, they weren’t very well built.

The USSR had many problems, and bureaucracy was a big problem. I never understood why tankies love the USSR so much when the USSR didn’t truly get rid of class. Those in the government lived like kings compared to the common man, who yes lived better than they had before but still not that well due to the bloated and mismanagement of the government.

Idk, the fact that they even had a centralized government like that seems like… the opposite of communism to me.

Because politics is a part of every aspect of our lives…?

Politics dictates where roads are built, zoning laws for buildings, food safety laws, labor laws, how much funding goes towards education, etc.

Sucks, but it’s true.

Also not a liberal and find trump’s mugshot fucking hilarious. Looks like a sith lord, yet people think he’s a good guy.

I can see why they’re your ex

It’s native aussie

Actually it’s short for mein leben

This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a “brand”.

Seize the means of reproduction ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Most people don’t know anything.

It’s pretty obvious that all the ayyylmao talk is a distraction from a multitude of issues going on rn.

Idk, the gen z girls I’ve slept with called me daddy way more than the millennials I slept with

Exactly. Beans are vintage now. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The cabling team at my workplace

Fuck’em.

Only ones that deserve any kind of sympathy is the 19 year old son who didn’t wanna go but went anyways for his rich ass dad since it was father’s day and the titanic expert dude that just wanted to explore. The other 3 were rich jackasses who thought they were invincible or some shit.