About me: When ever I behave as a man I am called sexist, It seems being a male is now illegal and nobody sent me the memo. Good job as I would have told them to fuck off.
mistermack wrote:This is child-level reasoning, that does appeal to people on the right.
They can see the coercion in government, but they can't see the coercion that pervades all parts of the capitalist system. That's because they haven't got the fucking brains to look below the surface.
They portray it as government coercion or no coercion. And most of them are so dumb, they really believe it.
If one person is born with nothing, and another is born with billions, there's no coercion there to them. Even though the one born with billions can make the other work like a slave all his life for a pittance.
That's the essence of what people on the right are too fucking stupid to get.
The system of capital is far more intrusive and enslaving than any government. But you need a brain to see it.
All I see is insults and assertions, I could debunk a Stefan Molyneux video in my sleep but all you have is schoolyard smearing. That says more about you than it does about him and no wonder the guy has a large following.
We should be MOST skeptical of ideas we like because we are sufficiently skeptical of ideas that we don't like. Penn Jillette.
DaveDodo007 wrote:
All I see is insults and assertions, I could debunk a Stefan Molyneux video in my sleep but all you have is schoolyard smearing. That says more about you than it does about him and no wonder the guy has a large following.
He's not worth a serious debunking. He's so full of shit, insults is all he's worth.
And the pope has a large following. Isn't he wonderful?
I expect you do a lot of clever things in your sleep.
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
About me: When ever I behave as a man I am called sexist, It seems being a male is now illegal and nobody sent me the memo. Good job as I would have told them to fuck off.
DaveDodo007 wrote:
All I see is insults and assertions, I could debunk a Stefan Molyneux video in my sleep but all you have is schoolyard smearing. That says more about you than it does about him and no wonder the guy has a large following.
He's not worth a serious debunking. He's so full of shit, insults is all he's worth.
And the pope has a large following. Isn't he wonderful?
I expect you do a lot of clever things in your sleep.
I'm not saying he is above insults but consider his reasoning is 'this leads to this and this leads to this' type arguments. It is hardly going to tax your brain debunking his shit, is it, the higher ground and all that.
We should be MOST skeptical of ideas we like because we are sufficiently skeptical of ideas that we don't like. Penn Jillette.
About me: When ever I behave as a man I am called sexist, It seems being a male is now illegal and nobody sent me the memo. Good job as I would have told them to fuck off.
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Sir Humphrey Appleby: Ah I see, so it's a communist dictatorship.
We should be MOST skeptical of ideas we like because we are sufficiently skeptical of ideas that we don't like. Penn Jillette.
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laklak wrote:People's Soviet Republic of Rationalia, Trotskyite dog!
People's Republic of Soviet Rationalia, splitter!
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