https://nitter.net/cafreiman/status/1531590110600384512?t=D9a2EBiVeuBAduo7ENZ05A&s=19

  • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Idk let’s do this with the military, I’ll just cancel my subscription and surrender whenever there’s a war, yeah?

    • Steve2 [any]
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      3 years ago

      Fuck let's make the sovereign citizen thing real too. Subscribe to cops+ in order to get fined for drinking and driving, else don't.

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    This persons brain is a block of Mozzarella cheese. Literally we have privatized everything in this fucking shithole society and it has GOTTEN WORSE EVERY TIME! And these are the morons who like to pretend that we always claim "not true socialism" or "socialism will work this time," two things I have never heard a serious socialist say.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      he's also proposing that somehow privatizing a public service means more distributed money per person somehow, which has never been the case at all. Private services are always more expensive.

  • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Philosophy professors come in two flavors: terrible ego-masturbating liberals, and terrible ego-masturbating socialists.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Because libraries are totally overfunded and the biggest waste of tax revenue.

    Someone shove this nerd in a fucking locker.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Public libraries should let you rent this man out as a dog. He only gets to bark because he can't be trusted to use speech wisely.

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      $41 for access to books, movies, music, computers, hangout spot for kids where they aren't going to be targeted by mall cops, public bathrooms, spot for community events, and so on.

      Versus $2000 for enforcing US Imperial hegemony and causing untold human misery and suffering all for the benefit of a handful of sociopaths

      Hmm. I wonder which one libs will pick.

    • sgtlion [any]
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      3 years ago

      Now I just wanna imagine how cool of a place public libraries would be if $2000/head/year was spent on them.

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Lmao I know this fuck back from when I was in Academia. To be honest, I think his heart is in the right place. A lot of his work has to do with how to help the poor within the fundamental framework of 'classical liberalism.' he just has such deeply rooted and turbo radiated brain worms that he's truly incapable of recognizing the limited to non-existent government he so desperately craves will inevitably result in the monopolization of force under private industry and firms rather than a public and democratically accountable institution (not bourgeois democracy, obviously I mean a socialist form).

    He'd trot out the tired pony of "crony capitalism" as an argument for why things are wrong now, failing to realize that THAT'S JUST CAPITALISM. :same-picture: Corporations/Capital is a fuck and will seek monopolistic and exploitative profits whether there's a bourgeois democracy, fascism, or any other kind of system that permits and facilitates private ownership of production. That's just an inherent contradiction that these fart sniffers just can't/won't recognize. In the meantime they make labor aristocracy wages and get all kinds of book deals/speaking opportunities funded by billionaire backed think tanks Propaganda mills and convince themselves they're fighting for the everyman. It's fucking deranged.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We need to do a workshop with libs and libertarians where they're all given an apple and then two plants work together to beat everyone up and steal their apple, so they have a physical understanding of what the monopoly of force actually means.

  • CMC_Metapod_696 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    How TF does anglo-american-austrian philosophy go on without even considering primitive accumulation and marx as a starting point????

    • Steve2 [any]
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      3 years ago

      No it's hilarious because they keep rediscovering marxism and marxist conceptions. Reserve army of labor -> frictional and structural unemployment. Rate of profit -> inflation and return on investment and so on. They start with "lets just ignore all this commie junk" and at best just rederive the immortal science and at worst invent shit with no connection to reality.

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I refuse to believe this guy has such a high volume of :brainworms: and isn't just some soulless weasel who knows he's full of it.