"This is awesome. We're killing Russians and not even sacrificing any real people (americans)."
"It's better than that. It's actually a huge MIC grift."
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
155 points (100.0% liked)
the_dunk_tank
15914 readers
12 users here now
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why is the word money in quotation marks
It gets printed out of thin air. It's as opposed to having a gold standard where the government demands you fork over gold for a war effort or something. They would correctly presume that it turns into greater inflation and the people closer to the clique that's in office gets more of the new money than the have-nots.
At the core of it is the philosophical debacle that we're not immune to where one asks to what extent should you have positive duty to society. That's the framing that gets someone to call communism authoritarian as if we're the ones who make people wear a funny uniform for 40+ hours and like the NSA. Also, because of course after you do a communism, you get this blank slate where the tankie plays rock paper scissors with the anarchist. Should I have to give a fuck about climate change? Who's going to plant the trees and clean the oceans? What if not enough people volunteer? What if the government is doing the job in a bullshit way? No fuck that, they always do it in a bullshit way and you want more government!
Money is only real if you are a poor person and not a empirialist hegemony.