!agree

hello, everyone. nice to be here. Great job, Timcast, for being able to make content that seems relatively balanced in this excessively partisan world. I love your content, even from the other side of the political aisle. (now back to your regularly scheduled conversation)

to control a society, control their speech and their currency

well this is like 4 convos at once

that's very obnoxious. Since when is it ok to exert control over another person's actions outside of the reach of the contractually acquired service? that seems like a breach of personal rights to me

except it's worse than that

their language is clear, it says "on patreon" and yet they're overreaching the original terms of service

!gamer

idk, I think they do, they just don't want to look like they do

so? it doesn't generate wealth for the society, but it disproportionately redistributes it towards the minority pushing for it

they don't care that the ship is sinking, they just want the captain's chair

halfthink, I don't think you can use terms in the original sense to disprove terms in the modern sense. Language is constantly changing, whether we like it or not, so the original idea of "monopoly privilege" while accurately only applying to governmental interference, doesn't apply to the modern conversation when discussing modern economics. collusion isn't a monopoly, it's an oligopoly, but still

question: how many here have read orwell, or lowry, or any other dystopian books for that matter?

@JohnOakman "for bad men to succeed, it simply takes a good man to do nothing" it's more than a matter of time, it's a matter of effort. lies are most easily spread through ignorance

the one advantage against SJWs is that by their nature, they can't have a "face of SJWism" or else it undermines the purpose. they have to "represent the people" which means the moment you have a figurehead that you can look at and say "I don't like that person" you aren't representative of the people anymore

we can have "anti sjws" because we don't care, we're not a united front

remember the last figurehead they had? anita sarkeesian?

nope, me neither

SJWs operate on the "holier than thou" basis, so even being entirely misogynistic and racist and authoritarian, they'll be right on one or two things, which they'll repeatedly reference, saying "we were right about this, therefore we're right"

and use the association fallacy

or whaever it's actually called

in theory, I wish the world did operate like the SJW's version of reality, because you wake up one morning and think "I want to be happy" and the world bends to your will

no

in theory communism is evil

except it was never promised in "the book" marx himself wrote that "communism works in two places: heaven, where they have everything, or hell, where they need everything"

communism takes the idea of altruism and turns it into a mandate instead of a negotiation, that's the evil

yes, but don't tell that to an an-com, because they'll claim "appeal to nature fallacy"

speaking from experience

yes, I know

oof, didn't expect the spanish inquisition

or maybe we did, that's why it left?

does anyone else ever actively seek out opposing ideas just to butt heads with someone for a while and gain new perspective?

or is that just me?

OOF now we really didn't expect that

wouldn't it be ironic if we built an entirely voluntary echo chamber around timcast in this server?

exactly

p(h)r(a)a(i)i(l)se T(G)i(a)m(l)c(a)a(x)s(a)t(r)

idk what you're talking about

I think that having a designated "disagreement space" is important for the growth and development of ideas

or maybe just a spontaneous one

I like how this is the most agreeable group of disaggregates I've ever seen

what about chik fil a?

they want to be wholesome and christian yet they're doing Way too well for the current atheist market

it is their pleasure to serve you, except on sunday

(service counts as speading the Word in much of christianity)

here's the thing, I'd believe that a person actually wants to be benevolent, but it's an unsustainable system of government

poliwho-whats?

nah, we just all feel like we shouldn't stoop so low

closest thing to a superhuman that comes to is super scummy

all politicians? no, but many

the problem is that there needs to be a place where open negotiation between countries can occur, but the UN is being a little too much like a "world government" without actually having the authority to do so. I'm sure that many, if not most of, the representatives have good intentions, but just like the situations within the US and other first world countries, the entire organization is being poisoned by a loud minority claiming to be more virtuous than the rest of everyone, shaming them into agreeing

that's my understanding of it, anyway

medic approves

you should boycott them for poor packaging practices

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torque wrenches are nice

totally worth the extra packaging, boycott canceled, boys

oh, no, the slippery slope is fake, they have lots of traction to pull society, kicking and screaming, into their fantasyland

speaking of stories that are fake news

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/523231520194822164/524291922488066057/DuoT2TuWwAATc3b.png

OOF

I don't think that any nation or ideologically unified force should "govern the world" because beyond food, water, shelter, and social interactions, no two humans need the same things

If we're going to have a global government, let's actually make one that we can hold accountable.

and it should only be used in case of global threat, such as extreme environmental collapse, extinction level catastrophes, or extraterrestrial contact. Yes, short of aliens appearing and the human race having to unite as a species, I think we should be much more locally governed

even when they get bit by their own beast

can somebody help me here? I'm being bullied by two commies who say that capitalism is basically the root of all evil and refuse to accept statistics and reality

A+

good answer

will try

also WTF THEY BLAMED CAPITALISM FOR THE DEATHS IN THE USSR I'M SO DONE

nah, that'd be too easy

they won't get the support from the SJWs

maybe? more like they become the government

such as Disney owning the city of Disney World, FL

or Scientology giving themselves religious NFP status after infiltrating the government to give it to themselves

jews are hated because they eat all your food when they say they didn't want anything, then they drink half of your soda and half to pee in the middle of the road trip

Berkeley? the music school?

so the commies have already won?

ah

also technically we do own, according to our rights to privacy

it's "owned until bought" basically as I understood it

until the bill of rights came along

"just compensation" which is very vague

and OC who decides what "just" or "unjust" means? the govt

they *are*, just not the part that comes to take your stuff

which makes commies angry

can you tell I've been burned recently?

*cough* look at wolfenstein II

great game, love that game, but damn it's got downright communist propoganda

that's cuz the internet like it is now didn't exist

and you could pretend that the "public forum" of the internet didn't exist

you can't sue for slander

it's parody

not slander

basic premise: fight nazis that won the world war. Problem in Wolf II

you team up with a crew of misandrists, literal communists, and basically anyone else the sjw's consider "right and proper" to beat them

wat

ehhh

maybe