''I’ve experienced transport being excessively controlled by the Taliban, and I can assure you it sucks. Their IED campaign in Afghanistan’s Helmand province was so deadly effective that the British Army lost its freedom of movement. Admittedly the use of IEDs is an extreme form of traffic fines—but the principle is the same: someone else interdicting your movement. It changes everything. ''

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    “The Catholic Church, acutely conscious as she is of the abominations of the modern industrial and capitalistic system…refuses to cure it at the expense of denying a fundamental principle of morality, the principle of private ownership"

    lol, did I just grow up with the "For poor people" version of the bible or something?

    Like "Jesus told him, If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."' Does not leave a whole lot of room for interpretation. Did they just leave "except your car" out because they didn't know what Jesus was talking about yet?

    • Carmine2 [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      lol, did I just grow up with the “For poor people” version of the bible or something?

      broke: marx did not consider the iphone bespoke: jesus did not consider individualism