My style is nuanced, my support for socialism isn’t

When people are allowed to accrue egregious sums of money, they will use that money to capture political institutions. This is the inevitable consequence, so parsing the two doesn’t make much sense

Graduated recently. Cool experience

Capitalist garbage. Unions can’t be weighted against a mythical “neutrality.” They are to be weighted against business, which is the biggest beneficiary of privileges bar none.

This comment is so interesting to me. People are so desperate to get one over looksmaxxers, incels, and other weirdos that they inadvertently trap themselves and prove their point. The looksmaxxer worldview is that anything you do will be largely filtered through the lens of appearance. By comparing looks between Clavicular and the judge first and foremost, you are actually buying into this worldview and giving people very strong reason to go to immense lengths to look better.

Correct, we are cosmopolitans, not patriots. Anyone who does not view all humans as worth equal consideration should have their viewpoint immediately discarded

You should actually read the paper you’re so arrogantly and ignorantly responding to! But it is also worth mentioning that even if you were right about this ignorant opining, you don’t simply get a pass for enslaving, immiserating, jailing, subjugating, disempowering, and disenfranchising black people—the major reasons of the discrepancy

I think the least intelligent among us regularly expose themselves when they refuse to understand analogies. Actually, I think it’s worse than this. It’s an attack on their moral character, so instead of admitting imperfection, they pretend to not understand analogies. Not good!

Should be a cold take. You can’t truly “love” something if you are willing to murder them en masse for your own pleasure.

This criticism being levied exclusively at socialists is very strange. Do you people not think the poor should be helped? If so, why are *you* not helping them? Socialists are not the only ones who believe in helping the poor. So the charge of hypocrisy applies to most people

To the extent that this is true, it’s an indictment of capitalism and the state. Even people who are self-avowedly opponents of the contemporary order due to its callous treatment of the poor, dispossessed, and powerless, are mechanistically pushed towards indifference & inaction

My way of thinking is pretty uncommon, so I try to maintain an open-mind about things. I do not insult others first and really attempt to understand what people who disagree with me say. But despite my fairly civil temperament, my interactions with people right of center have been so particularly dogshit—especially recently—that I’ve begun to wonder how much that weighs on me when I do interact with them.

A common refrain from capitalist propagandists is that capitalism is simply downstream from nature. We have to work, so capitalism is only coercive if nature is (it is). But this is a nasty sleight of hand. It is intended to deliberately conceal the *socially-constructed* institutions that constitute, condition, and mediate the political and economic interactions embedded in those structures; who/what one works for, for how many hours, and with what compensation. It should come as no surprise that institutions can be structured in other ways, and the specific argument for capitalism is downstream from a series of preferences and power dynamics that are not clearly necessary for wellbeing, prosperity, equity, justice, etc. In fact, given the nature of capitalism’s relationship with crises, one would reasonably argue that capitalism imperils the aforementioned values.

It’s a curious sight to see liberals still confused about the nature of capitalism. Capitalism requires the individual’s subordination to structural domination and oppression, whether that be in the courts, to your boss, to your landlord, your politician(s), etc. More honest and sophisticated defenders of liberalism will contend that this is necessary for the flourishing and wellbeing of peoples—debatable, but honest.

Pricing externalities is critical, actually. The market is can’t or won’t do it, so we must do it instead. Planned socialism must involve some way of valuing environmental resources. That does not and should not disappear without markets.

Borders are anti-social fictions that entrench, derange, and agitate states to violently dominate communities, internal and external. For the sake of peace and growth, they must be smashed

Life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality don’t matter? God, if you can hear me, please send better neoliberals

Neoliberals who spew this garbage are simply propagandists for the capitalist class. The poor are coerced into slave wages because of the destitution of their circumstances. There is nothing voluntary about this relationship. Workers are not merely “agreeing” to the minimum wage

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.