I’m not on Twitter, so I get my news elsewhere, but most of the actual pictures I see are from here. So is there some kind of bias where only the fascist imagery gets posted here in the the dunk tank? Or do the libs scrolling through Ukrainian posts on Twitter literally see and ignore fascist imagery on every single post? Like, if they see 1000 Ukrainian soldiers, will they see 1000 fascist symbols?

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It’s not a command economy like you’re interpreting here. It’s a grift economy. Basically, it’s a freak hybrid of public/private company structure that functionally allows Putin to reward his favorite cronies with high-rolling executive positions while also providing shitty, expensive service to the Russian people. It’s really not all that far removed from a lot of what we’ve got going on in the US.

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What is the differentiation between grift and profit maximization for the individual participants of the free market economy?

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no you don’t get it I externalized that aspect of capitalism by calling it a derogatory name

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Yeah they are just doing another version of the US has billionaires and Russia has oligarchs thing. Its basically the same system

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Basically, it’s a freak hybrid of public/private company structure that functionally allows Democrats and Republicans to reward their cronies with high-rolling executive positions while also providing shitty, expensive service to the American people

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Or, put another way,

neoliberalism

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Libs always lying to themselves that what there seeing isn’t the inevitable endpoint for liberal capitalism

What are they going to do, command the economy not to do that?

The inevitable next step now that capitalism has outlived it’s usefulness and can no longer produce utility without being commanded?

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Marxism-Leninism also has an inevitable endpoint once production is sufficiently developed that the state is no longer necessary as the conditions of reaction (such that create the grounds for rival classes to arise) have been abolished.

Leftists differ from their political rivals by recognizing the inevitability of history. Even social democrats think they can keep going indefinitely.

Radical liberals are conservatives the same way that monarchists hung on to the immortality of political systems that have nothing left to contribute.

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To be fair, they did close with “It’s really not all that far removed from a lot of what we’ve got going on in the US.” I think this person is pretty much on the right track, they just haven’t been exposed yet to enough actual theory to rid them of the more pernicious liberal brainworms.

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