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      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        I got a tiny taste of Anarchism in World History when we discussed the onset of WW1.

        But it mostly boiled down to "People hated government because it was too big".

        Not coincidentally, this is the predominant politically acceptable Murray-Rothbard-flavor of Anarchism we call Anarcho-Capitalism.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Anarchy is when you have motorcycles and leather daddies.

          The more motorcycles and leather daddies, the more Anarchist it is.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The power is derived from wealth

      Huh wonder what economic system consistently produces a small, super-wealthy elite?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Because they know they're spewing bullshit capitalist propaganda and they don't have any answer so they must pretend your comment was insignificant so as not to draw more attention to the fact that what they are trying to push is inconsistent, dishonest, and incoherent.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        For a lot of teachers, if a supervisor sees them engaging with that, they'll get fired or reprimanded for "going off curriculum".

        I always learned the most from my teachers after class and in private conversations. Our school system is superficial and childish. Most teachers are pretty smart, but aren't allowed to teach anything but the book.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The most useful part of having a graduate business degree is you can clown on chuds who pull out "look, I majored in economics, so..."

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Pulling out "I have two business degrees" is occasionally fun with the right audience. No MBA tho, just a Master of Accountancy.

          • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I did try EVE Online for a month or two and then it felt way too much like work.

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              4 years ago

              I've heard people rave about EVE, but I'm pretty sure they get more excited at the new Excel release than the next game patch.

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    My whiplash reading this post: “Well yea, current Russia is an oligarchy what’s the iss—Communist Totalitarianism?!?!?!”

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Well sweaty, didn't you know that Communism is when you are Russian and the more Russian you are the more Communist you are? Checkmate.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      what’s the iss—Communist Totalitarianism?!

      A dictatorship of the proletariat has dictatorship RIGHT IN THE NAME. So of course it's totalitarian.

      Stalin and Mao and all the other Communists ruled with an Iron Fist. Everyone hated them. Nobody liked them. And the only reason they were able to control their respective countries is because nobody else in the country except them and a few close friends had any guns. It's just like in Animal Farm, see? Or Atlas Shrugged, which is another historical book I read about Chile.

      I mean I think it says a lot that right after Stalin and Mao died, Communism ended.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    According to this, the US is an aristocracy, which is probably a mistake by the teacher

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Oh boy this is a chance to post one of my favorite quotes from First Strike by Damien Sojoyner:

    "The key component of public education is its ability to transmit state sanctioned ideology to it's subjects"

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Socialism is when the government does bad stuff.

      Capitalism is when the government lets the free market work and everyone becomes rich.

      Right now, the problem with America is that it's too Socialist. Once we get rid of the Socialism, everyone will be rich, like in Singapore or Germany or Florida.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    edit-2
    4 years ago

    lmao just indefensibly wrong

    “we trained him incorrectly, as a joke”

  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    edit-2
    4 years ago

    See, you need to add the word 'representatives' behind 'few', then everything's bueno

  • AccordionTomato [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ap econ is garbage too. they unironically teach the laffer curve as fact and spout bullshit about the minimum wage