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Private property? Freedom of speech? Freedom to breed? Freedom of thought?...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Conservatives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

Sometimes I sit down and muse about the great world we could create if everything was owned by the state, only approved speech was allowed, if only the best people were allowed to reproduce and everyone was only allowed to think approved thoughts. Like to get my Utopia I am even willing to subject an innocent child to a life of constant suffering and misery...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Every last person working to make it a worse world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Out of the ones you listed, freedom to breed

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

How much better of a world? I'd be happy with half of what I have if it meant literally everyone else in the world could have that much, certainly. Move 4 more people into the house and give up half the money, half the clothes, my car, of course I would do that if it brought the same level of wealth to every single person, it would be not great at first but wow can you imagine how fast it would get better, if nobody was terribly poor? I'd bet that by the time I was old we'd personally be better off than before the split.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

The trump family grifters and all their sycophantic (lookin' at you Lindsay Graham) enablers

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

The landlords.

There are a lot of them so it would be exhausting work to behead them all myself but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

my chains. i've nothing else to lose.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago

And then it got worse

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Burger King's Chicken fries

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

If you're not free, the world isn't free.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Some billionaires

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A better world would imply that its better even when considering the sacrifice, meaning that any sacrifice would be worth it

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I mean, in an overall sense yes, but that's like saying climbing Everest is easy because on average the world has very little elevation change.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's hard to imagine a world with no freedom of thought being better, somehow.

In practice, I doubt we'll ever have to sacrifice much more than we already have. (Which is actually a significant amount. For example, until recent history living on a schedule was for ascetics and flagellants)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Private property for sure, as I don't have any.

Freedom of speech too, as I don't have any.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd sacrifice social media algorithms. Delete them all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

No, not "algorithms" are the problem, but the capitalist who own social media and the algorithms on these.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

A sacrifice is something you like and want to keep, but you're going to give it up for a higher good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Also ban advertisements

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

A better world wouldnโ€™t require sacrificing freedoms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Private property isn't a sacrifice. I don't own any.

There's a difference between personal property and private property. Private property is a mall, is a factory, is machinery at your workplace. Personal property is your toothbrush, your Playstation, your Television, your blender, your set of German knives, your computer, your books, etc.

Freedom of speech has never existed. The illusion of it has been allowed to be stronger or weaker in various places at various times, if your speech is no threat it's often allowed, it's when it's a threat that suddenly the freedom vanishes and hides behind excuses like national security or illegal ideologies, etc.

I question how you would get rid of freedom of thought without some sort of hellish brain implants being made mandatory so it's an odd thing to mention.

I'd be willing to sacrifice an awful lot of fascists, reactionaries, and an awful lot of enabling liberals. I'd be willing to sacrifice bourgeoisie. The expropriation of their private property is not a sacrifice but a necessity for things being held in common trust for the people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Private property. I don't actually want to own things for the sake of owning things, I want a stable and reasonably comfortable life. In the current system, the only way to reliably achieve that is to own the things you need in your life. But if the system were such that you could live a decent life without owning a thing, I'll take that.

And that is with the interpretation of private property as literally any possession you can own. If we go by the socialist interpretation of private property as property used to generate capital, I already have no private property and neither do most people here.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think a better world would include sacrificing those freedoms actually. That's some tankie shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Me sitting in a tank: "hand over your freedums, in exchange you get freedom"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Freedom to Breed. Easy for me, because I don't plan on having kids ever and I don't really think it is a good idea to be having kids if you're unable to sustain them much less, yourself.

If a better world means we have to limit the amount of people we bring in here until everything chills the fuck out, so be it. There is absolutely no reason or benefit to bring in 3 - 12 kids at a given.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Freedom to Breed may not necessarily mean that you may not have any kids. It might also mean that $amount of kids is mandatory, though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I don't particularly want to be remembered for anything in my life. I don't need fame or standing. I dedicate my life to trying to improve people's lives as a teacher. I'd give my life if it meant everyone would live a significantly better life forever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  1. The concept of a family
  2. Freedom to pick your own job (Government assigned positions)
  3. Ability for me to be anything above lower-class
  4. Nationalism and pride in a Culture
  5. Accelerated Global Warming
  6. My intelligence becoming below average
  7. Every human lifespan is halved
  8. Research of Space and Regression of Rocket Technology (forever sub-sound)
[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

the ability to lie and "falsely claim".

imagine everybody is stricken with that boy's wish from "liar liar"

sure there would be a bunch of hurt feelings, but maybe the better world can compensate?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My car and my motorcycle. The motorcycle in particular hurts a bit more because that leans more into the sport and pleasure (cars do it for me too, but I like the MC more). I live in the US so no decent public transport for me. I'd have to walk about a half mile to get to the closest stop to my house. Closest drop off to my work still means another walk of two miles. Side walks are a bit lacking too. Not to mention that the scheduled for the bus is a bit too limited for what I need.

I love driving for fun, in particular on the MC, but that is getting to. Having to? That sucks and is kind of bad for the environment.

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