Political Discussions for "Adults"

Anteater · 02-19-2020, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Lemme get in on this false analogy fun:

"On our road trip we'll need to get at least one tank of gas."

"??? But if we use all of the cupholders we can hold up to 2 gallons of liquid! That should work."

"That's nice but we'll still need to get gas on the way up."

"Lol, so you think that a cup in a cupholder can't hold liquid? You live in a fantasy world!"

You can use cupholders to store gasoline and still run the car? That's one helluva car.

Anteater · 02-19-2020, 08:57 PM

On a secondary note, it was fun watching the billionaire get smacked around by multi-millionaires at the debate tonight.

Lucem Ferre · 02-19-2020, 10:01 PM

What would be bartered if there was no private ownership? Wouldn't that just eliminate bartering all together?

Anteater · 02-19-2020, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

What would be bartered if there was no private ownership? Wouldn't that just eliminate bartering all together?

That's the joke. Even if you got society to the point where they would give up home ownership and money, people would just return to bartering because that would be the only effective way to sustain their existence. There's no incentive for anyone to put in the work to grow every kind of food: family units would stick to one or two kinds of crops. You might get an entire town to cooperate, but it's unlikely. There are logistical challenges to a world where everyone somehow "shares" everything that they don't even think about, and the only way you'd overcome those logistical issues would require society to take advantage of technology that has been a byproduct of capitalism.

Lucem Ferre · 02-19-2020, 10:24 PM

I think you're lost here.

debaserr · 02-19-2020, 10:24 PM

All technology ever - thanks capitalism

DwnWthVwls · 02-19-2020, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I can and do support several ideas that seem to be at odds with each other

Sound logic.

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

now express which political candidate you want to win....

None, theyre all ****.

Anteater · 02-19-2020, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by debaserr

All technology ever - thanks capitalism

The fact you are sitting here and posting right now on an affordable mobile device or PC/Mac/Chromebook/whatever is thanks to capitalism, not the government.

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I think you're lost here.

Don't worry. When Bernie's NWO finally arrives, you can barter for a map.

Lucem Ferre · 02-19-2020, 10:49 PM

Those aren't the only two options.

**Frownland** · 02-19-2020, 10:53 PM

If you want to be even more obtusely reductionist about it, the fact that any of us are sitting here and posting right now on an affordable mobile device or PC/Mac/Chromebook/whatever is thanks to the American military's attempting to streamline the process of murdering civilians without pissing off that Geneva dude, not capitalism.

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