Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other

Someone didn’t learn from history, every fascist government to date, be it the Nazis, the Fascisti or even Franco have shown that the capitalist and the fascist work well together, after all the standard corporate structure already shares a model with fascist power structures (surprising how many people fail to realize that a top-down authoritarian structure with stark consequences for disobedience and that cultivate collective ignorance as to what you are doing and how it impacts people, that you systematically dehumanize), not just because the fascist power structure was literary built on the idea of the company structure of the time

no, they ARE represented, it’s just that the system is old and can’t deal with modern technology, like social media, or even the radio

ranked choice isn’t going to fix shit, proportional or go home

and what has that gotten us? rural communities are subsidized out the wazoo as the urban centers across America are strangled and starved. as the more powerful minority of people is catered too

ok, so people who pretend like the Russians and/or Chinese being communists and justifying their fascistic imperialist actions, while going on about American imperialism as the literal sole antagonist of the universe are by definition tankies.

and the DCA are tankies, you can find it in a lot of their publications if you read them, for example, the basis for supporting the free Palestine students movement isn’t to support the Palestinian people in the creation of their own state, as a principle right of any group of peoples, but rather because they believe it would hemm in American imperialist power in the Middle East

blocking fascists and fascists wearing the skin of the lefties they killed is not creating an echo chamber

ah, you see, turns out supply/demand isn’t actually a thing =D, don’t get me wrong, it’s fine and all until you remember that there are things people can not live without

fascism has never been reasonable, or it’s self consistent.

I think what the person you were replying to was trying to say was, that land is an investment platform, and nobody better touch his stuff, or he will enact capital punishment as judge jury and executioner

money = speech

Believe it or not? yes.

tho the distrust in the democratic institutions is literally the groundwork for abolishing democracy, and at least half of the media landscape is owned by people who want to abolish democracy, so where do you think most of the “government bad” stuff comes from?

he’s rich, the whole racism bit was always nothing but a ploy to keep poor people divided, a lot of people fell for it, but the rich don’t care, the rich don’t affiliate with “white” or “black” groups, they just care about money, and if pumping racism into society to keep their slaves was useful, then the black man just had to suffer.

Remember, at least in the American concept, anti-capitalism is anti-racism (this does not apply to all people or regions of the world)

There is a neat and simple solution for every problem, and it’s always wrong

all of America is Liberal (socio-economic philosophy, not the “left” catchall) and thus they are all conservative

a class of econ 101 does not a degree make, tho it is ironic that the economists with the most predictive power tend to not favor your view on economics

and advanced economic theory says that basic economic theory is crap, what you consider “basic economic theory” is woefully outdated and has never been backed by any evidence.

as for the supply and demand crap, it really just boils down to the prisoner’s dilemma,

1: A lowers prices & B lowers prices = lower profits for both

2: A lowers prices & B does not lower prices = A has medium profits, B goes broke

3: A does not lower prices & B lower prices = A goes broke, B has medium profits

4: A does not lower prices & B does not lower prices = both have high profits

and remember, the people running A and B have taken some basic courses in math and logic

I can only think to part of a response Orwell had for pacifists:

I am not interested in pacifism as a ‘moral phenomenon’. If Mr Savage and others imagine that one can somehow ‘overcome’ the German army by lying on one’s back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen. As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese if they get there. Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.