Why do you have to bother me with an inbox notification if you can’t even follow what the conversation is about?

if you want me to explain what I mean try asking instead

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You can’t use personal experiences as evidence when you’re staying anonymous and won’t say what those experiences were. If you’re 60 years old you got a solid 10 years of socialism in the last phase of being overtaken by the west to make adult brained judgements about it.

Let’s start with how old you are. Are you 60 or older? And what country are you talking about?

Can we just go back to saying communists please?

Communists are also socialists just as apples are also fruit. I was using socialism in the broad sense.

‘in the past’

How old are you? If your claim to authority here is that you grew up being told history by the winners, what should that mean to us?

What was done in South America for a century was done in a decade in Eastern Europe when the west finally won the cold war. Read Shock Doctrine.

Hello, I’d like to speak for people I disagree with

As a leftist whose platform doesn’t seem to include a word about abolishing capitalism, any time I am challenged by someone to the left of Bernie Sanders, I turn into a right wing crank telling people ‘if you don’t like it get out’

And today I’d like to tell you about horseshoe theory

that kind of rental homes

The top picture isn’t capitalism; there are no landlords.

Now post a picture of a pedophile and a quote about how pedophiles actually love children more

This is the dumbest comment on this entire page.

You posted a photo of fully stocked shelves and every word you said is a straight up trope. “Corruption” does so much work with politically illiterate westerners to paper over why ‘bad thing is bad’ without a lick of knowledge about either the bad system or the good one in your mind. And I always love hearing about how bad socialism is from people who suffered from the end of socialism.

Ultimately the only actual reason the west has for why socialism is bad is “We’ll kill you”

Well to be fair to hating the west for committing genocides to accomplish this, it’s not like a lot of them had a choice.

You linked me to a stub of an article that exists on wikipedia for completion’s sake that describes the weird larping exercise that is your specific ideology fursona.

As far as you play acting with sources, data, blah blah, I apparently have to again remind you that the topic of this thread is the relationship between landlords and tenants, not your weird obsession with ocelots.

And yes, of course I’m skipping over a lot of nuance

You’re glossing over your ignorance by pretending there’s nuance you’re sparing me. Seen that trick plenty.

Your ideology is a stub on wikipedia. Calling it a fursona is hilarious. Especially when you’re completely ignorant of everything else besides what you self identify as.

Like you want to condescend to me while misusing the term ‘private property.’ It’s adorable.

And considering Georgism diverges from capitalism at the highest level of categorization

You allow for capital accumulation and private ownership of the means of production. You don’t diverge from capitalism at any point. You’re an ideological capitalist.

Learn what words mean. Until then it’s entirely appropriate to make fun of your politics as being a fursona. You took it on as a personality quirk and all of this discussion betrays the fact. You’re politically illiterate to the point that you choosing such a specific subset is a joke on itself.

Yeah. I know what a georgist is. It’s a libertarian who had his land taken by agribusiness. You said yourself you support private capital. You put “free trade” on your dumb little pin. You are a subset of libertarian just like I said from the beginning. I’m sorry you don’t like the label. Maybe you should learn about ideologies outside your fursona so you see how they actually work.

I should have known what a sophomoric puke you were just by “Very bold” being your opening line.

Broadly speaking, communists believe in social ownership of all three, socialists in social ownership of land and capital, and capitalists in private ownership of all three.

Absolute mind palace nonsense. No relation to the outside world or its writings. And I’m losing it over “ownership of labor” being the difference between ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’

Complete clown shit. You know those words in that order are talking about slavery right? The ownership of labor in private hands?

How would you feel if I attempted to reduce down the wild complexity of leftist ideologies – everyone from syndicalists to market socialists to distributists to demsocs to Marxists – into “lmao a bunch of Pol Pot supporters”? Pretty silly and reductive, isn’t it?

I would feel the exact same way I feel now

Bemused contempt

I put you into a larger ideological box than the one you put yourself in. You complained that you weren’t a plant, you were a tree.

And yes I agree libertarians are dumb as fuck and I offer you the additional observation that there is no ‘true’ libertarian and they talk shit about each other all the time.

My source is a group of people I’ve already described as stupid

lol

lmao

I’m sorry, you’re a libertarian. I’m even less impressed.

It’s difficult, yes, but our society has fought and won battles against vested interests before.

Yeah back when we had unions that would straight up murder scabs. Your thing, neoliberalism, works in the opposite direction. The results speak for themselves.

The idea is to turn landlording – a position of power and privilege with access to economic rents – into mere property management – a regular job where you earn income based on the labor you do in maintaining properties.

Then seize the land. If that’s your end goal then do it.

Do you think you can trick the landlords into watching you do it slowly enough they don’t notice? You think you can trick capitalists into getting real jobs? Preposterous. You have no sense of class antagonism.

Lol calling everything fascist propaganda

Anyway as I was saying there’s inherently evil people out there and we need a police response to keep them suppressed for the safety of the good people of whom I and maybe(?) you are one.

Who gives a fuck how cleverly the administration of ‘free market solutions’ through tax policy is targeted towards ‘incentivizing’ landlords. This is a post about the parasitic relationship between landlord and tenant. I made a (glib) point about how it’s difficult to legislate against landlords because they get to use your money to lobby against you. What does your point have to do with any of that?