A message to all people who try to boycott companies like Kellogg's or Burgerville that are working hard to stop unions because they want to keep abusing workers:

I feel ya, but I can also just about guarantee you that you're already supporting this company, you just don't know it. And I can also guarantee you that boycotting any company in this day ( Read more... )

Remember, everyone:

Landlords are parasites!

For those who doubt that claim:

Landlords squat on land that could otherwise have been sold to decent people and then hold it for ransom, forcing people living in poverty into desperation to keep their shelter, going so far as to cut back on food and other necessities to give 30% or more of their income to ( Read more... )

Them, conservatives: I just don't want my tax money paying for these social programs.
Me, a leftist: Me too!
Them: Oh, so you ag--
Me: The only people who should be paying taxes are the billionaires and multi-millionaires. Tax them all at 75%! Why, Jeff Bezos alone could probably let us triple the budget on education and social programs AND pay off ( Read more... )

Them: Why do customers give you verbal abuse for 20 minutes straight and then say "I know it's not you, it's not your fault".
If you know it's not my fault then why are are you yelling at me Susan?

My response:

Because these companies excel at being customer hostile. I don't understand how people can ever be calm with how user hostile these ( Read more... )

Wow, someone actually said this to me today:

“If there was no capitalism, what reasons would artists have to create?”

Wow. What a fucking moron. Or a troll.

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If you are not an anti-capitalist, then you either have no compassion and no soul, or you are extremely ignorant about capitalism. Capitalism cannot be redeemed, cannot be reformed ( Read more... )

As much as I want to think a revolution could help change our economic structure to communism, I think it's not going to work out that way. Feudalism didn't vanish until after the plague wiped out most of the labor, making feudalism ill adapted to the new realities of the world, so it got abandoned and replaced ( Read more... )

The thing about anarcho-capitalism that really gets me is that it's a contradiction of terms. If you remove the current government and replace it with a capitalist system where the corporations can do what they want, that isn't anarchism, that's corporatocracy, IE government by corporations. You'd just be replacing one kind of government with a ( Read more... )

So this idiot was like "If you support Bernie Sanders you might as well be a self proclaimed communist cause he's a communist dressed in "democratic socialists ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up, and in the few minutes after that, I had the random memory of someone mocking another communist for using products from capitalism (such as computers), and I thought about what my response to that would be. And this is what I came up with ( Read more... )