Capitalism fans when exchange value is prioritised:

Breaking: we confirmed something you can reason out from first principles.

Mathematical proof (that a high school dropout can follow) of just how deranged the idea of continuous growth is.

What’s shocking is just how far our mathematically illiterate intuitions are from the implications, like:
Half of all of the resources that are ever available are consumed in the final doubling period.
Continuous growth at any rate leads to a catastrophically sudden collapse in the resources that feed that growth.

A petri dish is empty at 11:00, a single bacteria splits once per minute, the dish is full at 12:00.
At what time was the dish half full? 11:59.
If you were a bacteria in this experiment, at what time would you start to notice you’re running out of space?

There’s no need for them to conspire to make the world worse,
that’s emergent from their class interests.

They conspire for the love of the game.

Global pandemic got memory holed when we collectively decided to pretend it’s over.

The best of all possible economic systems:

The “trick” has been known from the start: Remove the seeds and fertile ground fascism grows in, i.e. capitalism.

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that this is human nature, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

The reason for fascism’s existence in every sense of the word is to keep capitalism going with a fool’s revolution when people are desperate enough for an actual one to happen.

Here’s the old guard fantasising about fascism in their DMs while Hitler was a teenager:

In 1905 Milner, one of the more far-seeing leaders of the older British imperialism, described in a private letter the only hope that he could see for the salvation of bourgeois rule:

“Perhaps a great Charlatan-political scallywag, buffoon, liar, stump orator, and in other respects popular favourite-may some day arise who is nevertheless a statesman-the combination is not impossible- and who, having attained power by popular acts may use it for national ends. It is an off-chance, but I do not see any other.” (Milner, letter to Lady Edward Cecil, The Milner Papers, Vol. II, 1899-1905.)

Here we see the bourgeoisie consciously groping for the forms of Fascism long before Fascism existed. The fact that so lifelike a description of Hitler or Mussolini could have been penned a decade before these began to play their role is a striking confirmation of how little it is personality that creates history, and how much rather history calls forth the personality that it requires at a given stage.

Crimestop is all they have.
You know, that succinct paragraph from their favourite propagandist fiction writer you can tell they never read because they only quote the slogans.

I saw a comment under a "I’m new to Lemmy, " post that said watch out for the communists.

Why? What are they going to do?
Put a thought in your brain you can’t ignore or refute.

Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut

Nah, you did the right thing. You’ll know it all the way to your grave.
Speaking up for marginalised people is a duty of those of us with less dire problems.

Each person’s contribution may feel futile, meaningless, and insignificant but “no rain drop believes itself responsible for the flood” applies to positive things too.

People think being right early is satisfying? They should try it some time.

We refer to it as the curse of foresight.

If caring whether what I believe is true and being a less easy mark for peer pressure and local propaganda makes me neurodivergent,

then neurodivergent hi-five I guess.

People who are climate change denialists in 2026 are way too far gone.

If anyone needs convincing at this point I’d say it’s those who think they know of / believe in climate change but vastly underestimate the severity of the problem. Like they’ve never heard of feedback loops or peeped the sea surface temperature anomaly graph.

The truth is closer to the Newsroom clip than “it’s going to be hotter and there will be more extreme weather events, but humanity will definitely carry on because I find that thought more comfortable than the alternative”.

If we haven’t reached the point of no return, political inertia will carry us there as things stand.

Good idea! It’s much easier to cool things in space!

Why are you looking at me like that?

How about one infographic or flowchart to rule them all explaining all the different ways to install a program, for starters?

Just ^{NSFW obviously} normal conservative straight things.

I went straight to finding other sources and snopes because surely this is just too funny.

Our favourite president, Degrowth Don.

Not really, not even for long enough to enjoy the joke. The push to mow down the US national parks is still easy to recall.

No. This isn’t an oopsie.
Not this time nor the last 7500.