Twitch Streamer Destiny and an Economist Debate Capitalism, Achieve Nothing
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Steven 'Destiny' Bonnell II and Richard Wolff debated economic theories for 90 minutes on Twitch.

I can't believe this is real lol

Throughout the debate, Destiny groaned loudly and twisted around in his chair. He put his hands on his face and rolled his eyes. The Twitch chat rolled along, arbitrarily scoring the debate and getting excited when either participant seemed to get mad.

“You’ve told me a bunch of things that capitalism isn’t. You’ve given me a bunch of random collected facts of history,” Destiny said after Wolff had given what he felt was an unsatisfactory definition of capitalism.

“Why would you talk about the history of it? That’s not relevant,” Destiny said, after asking Wolff why he refused to call the modern American democratic party a socialist party.

I've seen people IRL talk about him and Hasan. Truly the darkest of ages

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Destiny said, after asking Wolff why he refused to call the modern American democratic party a socialist party.

    :blocky-wat:

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      A M A Z I N G

      This guy is like a left-wing caricature of a "centrist". Also, didn't Destiny openly support Biden in 2020, who is a socialist, according to... Destiny?

    • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      Because Destiny is a turbo-lib and an idiot, he can't understand socialism as a process with widespanning goals outside just doing very particular economic/political actions, he can only understand socialism as like a checklist of government policies. Socialists would in the process of communization of the economy socialize medicine, therefore he thinks like 5 democrats who'd support medicare for all makes the democartic party a socialist party. The entire debate is Wolff trying to explain this to him and put capitalism in its place historically and why the definition of socialism varies depending on time and place (i.e. pragmatic materialist socialists have different ideas on how the process of socialism should be carried out, with the same end goal in mind), but Destiny keeps trying to epicly pwn him on the level of a Wikipedia article written by a Manitoban nazi.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Guy who believes in conservative propaganda of communism killing trillions and that’s a good thing

      Vs

      Guy who believes in conservative propaganda of democrats being communists and that’s a good thing