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Cool, but then you’re just a naive utopia dreamer. Capitalism is the best system we have right now, and it pays for a lot of social programs, can it be better sure but acting like communism is better is just flat out stupid.

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10 points

Living in a tribe in the jungle is better than capitalism because it’s not literally destroying the world. If you’re willing to consider utopian capitalism, then a utopia based on ideas that can theoretically work should be even easier.

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Huh?

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A big meteor strike would be worse for most life on earth than even the climate crisis, and that will happen, sooner or later. In order to prevent that, you need a pretty high tech level.

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Yes and no. Yes by the time it would likely be detected on a collision course with Earth, at present, even the greatest minds can’t theorize a method to neutralize an asteroid => 5km in diameter that doesn’t cause an extinction event with the technology available to us right now.

However, if it were detected soon enough there may be more tenable options for preventing an impact event that are not futile. The problem is we don’t have nearly enough resources monitoring deep space for our inevitable destruction and with a lot of our space tech now being privatized in the US it will be more difficult because there’s no profit incentive to being prepared for our doom. At least now that NASA is active again there will be an obvious taxpayer incentive to literally preventing our own annihilation…lol

Edit to add article about early detection: https://www.planetary.org/defending-the-earth-from-impacts#:~:text=We can stop asteroids from,tends to focus on asteroids.

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24 points

Margaret Thatcher, is that you?

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6 points

I thought she was dead, with her grave thoroughly urinated upon.

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2 points

grave thoroughly urinated on

Shit, I guess people found an alternative after all

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21 points

Yep, no room to innovate anywhere, everything everywhere has already been tried and capitalism won.

No propaganda here.

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Capitalism is the best system we have right now

Citation needed. Also, curious how capitalist countries are always so eager to stomp down any attempt at trying a different system, almost as if the rich really don’t want you to even believe a different system is possible 🤔

and it pays for a lot of social programs

It doesn’t pay, it steals. Social programs under capitalism are possible only by exploiting the global south.

Cool, but then you’re just a naive utopia dreamer.

Not wanting to be robbed by bosses and landlords is utopia, now? And you talk about it as if it was some theory that was never tried. Libertarian socialism already exists.

can it be better sure but acting like communism is better is just flat out stupid.

Because…? Can you even define what you mean with ‘communism’, or is it just some nebulous threat you got programmed to be afraid of? Not all socialists are Stalinists, which is what you seem to be implying…

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11 points

Its fucking dumb to assume that the only other alternative is communism.

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19 points

Social programs? But… that’s socialism !

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10 points

Capitalism is naivest utopia. There is no invisible limbs, monopoly will eventually form.

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