Skip Navigation

PugJesus

@ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Posts

826
Comments

1189
Joined

3 yr. ago

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

Moderating

Rough Roman Memes lemmy.world

1y ago

Diversity in your ear holes
Jump
1

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago
♪ Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning ♪
♪ Oh what a terrible sight to see ♪
♪ The dabtoes forward and the dustmen aft ♪
♪ Sitting there picking at a chicken on a raft ♪

1y ago

You read it, it's law

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Just by referencing that, you cause a thousand techbros to cry out in simultaneous simulated-them future-pain

1y ago

Meow

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Better not put me in a coffin when I die, I don't want to keep using up resources even after I'm dead

1y ago

PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Nice feature!

1y ago

Moans

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Nah, it’s pretty much the right side for both.

What a brave new world of gender equality we now live in 🙏

1y ago

She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Stealing this

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Pug

1y ago

Maybe some day you can get a job that makes you happy and money

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Can't I just die in my sleep or something? Preferably soon?

1y ago

The boykisser agenda 😔

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

It's the chemicals in the water

1y ago

I would say the fuck-up is much broader than that, tbf. Checks and balances have been borked for... quite some time now. The GOP ignored checks and balances because the Dems were too chickenshit to stop them (or, if one is feeling generous, because the crybully tactics of the GOP would have resulted in backlash against the Dems by the 'independents' who swing elections).

Snooggums is right that systems fail when they're ignored - even the best-structured system must have a society which is cultivated to value and perpetuate it. If not, all the well-laid out rules in the world won't save it.

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Socialism is incompatible with democracy and freedom. That’s a fact proven over and over again throughout history.

Soviet systems are incompatible with democracy and freedom. "Socialism" is an extremely broad term.

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

What about your singing animal friends, and your singing LSD lab?

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

For now we do.

More generally, I meant simply that government regulation is proven as a workable solution, conceptually, to restrain third-parties. The only remaining questions are tied up in 'how to regulate the details' and 'how to maintain the regulatory body', both of which we are currently experiencing... deep imperfections in the current implementation.

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Oh, I imagine there would need to be quite a few regulations and regulatory bodies to oversee such matters. Even if they were operating with the best of intentions, which are often in short supply, the behavior of entities with narrow goals must be regulated to ensure harmony with the broader goals of the population (like "Living in a society where the rivers don't catch on fire if you drop a match in them").

Power corrupts, and all that jazz - for workers as much as bureaucrats and private parties. Only by ensuring that there are numerous power bases with the ability to effectively restrain one-another, and relatively free entry/advancement in each, can a free equilibrium be maintained in a society.

Of course, we have quite a few regulations and regulatory bodies nowadays, so the only real question is in the details of it, rather than the general concept. The concept is obviously workable.

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yeah, my position is certainly influenced by socialist thought.

1y ago

Permanently Deleted

Jump

PugJesus @lemmy.world 1y ago

Something like that.

The exact number is negotiable, but my thinking is based in sympathy for obsessive artisans who want to maintain control over their work, but can't do it all themselves, or subcontract it all. If John Metalworker hires 3 assistants to help him make chainmail, because chainmail is his passion, and then his 3 assistants vote for the firm to swap production to the more-profitable chain-fence industry, that's a bit of a shit situation. If the terms are clear from the outset, small firms should be allowed to maintain different methods of control than worker-ran co-ops.