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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdnihkc wrote
Reply to comment by djdjddhdhdh in This café in the West Village is now owned by its own employees by geoxol
I mean, yes. Facebook was a "socialistic" enterprise until the IPO. That's not inconsistent with any definitions. Afterwards, Zuckerberg only has around 13.4% of the economic interests, and the other employees have far, far less than that. And what do you know, Facebook's influence and nefariousness have only grown as the corporate ownership becomes less connected to the people that actually work there.
Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmhik6 wrote
Reply to comment by djdjddhdhdh in This café in the West Village is now owned by its own employees by geoxol
No I would call this socialism. The workers own the means of production and are able to keep the surplus value produced by their labor. It's great. That's how it should be. They can decide for themselves what hours they work, what tasks they perform, how profits are divided, etc., instead of the owner dictating all of that to them and keeping the profits for himself. A lot of people don't realize how much socialism we already have in the US. I would describe every mom-and-pop store, sole proprietorship, credit union, worker co-op, etc., as socialism. It's already here in some places and works great. We just need more of it.
Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmgpva wrote
Reply to comment by AnotherNYCPhotog in George Santos admits to fraud, using stolen checks by Black_Reactor
It's built into their religion (which many of them don't even believe in but it gives good cover). You can be a murderer, a rapist, etc., and you can just convert to Christianity at the end and go to Heaven.
Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmg1la wrote
Reply to comment by IsNotACleverMan in George Santos admits to fraud, using stolen checks by Black_Reactor
Same thing happened after the Civil War. Hardly anybody was actually punished, and Confederates quietly went back to their cities and became Mayor, Sheriff, Chairman of the School Board, etc. Jim Crow laws and the Klan really took off from there, and by the mid-1920s it had an estimated peak membership of 6 million. Eugenicists also got super popular at the time, and hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly sterilized under laws that we'd call proto-Nazi. And they literally were, because the Nazis copied some of these 1920s eugenics laws almost word for word when they took power in the 1930s.
Charming-Fig-2544 t1_ja7rk18 wrote
Reply to comment by Green__Bananas in Twin Brothers Face Prosecution as Manhattan Cracks Down on Wage Theft by Rottimer
Wage theft is bigger than every other type of property crime. If you add up all the burglaries and larcenies, wage theft is multiple times larger. Some estimates put it as high as $15 billion per year, and almost all of it happens to people that make under $13/hr.
Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdsobjp wrote
Reply to comment by The_CerealDefense in DA Alvin Bragg’s staffer hangs up on ‘bulls–t’ congressional phone call by Gaytaino
Except for it hasn't. Andrew Cuomo, a true cog in the Democrat establishment machine, was ousted and investigated by his own party in his own state for sexual harassment. You didn't see Dems in Congress calling Tish to get involved and interfere. Dems trip over themselves to call each other out and punish each other, to the point where it's a little embarrassing and I wish they'd let some things slide because we're pushing out good people for small affronts (looking at Al Franken here). This isn't a both sides issue. Dems fuck each other up for even minor things, Reps are supporting literal fucking traitors.