> The fantasy is that an economic system predicated on infinite growth can be made compatible with finite resources. Good thing that's just degrowth propaganda. > This economic system is extremely terrible at meeting…
It isn't a cope. They are pointing out the fact that the state has been used against the opposition multiple times in the past by authoritarians, by both the US (this goes beyond DT's gov too) and socialist governments…
Other comments have pointed out this: how are you going to stop the "warrior narcissist" if you disarmed/de-weaponized the peace-makers? Even if de-weaponize after you erase all the current "warrior narcissists", how…
On the other hand, subsidies do cause actors to make otherwise unsustainable decisions. In this case, excessive consumerism.
> You write as if there is only one smoothly homogeneous "Capitalism" and that it's actually practiced. You'd be mistaken, as that better describes OP. All I mentioned is that the push for open competition began in…
Comparing with the alternatives, capitalism did already enable open competition and undermined nepotism. Also, "more money = better than" is not a capitalist thing. It's just the nature of money being a physical…
The person who is prohibited from having guns in any space has less freedom. The freedom of knowing guns aren't allowed isn't a freedom of its own, but a constraint on actions. Constraints provide security to do certain…
What are other private corps going to do when their main government just uses its military might to seize their assets?
Then we don't live in this Capitalism either. Corporations and governments cooperate, but most of the final power is on the government still.
> The free market is deliberately engineered to push down price to cost of production The free market is not deliberately engineered for any particular goal, except the free trade between parties. Fundamentally, it's a…
In regards to socialist/communist confusion, OP primarily refers using the term "socialism", except at the end where they use "socialist communist countries", likely referring to the self-proclaimed socialist countries…
I don't think it's a tool for sowing division. There is a significant group of self-proclaimed socialists who proudly stan the Soviet Union and Mao's China, so I think it's more of a case of ideologies being more messy…
Not sure why this comment is downvoted. In the context of Marxian Socialism and Command Economies, it's very much true that socialism is incompatible with free markets. Going even further, without a free market for…
USD includes cash. In fact, cash is the preferred payment method for criminal things, contending with Monero, so complaining about its inclusion is certainly something. Going even further, cryptcurrencies, being…
You have it backwards, most cryptocurrencies transactions are, at best, pseudononymous, where, by contrast, cash transactions are anonymous by default. > What has society gained in return? A currency technology that…
I also must disagree. Holding the "a permanently comatose human is not a person" and a "a fetus could be a person" aren't incompatible. The first statement presumes a definitive state to body where as the second…
The point is that we don't need to increase 0.11% back to 10%. Specially when the base numbers have significantly increased.
Except it is. In fact, the difference between alive and personhood and the point of transition are, fundamentally, the same issue: if the point of transition is considered the embryo, then the distinction doesn't really…
What I understood their point to be is that the only reason they are "false beliefs" is your own biases. If they aren't actual "false beliefs", then the restrictions on bodily autonomy are as justified as when dealing…
Given what OP said, probably not: > There is no clear discrete point, other than insemination where it is not murder vs murder. Will you actually address this point?
Thanks for restating what OP said.
Do they? Are you sure the high management knows who is a rapist or not? If so, I would like to see some evidence.
I have to disagree on fascism being this insidious bogeyman. While I agree that they ought to be fought against, IMO this is reaching into red scare territory (which is fitting, given that both share a really close…
I didn't know the Catholic Church was promoting child rape.
1) fair enough, I was focusing on the original post; 2) disagree, the bar might be a pretty public place, so being allowed in is just the default; or they might have been personally allowed in, but is treated as the…
> The fantasy is that an economic system predicated on infinite growth can be made compatible with finite resources. Good thing that's just degrowth propaganda. > This economic system is extremely terrible at meeting…
It isn't a cope. They are pointing out the fact that the state has been used against the opposition multiple times in the past by authoritarians, by both the US (this goes beyond DT's gov too) and socialist governments…
Other comments have pointed out this: how are you going to stop the "warrior narcissist" if you disarmed/de-weaponized the peace-makers? Even if de-weaponize after you erase all the current "warrior narcissists", how…
On the other hand, subsidies do cause actors to make otherwise unsustainable decisions. In this case, excessive consumerism.
> You write as if there is only one smoothly homogeneous "Capitalism" and that it's actually practiced. You'd be mistaken, as that better describes OP. All I mentioned is that the push for open competition began in…
Comparing with the alternatives, capitalism did already enable open competition and undermined nepotism. Also, "more money = better than" is not a capitalist thing. It's just the nature of money being a physical…
The person who is prohibited from having guns in any space has less freedom. The freedom of knowing guns aren't allowed isn't a freedom of its own, but a constraint on actions. Constraints provide security to do certain…
What are other private corps going to do when their main government just uses its military might to seize their assets?
Then we don't live in this Capitalism either. Corporations and governments cooperate, but most of the final power is on the government still.
> The free market is deliberately engineered to push down price to cost of production The free market is not deliberately engineered for any particular goal, except the free trade between parties. Fundamentally, it's a…
In regards to socialist/communist confusion, OP primarily refers using the term "socialism", except at the end where they use "socialist communist countries", likely referring to the self-proclaimed socialist countries…
I don't think it's a tool for sowing division. There is a significant group of self-proclaimed socialists who proudly stan the Soviet Union and Mao's China, so I think it's more of a case of ideologies being more messy…
Not sure why this comment is downvoted. In the context of Marxian Socialism and Command Economies, it's very much true that socialism is incompatible with free markets. Going even further, without a free market for…
USD includes cash. In fact, cash is the preferred payment method for criminal things, contending with Monero, so complaining about its inclusion is certainly something. Going even further, cryptcurrencies, being…
You have it backwards, most cryptocurrencies transactions are, at best, pseudononymous, where, by contrast, cash transactions are anonymous by default. > What has society gained in return? A currency technology that…
I also must disagree. Holding the "a permanently comatose human is not a person" and a "a fetus could be a person" aren't incompatible. The first statement presumes a definitive state to body where as the second…
The point is that we don't need to increase 0.11% back to 10%. Specially when the base numbers have significantly increased.
Except it is. In fact, the difference between alive and personhood and the point of transition are, fundamentally, the same issue: if the point of transition is considered the embryo, then the distinction doesn't really…
What I understood their point to be is that the only reason they are "false beliefs" is your own biases. If they aren't actual "false beliefs", then the restrictions on bodily autonomy are as justified as when dealing…
Given what OP said, probably not: > There is no clear discrete point, other than insemination where it is not murder vs murder. Will you actually address this point?
Thanks for restating what OP said.
Do they? Are you sure the high management knows who is a rapist or not? If so, I would like to see some evidence.
I have to disagree on fascism being this insidious bogeyman. While I agree that they ought to be fought against, IMO this is reaching into red scare territory (which is fitting, given that both share a really close…
I didn't know the Catholic Church was promoting child rape.
1) fair enough, I was focusing on the original post; 2) disagree, the bar might be a pretty public place, so being allowed in is just the default; or they might have been personally allowed in, but is treated as the…