Victoria Antoinette

marginalizing an accomplished academic and political activist as a lunatic is gross.

this isn’t science, it is story telling

People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

deal with the misinformation in your community

this is a great gimmick for poker players. show it of to a couple buddies so when someone calls you out for double dealing and wearing a shiner, one of them can stick up for you and say you just have a limp dick.

capitalism superceded mercantilism about 2 centuries ago. it’s nowhere near as old as currency

communism is a wishful thinking pipe dream that turns into authoritarianism every time.

except every time it hasn’t

except all the ones you are ignoring

org mode

it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.

org mode

your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith

try reading source material.

you’ve never been faced with homelessness or hunger or lack of medical care if you didn’t take a job?

that is not the correct analysis. the correct analysis is that strategic voting in a fptp system leads to party consolidation. the solution is values voting

it is stealing, even if it is in accordance with a contract. those contracts are signed between unequal parties, effectively under duress

it is the definition of capitalism, as defined by Marx, who coined it.

it is.

yes, you can. basically every anarchist who has ever lived has been ok with animal exploitation.

capitalism is a system of production in which the means of production are held as private property by a capitalist class. with the abolition of the state will necessarily come abolition of private property, so capitalism cannot exist in anarchy.