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You still have your pro-American flag waving. I don't know what to say about that.

Fine. Bye.

It's like you have the memory retention of a goldfish. You're outraged anew every time you learn this stuff.

Good. Because it does. :lol:

Because doing so is pro-American. :lol:

I just discovered that people all over the world know about Sesame St. Mind blown.

I agree. :grin:

Maybe so. Kierkegaard said there are two ways to experience an event: 1. As if the world is new in this moment. There's an edge to events from this pe...

Noah's grandfather! Interesting.

I am, though. I need to understand the Mathusalem angle. Like who is he?

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I think that's true. Authenticity means leaving superficial rules behind?

This is mainly in the realm of sensation? Depth as in truly tasting an apple instead of just chomping and swallowing? The move toward transformation i...

Russia: We like Ukrainians. Let's not bother them. Putin: Let's invade. *Putin shows how inept the Russian military actually is.* NATO: moves East.

Like what?

Hmm. Are we arriving at the reason they banned you?

I mean, you can read what he said. Some of it is engraved on the wall behind that big statue of him in Washington.

The vision of the free society is about social roles. No one is locked into a particular role.

The Whig Party fell apart after the Dred Scott decision. Lincoln was instrumental in gathering all the anti-slavery groups together into the Republica...

No, the Southern Democrats walked out of the 1859 Democratic National Convention and subsequently ran their own candidate, splitting pro-slavery vote....

This isn't true, but it's off topic to pursue it. :wink:

And where does he condemn slavery specifically because free laborers have to compete with slaves?

Do you have an example of Lincoln expressing this perspective? Specifically the free labor angle.

I didn't say capitalism should be understood as being all about finance. Neoliberalism put finance at the center of the global economy. This is probab...

In the depths of feudalism, the lord is a warrior. He feeds his army on the spoils of war. The clergy is holed up in monastic fortresses. Everyone els...

True again. But this is Eurocentric, isn't it? Or should we think of capitalism as an entirely European invention?

Yes. You can add "why things are made."

What's with the preoccupation with hitting capitalism with one dart? It's about profit. There are all sorts of activities that can result in profit. T...

Bingo. Money is an abstraction, divorced from anything real. Banks create virtual money. A capitalist economic boom is a gambling casino. None of it i...

That's true. They aren't the same thing.

Historically, mega-debts just disappear during large scale economic contractions. Capitalism magnifies natural cycles of growth and decline. During bo...

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Yes! :up:

Ok. What presuppositions do you think I have?

Which is what? Just curious.

Bernanke says we're going to slide into stagflation.

I agree. As you may have noticed, a discussion of capitalism becomes a discussion of history. History is a dangerous topic because we take it to be an...

Ugh. I gave you a soft pitch and that's all you came up with? You must be back on your bipolar meds. :joke:

Stay tuned. I might just say something AMAZING!

Did you want to discuss something?

While discussing the definition of capitalism, it's preferable in my opinion to put political debates to the side. First start with common terminology...

There's no political debate here. I'm not sure why you think there is. :up:

So, you don't really have any thoughts about the prevailing economic structure of your times? It's Bible verses to you? That's seems a little alien to...

When you think of capitalism, think of activities that people engage in specifically to make a profit. So 1. George buys a car for his own use. There'...

I doubt it.

We're just discussing the way "capitalism" is used, not whether it's good or bad. Streetlight's views seem outdated to me, like he's in the 19th Centu...

What Streetlight said there isn't really true, though. His focus seems to be on industrialized societies, forgetting that markets can be deal with thi...

This is utter nonsense.

Mostly just familiarity with the way people maneuver. If Europe doesn't want Ukraine in NATO, they might refer to the rules as a reason to deny Ukrain...

But they said they don't want to sedate you to lance it, so they're going to just leave it. :groan: