I think it’s monstrous to want the weak and botched to thrive at the expense of everyone else. He’s talking about values, and is usually figurative. I...
He’s often deliberately provocative. Plenty of interesting things to say about pity. Also, I agree with him. If you read this as “kill off all the Jew...
The United States corporatocracy is very skilled at getting a large percentage of its citizens to believe anything. The gun manufacturers and their lo...
:yawn: No, it’s just that we don’t use persecutory delusions to justify the status quo. (The status quo being the killing of children because of the a...
It has been both. They increase with an increase in guns and deregulation. As has been shown. But feel free to ignore all of that and cherrypick data....
Sorry to hear that others don't succumb to your persecutory delusions. The government could come for us, so lets make sure we have a glut of guns, mak...
The supply of guns has increased substantially in this last decade, as I've shown in a previous chart. Guns sold in the last two years went from an av...
Says the guy who, after a tragedy caused by the sickening amount of guns in this country, wants to "rationally" inquire about literally everything els...
There have been plenty of government overthrows in countries that don’t have close to the amount of guns the US does. Besides, guns weren’t needed to ...
So maybe it’s not guns, because we’re more violent than other countries for some cultural reason — and definitely not because of guns. I have no clue ...
Absolutely. Take the US out of the picture and ask the same question: is country X exceptional? Why are there so many people who want to kill? Must be...
No, you’re being incredibly irrational. It has been considered, and studied in fact. What you’re asking me to do is ignore the glaringly obvious for t...
It isn’t. Stop the gun supply, and you lower mass shootings. The United States, like every other country, has people with mental health issues. They a...
Mental health. Second amendment as holy writ. Arming teachers (i.e., MORE guns). Viet Cong. Protecting ourselves from big government. “The only way to...
No it isn’t. It’s only difficult in this country because of the fetishizing of the 2nd amendment and cultivation of gun culture. The NRA has had enorm...
Is this supposed to be serious? “What if”? We know the answer. Look around the world. Less guns, less mass shootings. Same rates of mental illness. Ma...
The reason for these deaths is the gun supply. You have mental health issues around the world. The US is an outlier on deaths and mass shootings becau...
No, it would do nothing to stop it. What you’re doing is repeating propaganda. You’ve been sold an idea, and a silly one. It’s a fantasy created to ju...
And owning an assault weapon will do nothing to stop it anyway. This is just another bullshit excuse for the grotesque amount of guns in the US. Stop ...
I include anyone who makes a wage and isn’t an owner part of the proletariat. There can be gradations, but it’s on par with white and blue collar, upp...
Nothing will change. That was obvious 10 years ago. So don’t look for it. It was then that our elected “leaders” decided gun manufacturing sales were ...
This war seems to be dying down a bit. I’m hopeful for a ceasefire within a few months. The consequences of this war will be felt for years to come. T...
The proletariat are wage-laborers. I'm not sure why you're restricting the usage to those who are "paid enough to live and make sure their kids live l...
Must be nice latching onto slogans, cult-like, all of your life. "Government is the problem." Easy, safe, and designed as to be impossible to falsify....
I have no idea what you’re talking about at this point. I’m not asking you to waver in anything, nor did I follow your conversation with Streetlight, ...
It’s not surprising. That’s my point. I brought up Marx because he is a well known observer of capitalism, which is what this thread is about. You sai...
Sure. I’m only proposing democratizing the workplace. Two points on this: 1) I eschew “stakeholder capitalism” because of the connotations, as mention...
This question is an important one. It was also handled thoroughly about 2,500 years ago by Aristotle. Better to start a thread about his Ethics than a...
I think there’s simply not enough time in life to waste rehashing long-refuted nonsense. Anyone who wants to engage with it just hasn’t read enough ye...
The fact that you weren't thinking of it was my point, really. What does "that" refer to? Not reading Marx? I would say this comment isn't relevant th...
Couldn’t feudal arrangements then be counted as a form of employment between lord and vassal? This relationship was a kind of contract too. Like I sai...
Of course. Again— I don’t see who’s denying this. I’m not in favor of increasing nuclear weapons — so I disagree. A lot has changed since 1993, incide...
Certainly...but again, we're talking about capitalism. If one argues that private property is the defining feature of capitalism, then to talk of dism...
Who knows what Putin was thinking. Whatever he was thinking, this was a stupid decision. But to argue nothing would have deterred him from invasion ex...
"Everything bad happens because of the US" is, of course, an exaggeration. Who believes this? Think about it. Does anyone believe this? No. So let's l...
There's a lot of Russian propaganda around -- but listening to the reasons given has to be done, no matter how absurd one thinks they are. Sometimes t...
I think of worker control as public control. It’s simply putting the power in the hands of the community (represented by the workers) rather than a ha...
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