What did this achieve? You’re cheering for nothing.

am I?

I’m saying they’re accomplishing long term gains towards their objectives.

Republicans lie and cheat to advance their agenda, I’m glad Joe finally bent some rules to accomplish nothing for Americans.

Why celebrate them doing it for selfish reasons? Biden is finally willing to break norms but not to do anything that’ll actually benefit the country.

Your arguments would make sense if he tried to pack the supreme court or take extra measures to prevent project 2025 but he’s just protecting his guilty son… Yay?

This is simple tribalism at best.

As the world turns away from the US and tensions rise with China and other developing nations you’re going to need home grown cheap labour and desperate workers.

Maybe this is the capitalist solution for climate change? Reduced shipping…

It’s easy to say this but why are you buying a video game instead of buying someone food? Why are you driving an expensive car?

Yes there are problems in the world that “can be solved by money” but picking and choosing which transactions are wrong isn’t the way to go about it.

Our economic system doesn’t allocate resources according to need, that’s not the fault of these two individuals. Direct your energy toward changing the system.

A person’s relationship with their life is an interesting thing philosophically. You can’t consent to it, and most of us feel you can’t easily give it up either.

I don’t believe this myself but you could rationally argue that having life and being required to keep living is a violation of your agency as a human being.

This sounds the same as “Starfield becomes fun after 500 hours” to me, doesn’t really sell it. I spend enough of my day trying to rise above mundanity.

I still had this in my clipboard from an earlier comment:

"The son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dig, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master. He must sell his labour for a scant and uncertain wage. His father and his grandfather have toiled to drain this field, to build this mill, to perfect this machine. They gave to the work the full measure of their strength, and what more could they give? But their heir comes into the world poorer than the lowest savage. If he obtains leave to till the fields, it is on condition of surrendering a quarter of the produce to his master, and another quarter to the government and the middlemen. And this tax, levied upon him by the State, the capitalist, the lord of the manor, and the middleman, is always increasing; it rarely leaves him the power to improve his system of culture. If he turns to industry, he is allowed to work–though not always even that --only on condition that he yield a half or two-thirds of the product to him whom the land recognizes as the owner of the machine.

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We call those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger."

The Conquest of Bread

That betrays a lack of understanding about leftism. Government control over the economy is one way, yes. But your two options aren’t public dictator and private dictator.

Worker coops, syndicated unions (anarcho-syndicalism), anarcho-communism, gift economy…

Within the confines of the system you can also balance power quite a bit with UBI, mandated worker councils, worker representation on the company board of directors, etc.

As long as people are not allowed to fend for themselves because everything is privatized and commodified and you need to work for someone else to stay alive then you will not have freedom, a free market that retains that power dynamic just gives your employer even more ownership over you.

The government exists as a check on the power of huge corporations in this model (and is required to enforce private property in the first place). Who stops the richest company from picking winners and losers? Who stops companies from buying up their competition then cranking up prices? You need a framework to keep the market “free” in the first place.

Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron, right-libertarianism is an oxy moron.

The problem is capitalism, full stop. There’s no good and bad kind, there’s just capitalism. An owning class dictating over a working class isn’t freedom.

You don’t need private ownership over the means of production to have trade and markets and productivity.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution

Maybe you can’t think of them but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

“Free and open markets” work in theory, lol.

Private ownership over the means of production and allowing people to hoard capital will ALWAYS concentrate wealth and will ALWAYS produce an oligarchy.

You just unironically made a “capitalism hasn’t actually been tried yet” post in a thread where you’re on the “communism and socialism never work” position.

The irony is delicious

Daddy I’m so sorry microplastics in your bloodstream are causing your untimely demise…

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Yes Daddy?

they’re MICRO rubbers you ignorant IDIOT

also one that has no personal stake in the safety of their driving

"The son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dig, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master. He must sell his labour for a scant and uncertain wage. His father and his grandfather have toiled to drain this field, to build this mill, to perfect this machine. They gave to the work the full measure of their strength, and what more could they give? But their heir comes into the world poorer than the lowest savage. If he obtains leave to till the fields, it is on condition of surrendering a quarter of the produce to his master, and another quarter to the government and the middlemen. And this tax, levied upon him by the State, the capitalist, the lord of the manor, and the middleman, is always increasing; it rarely leaves him the power to improve his system of culture. If he turns to industry, he is allowed to work–though not always even that --only on condition that he yield a half or two-thirds of the product to him whom the land recognizes as the owner of the machine.

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We call those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger."

The Conquest of Bread

Capitalists don’t contribute anything, they just paywall productivity and skim off the top of everyone else’s work.

Stop dick riding them

lol maybe those kids can shitpost instead and you can pick up a gun. Do you feel good forcing a mother to send her teen son into trench warfare?

Thanks for finally inspiring me to block this cesspool. You’re a scumbag.

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Then go fight. Where’s your answer to that?

Go die instead of some kid. Anti-imperialists used to have balls. Go fight.