Message from @squishysquashy

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2019-07-16 20:10:20 UTC  

The entire world?

2019-07-16 20:10:35 UTC  

Isolationism is not good.

2019-07-16 20:11:51 UTC  

Capitalism is also problematic.

2019-07-16 20:12:29 UTC  

To be clear, every political ideology has pros and cons.

2019-07-16 20:12:42 UTC  

Yeah, you have the juche North and capitalist south

2019-07-16 20:13:29 UTC  

Capitalism is better compared to feudalism and a command economy, but we can do better

2019-07-16 20:14:02 UTC  

I wonder what is the ratio of starving children and grocery stores?

2019-07-16 20:14:55 UTC  

Too high, you also have to wonder the number of homeless people compared to empty unsold houses

2019-07-16 20:16:12 UTC  

Imagine how many people you could feed with all the wasted produce,meat, and unsold food

2019-07-16 20:16:37 UTC  

It's way too much.

2019-07-16 20:16:52 UTC  

Throwing away food should be illegal.

2019-07-16 20:17:09 UTC  

Unless said food is legit rotten

2019-07-16 20:18:03 UTC  

It should, where I live the gov created a compost bin along with a trash and recycling bin

2019-07-16 20:18:37 UTC  

They pick up less trash, but most uneaten food becomes fertilizer thanks to the comp bin

2019-07-16 20:18:46 UTC  

It's pretty neat

2019-07-16 20:19:06 UTC  

I have green bin too.

2019-07-16 20:21:43 UTC  

It still doesn't fix the corporations' waste tho

2019-07-16 20:22:07 UTC  

Restaurant dumpster surrounded by homeless people

2019-07-16 20:23:26 UTC  

What I hate is how housing is considered a commodity, same with food and water

2019-07-16 20:24:01 UTC  

Those things are human rights

2019-07-16 20:31:21 UTC  

It is possible for communism and capitalism to coexist.

What if the government gave you food, water, house, etc.
And companies are still allowed to sell you other stuff

2019-07-16 20:39:14 UTC  

Well that's a social democracy, it's just capitalism with but with a larger lean on socialism

2019-07-16 20:39:57 UTC  

If you want to see communism and democracy working together then you're looking at a system of democratic socialism

2019-07-16 20:41:39 UTC  

Because even though you're basic rights could be guaranteed in a social democracy you still have the issue of a ruling class and a broken system of representative democracy instead of direct democracy

2019-07-16 20:48:04 UTC  

Direct democracy ain't that good

2019-07-16 20:49:51 UTC  

What's the issue with it?

2019-07-16 20:51:58 UTC  

Well

2019-07-16 20:52:22 UTC  

Normally it's a mess to organize

2019-07-16 20:52:32 UTC  

Then if you ever manage to organize such a thing

2019-07-16 20:52:57 UTC  

You end up with an asembly or whatever with people that have very different ideas on how to deal with the countrie's problems

2019-07-16 20:53:30 UTC  

And to top it off most of them can be inexperienced af

2019-07-16 20:56:57 UTC  

You have a good example of a society going maybe a bit too democratic

2019-07-16 20:57:06 UTC  

The weimar republic

2019-07-16 20:57:25 UTC  

There were no restrictions whatsoever in political parties

2019-07-16 20:57:33 UTC  

At first this sounds great right?

2019-07-16 20:57:57 UTC  

Well you end up realising there's more than 50 parties

2019-07-16 20:58:16 UTC  

To form a cabinet you must scramble through all of them to get a nish majority

2019-07-16 20:58:40 UTC  

And your goverment would fall apart whener one of those parties would withraw their support

2019-07-16 20:59:24 UTC  

Well you're assuming there would be some sort cabinet or national body, direct democracy operates on a small decentralized scale

2019-07-16 20:59:35 UTC  

There is no head or central leader

2019-07-16 20:59:43 UTC  

Alright, so like in comunities basically?