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  • The only thing predictable is the pro capitalist propaganda points coming from you The ccp is not communist, its state owned capitalism. And russia hasn’t been the ussr since 1989 but it is authoritarian. But so is the usa.

    You sound like a billionaire bootlicking propaganda fountain.

    Any crimes of humanity you use to demonize communism and socialism i can name far worse criminality perpetrated by capitalist regimes.

    How many millions of children go without dinner every night in America alone? Capitalism aims to deprive people of resources so a small few can live in opulent luxury and spend more on weekend vacations than you could earn in a dozen consecutive lifetimes. And you are incorrect i have endured food insecurity. But yay america and capitalism because anyone can just pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they can just allow themselves to be treated like a disposable automaton to earn peanuts while being degraded so someone can take in passive income on their back.

    Also fascism is inherently anti communist. What are you going to tell me next that the Nazi’s were socialist because they had the word socialist in their description? Who were the first group of people hitler vilified and sent to the labor camps? Oh right! The communists 🤣 fascism is primarily marked by the intersection of economic and military industry in control of the governing and media apparatuses. With characteristics such as the suppression of labor power, the protection of corporste power, sexism, obsession with national security and militsrism, unification around a common scapegoated enemy, disdain for intellectuals and artists, disdain for human rights, religious ideals intertwined with government, militarized police, obsession with crime and punishment, blatant cronyism, nepotism and corruption. The only one of the traits of fascism that America can claim plausible deniability on is fraudulent elections but anyone witj a brain can see our whole political system is owned by the wealthy. A princeton study showed unequivocally that the amount of influence a person has on policy is directly related to their economic status with a vast majority of the population who arent multi millionaires having a statistical near zero effect on any issue regardless of how popular or unpopular it may be to the boting general public.

    And at least stalin wasn’t murdering and starving innocents to increase shareholder dividends.

    Authoritarianism is bad but if i had to choose ill take the one where the regime makes an effort to ensure the citizens needs are met, as opposed to maintaining high profits so billionaires can buy more yachts and lobbyists to bribe politicians legally. whats the homelessness rate in cuba today? Oh yeah it’s virtually non existent meanwhile the us has the highest rate of homelessness and suicide since the gilded age and great depression. And also cuba such a socialist shithole as you would undoubtedly claim, still managed to innovate a vaccine to prevent lung cancer that is so effective the US had to begrudgingly admit it existed and work with the researchers who developed it to bring it to market in the usa where it is currently undergoing clinical trials (at a snails pace since the American capitalist health insurance cartels have zero interest in providing a cure for any cancer)

    Everything in capitalism is commoditized including the suffering and death of those who are adversely affected by a system that rewards greed and lacks humanity. One of many cases in point being the war on drugs which has turned America into a fascist police state. We are conditioned to believe prohibition is continuing to erradicste the supply and demand of narcotics. Meanwhile the supply and demand have only grown since the war on drugs began and in reality the only things these laws do are increase the black market value of narcotics making them more profitable for socially elite bulk distributors, while commoditizing the poor mental health issues and suffering of those living in our capitalist system who are seeking escape and relief through self medication, to keep prisons at maximum occupancy and increase the profits of prison industrial profiteers. While the public are propagandized to support these blatantly authoritarian fascist laws that make things worse so more resources can be diverted to the police force who maintain racist attitudes mainly due to these drug prohibition laws which were all built upon the most racist and ignorant ideas of the early 20th century. And it also leads to the evolution of the market so now the majority of the illicit opiod supply is tainted with fentanyl analogues because its easier to smuggle something uktra potent and that reduces risk, so thank you DEA for the increase in overdoses and all the fentanyl in the black market supply. All of this is not only absurd and mindless its blatantly unconstitutional and illegal for several reasons. But again America is a capitalist empire in decline exhibiting severe symptoms of fascism.

    Plus You had nothing to say of burkina faso and libya which were both successful until western capitalist powers assassinated their leaders and installed far right capitalist regimes. So much for “socialism always fails” if that were the case why is so much spent to ensure its failure? And all that man made famine you speak of, you fail to leave out who were responsible for the lack of food resources resulting from insurgent action by capitalist aggressors

    And I understand feudalism. Its a system where the ultra wealthy act as landlords for an arbitrary amount of the crops and goods produced on their land but then that devolved into paying rent and if not one was charged as a criminal for stealing the resources of the land they lived on. Capitalism as it is today ultimately eroding all the socialist protections fdr legislated through the FLSA of 1938, has devolved into a system of neo feudalism. It is a fact that it cost more to purchase and maintain slaves under chattel slavery than Americans earning mininum wage anywhere in the country today are currently compensated.


  • And the massive amounts of resources expended bu capitalist super powers to ensure those awful economic conditions isn’t the reason for them? 🤡 What about lybia, burkina faso and cuba before the ussr fell? Youre seriously just parroting anti socialist propaganda. Capitalism came to be the domination economic model in the 1600’s took control of half the world and immediately began searching for new markets to exploit while perpetuating warfare for profit, slavery to maximize profits and genocides to stifle any resistance or perpetuate the values of eugenics and racism but yeah communism is bad because of famine and people aren’t allowed work really hard to become wealth hoarding billionaires while a large subset of the population live in squalor to support such opulent lifestyles of luxury

    Break down the word capitalism and it tells you all you need to know. The intransitive verb at the root, to capitalize, is synonymous with “to exploit” and “to take advantage” the only time American capitalism ever allowed the working class to thrive was a brief moment of 4 decades after FDR legislated socialist policies to protect the working class from severe limitless exploitation and now legislation has been passed since that has rendered that progress irrelevant.

    Also fascism is capitalism in decline and monarchy is irrelevant because we are talking economic models. And monarchies that were not capitalist were feudalist which is just a less refined version of capitalism.










  • I would love to see consumer hybrid conversion kits or even hydrogen induction tech conversion kits that are fat better than the Jerry rigged ones some youtube content creators rig up with tubing and mason jars. But those in control of the means of production are throwing wrenches into the gears of innovation to maintain their continual growth at the expense of future generations.

    Lifepo batteries are an awesome tech, 15 years ago no one would have imagined them powering impact wrenches that are stronger than traditional pneumatics but here we are. However people are improperly storing them and its leading to house fires not to mention all the cars space karen has produced that have combusted and locked people inside the vehicle while they roast to death unable to open the door manually because the door handles are made out of metal and burn you when you try to open them. Ans the fact thst lithium chemical fires need dozens of times more water to smother in the best of situations. There have been wreched teslas completely submerged in water tanks thst have reignited 2 or 3 times before being completely stifled and rendered safe to dispose of. Its a fucking mess. But they sure do accelerate very well.


  • Im not anti ev or anti Lifepo batteries, i love my lithium iron phosphate batteries. They make my impact wrench hammer off tough fasteners without having to fuck my back up. Im just pro reality and the reality is there is a serious bottleneck of lithium production.

    But anyone saying we will be able to increase the lithium mining supply 10 times what it is now is selling you a bridge over the straight of Gibraltar. And maybe that bridge will eventually come but were talking about building that bridge over and over and over and over. Society also needs to stop treating vehicles like they are a disposable consumer good and sending them to scrap yards after a decade or less of use. These are realities of the market. Tell me how we are going to increase lithium mining ten times what it is now in a safe and efficient way. There is currently only one lithium mine being built in nevada but there is heavy pushback from state legislature to open up any other lithium deposits in the US but even if we did i don’t see lithium mining producing enough cheap lithium to boost ev production past triple what it currently is.

    I am not saying we don’t need to transition away from ICE. But also we could have had ice vehicles continue to operate in our society for another 5 centuries if big industries weren’t polluting the environment to maintain the production of mostly useless consumer goods that end up in landfills within 6 months of their purchase. All these plastic petro chemicals littering our oceans our coastlines and every where else. Society needs to prioritize what it deems valuable and instead of doing that weve allowed a few greedy sociopaths go prioritize continual growth, profit and shareholder value over the good of society itself.
    But ill be here with popcorn watching and waiting for lifepo batteries to increase in production 1000% (and this doesn’t even count the needed increase for larger industrial power tools that currently struggle to run on anything but gasoline like railway and industrial impact wrenches that are sk large and heavy they need a crane to support their weight during operation.


  • Anything can be fixed on your own if you have the aptitude. But i can imagine dropping a battery pack that weighs whag a regular economy sedan weighs will be tough for even the most competent diy people. Ive swapped a few engines and honestly i would rather not fix a tesla. Im good with a toyota hybrid.

    People thinking were going to het rid of ice vehicles and transition to a market that is compromised of a majority lithium based batteries are smoking some good shit. Firstly i think the amount of electric vehicles sold in 2022 was about 10 million while the amount of cars sold in total was about 80 million. So 12.5% of the new car market. Meanwhile were already reaching a bottleneck of lithium supply which is not great for the environment and super exploitative to third world people and economies. So we need to increase the lithium battery production capacity by at least 1000% and this doesn’t even account for the cordless power tools industry and all the other consumer goods needing lithium batteries. Americans and our world leaders are selling us a pipe dream that is induced on a fever dream of hope and wishful thinking. But it isn’t even that good in practice because have you seen these lithium battery fires? Requiring tens of thousands of gallons of water to extinguish? Its a fucking mess and the only real viable option is to make a breakthrough in solar technology. Or maybe cold fusion? Hibestly im not an expert so i don’t know. But i do know lithium batteries aint fuckin’ it.



  • Moderates? you mean centrists? Leftists shouldn’t be moderate. A moderate leftist is a neo liberal and a neo liberal is a right leaning centrist pretending to be a leftist.

    Also hamas inst a terrorist group its a liberstion resistance group. Israel was literally born of terrorism and nothing resembling radical islamic terrorism existed till the 1960’s before then from 1899 till 1948 we had the irgun hagannah palmach and lehi waging a campaign of terror responsible for dozens of violent attacks and murfering between 6 and 8 thousand Palestinian jews, Christians and muslims as well as british military personnel and other international citizens caught in the crossfire. Zionists are the true terrorists in this conflict. If you dont agree youre not on the left you’re a right leaning centrist making excuses for a settler colonial state guilty of war crimes.