Karl Marx never bathed and had boils all over his body, was an alcoholic, had an unpaid maid whom he might have r*ped (he certainly got her pregnant, despite what Wikipedia says). He smoked so much it killed one of his babies (which he left in the family bed - the only one they had - because he was too lazy to get a job to afford to bury it), and he made his aristocratic wife depressed and turn to drink.
Two of his surviving daughters committed suic*de, and the only child to survive into old age was the boy he fathered to the maid, who didn't live with Marx and was therefore the only sane one.
Engels and other family, friends and neighbours had to constantly give Marx money throughout his life because he never did anything productive. He had to beg and borrow, and sent his wife off to do the same. He worked briefly as a article writer for a newspaper, but never had another job and couldn't provide for his family, despite their need, and despite him being more than capable of working. He was constantly in debt, and because he didn't pay his rent the bailiffs took away the family furniture, even the crib. They owed everyone, even the bakers and the milkmen. Yet Marx still refused to work!
And to top it off, Marx was wrong about everything. We know this because his fairytale predictions about the future have simply not come true, and were proven to be wrong during his lifetime and not long after his death (e.g. by Eduard Bernstein). His policies have led to misery for billions of people, and death to many tens of millions. Why anyone pines over this monster is beyond me.
And if Karl Marx is the best "social theorist" we've ever had, then it's no wonder society is parasitical and anti-life. You should care whether he was wrong or not, but you won't because the socialist faith turns people into sleepwalking NPCs.
So the argument is we have no choice but to live in a corrupt world run by corrupt people because if the corrupt people were put in prison for their corruption their corrupt world would fall apart?
Have I got that right?
(Because if so, do you hear how stupid that sounds??)
@wil_da_beast630 The Europeans on the other hand brought the entire concept of property rights with them. Only AFTER European conquest did American Indians start to be able to own land and not have it subject to conquest.
@wil_da_beast630 Nonsense. It was no more their land than anyone else's, they murdered the previous people who lived there, often within living memory of European settlers arrival. Pretending they have some moral right to land they killed for is idiotic.
@TheOklahoman24@Fat_Electrician You should care because of the implications it has on government power, accountability, corruption, and the people's ability to get to the bottom of issues related to those things.
If this isn't completely blown open the USA as we understand it essentially no longer exists.
@regi_davis@thevivafrei Which is why most people in a conspiracy don't know the conspiracy. Epstein's pilots are a great example. Drive here, deliver this, detain her, transport to X. None of the people involved know the secret, they're just fulfilling their small part in the process.
@regi_davis@thevivafrei Evidence like there being no video, then suddenly there IS video? Or the sex trafficking with no clients, or more importantly, no suppliers? Where did they get all these girls? Magic? If there was nothing to cover up there would be nothing to lie about.
@AuldMaryAnn@CynicalPublius No, you're a retard who's too lazy and incompetent to even make your fallacious nonsense arguments yourself.
I'm tired of hearing the same debunked idiocy over and over, but I'm not going to pretend an AI prompted response is actual evidence like a commie fuckwit
@MitraHispana @dr_brownian @GreeneMan6 It's logical. Ironically, being blind to the logic is you demonstrating your opponents argument.
Obviously all adult citizens shouldn't vote. This is self evident. The question is how do we determine who should be able to vote.
@MitraHispana @dr_brownian @GreeneMan6 Political power is derived from consent? Really? Why am I paying tax I don't consent to?
Power is derived from violence, I pay tax because if I don't, men with guns will come for me.
@MitraHispana@jonleathem@GreeneMan6 Poor straw man.
Some people are not fit to exercise political franchise. Giving it to basically everyone was a mistake, we need new standards to help determine suitability.
Sex may need to be one of those standards, but maybe there are better ways to discriminate.