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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Hope isn't deluding yourself that there are no problems in the world. Hope is believing that the world can be changed for the better.

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting there's a problem. Once you understand the problem you can then work on solutions to those problems.

I think you have "hope" confused with delusion and apathy. You can go ahead and hope and pray that things will improve and leave it up to the adults to actually improve things for you. Making real positive change involves taking a cold hard look at reality. If you're unwilling to understand reality then you're incapable of making any positive change.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (8 children)

We have admitted there’s a problem. We’ve been screaming about it for decades, actually, and offered myriad solutions backed by studies and experiements, far more than these hyper-capitalist fuck-heads have been able to do. Just because you’re only barely figuring it out now does not mean other people haven’t known for a really long time. Carney is taking us backwards at an alarming pace and investing in yesterday’s dying technology, the very stuff that’s killing us.

The way forward is unions, environmental protections, detaching ourselves from the US, and taxing the hell out of the rich. That is reality, and if you still think Carney will save us you’re beyond delusional.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

And you accused me of being without hope LOL.

We are transitioning to EVs, increasing the power grid. This isn't a fantasy world where we can snap out fingers and oil dependency is instantly gone. We have made a lot of progress in reducing fossil fuels. Peak fossil fuel in regards to electricity generation was last year, for transportation it will be in the next few year.

The US is obviously stupid about this, but we are finally moving forward on the Pathways project, which will decrease CO2 emissions from the oil industry. Depending on how that works we could use it to eventually become carbon negative to offset what the dumbasses to the south of us are doing.

Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but a systems of 100% socialism failed. Badly. In the real world we understand that a system that's a mix of socialism and capitalism works best. Which is what we have. Our healthcare is socialist because there's weird incentives in capitalism when someone's life is on the line. So we don't use capitalism for that. But we know socialism across the board doesn't work either, so we use capitalism where it works. The Government initiates major projects to direct businesses to do what's in the country's interest.

We have a lot of protections for unions in Canada. If you want to form a union, convince your fellow employees, and you have a union. Union busting is illegal in Canada. What do you want the government do everything for you and impose unions onto everyone? It would be insane to have government mandated unions. So if you want a union, then get to work. If you're too lazy to form a union, then that's on you.

You need to work to make the world better, not just sit around posting on the internet nitpicking the people actually doing the work. You can reduce your carbon emissions. You can form a union. You can volunteer your time for charities. You can change the things you buy so you're not buying from the US.

Understand that the internet will tell you about some false ideal world based around failed ideologies of the past, tell you everything is currently terrible, and assign blame on someone for that. Many times it's an ethnic group that the internet will try to blame for that dissent that it made you feel. But whoever you blame for the fact that we don't use failed ideologies (because we want to make things better, not worse) you're spending all of your time assigning blame and not doing anything to actually make things better. Radical right, radical left, it's the same story. The right want a tariff based oligarchy which failed in the past. Leftists want a socialist system that failed in the past. It's all about creating dissent and disenfranchisement over bad ideas not being implemented.

The people actually trying to make a better world get attacked from both sides, by who do nothing other than attack others.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Talk about assumptions acting like I’m doing fuck-all or don’t understand that there is a transition period. You also go off about “socialism has failed” which a clear mark you have zero fucking clue what you’re talking about. Capitalism has failed, it doesn’t support people even remotely equally, and even seeks to make sure that the gap only gets wider, and you don’t give a shit about any of that.

Carney is a regressive piece of shit who’s selling off all our resources and dashing our rights to pieces. Carney literally tried to force the Air Canada strikes to end and, luckily, they told the government to go fuck itself.

You’re just too much of a coward to actually be margainally uncomfortable. Doesn’t help that the only points you have are what the Liberal government spoon feeds you with no actual understanding of what any of it actually means.

Go fuck yourself.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No I've read history books about socialism, I know what I'm talking about when I say socialism failed. You should try reading some history books yourself instead of consuming all of your information from social media algorithms which only sow dissent and division.

No system is perfect, and there are problems in our system. But these are solvable problems. Previous generations were able to solve these problems, and there's no reason to think that we can't solve these problems too. It's just a silly internet thing to push for throwing away something that needs maintenance in favour of something that's been proven to be fundamentally flawed.

Go fuck yourself.

You have yourself a nice day too.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago* (4 children)

“I’ve read books about socialism” ok, then you’d understand that places like the USSR, the biggest example of communisms failure, nevert actually even reached it. You’d also understand that countries like the Scandanavian ones, which practice a much greater degree of socialism while living under capitalism’s forced influence, are doing a whole lot better than we are. Norway’s sovereign fund and the private corporation hand-out account Carney made are not the same thing, champ. You’d know that Cuba, despite all its been through, has a highly advanced public medical sector and even provides foreign aid there. How does the fact that the CIA has a long history of distabalizing socialist nations not factor into your understanding? What, no maintenance opportunities for the collection of systems that actually seek to care for everyone universally but capitalism gets babied again as if there haven’t been thousands of chances to get it right? It was literally conceived as a way for rich, parasitic nobles to continue feudalism in a world that was rejecting monarchies and you’re over here practcially begging to have their boots shoved down your throat.

To act like capitalism hasn’t failed is completely, batshit insane at this point. The evidence is completely unavoidable unless you’re doing it on purpose because you’re still benefitting and because you don’t consider all the pain it causes to be important because it’s not happening to you enough to care.

You’re just a parasite who doesn’t give a shit about other people. That’s not a political stance, that’s a fucking defect. What a fucking loser.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

Norway has a lot of wealth because they have oil. They sell the oil and invest it into stock markets globally. But you call a country that's wealthy from oil and stock markets a "socialist" country LOL.

I've been to Cuba. Have you ever been there? I met a doctor that got paid ~35 USD per month. Per month. It costs ~25 USD to take a taxi to the airport. Taxi drivers make way more money than doctors in Cuba because taxi drivers have access to hard currency from non-communist countries. The government buildings are immaculate in Cuba, while the people live in poverty.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about and are resorting to childish insults now. Obviously you know that you're wrong.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

Your argument is that we don’t have any oil? Well that’s certainly very stupid. So either we have lots of oil and we that’s not a problem or we don’t have enough oil and investing into it is incredibly stupid. Which is it? Norway is also more socialist and those socialist policies are working well for those people. I know reading is hard, but try to keep up.

Yes, Cubans live in a bad state. Doesn’t have anything to do with the crushing embargos put in place by the most capitalist country, though, right? And even without a profit motive their medical field is still doing really well in terms of actual research and developement.

You’re responding to anything I’m saying, you’re just hoping that I’m as stupid as you are and that I’ll fall for your cheap deflections. Pathetic, truly.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Your argument is that socialism only works in oil rich countries?

Oil is on it's way out. It's not a long term plan to build a system that depends on massive resource wealth. Especially when using that resource destroys the planet.

Cuba doesn't have oil. That apparently fits with your ideal world where countries with oil wealth are nice socialist utopias, and those that don't... well they just can't afford socialism I guess? Or maybe they get abused by a country dominated by the corporations the petro-socialist states invest their sovereign wealth into?

You do know which country Norway's sovereign wealth fund is invested in, don't you? Here's a clue: https://www.nbim.no/en/investments/all-investments/

Wait, the Soviet Union had a lot of oil wealth, why did that collapse? It seems not even petro-socialism always works.

Petro-socialism, that is certainly a creative ideology I must say.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That’s not at all what I said. I was talking about Carney’s sovereign wealth fund as an example where he’s acting like it’s the same as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund but while they are using it actually enrich their citizens the one we have is just handing private O&G companies taxpayer money.

Look, you seem to really struggle with this whole reading thing so I’m gunna go. Do me a favour and never stop reminding yourself of how fucking stupid you are.