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

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Bonnell describes himself as an "Omniliberal", a phrase he uses to describe a person who believes in the core principles of liberalism, freedom and equality, whilst believing in elements of other ideologies in a "pragmatic way"

    He ain’t lying. At least for the last part

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I like when liberals come up with fantastical, dynamic labels to describe their perfect little curated ideologies where the core value is belief in nothing.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        This is practically all they do. Libertarians also live in an odd universe where they write their own dictionaries and then expect everyone else to go along with them.