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@RevolverJerm Once again, the commie is incapable of understanding effects beyond first order.

@DrewPavlou Well to be fair, most normal people would just go

95% of the world population after hearing that arresting Hasan Piker is fascism:

@CleverMonsterCT @howard_pearce There is no such thing as a "collective will of the people". The people are a group of individuals all with their own wants and needs. Treating them as a collective hivemind inevitably means that the individuals are forced to conform with "the collective" through violence.

@howard_pearce When the state is the collective will of the people and not wealthy elites thats not fascism!

@CleverMonsterCT Because what pays for these things is state aggression, which is evil.

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Well, they may have had some voluntary and some involuntary trade, but they were more or less capitalist in so far as they had voluntary trade, even if they obviously didn't call it that or have anywhere the amount of capital that people have now.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 You don’t think people were voluntarily trading with one another before humans invented and spread capitalism?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Uh, yes there is? If you have a huge stash of apples that you can't all eat and someone who doesn't have any food pays you a bunch of money to purchase them, then that makes apples less scarce.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 Incorrect. There is no reduction in food scarcity that comes purely from a transaction of food for money. Some people can’t afford adequate nutrition. 🤦🏼

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 That's not what voluntary trade means. No person forces you to buy those products and no person forces you to give your food to others if your fridge is overfilled. Also, prices are mainly inflated due to the federal reserve and FDA regulations etc. that create monopolies.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 Also, capitalist systems don’t enable voluntary transactions… do I have a choice in whether or not I need to eat? Do I have a choice to not purchase food that’s price has been massively inflated for profit? 🤔

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 If all involved parties get more of the goods that they value, then that reduces the scarcity of those goods. This is not rocket science.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 So how does that reduce actual scarcity?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 No it doesn't? This argument falls apart entirely when you consider the enormous famines under many communist regimes and what countries pay the most foreign aid.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 Capitalism facilitates a massive amount of global hunger…

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Because again, voluntary trade is inherently positive sum, whereas the opposite is true of involuntary trade. If it wasn't true that both parties profited from a voluntary transactions, then it would not go forth.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 How does a free market reduce scarcity?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Because the alternative to intervening in the market is a free market (capitalism)?

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 How does that prove that capitalism reduces scarcity?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 *has

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Firstly, it hasn't globally, but these are US statistics. The answer in that respect is again interventionalist policy.

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Because the vertical axis is virtually identical with the amount of interventionalist policies in the respective goods and services.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 How is that evidence of capitalism reducing scarcity?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 No? How can you have voluntary trade without also having a right to the ownership of capital?

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 Did voluntary trade exist before capitalism?

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 And yes, there absolutely is evidence that capitalism has reduced scarcity.

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 “We need to keep people suffering so that only a small number of people are suffering! Why? To generate wealth for the 1%, of course!“ And no, there’s no evidence that capitalism has “minimized scarcity”.

@homoeroticeels @philosophymeme0 Well yeah you need scarcity to exist in order to minimize it, what's your point?

@GefullteT @philosophymeme0 Capitalism literally DEPENDS on scarcity existing. Read a damn book.

@SexualDisparity This is the most retarded take I've seen all day.

This is actually true by the way. Rape is a nonconsensual sexual act plus institutional power. And because of the patriarchy men hold power over women and thus by definition women can not rape men. And I am genuinely serious. Rape is about power as well as lack of consent.

@TheUnaButters Even as a german, I have no idea why euroretards hate on america for these kinds of retarded reasons. Like oh no, people have AC so they don't get cooked in their own houses, the humanity!

All buildings are made to retain heat Its called insulation dumbass Just get some AC already