what is it like being a blue pilled teenager? i miss that

I vaguely remember an unassailable sense of superiority and utter contempt for the deluded masses.

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I figured we were talking about Green Syndicalist and FondestAlloy

I bet you took audio recordings of your friends in middle school and used them to get them in trouble lol.

But not a scratch!

u know bernie is just a 19 year old who never grew up and entered the real world 😔

I can't imagine Bernie at 19. I just picture him being born an old man in the first place

Damn those pesky zoomers.

No, not my goons!

you're a progressive?\

using a centralized power?

so you say

but is that true?

Oh a styx style minarchist

anyway, I agree with that take, except I'd toss diplomatic ties with foreign countries in there as a job of a central government as well. A strong united front is a much easier position to negotiate from than for each individual state having to handle foreign relations alone

Sarcasm is for fags.

You dont know what a minarchist is?

It basically just means the government does nothing but protect the borders

Enforced property rights

That kind of shit

yikes

i think you should research deflationary spirals.... before saying you dont want the government involved in the economy

also i hope you know the free market is nothing but a toy model which assumes externalities dont matter

except in reality, externalities do matter

hence the free market is *not* ideal

@Green Syndicalism the govt has some role to play for a true free market to exist.

Corporate anarchy isn't a free market, and neither is government overreach and overregulation.

The ideal economy is one where fair rules are established and enforced by the govt so that corporations can't have a limitless cap on profit through dishonest practices.

Putting all of, or sections of, the economy into the govts hand is just as likely to cause stagnation, malpractice, or harm to the consumer, as corporatism.

Corporate anarchy is a contradiction. The corporate structure is state provided

Also I often see the externalities argument fall apart when examples are given. What would be your real-world scenario, @Green Syndicalism ?

@Green Syndicalism
They tried a closed market system.
I spent a week of VERY sleepless nights convinced WWIII had started and waiting for the nukes to rain down. (It didn't help that HBO was playing *The Man Who Saw Tomorrow* at the time.)

@Beemann
*"The corporate structure is state provided"*
¿What? 🤨

Corporation is a state formed designation. Corporations also benefit from the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6C6_NVj964
In response to this video someone said, *"YouTube and the rest of big tech need to be reformed."* And he's right; They are natural monopolies, and that's fine, some industries are that way. We have a solution for that... The alternative being they become public sector industries. Pretty sure ***NOBODY*** wants that.

... ¿Where the fuck is @Shire! btw?

Climate alarmists should be imperialists.

If you really believe the climate will be irreversibly damaged in the next 100 years, and that we (the developed world) have a responsibility to ban plastic straws and the like to stop it, then you should also support the developed world going into the infinitely poorer nations and forcing them to stop the major amount of pollution.

I see so many fucking non interventionists talking about how plastic in the ocean is the worst thing possible and I'm like "why don't we just invade Asia and blockaid the 3 rivers responsible for the majority of our oceans pollution then."

Don't get me wrong, I hate pollutants on the ocean, but if you think using reusable straws in the US is making a difference, your kidding yourself. The US does a pretty good job recycling, poor Asian countries are where your focus should be.

Dem China's give no fucks.

The problem with that attitude is that the one time I actually made that argument to someone, they proved to be such a commie bootlicker that they actually agreed.

Reminder that full blown commies want global communism

Of course they'd agree

You do realize that a blockade is an act of war, right?

Which could potentially get China and Russia involved, both nuclear powers

And I doubt those smaller Asian countries would just allow the United States to invade them with zero resistance