Thats not not what middle class means.

Lugenpresse!

I mean, fake news!

No, you pay politicians to do that to the electorate.

Now, I’m not saying China are the good guys or anything, god no, but, if I wanted to stop a rouge intelligence agency from selling herion to fund secret, illegal wars around the world id invent fentanyl.

Let gaza be an example for AntiZionists.

Don’t worry, they’ve seen examples of illegal European settler colonialism and genocide before. They dont need all these new examples.

The edit doesn’t really show why it would effect poor people disproportionately. Also, no one should be surprised that vacant homes in the ass end of alaska have very little effect on rates of homelessness.

Thats why we don’t make decisions on these sorts of things or wild declarations about them based on anecdotes.

If you work for your money, you’re part of the struggle. If you own for your money, you’re part of the problem.

The problem is capital and it always has been. Sure, there’s a concerted effort by capital to deflect the anger due to them onto CEOs and the like but we have to be smart enough and worldly wise enough not to fall for it.

TIL that if you hate your neighbors for killing and stealing the land of your compatriots, you’re racist. As I allude to, they have a very legitimate reason to hate Israel but it gets dismissed as just being racist against all Jews, without a hint of irony.

They can’t work together because one side wants to break international law and the other side tries to resist them. They would be happy to work together. Its just that you won’t get hamas or hezbollah working with Israel on how to illegally steal and colonise land from their neighbours. That would be silly.

You can play something like dota with people on a very basic computer and okayish connection. You’ll always find matches too.

*you don’t remember Poland sending rockets into illegally occupied Poland before the invasion.

Fixed that for you

It almost makes you wonder why they would send rockets into the illegally occupied West Bank.

Oh well, I’m sure its just because they’re racist against Jewish people and the event happened in a vaccume.

A recent Cochrane review examining 35 studies investigating the effect of speed cameras on speed and collisions concluded that although the quality of the studies was moderate at best, the consistency of all studies to report a positive reduction in either speed or collisions was impressive

That’s 35 for and one against, due to heavily manipulating no less than 5 different variables, in order to force themselves to have to conclude that speed cameras don’t improve safety.

Read your links folks!

What is also true is that its the mentality of a depressive who views hope as a dangerous delusion, as had been said a fair few times now.

It is lashing out, as you can’t refute it or engage it.

Dismissing a legitimate observation of our society as a silly caricature is a far more silly caricature of someone who just doesn’t like what they’re hearing.

Existence is measured in money, under capitalism. Why would you lying about it and not meaning make any difference? As long as you’re doing what you were paid to do, it would have the same appearance and the same effect. I would take the money too, as its the most important thing in society and existance is measured in it. Thats the point here. Why would I care what was in your heart of hearts?

No, none of the other systems survived an attack by a system that cannot tolerate any alternatives to live unmolested. Had any of them failed of their own accord, you might have a point there. You can’t shoot someone in the leg and then declare that their claims of being able to run didn’t survive an encounter with reality.

Trying to improve capitalism has never survived an encounter with reality. All it did was make the rich richer.

Capitalism didn’t improve feudalism. Firstly, capitalism grew out of merchantislism. Secondly, merchantislism had to be forced on people who had been robbed of their homes and were facing starvation. Had they any other option than starving, they would have stuck with feudalism.

The first paragraph is literally the same “I can’t justify capitalism but the others are worse” argument again.

The society we live in is an employment based, market fundamentalist society. It just used to be a different kind of fundamentalist theocratic rule is all.

Instead of lashing out and calling it a silly caricature, you can just say “I just plain don’t like that.” It would have had the same effect.

That being said, how much money would it take for you to change your mind about existence being measured in terms of money alone being a silly caricature? Even if you were the type to give it all away, eventually, we would find a number. Not only that, you’d be a multi millionaire and, as such, on that basis alone, your existence would be judged as an inherently good one.

Thanks for explaining what a market is.

Its a good job we have such a thing to tell us that what we really want is to work most of our lives, mostly for someone else benefit, to endlessly produce things to a point that it destroys our planets ability to sustain life. Without such a devine oracle, we might have to ask difficult questions about what we’re doing and for whos benefit.

Its a good to know there must be such a high demand for inequality too. Without the justification of the invisible hand, we might have to think about morals and other gross stuff.

But, as you make such a good point about not being able to get rid of something and just making a black market for it, as justificationfor keeping the market in its current state

Well, that and slavery of course. If the argument works for one it works for both.

People’s theory is just fine. The problem for you is that they kept reading theory that was written after thr 1970s.

I’d say facsism is just capitalism when you try to say no.

As in literally, people tried to say no via socialism and then fascism was invented.

At some point we need to have a grown up conversation about the finite nature of land, specifically land that people can live on and find work from.

This “the rich make up the rules and lets pretend land will never run out” nonsense clearly isn’t working for anyone but the rich.

Great if you own property and or buy labour though.

Somehow they’ve got the world convinced that its “tha left”, and not wealthy businesses, who want and benefit from this, despite all evidence to the contrary.