the_frumious_bandersnatch

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on Communism bad · c/leftymemes · 9 pts · 202d

I hear in communist countries 3 dollars only gets you a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing. Sounds bleak.

Has someone explained to them that sometimes sacrifices have to be made in order to stop that trans girl in Minnesota from playing volleyball? They just need to see the bigger picture.

on Is this vandalism? · c/Cyberstuck · 7 pts · 1y

A brain surgeon makes money by working on brains and therefore is in the working class; the person that owns the hospital makes money by extracting rents from the brain surgeon and therefore is in the capitalist class.

Upper class and middle class don't necessarily correspond directly with those terms.

Yeah, "capitalism" is when a the private equity firm buys the farm and now instead of producing enough to live on, or even just "as much as they did last year, now they must show year over year profits.. Every year.. Forever

Here's some of those clear definitions

Cambridge Dictionary: "Net neutrality is the idea that Internet providers must treat all content equally."

Brittanica: "net neutrality, principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of content."

"Traffic congestion" is the reasoning ISPs use to defend subverting net neutrality, but it still results in certain viewpoints being favored over others. If Spectrum decides to throttle Fox News and not CNN, it doesn't matter if their reasoning is that Fox News uses more bandwidth, the result is still that the viewpoint that Fox espouses is throttled while that of CNN is not. Sure it's conjecture that is or will happen, but it is the case that the doctrine of net neutrality is what is standing in opposition to it.