If you hit someone with a hammer, it’s assault and you go to jail. If you drop a hammer on someone accidentally, it was an accident and nothing happens to you. See how dumb that sounds?

Health insurance would like to know your location.

Nah man, that’s not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there’s no one to compete against. It’s a bit like an economical algae bloom.

Agreed. I feel as though capitalism is a good option for things which can have elastic demand. Luxury items, entertainment, etc can all benefit from a competitive market because I have the luxury of not needing to buy them. On the other hand, I do absolutely need food, housing, and healthcare in order to live. Applying supply and demand principles when demand must be inelastic only leads to people getting hurt.

My dream system would be one in which, as a baseline, all human requirements for survival are provided no matter the situation, and where currency is only used for luxuries.

“One side has a lot of guns and supports fascism, therefore the other side should disarm, I am very smart.”

Tell me you never served in the military without telling me you never served in the military.

Could make decent insulation too

Rhymes with schmevolution

Wait, are you suggesting we address the material conditions which lead to violence and deaths of despair? What are you, some kind of lib?

Also, it will take weeks for the whole process to get started again. Once deals are made, factories start production again, and containers are loaded onto ships, which will then take weeks to make it across the ocean. We’re talking months of supply chain shocks in the best possible case.

Cascadia baby!

I don’t think that’s correct. Plenty of us on the left have firearms, we just don’t make it our entire personality.

“no, see, the plane which crashed into my house was full of rich people”

Also weird ergonomic issues and a different manual of arms. Those can both be trained around, but that’s a big ask for most militaries.

I don’t often run across a piece of pure poetry in the wild. Well said!

I mean, if the alternative is getting shipped to a torture prison in El Salvador with no due process? Not saying it’s a good alternative, but it is an alternative.

Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.

From all the reporting I’ve read CECOT is significantly worse than the Japanese internment camps. What America did to Japanese Americans was cruel and unjust, and I wouldn’t say conditions in the camps were good, but CECOT seems to be on a whole other level. Prisoners are confined in crowded bunk rooms, outside time is limited to one hour per day, and physical violence from the other prisoners and the guards seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

Oh hey look, a brand new account with 2 total posts. Totally a real person.

A fish who is a sadist in his sexual relations with other fish obviously.