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I came here for naughty art, but that's gone now so I'm making a clean version.

You seriously don't seem to know what the word capitalism means. It refers to people "capitalizing" on whatever they can, such as hoarding a resource in order to upsell it.

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There's a distinct gap in how pro-capitalists and anti-capitalists define "capitalism."

The anti-capitalist side tends to "define" capitalism in a way that allows using it as an all-purpose scapegoat and bogeyman.

Saying it's capitalism every time someone can be said to be "capitalizing" on something is a perfect example. Government takes control of a resource and lets a corporate monopoly capitalize on it? Capitalism!

Government only allows a few companies to make insulin so they can capitalize on the scarcity? Capitalism!

A government-owned oil company makes a leak? Well, they were trying to "capitalize" so we can call that "State Capitalism!"

But setting aside that convenience, let's look at the issues. Take wage slavery for example.

Imagine a cook named Sarah. She works for the owner of a restaurant named Duke. Duke does no real work. He spends most of his time on expensive vacations while his employees earn money for him.

Sarah hates having to essentially donate her time and work to someone else just based on ownership. One day she passes by a photo of Duke's grandfather, the founder of the company, and the story of how he started the company selling his cooking from home.

Sarah realizes that since she's doing the cooking, she could do the same thing herself. She goes home and starts reading the rules, and finds out she can't. The regulations explicitly forbid selling food from a inside a residential zone. She can't afford a properly-zoned store, so she's simply stuck working for someone like Duke.

Sarah isn't allowed to capitalize on her cooking skills, so arguably we can all that "anti-capitalism."

A proper definition tells you what something is, and just as importantly what it isn't. But what you presented isn't a proper definition, it's a loose framework for assigning blame. Consequently, Sarah's legal inability to capitalize can still be called "capitalism" because people like Duke are "capitalizing" on it.

Friendly reminder to never forget

This hacker was literally scamming the people he sold the switch's too and was BRICKING THEM. Yall keep leaving out that little tiny fact because yall want to make them look like their being unreasonable. Ever think about the fact that they usually DONT DO THAT TO HACKERS??? Yall actually look up what that fucker was doing.

That would be because society doesn't give a shit about the safety of men,

Also they think they're being sneaky by conflating a homeless shelter with a DV shelter, but even for DV shelters society doesn't give a shit about men so it's a fail on their (and societies) part anyhow.

That was a damn good catch. I missed it.

interesting to ask people to rank Stalin vs. Trump, because the correct answer is obvious but then you can immediately second guess it and need to clarify the question

in terms of body count or what?

well that's just it, Stalin had a lot more people murdered, like not even close, and you would expect that to be the dominating factor in any comparison but then you run into questions of the quality of the individual as supported/constrained by the nature of the institutions in which they are embedded, which complicates matters considerably.

it really, really doesn't

Why is a tax on unrealized gains so bad? if anything it seems more efficient since it doesn't punish people for transacting. Is the fear that the underlying asset is illiquid so people couldn't afford to hold it even if it was profitable? Is it just that the accounting would be annoying?

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It destroys people. It leverages a tax on people, sometimes a higher amount than they've ever owned in their life, on the theory that maybe they will make that money in the future.

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the advocates of it would say that it doesn't hurt normal people only the obscenely wealthy who they hate and want to kill

they don't notice or remember that if you're afraid someone will hurt you, and that person says you aren't worth bothering with, they are coming for you first.

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We did everything we could to try and save this cultural monument, but it is going to be torn down next week.

Oh? Did you try and buy the property? Make it your own so you could so what you wanted to it?

What? No. We went to the government and tried to get them to make it illegal for the owners to tear it down. When that didn't work we sued in court to try and get it named a special status so it couldn't be torn down. We did everything we could to save it.

Except buy the property itself?

Why would we want to do that? Then we would have to pay for the property and upkeep and that should be someone else's problem. We just want it to not be destroyed.

Is this a hypothetical situation or something that actually happened?

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I refuse to believe there are real people complaining about this.

I suppose there are those who love the feeling of obeying authority so much that they'd complain. But you're right since I wouldn't call those real people.

American leftist suddenly love law enforcement and the patriot act, michael moore is going to need to pull fahrenheit 9/11 or he might risk being called a conservative or maybe having to admit that he might have been wrong.

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Why is it that the people who are blaming Trump for not bringing down the cost of eggs were the same ones blaming the high cost on the greed of corporations a few months ago?

Because they're willfully stupid and conveniently ignore the fact that the FDA ordered the destruction of some 100 million chickens over possible bird flu concerns.

1. That's 100 million chickens over the course of the entire epidemic, so from two years ago.

2. The US alone slaughters 9.5 billion chickens per year, or 26 million per day, so there's literally absolutely no way that killing 100 million chickens over the course of 2 years would raise the price of eggs by any noticable amount at all.

2. It's literally the law and has been for decades that if bird flu is detected in a flock, the entire flock must be killed, because bird flu is so contagious and deadly among chickens that it's the only way to keep it from being spread from infected flocks to other flocks. If we didn't execute this policy then nearly all the chickens in the US would be dead within a few years.

You are legitimately mentally retarded.

The chickens used for meat are different from egg laying chickens.

Of the 9.5 billion chickens slaughtered, 9.3 billion were broiler chickens for meat. (Link) It’s also worth noting that while 9.3 billion broiler chickens are slaughtered every year they are only about 8-12 weeks old at slaughter. There’s an estimated 1.5 billion broilers in the US at any given time, so the ratio of egg layers to total population is larger than you would expect.

There’s only about 300 million egg laying chickens in the US. That smaller population is more vulnerable to culling because of disease. It also takes longer to build that population back up because egg laying chickens take about 6 months to reach maturity and begin producing eggs.

Chickens can produce approximately 300 eggs per year. If you kill 1000 egg laying chickens, for that 6 months you will lose almost 150,000 eggs.

Over 100 million were killed because of disease. Even if we assume only 1 million of the total culled were egg laying. That would result in 12.5 million fewer cartons of eggs on grocery store shelves in the 6 months it takes for new chickens to mature.

So maybe do some research before running your mouth.

Eh that was an easy mistake for me to make.

Regardless, culling infected chicken populations is objectively necessary, and blaming the increase in the price of eggs on it like it was somehow a mistake to do so is just downright stupid.

And besides, the state of the poultry and egg industry before Trump took office doesn't prevent trump from doing anything about it.

It's valid to criticize trump for not attempting to do much about the cost of living.

In his first month he's done plenty of things, but hasn't focused much on the issue that literally got him elected.

Culling infected chickens isn’t necessarily the wrong thing to do. However Trump can’t do much about a 6 month lag time between culling a flock and new chickens maturing. He also can’t just sign an executive order to end bird flu. You also can’t, on the one hand say we need to cull chickens, and then turn around and say “where’s all the eggs?”

Somethings simply take time regardless of who’s in office, it’s not fair to blame Trump for eggs one week after Inauguration Day, especially if you haven’t said anything about the outgoing administration.

It’s very easy for the president to sign executive orders to end USAID or DEI because it’s a simple policy change. Almost everything Trump has done in his second term so far has been policy and administrative changes.

And before you say nothing is being done about it, the new head of the USDA immediately started meeting with farmers and was looking to invest a billion dollars into the problem. But again she wasn’t confirmed until a few weeks after Trump took office.

Last February the US spend over 30 billion more than it did last February. DOGE doesn't work. You got scammed.

Yeah, that was because on December 21, 2024 the legislature passed a spending bill that was then signed into law by Biden that funded the government until March 14, 2025.

That money was already spent, and the spending was approved by the Biden administration.

Thanks for jumping back onto a post about eggs to be needlessly incorrect about DOGE. Have a nice day!

They got schooled on the egg situation and felt embarrassed so they quickly tried to shift the focus onto something else to feel less stupid, but unfortunately they are just as wrong about that claim too.

>Eh that was an easy mistake for me to make. I love how you spoke so authoritatively, and even insulted someone over it, but now you're blaming your mistakes on someone else. > and blaming the increase in the price of eggs on it like it was somehow a mistake to do so is just downright stupid. Pointing out cause and effect and responsibility is not the same as saying it was wrong. >In his first month he's done plenty of things, but hasn't focused much on the issue that literally got him elected. OP was about how people who didn't admit that eggs and the price of groceries were even real issues before the election...turned around and used those issues to browbeat Trump supporters the second he was in office. Which you have not, at any point, actually acknowledged. Not even to say they were wrong. You focused entirely on the supporting point, and not the main one. I think I know why. AAG>They got schooled on the egg situation and felt embarrassed so they quickly tried to shift the focus onto something else to feel less stupid, but unfortunately they are just as wrong about that claim too. It's almost as if they're just here to score points for their Political Team, by any means necessary.

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By the way the whole USAID thing is a real world example of why Bruce Wayne just giving all his money to the city wouldn't solve anything.

This one of the most logical things I have seen on all of Tumblr in quite a time.

And therefore, the people who hate Batman will never understand it.

Especially since he regularly gives to charity and cares about the downtrodden in almost all mainstream continuities. But Gotham's government is, infamously, incredibly corrupt and ineffectual.

anakin skywalker does not use jedi mind tricks 

not once in the films 

do you think that’s a coincidence 

not on your life buddy 

anakin skywalker does not have it in him to overrule another being’s free will

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knownfilmhoe

he murders a bunch of children with a laser sword

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somuchforthetolerantleft

your fave is problematic

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4emptyseats

actually Darth Vader killed those kids. he also killed Anakin, from a certain point of view

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somuchforthetolerantleft

just ‘cause he changed his name doesn’t mean he’s a different person, he was the same dude under different circumstances. anakin’s life prior to being darth vader was not destroyed by an invading darth vader, it was darth vader’s backstory.

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nogfhaver

I’m going to help a Sith Lord overthrow the Galactic Republic and systematically hunt down and murder every member of the Jedi order and when Obi-Wan comes for me I’m going to tell him it was my alter ego Countess Boochie Flagrante

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