bit-anarchist

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by bit-anarchist 16d ago
> 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 base human n
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by bit-anarchist 20d ago
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 (although t
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by bit-anarchist 28d ago
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", ho
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by bit-anarchist 1mo ago
On the other hand, subsidies do cause actors to make otherwise unsustainable decisions. In this case, excessive consumerism.
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by bit-anarchist 1mo ago
> 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 ca
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by bit-anarchist 1mo ago
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 replacement f
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by bit-anarchist 1mo ago
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 actions, i
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by bit-anarchist 1mo ago
It's not just an American belief. USA has no MSS equivalent for starters. They don't have a Great Firewall. One can make their own independent party in the US (winning is a different story, tho). And so on. And that's just i
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
What are other private corps going to do when their main government just uses its military might to seize their assets?
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
Then we don't live in this Capitalism either. Corporations and governments cooperate , but most of the final power is on the government still.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
> 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 trading and i
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 countr
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 t
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 labour, there's
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 distrusted ledgers, still fu
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 doesn't rely on
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
It bears reminding that omission of a policy is a policy of its own. If the anti-abortion side is categorically proven to be the rational one after the pro-abortion side was implemented, it means that democracy wasn't leveraged to prev
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
Same to you. Yeah, it's pretty difficult to find a good faith discussion of these topics, so I take any opportunity I can get. Thanks for this one.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 sta
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
The point is that we don't need to increase 0.11% back to 10%. Specially when the base numbers have significantly increased.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 exist. While th
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 deali
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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?
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
Tbf, communism is indeed more broad than Hitler's Nazism, from pre-marxists to Proudhon ancoms (although a similar comment may be made about the common sense definition of Fascism), hence I changed scope towards traditional Marxist-Len
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
Thanks for restating what OP said.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
Do they? Are you sure the high management knows who is a rapist or not? If so, I would like to see some evidence.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 ideological root). I also
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
I didn't know the Catholic Church was promoting child rape.
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
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 butt of jokes; 3) is it?
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by bit-anarchist 2mo ago
That presumes: 1) that said bar knows everyone's political mindset, including those which haven't been made public; 2) that said bar actually treats said Nazi with decency; Also, most communists hold the belief that there must be

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