I’m in Panama, I wait until I’m frustrated enough that I get reckless.

Land value tax, election by sortition for the legislative branch, bodily autonomy

I literally quit my job to do tiktok full time

More political memes. Also more cringey conversatuions about how, actually, everything is political. Victory awaits.

The details of our individual situations are irrelevant! The assumption that my disagreement with you is based on envy rather than the merits of your ideas says a great deal about you. Your employer is not obligated to pay you for getting to work mostly because you choose where to live and you knew where the office/restaurant/factory was located when you took the job. Whose fault is it if you take a job that’s far away? Whose fault is it if you decide to move to another town afterwards? Whose fault is it if you take the bus for an hour each way instead of driving in half the time? Being an adult means taking responsibility for your own choices.

Fuck you, nobody owes you anything

Common law married still counts. You aren’t getting off on a technicality this time.

I trust you’ve already seen Jacob’s Ladder?

I forgot to mention that the bottle is fractured and the frozen paper towel is the only thing holding it together

Board games. Things get expensive once you start collecting

We agree about greed being unavoidable. The difference between the two systems is how you go about satisfying your desire to get ahead - under capitalism you acquire mainly through trade, providing goods and services to others (and sometimes through theft), while under communism your ability to engage in trade is severely restricted, leaving only the other options.

Support for communism. People somehow manage to wildly exaggerate both the evils of capitalism and the benefits of communism, even though we have plenty of contemporary and historical examples to refer to.

They do this in Latin America

Bubble Bobble

Agnostic atheist. Sometimes I kind of forget religion even exists, it just seems like such a non-issue to me.

The relevant measure of having done college right is getting a degree at the end. Keep your eye on the ball, everything else is a distraction.

This is very similar to land speculation and the solution is the same one Henry George gave us over 100 years ago - tax it until speculation is no longer profitable.

Jokes about Americans being tasteless barbarians?