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  • Taxes are mostly to control the flow of money and to give a currency legitimacy (if you need dollars to pay taxes, you likely will want to earn in dollars).

    Governments that control their own supply of money can print and use money freely.

    They don’t use the money from taxes to fund anything, that wouldn’t make sense.

    Programs and agencies are funded NOW, while taxes are collected later.

    If there is inflation, the state can just raise taxes. If there is no economic activity (deflation), just increase spending.

    Orthodox economists, classical liberals, are fucking dumb and live in dreamland.

  • Those are only loopholes if they are allowed to exist. If people do those things, but then get fined/persecuted as they are infringing on the spirit of the law to limit executive/worker pay ratio, then they are not loopholes right?

  • Only dumbasses and entitled people would expect a brand new game to have total feature and asset parity to a game that had 10 years of updates, DLC and freaking mods.

    I honestly feel confident CS2 will become a much more complete and better city builder than CS1. And from everything I’ve seen (haven’t played it yet), it’s already better in many ways. Like MIXED ZONING. That’s so major I barely care for anything else tbh.

  • But experimentation says otherwise, that’s the whole fucking point mate.

    I understand logically what you say sounds like it should be true. But science is not about logic and making sense. It’s experimentation.

  • What is an eye and the brain if not organic cameras and computers? This is actually an issue in science philosophy.

    There is no material difference between observation through tools and through “the bare senses”. Observation is what matters.

    Observing quantum phenomena changes it. The tool does not matter.

  • They should’ve peacefully marched and protested!

    …. Like they did in 2018 and got brutally shot down by the dozens of thousands, with thousands of dead and more than 10 times that maimed for life with their knees destroyed, intentionally, by IDF soldiers as they laughed? When they marched peacefully towards the walls and barriers, making their concerns heard in protests and absolutely nothing got better and no one cared?

    In any case, we all know everything we’ve ever achieved was done through peaceful protest. Like the civil rights movement! MLK made some speeches and the white bourgeoisie felt bad and changed all the laws.

    Don’t look into how MLK was murdered and there was mass protest and revolt with plenty of violence before any changes ever happened…

  • The video I mean is actually really old. They aired it after 9/11 as proof it was Osama, but some German Muslims saw it an recognised it (besides being able to understand what Osama is saying). It was a video from the 90s, where Osama is talking about his ideology and mostly Islam stuff, nothing about any attacks at all.

    There is a guy called James Corbett, he has a website called thecorbettreport. He is a weird anarchist who is paranoid about surveillance technocracy, but he has great documentaries about 9/11, Al Qaeda, Osama, even some stuff like how Big Oil came to be and took over the world etc etc. I recommend his long form docs on stuff like that because he is VERY thorough with sources.

  • Not to say there is 0 evidence Osama is at all responsible for 9/11. But the only evidence was that video of him “admitting it” has been proven to have wrong and misleading subtitles. He’s not talking about any attacks or anything related to terrorism in the video.

  • The only solution to the “atrocities” has always been: to end apartheid, stop genocide, and give the Palestinians back their land. One state, secular, for all peoples and religions. One Palestine.

    Before European Zionism and Britain, Jewish people, Muslims and Christians lived in the region in peace. Palestinians are also the direct descendants of the Jews and other Canaanite peoples that lived there, since before the Romans. They just changed their religion with time, like it happens all over the world.

    An ethnostate based on settler colonialism and genocide can’t be accepted.

  • I don’t even know where to begin with all this… It’s like insane and ameribrained in a way I haven’t seen in a while…

    Our current systems of law and government are an intrinsic part of capitalism. The modern state, with the separation of powers, representative democracy etc. literally was born, as in was created, by the bourgeoisie after their capitalist revolutions that overthrew the monarchies in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    Capitalism can’t “hijack” the state or whatever. The state is an intrinsic tool of the capitalist system and of the capitalist class to be able to enforce capitalism in the first place.

    Then, outside of the US, literally no one would ever say Sweden is socialist. That is completely absurd. Sweden is a capitalist country with a welfare state. Remember that the state is just a tool of the bourgeoisie to maintain control and enforce capitalism. A welfare state is just an idea of using the state to “ameliorate” (or some would say bribe) the working class in the capitalist core to support imperialism abroad and the exploitation of peoples in the global south.

    Public healthcare and social security are not socialist or capitalist. But they usually exist in capitalist systems.

    What I meant by socialism is China, the former USSR, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and the DPRK.

    Socialism is when the means of production are collectively owned by the workers. Production is slowly directed towards use-value, eliminating commodity production.

    Capitalism is when the means of production are privately owned by individuals and corporations. Production is directed towards trade-value, turning everything into a commodity.

    I won’t go on because you wrote a huge wall of crazy bullshit. I just wanted to try to provide some clarity on the beginning of it at least.

  • Small palliative measures only serve to extinguish the revolutionary energy in the masses. After decades of propaganda, they started dismantling all the palliative measures little by little (this actually started in the 80s). This is because in capitalism profits always fall. They must squeeze more and more to keep the same rates of profit.

    And as people are numb and have no class consciousness nowadays, they can squeeze more and more without much fear. They just preemptively fund the Nazis and keep squeezing. If any small actual revolutionary movement starts up, it’s easy to squash it. You already have a paramilitary anti-revolutionary reactionary force, and the revolutionaries will have limited support due to the masses being numbed etc etc.

  • Ideology. The reason why people keep thinking the issue is “individuals”, or “croneyism”, or that small moral based reforms will fix things… it’s ideology.

    People don’t look at reality in a materialistic way. They have ideas of how things should be and shape reality to fit that. If it doesn’t, the issue is reality and not the idea. So the fix is to “change reality” (through only propaganda, media and more ideology, reframing etc.) so it looks more like your idea.

  • It’s not “moneyarchy”, it’s capitalism. And I mean, the system that properly competes against it, and was/is done at scale, is socialism.

    Socialism or barbarism is becoming more and more true, and more like a cry for immediate choice instead of a future hypothetical.