This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard and I have many reasons, replete with citations!

I’m assuming this is on a dating app…

Maybe I’m an asshole but good conversations are a dime a dozen. If we go out, have a good connection and make plans? Personally, I’ll apologize to the others I’m chatting with but I get the ghosting. What percentage of “good” (generally just fine with maybe a solid joke) app convos lead to a connection we both want to pursue? Not all that many.

I didn’t go to a job because I wanted to watch trailer park boys. Don’t know how unique that is though, it’s a pretty good show.

Check local community colleges? My province has a few that offer pretty decent coding courses.

I’ve never met/zoomed/chatted with a teacher in real time but you can usually ask questions in lecture or whatnot.

The older you get, the more you’ll realize it’s okay and even a good idea to just say “I don’t really know about this.”

To say that Harris and trump mean the same thing for the Palestinians is outright nonsensical. Some of the Israeli ministers (notably Smotrich) have been very explicit about the fact that trump’s win, among other things, makes annexation of the West Bank much more likely.

There’s a lot of background that you kind of really have to be in the weeds to catch but if you’ve been reading Foreign Policy and others, you’d know that while the Biden administration ought to have done more, there were still some red lines (annexation, hitting Iranian oil/nuclear facilities etc.) With trump in charge, it’s unclear which if any red lines still exist.

It’s a humanitarian crisis but to claim that Harris and trump mean the same thing is as downright silly as you can get. Saying things that are patenly nonsensical makes you look pretty danged silly.

Manufacturing consent is one of my favourites!

It’s not even privilege, just wildly ignorant or childish to see something horrible and decide “yup, can’t get worse than that!”

If you literally don’t understand that trump and Harris will have very different red lines, you don’t know enough to talk about this.

That’s a wildly privileged set of statements. Declaring that a bad thing id happening and it doesn’t matter if it gets worse, goddamn kid.

Both claims are debatable.

Do you think things won’t get worse under trump? Or do you think some 50,000 dead a year is the worst Israel can do?

Kid, you should try reading things by actual, paid journalists, who aren’t just contributors to free online “news” sources.

Or good books.

Vote Harris… Wait. Damnit.

No one can change everything but everyone can change something.

Talk and gasp befriend those with whom we disagree.

Ahahaha, this is probably the most the most reasonable take here!

could reply that eating food falls well within a communist system, therefore you can’t blame communism for famines.

Try again when you’re sober, that’s not a particular cogent argument.

Are you… You’re trying to compare a people under a military blockade to the victims of communist governments?

Like, the Right accuses us of using palestineans as props but goddamn, in this case I’m inclined to agree.

At best, that’s a silly comparison. At worst, that’s just callous, ghoulish and ridiculous. Just… wow.

The Irish potato famine was more an exogenous factor (a blight) not the direct result of mismanagement, which is generally a feature of communism. So that’s a pretty poor comparison.

Bengal was a mostly agrarian state so not really an advanced capitalist society. Again, not a particularly good comparison.

A carbon tax falls well within a capitalist system (much the same as any other tax or method of dealing with externalities) so I’d put that as a failure of democratic systems more than anything.

I’m also not convinced communism would actually solve the problem. Communists have historically been pretty reluctant to share bad news, from letting folks know about mass starvations to, oh, most of the world news in China.

I’m morbidly curious. There are a lot of folks advocating communism who seem to lack any historical context. I’m curious as to whether it’s sort of like lemmys instinctive downvoting of anything negative about biden/upvoting of anything negative of trump, or maybe it’s genuine ignorance (I don’t imagine tik tok communist enthusiasts talk all that much about the tens of millions dead) or if there is actually some sort of group rationalization.

And under capitalism, capital and labour are generally in conflict. Same way most capital owners are in conflict with each other (that’s basically the engine of growth.)

Saying that labour battled for these advancements is no more an indictment of capitalism than the fact that McDonalds battles with Wendys for revenue.