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🇺🇸🇵🇷 / post-libertarian reactionary tech neo-fascist / imperial hypercapitalism privilege enjoyer

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@airynne @DeTocqueville14 I will dear

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 They have control, they can tax you. That's not making money, that is theft, right? Why do you want to pay taxes?

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@WatcherGuru shocker

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@DeTocqueville14 @ptoneigh_ what are you even talking about dude? this is dumb, just repeating broken axioms like a leftist would talk about capital. This is why nobody serious listens to you guys.

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 why can't you imagine the gov being a passive investor here? You complain if the gov makes money, you complain that the gov loses our money, or you don't want it to exist and you will definitely lose money and there is nothing stopping a tyrant in that case. So you offer nothing

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@DeTocqueville14 @ptoneigh_ so what? That's half the point. The other half is structure. So is capital. So are guns, are they bad too? A man with a gun is a one man government. Your freedom is dependent on your ability to dispense violence

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I was forced to read this slop and Gladwell tipping point slop in undergrad 24 years ago. It was canon to the shitlibs. Unbearable

[Richard “Beebo” Russell @proverbs_14_23]

“Guns, Germs & Steel” was one of only 3 books in my entire life that I couldn’t finish. It’s that bad. Here’s the synopsis:

In the opening chapter he clearly states That he believes the 5’ tall Stone Age Pygmies of Papua New Guinea are more intelligent than Europeans. His rationale? He hung out with them and felt like it because they knew all the types of plants, and also their kids didn’t have TVs (I’m not kidding).

He also observed that unlike Europeans, they were constantly hacking each other to death with crude instruments. Which leads him to believe that they evolved to be smarter, because you need intelligence to survive permanent tribal warfare. Unlike cooperative farming. I really wish I was kidding about this.

He concludes therefore that any and all modern differences in technology and wealth are the result strictly of environmental factors. He spends the next 400 pages desperately cooking up insanely convoluted theories about why living in a food scarce frozen wasteland actually gives people far more free time to invent things than eating an inexhaustible supply of bananas on a tropical island would.

Now I’m a based millennial, I’ve built a fairly thick skin against “college guy” hunter gatherer fetishism. I was born into it, molded by it. I rose out of it like Bane from the pit of darkness. I can listen to Dr.Sternberg do a 60 minute lecture on why potions made from boiling albino babies are every bit as advanced as penicillin, I wouldn’t even feel a thing.

I still couldn’t finish this book…

Unlike Malcolm Galdwell, he didn’t even bother to make his slop fun to read. That’s honestly the most offensive part. If you’re not going to tell the truth, at least tell a fucking joke.

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@DougTenNapel 👑

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@TaylorLorenz What's with Taylor being based anyway

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@DeTocqueville14 @ptoneigh_ So people don't have a right to form a government? That is quite literally constitutional

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@Uhhuhjosh @ComputerLove_ it's the one time a door isn't a door

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@poweruserlg @jlippincott GOF was about making bioweapons. AI means we can synthesize the cure for their weapons in a garage. Of course they are upset about that

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@jlippincott nailed it

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@DeTocqueville14 @ptoneigh_ yet the government is run by individuals asserting their rights, now what?

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 America as an experiment and a territory was largely unexplored yet here we are, brother. We are always seeking uncharted territory. It's who we are. If the worry is that someone might do something bad, then we would never do anything. We would never be the best

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 the gov has voting rights to tax you, to zone you, to say you can't build x, y, and z. that's what a government is. they don't exist otherwise. A profit oriented gov owning some of your shares is not incentivized to kill your profit generating business model. But others are

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 You're never going to live in an anarchy because you need a perfect high trust society and your ideology prevents you from killing your enemies preemptively, so either you have to tax or the gov makes its own money. Pick one.

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@ptoneigh_ @DeTocqueville14 But you support a government never making a profit and having to tax you to do anything? It's the same thing man. Get the fuck over it. The state having equity exposure doesn't mean they control it. They don't have to own over 50% at all. You put us all in a lose-lose situation

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@airynne @DeTocqueville14 why wouldn't they just do the same to vance then? Him being better to you means jack shit to them, they think he's a nazi and if they have the power to remove trump they can nuke everyone. You are like a terrorist dreaming about taking over the cockpit because someone was rude 2u

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@timecaptales 👑