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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 142 points 2 days ago (13 children)

You could always just fund the space agency you already have, instead of funneling money to a foreign billionaire.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (26 children)

No this the one time I’m with the commies. Nationalize that shit. Like you said it’s all taxpayer money anyway. A little bit of Wall Street speculation, but who gives a fuck about those people

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 21 points 2 days ago

it’s all taxpayer money anyway

Good point.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So you wanna nationalize the whole telecom industry then?

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, now that you bring it up...

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I fully agree. Any industry that can’t survive on its own and needs public funds, shouldn’t exist. If it’s an essential service it should be nationalized.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So you want Donald Trump in charge of the telecom industry and any other industries that have received some sort of public subsidy?

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[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

lol you really threatened Lemmy with a good time

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely. And power too

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

And pharma. And O&G

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

all taxpayer money anyway

Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What do you mean little to show for it?

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[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (17 children)

this the one time I’m with the commies

Are you against universal and free healthcare, education and retirement? Are you against improving worker rights, paid holidays, sick leave, guaranteed housing and guaranteed employment? Are you against unionisation of workplaces and collective worker decisions mattering in business? Are you against heavy regulation against climate change and pollution of the environment? Are you against anti-racism, feminism, anti-fascism and the redistribution of wealth from the richest to the poorest? I'm sure you have a lot more common ground with us commies than you think

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No I’m also with the commies on single payer health care and super high tax brackets for the rich. I do hate me a fascism, infact I hate all authoritarians.

I’m clearly for the workers rights we have fought for and established in this country. And while I can acknowledge the communist impact in these achievements, I would not go ahead and give you guys full credit nor say that these are policies that are specific to you. Most of this stuff is just center/left social welfare and human rights. Commies are the ones that like to do purity tests and isolate anyone that doesn’t agree with 100% of your policy points.

Pretty big jumps from liberal to leftist to self proclaimed communist ideas on how these ideas and policies look, so yes we agree on general principles and concepts. But we certainly don’t agree on how to bring them about.

Also, every single self-proclaimed communist is on the suspect list because you guys did a lot of campaigning against Joe Biden to help Donald Trump get elected so I’m just saying I don’t really fuck with you guys anymore. That’s my new purity test. Did you support Joe Biden and Kamala during the most important election in American history?

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

super high tax brackets for the rich

I'm a communist and I believe in the expropriation of their capital to eliminate super-richness, not in their taxation.

workers rights we have fought for and established in this country

Your country (the US judging by the comment) has miserable worker rights, as a western-European. Worker rights are bad here, but the US takes the cake.

I would not go ahead and give you guys full credit nor say that these are policies that are specific to you. Most of this stuff is just center/left social welfare and human rights

I'm not so sure. The legal abolition of homelessness and unemployment is far from being a centre/left welfare measure, as evidenced by the fact that the only countries that have achieved this are communist ones such as Cuba or the Soviet Union.

we certainly don’t agree on how to bring them about

We don't agree on how to bring them about because the liberal method of bringing them about is proven ineffective in every single instance of liberal democracy. Worker rights and welfare are systematically being eroded in essentially all liberal democracies for the past 3-4 decades, home ownership rates decrease, unemployment increases, retirement age gets delayed (Denmark just rose it to 70 years e.g.), education and healthcare budgets get gutted, infrastructure crumbles, real wages diminish for the majority of the population, and little action is taken against climate change. There were only advancements in worker rights in Europe (and less so in the USA) because of the fear of communist revolution in the past century, hence the complete lack of progress and actual degradation of rights and democracy with the rise of the far right all over the Western World.

I'm not USian so I didn't support any of your genocidal candidates. Funny how you talked of purity tests earlier in your comment and come up with that later. But as an outsider: the US liberal obsession with blaming the election loss on the progressives and not on, you know, the politicians enacting genocide and not doing anything about improving the living conditions of people in the US while in government seems pretty weird. If the Democrats can't bring themselves to even remotely appear more appealing than LITERAL DONALD TRUMP to the average voter, what the fuck are they doing?

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago

it'll be sold to the highest bidder is my bet

I would find it funny that billionaires would pass off the opportunity of taking musk's position on a discount

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

I'll settle for whichever one annoys him the most.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

That's true but it doesn't solve the problem now.

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