I hate Bernie so much. Such a scumbag. Advocated for the destruction of Yugoslavia and his constant grift of pretending to give a shit about the poor tricks a lot of people. More than that I’m sick of those who suck off this guy like he’s some hero of the proletariat when he’s nothing more than an opportunistic con artist. I’m so sick of the lesser evilism nonsense people try and use to justify this crap. Voting for lesser evil is is all the left has done for fucking ever now and all its gotten us is a neoliberal hellscape. The democrats will never need to give the left anything because the left is spineless and gives its power away freely. If you’re a guaranteed voting bloc your demands will never be even considered because they aren’t real demands, they are simply polite requests. Policy is instead dictated by those who will jump ship if a better opportunity presents itself because they are the ones who may swing the other way.

Thanks for answering for me. Haven’t been on Lemmy in a bit.

I mean, days of the year is fine as is because that matches seasonal cycles which is important for agriculture and the like. Ofcourse along the equator lunar calenders were historically used because they don’t have different seasons but a calender used by everyone keeps things consistent for trade and the agricultural trade is still one of the most important things for humanity so it best remains a solar calendar.

As for time, 60 and 24 and in general multiples of 12 are great units because they can be easily divisible in many ways. This is why they were established as such in the first place, because Babylon had a big thing for what is called “extremely composite numbers” which are basically just a number that has more factors than any previous and equal to all subsequent ones (until the next extremely composite number) and all multiples of 12 (as far as I know) fall into this category. This means that units that are multiples of 12 both easily divide into each other (making it useful for changing between units) and easily divide into many other numbers making it easier to schedule a day as you have nice clean boundaries.

Where did they get their figure for great depression earnings? When I looked it up the average wage was $821 in 1933. Putting that through the inflation calculator gives $19,418.18.

Since when do the opinions of regular people decide government policy under capitalism? Maybe I’m just used to the US where the average citizen has zero voice but is that not the same across all capitalist countries?

Is it? I feel like fascism is adaptable to basically any society if given the right conditions. Not to say Russia is fascist (it isn’t) but to say its anti Russian is odd. Especially when again, if they do truely care so much the, why now and not when the coup first happened?

I think we all know Russia does not care about fascism in Ukraine. Otherwise this shit would’ve happened ages ago (like, right after Euromaiden). Its a capitalist war for capitalist reasons.

I suppose the most important question is whether the proletariat can actually use this split in capitalist interests to their advantage or if class solidarity between capitalists will win out and create a compromise.

No, it really doesn’t. It’s all the same “go out and vote our way to socialism” BS. That shit ain’t on the ballot. Never is, never was, never will be.

Electoralist nonsense.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/413496

Bruh.

Look, I’m not just gonna go back and forth with contradicting each other. I know what I read, you know what you read, it is what it is.

Maybe you just didn’t read the ones I did. Regardless, they definitely did.

It really did, at least their paper did. Every article was “We must stop the rise of fascism and Biden will do just that!”. On r/cpusa they post like every article that party pushes and it was pure Biden simping. Most pro union president and shit. My view of the party comes from its publications (as its still not really impactful in terms of actions, at least not in my area as its so tiny) and it was pure liberal nonsense. “Voting is a revolutionary act!” Sounding stuff (yes, an article said that).

CPUSA did simp pretty hard for Biden during 2020 though. They, just like every liberal outlet, painted him as some savior of democracy against fascism. When in truth, Biden is just a quieter fascism. Hell, their subreddit was one of the most libshit places I’d ever been. Ended up getting banned after getting into an argument with a mod about if voting is revolutionary (they claimed it was!).

Damn, I thought Cali was supposed to have better public education than the rest of the country. No water, no air, and no education? Surprised people still live there at this point.