but they were interviewing people in Venezuela

including shopkeepers and business owners

all of whom were complaining about how they couldn't make any money because of the situation

and the comments were like

I KNEW IT

THE TRUTH COMES OUT

THESE FUCKERS JUST WANT CAPITALISM

and I'm over here like wait waaaaaaaaaaaat

I guess they just want to eat

And have a decent life

And they are not having that with the glorious socialism

SO SELFISH

Y R THEY SO SELFISH FULCRUM

THEY'RE TRYING TO DESTROY SOCIALISM

They have to think at the greater good!!!!

THIS IS ***THEIR*** FAULT THAT VENEZUELA IS COLLAPSING

I BET THEY'RE ALL FUNDED BY THE US GOVT

Maduro actually blamed the US government for Chavez's cancer

Maduro is a lunatic

Lol

Free helicopters rides for communists

Has anyone listened to King Of Kings from Hardcore History? Very interesting insight into the political climate of the Achaemenid Empire, and their relatively 'liberal', multicultural society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkfGHFWGrag

Stalin looks like Jason Alexander with a wig

lol

He looks so awkwardly familiar

but can't quite put my finger on it

If nothing else that thumbnail looks like a screenshot from Red Alert

From the thumbnail, he looks like Maduro

hitler was such a fucking idiot

there's a difference between actual ruthless cunning dictators that will outsmart you at every turn until the police shoots you in your garden like Stalin, Saddam Hussein or Erdogan

and thought-leaders like hitler who usually have no fucking clue what they're doing when given control of an army

Yep

Thought leader with a group of Yes-men surrounding him.

It's like a circle jerk of Aryan superiority

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/992589114670243840 HAHAHAHA what a dumb human being. He should be removed from office by force. Incompetent little boy

Just.... send me forward in time by 6 months

his yes-men were actually quite competent which was hitler's only saving grace but the war effort was pretty much lost on his back because there was no saying no to him XD

https://screenshots.firefox.com/rEqynF6vRWm9rq8G/twitter.com

Exactly

Did you really have to click on each channel to post a random useless reply? Rank whoring much?

Did you really have to click on each channel to post a random useless reply? Rank whoring much?

.... uh oh <:think_hang:378717098903470080>

I remember when Weavs did this the first time

oh, the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixlzlna_BUs

Really heartbreaking story from PhotonicInduction (Youtuber with about 360k subscribers) about his experiences with UK immigration. He talks about how he's contemplating suicide, so I suspect the video will get taken down.

Maybe his Indian wife should join ISIS, that would speed up her paperwork.

And free council housing, too!

Pretty woke on how degenerate Marx was as a human being...
https://youtu.be/NirpXeuXlbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB2cygnwKE

Question: is classical liberalism left or right?

It's the center these days

also, is anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism the same thing?

No, anarcho capitalism argues that the state as an entity is fundamentally immoral as an agent of force

Libertarianism is ethically ambiguous about the state, and is defined in the modern day as 'minarchist'

I’d say classical liberalism, and Enlightenment ideas in general, can apply to both the left and right.

In the 'ideal' Left/Right dichotomy, it is assumed that both sides are operating under the pretense that Enlightenment values are correct.

^

Classical liberalism seems more right wing now due to the loons on the left

They're subversive socialists, trying to undermine western democracy, because they're butt hurt they won't be able to succeed within it. They'll implode after a while, hopefully, once people wake up to it.

They’re doomed to not go very far. Americans are allergic to radicals. In Europe though, there could be problems.

It'll spread back over. The mainstream left is slowly getting the idea that the words their politicians spout are contrary to the policies they put forward. They've got an 'okay' moral compass, albeit one that just aligns with every around them, but most people aren't going to be persuaded into radical leftism with the Internet being available.

Islam is the real threat to the west, imo.

classical liberalism seems right wing because the window got shifted

If the progressive, left-wing movement is illiberal, then liberals are conservatives.

They are ready. Liberal isn't an antithetical definition to conservative

Mhm

Progressive is the opposite of conservative, and people will tell you they're both liberal. (But progs aren't, cause utilitarianism)

There’s going to be a shift soon, and the pendulum will change directions to the right, just as it went left in the 60’s, as a result of the liberals becoming conservatives due to perspective

Nah, that's not how it works anymore. Leftist philosophy is being destroyed before our eyes. We'll see a shift to politics more similar pre-WW2 dichotomies

(In my opinion)

Well, back in the 50’s and before, conservatism was deeply rooted everywhere, and being a lefty was counterculture and weird. Now, leftism is everywhere, and liberalism/conservatism is counterculture. But it is possible that the democrats/left go back to pre-WWII as they struggle to survive. Could even be a party flip flop, where the left tries to go back and the right moves forward. That’d be weird.

Anyway, good talking to ya, but I need some sleep. Adieu

👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT0mbNvaT6Y

Sweet

@Deleted User Ancaps are a subset of libertarians. Not all libertarians are ancaps.

@Deleted User is a commie
it's sort of expected that she'd conflate libertarians with ancaps

@Deleted User I think any average person would. It's not exactly a mainstream concept

that's because they're sheeple

No, it's because not everyone is a politics nerd like we are lol

lol

He is actually right in this one

For real, when you take a step back from all this, you feel like you arw taking small stuff way too seriously

who?

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Fitz

Take a month break of reading politics, and the world will seems perfect

That's why I understand people who don't see "the cultural war" or "the Muslim problem"

Even the problem with illegal migration

It's like the Man Behind the Curtain from wizard of oz

They are just uniformed about a subject

And since their lives are going without problems, they don't care

Which seems to be a bigger problem, if most people aren't taking into consideration externalities for their long term plans

@Fitzydog
Yeah

To understand the problems, and their implications

You have to actually look for it

Inform yourself about what's happening

And most people just don't do that

no wonder people can act so ignorant about a problem/issue

No, I'm not a communist.

I don't bother learning what anarcho-anything means, because I know the person identifying with it is a lunatic.