@ColiMcchristie1 @TheMenmaro @lamorteaspetta @jimthegiant yes, labour have functioned as a right wing party for a long time
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danni
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@TheMenmaro @lamorteaspetta @jimthegiant You really need to have a word with left wing labour then..
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We are literally the most privatised nation on earth
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Judging from what I’ve seen over the last few days, it’s clear that Britain does not have a “far-right” problem. It has a far-left problem. Without a doubt.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel i’m mean, that’s a bad theory in your monkey example but you can definitely look at a monkey throwing shit, observe the context surrounding the action and come to a theory of why the event took place, right? you might even be able to use that theory to predict more shit flinging
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@OhDanniGirl @MJVreinel Who cares? I'm just here to tell you that you dont know what "theory" means and mistake it for "observation"
You cannot point to a monkey throwing shit and say "the DNA of a monkey is throwing shit".
Theory and observations have fundamentally different substances.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel but if your description of capitalism includes having a state that enforces capitalism as an excluding criteria then your description of capitalism says that capitalism does not and has not ever existed.
this is either a useless or bad description of capitalism.
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@OhDanniGirl @MJVreinel This, btw, is also again a description, not a definition.
You think if you describe something, you define it.
Well guess what, describing an insect as having six legs doesnt mean that any animal with six legs is an insect.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel i described an observable and fundamental aspect of capitalism
you said that’s not real capitalism
i say that it’s what capitalism looks like in all its forms
you say “Sooo, you admit it's not "capitalism in theory"?”
it’s capitalism in praxis AND in theory
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@OhDanniGirl @MJVreinel Where's the theory?
I do not see a single theory in that post.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel theories are built on observations and are used to either explain or predict.
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@OhDanniGirl @MJVreinel So you agree it's not a theory that youre showing here, it's a description?
You keep using descriptions of praxis.
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Uncomfortable Brain@uncomfybrain
@OhDanniGirl @MJVreinel Soooooo, you admit it's not "capitalism in theory"? Thanks for verifying. "actual capitalists (i.e. people who own capital)" That's not what "capitalist" means. A capitalist is someone who supports capitalism, for example because it will bring consumer prices down.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel if your “stateless (or minimalist) capitalism” theory cannot point to a single example, explain why there isn’t one, or at least map out the steps towards one then it’s not a useful theory, it’s a pipe dream
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel any half decent theory of capitalism also understands the need of a capitalist state.
you have 300-500 years of worldwide capitalism to observe and every time capitalism has used the state to enforce capitalism.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel if a state didn’t exist to do that then capitalists would create one.
there is no capitalism without a state to back it up. it has never existed and never will!
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel i’m describing capitalism in the form it has taken everywhere since its inception
actual capitalists (i.e. people who own capital) like having a state to protect their property, control (and limit) worker’s rights, and create monopolies.
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@uncomfybrain @MJVreinel giving a capitalist government more power to enforce capitalism and do the bidding of capitalists =/= installing a socialist government run for and by the working people/class
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@MJVreinel "Getting priced out of housing, buried in debt and watching the cost of everything explode while wages crawl."
All of this is under the control of the government already, why would giving the government more control fix it?
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@theoneTWUEway the “trans ideology” that you speak of is that trans people should be allowed to transition, live happy and fulfilling lives, and be able to exist in public life
saying this should be eradicated is tantamount to saying trans people should be
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@OhDanniGirl "Trans" people should listen to what she actually says or read it on the screen, then look up words they don't seem to understand. Ideology ≠ people.
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@WestHarlm @esjesjesj have you tried buying less avocado on toast or takeaway coffee?
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What do you mean make more money? We are losing millions of dollars per year.
Sure... market rate landlords are making record profits in NYC... but rent stabilized landlords are getting crushed and losing their buildings at record pace. There is no money to pay our bills.
Why do you think 4 banks have already gone bankrupt? We can't pay our mortgages. Why do you think building values are down well over 60%?
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“Landlords need make more and more money every year or they’ll burn your home to the ground” does not make me sympathetic to them
Ben Shapiro@benshapiro
How it starts vs. how it ends
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@theoneTWUEway you did just quote tweet me saying it but in case you forgot…
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danni@OhDanniGirl
@GeraldineHocki3 @theoneTWUEway @Woke_66 @GyllKing @oliviabaileymp she said she wants to “eradicate” us idk about you but i could feel the hitler particles radiating off her at rhat point
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@OhDanniGirl Okay, I will play along. Now tell me what she would like to eradicate.
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@GeraldineHocki3 @theoneTWUEway @Woke_66 @GyllKing @oliviabaileymp she said she wants to “eradicate” us
idk about you but i could feel the hitler particles radiating off her at rhat point
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@DuaneKnesek @NordickChad other that missing out on it’s relation to wage labour, that definition is still a lot closer to my definition than your original one in which everyone owns capital.
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@OhDanniGirl @NordickChad In economics, capital refers to human-created assets—such as machinery, buildings, and software—used to produce other goods and services.
Look it up (from a real source, not a Marxist propaganda site)
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@DuaneKnesek @NordickChad if you don’t like that (like me), then you have a fundamental problem with capitalism itself.
it’s not just a nitpick, or a bug, or something that could be reformed away. it’s a fundamental aspect of the foundations of capitalism.
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@DuaneKnesek @NordickChad maybe that’s not the “ideal government” that you have in your head, but what i gave you is the function of the capitalist state.
you might not like it, but that is how it operates at a fundamental level.
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