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04 Apr 2022, 6:35 am

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Marxism is wonderful in Utopian fantasy….an utter failure in the “real world.”
I find this entirely uncontroversial.


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04 Apr 2022, 6:41 am

Not to Marxists! :P

Anything that remotely does not conform to the party line is suspect.

The extreme expression of this—Pol Pot in Cambodia/Kampuchea.



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04 Apr 2022, 8:52 am

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Austrians and Objectivists are not mainstream economists.


Are we supposed to pretend Alan Greenspan wasn't mainstream or just that he wasn't deeply influenced by Objectivism? :scratch:


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04 Apr 2022, 9:28 am

The only wasted vote is the vote not cast -- "Abstain" is a wasted vote.



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04 Apr 2022, 3:12 pm

The fact that anti-trans rhetoric often focuses on trans women and AMAB non-binary people, attempts to pin them as "dangerous", invalidate them, and restrict their rights, and blatantly ignores the existence of trans men and AFAB non-binary people, shows that it's not really about "'womens' safety" or the "freedom of 'women' and their rights", but more-so about the demonization of "men", and is just an extension of the continued denial of their right to understand and express themselves.



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05 Apr 2022, 12:18 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Marxism is wonderful in Utopian fantasy….an utter failure in the “real world.”

I love Marxist communes in the first century Christian sense where the church members had a community of goods I am a Christian communist or maybe a Christian socialist because I think Christian’s should be mostly poor



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05 Apr 2022, 12:22 am

magz wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Marxism is wonderful in Utopian fantasy….an utter failure in the “real world.”
I find this entirely uncontroversial.

Well I think Marxism is horrible with governments but it can work wonders if it like a hippie commune or some sort intentional Christian community that’s voluntary I don’t even know if I believe in private property on a moral and philososophical level



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05 Apr 2022, 12:24 am

I think the income tax is unconstitutional I believe property taxes are unconstitutional too I think we need to get money out of politics i think every polictal office should have term limits I believe America should have no political parties I think that I may not believe in a professional military and I think corporate self employment and fica and business and partnership taxes are illegal every part of the econonomy should be as deregulated as possible I don’t think you should have to be licensed to cut hair or be a barber or be a finically salesmen or be realtor I don’t believe in the democratic and republican parties I am just a Texan and American at heart i be,I eve in insider trading because congress does it all the time so why not us I don’t believe the national debt is a major issue or needs much worry at this point but at the same time I believe every government should be ran debt free



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05 Apr 2022, 12:56 am

I think Texas should be it’s own country with full ownership of the Permian basin and or at least be the original size of the republic of Texas as a state



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05 Apr 2022, 1:19 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Not to Marxists! :P

Anything that remotely does not conform to the party line is suspect.

The extreme expression of this—Pol Pot in Cambodia/Kampuchea.

Well I am a Christian communalist not a true Marxist but I believe Christ and Marx had similar views on wealth and money



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05 Apr 2022, 2:33 am

funeralxempire wrote:
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There's a tendency to overlook how economics is dominated by ideologues and instead only identify this as an issue on the left. Objectivists and Austrians are outright hypocrites when they try to portray opponents as ideologues or their ideas only working on paper when this vein of economic thought could be a textbook example of putting ideology ahead of reality.

Good. Point I just don’t believe in fiat currency because my economics teacher said that every fiat currency becomes worthless like what happened in Germany


I would say that so far doesn't seem to be the case and he's ignoring that other factors were very significant in contributing to that outcome, if you mean Germany in the '20s. He's likely passed his ideological attachment to the gold standard to you, but there's no inherent reason for gold to be the basis for currency, even if you reject the idea of fiat currency.

In some ways gold isn't much different than a fiat currency other than the supply is artificially limited relative to what might be needed. It still largely relies on public faith in gold as being valuable. In severe enough circumstances it's possible precious metals would lose value compared to food or other more immediate forms of wealth.

I think we're approaching a point were energy might be the most natural thing to correlate to purchasing power, but I'm not convinced that's needed either. Fiat currency is probably adequate for the foreseeable future barring any massive social disruptions and who's to say those wouldn't be of the scale adequate to severely devalue gold and other precious metals as well?

Gold has never lost all its vAlue in the last five thounsand years every fiat currency eventually implodes and hyperinflates throughout history and becomes worthless I think it’s important to convert fiat currency into investments to even keep with up inflation eventually want five to twenty percent of my portfolio in physical gold and silver just to prepare for the financial apocalplyse I started drilling oil wells so I would be a prouducer of a inflationary products the U.S. constitution says only the government to issue money so the private central banking cartel is wrong and I think we should be freest country economically in the world and the most pro business and pro capitalist society I think we need to kick the central bankers out and take back our country from the banks and corporations I think price gouging should be fully legal for every product and service every where in the world to whatever limit the businesses self employed partners and investors want. Well there’s plenty of oil and gas where I live I say enough for another hundred years in the Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico inflation is a hidden tax by the central bankers gold and silver tends to up in a crisis I think our financial system in America should be even morre financially free than the caymans or the Bahamas or Switzerland



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05 Apr 2022, 3:23 am

The_Walrus wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
There's a tendency to overlook how economics is dominated by ideologues and instead only identify this as an issue on the left. Objectivists and Austrians are outright hypocrites when they try to portray opponents as ideologues or their ideas only working on paper when this vein of economic thought could be a textbook example of putting ideology ahead of reality.

Austrians and Objectivists are not mainstream economists. In my experience, mainstream economists hold those groups in about as high regard as they hold Marxians - that is to say, not at all.

Well I would never trust any financial economist who believes in the fed and central banking and fiat currency i am a Texas gold bug



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05 Apr 2022, 4:50 am

funeralxempire wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Austrians and Objectivists are not mainstream economists.


Are we supposed to pretend Alan Greenspan wasn't mainstream or just that he wasn't deeply influenced by Objectivism? :scratch:

Greenspan wasn’t a mainstream economist, that was why Reagan liked him so much! :P

Greenspan is a punchline for mainstream economists. Bernanke and Yellen, as neo-classicists, are the Fed Chairs that they tend to admire. Even Jay Powell gets more recognition than Greenspan. Compare Yellen’s list of honours to Greenspan’s and you’ll get an idea for which of them is more highly thought of.



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05 Apr 2022, 8:13 pm

I think we should privatize social security and put it in the stock market and it should be option and I believe social security is a text book legal Ponzi scheme currently



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05 Apr 2022, 9:47 pm

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The fact that anti-trans rhetoric often focuses on trans women and AMAB non-binary people, attempts to pin them as "dangerous", invalidate them, and restrict their rights, and blatantly ignores the existence of trans men and AFAB non-binary people, shows that it's not really about "'womens' safety" or the "freedom of 'women' and their rights", but more-so about the demonization of "men", and is just an extension of the continued denial of their right to understand and express themselves.


I've noticed this as well. They clearly see trans women as men and trans men as women which is why there is never any mention of trans men when I hear about anti trans.

Radical feminists are also misandrist.


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05 Apr 2022, 9:51 pm

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It makes perfect sense to me that a radical feminist would be a TERF.


They're a TERF because they hate men and see trans women as men but they never complain about trans men. Gee I wonder why.


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