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@gerrymcgovern

"CaPiTaLiSm dRiVeS InNoVaTiOn!!1!!"
πŸ˜’

28 September at 14:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on kolektiva.social
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bhcompy

@RD4Anarchy
Would you prefer being criminalized, rounded up, and sent against your will to an invalids' home like Soviet "samovars" in the post war period?

28 September at 18:36 | Open on hachyderm.io
RD

@bhcompy

lol, please don't embarrass yourself like that.

28 September at 19:37 | Open on kolektiva.social
bhcompy

@RD4Anarchy
The economic system isn't the problem. Hell, the development of the technology was likely heavily funded by the government. The problem is the government (lack of regulation on one example and deliberately oppressive on the other).

But hey you can just throw pointless comments around

28 September at 20:00 | Open on hachyderm.io
RD

@bhcompy

Capitalism is vastly more than an "economic system", and state and capitalism go hand in hand (the soviet union was no exception).

28 September at 20:10 | Open on kolektiva.social
bhcompy

@RD4Anarchy
Of course the economy and the state go hand in hand. It's in the state interest to be deeply involved in the economy, which is why the solution isn't memeing about capitalism rather government reform

28 September at 20:15 | Open on hachyderm.io
HeavenlyPossum

@RD4Anarchy @bhcompy

Thanks for saving the day, comrade. Everyone would have been lost without your insight.

28 September at 20:19 | Open on kolektiva.social
RD

@bhcompy

Did you read what I wrote?

I'll repeat it:

Capitalism is vastly more than an "economic system", and state and capitalism go hand in hand.

28 September at 20:19 | Open on kolektiva.social
bhcompy

@RD4Anarchy
Did you read what I wrote?

I'll repeat it: the state and every economic system go hand in hand. Regulation is the answer, no matter what economic system is in play

28 September at 20:32 | Open on hachyderm.io
RD

@bhcompy

So the economy based on chattel slavery could have continued if slavery had been more well-regulated? πŸ€”

28 September at 21:58 | Open on kolektiva.social
bhcompy

@RD4Anarchy
It's almost as if we fought some kind of war over a disagreement on the topic

29 September at 0:41 | Open on hachyderm.io
HeavenlyPossum

@RD4Anarchy @bhcompy@hachyderm.io

β€œSlavery just needed to be regulated better!”

29 September at 5:34 | Open on kolektiva.social
HeavenlyPossum

@bhcompy @RD4Anarchy

Thank fucking god everyone has the permission of the pointless comments expert because we were all in a real pickle before

28 September at 20:23 | Open on kolektiva.social
HeavenlyPossum

@bhcompy @RD4Anarchy

Literally your only two choices. This guy paralyzed for life because of a $20 battery or the gulag. I think it says that in the Bible somewhere.

28 September at 20:02 | Open on kolektiva.social
Alper

@bhcompy @RD4Anarchy
Like the Japanese-American internment camps? Or native Americans' custody systems? I'm sure there are many other examples. The difference is there is no difference. Concentration of any power invites the worst people to grab it.

29 September at 5:55 | Open on sfba.social
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