me rn

kinda

just a little

Epic

bot agrees

nice

🤔

"socialism is when the government does stuff, right?"

no that is state-capitalism

which is used for the purpose of reaching socialism

i think it's bullshit, and we should hit full socialism instead

i would be a full fledged anarchist if i did not believed we need a military and police

but mostly everything should be controlled by syndicates, or unions

under a direct democracy

@shimmy yes

look up Revolutionary Catalonia, Paris Commune, Ukraine

Revolutionary Catalonia is my favorite

wait here

"During the Spanish Civil War, workers in occupied factories coordinated an entire wartime economy. Anarchist organizations that had been instrumental in bringing about the revolution, namely the CNT labor union, often provided the foundations for the new society. Especially in the industrial city of Barcelona, the CNT lent the structure for running a worker-controlled economy — a task for which it had been preparing years in advance. Each factory organized itself with its own chosen technical and administrative workers; factories in the same industry in every locality organized into the Local Federation of their particular industry; all the Local Federations of a locality organized themselves into a Local Economic Council “in which all the centers of production and services were represented”; and the local Federations and Councils organized into parallel National Federations of Industry and National Economic Federations.[49]

The Barcelona congress of all Catalan collectives, on August 28, 1937, provides an example of their coordinating activities and decisions. The collectivized shoe factories needed 2 million pesetas credit. Because of a shortage of leather, they had to cut down on hours, though they still paid all their workers full time salaries. The Economic Council studied the situation, and reported that there was no surplus of shoes. The congress agreed to grant credit to purchase leather and to modernize the factories in order to lower the prices of the shoes. Later, the Economic Council outlined plans to build an aluminum factory, which was necessary for the war effort. They had located available materials, secured the cooperation of chemists, engineers, and technicians, and decided to raise the money through the collectives. The congress also decided to mitigate urban unemployment by working out a plan with agricultural workers to bring new areas into cultivation with the help of unemployed workers from the cities."

@shimmy

In Valencia, the CNT organized the orange industry, with 270 committees in different towns and villages for growing, purchasing, packing, and exporting; in the process, they got rid of several thousand middlemen. In Laredo, the fishing industry was collectivized — workers expropriated the ships, cut out the middlemen who took all the profit, and used those profits to improve the ships and other equipment or to pay themselves. Catalunya’s textile industry employed 250,000 workers in scores of factories. During collectivization, they got rid of high-paid directors, increased their wages by 15%, reduced their hours from 60 to 40 hours per week, bought new machinery, and elected management committees.

In Catalunya, libertarian workers showed impressive results in maintaining the complex infrastructure of the industrial society they had taken over. The workers who had always been responsible for these jobs proved themselves capable of carrying on and even improving their work in the absence of bosses. “Without waiting for orders from anyone, the workers restored normal telephone service within three days [after heavy street fighting ended]... Once this crucial emergency work was finished a general membership meeting of telephone workers decided to collectivize the telephone system.”[50] The workers voted to raise the salaries of the lowest paid members. The gas, water, and electricity services were also collectivized. The collective managing water lowered rates by 50% and was still able to contribute large amounts of money to the anti-fascist militia committee. The railway workers collectivized the railroads, and where technicians in the railroads had fled, experienced workers were chosen as replacements. The replacements proved adequate despite their lack of formal schooling, because they had learned through the experience of working together with the technicians to maintain the lines.

socialism has literally worked

yes

legit is my name

trump has been shit since he started his campaign

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

good read

if Trump really cared about illegal immigration, he would punish companies that hire illegals, instead of building a useless wall that only accounts for a minority of illegals that cross through the border

i doubt trump will win, his approval rating is incredibly low

@BlackHawk it’s not the same this time

even fox news acknowledges the low rating lol

it's even lower than what Obama was

@BlackHawk "half the country"
the majority of people didnt even vote

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/index.html

"Washington (CNN)Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.

While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126 million votes already counted means about 55% of voting age citizens cast ballots this year.
That measure of turnout is the lowest in a presidential election since 1996, when 53.5% of voting-age citizens turned out."

this year, meaning 2016

of those 126 million, which only account for 55%, more people voted for Hillary

hopefully the electoral college decides to not fuck us up again

what a democracy

i am sure more people will vote, disapproval means more people willing to take action

what

lol

i was spamming images

Popular vote 62,984,828 65,853,514
Percentage 46.1% 48.2%

first is trump

second hillary

lmao

i wanted it to look pretty but bot ((()))'d me

if America was a true democracy, Hillary would have won by 2,868,686 votes

it isn't a democracy at all

it's an oligarchy

by now

the rich do nothing all day yet we continue giving them tax cuts

it's laughable

pouring money into the stock market and then to your company isn't work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM&t=105s&list=LLkoFlXlog0Af44JAOqqzcSw&index=28

in case anyone watching hasnt already seen this video

1% of the 1% could literally end poverty in America, we would no longer have to suffer hunger in our own nation

but nop, they need their tax breaks, how else are they supposed to expand their companies right?

trickle down economics, supply-side economics, call it whatever you want

shit dosent work

it does not improve the economy, it never has

and it most definitely, does not improve the lives of Americans

the problem is that there is rich people while people are starving, how we can call ourselves a first world nation is beyond me

this is near dystopia

According to Feeding America, 1 in 7 people in the U.S. face hunger every year. The rates of hunger in children are even higher, with about 1 in 5 lacking proper access to food at some point during the year.

16 million American kids struggle with hunger each year.

we used to have a 90% marginal tax rate under Eisenhower
BUT HEY, 70% IS TOO MUCH

@Deleted User i guess the statistic i just posted is fake news then

>mcdonalds

okay so starving people will not starve, they will die of diabetes

epic

great

The prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 million of US adults in 2015~2016. [Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data briefCdc-pdf PDF-603KB]

@Deleted User you just said, people who are poor should just eat mcdonalds

a lot, yes

i also dislike fast food

they called me the socialist, this guy wants to destroy business in America
you want to rid millions of jobs

talk about not caring about the working class

regulations should be put in place, if anything

at all

people working under fast food restaurants are llmao

do you know what working class is?

@Deleted User yes, but its not just that