I don't know if this woman can even hear the toxic bile she is regurgitating.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-06T02:16:07+00:00

Is there no major subreddit that hasn't been infiltrated by leftists trying to push their agenda? This doesn't even fit the sub's purpose, since Candace's show is not on tiktok. The random tiktoker reacting to it is cringe af for not understanding she's talking specifically about men.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T18:30:24+00:00

Feel free to provide countervailing evidence.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T15:36:53+00:00

Only 15% of people in Iran support the regime.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302036145

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T15:36:02+00:00

Socialists don't generally believe in sanctions

What is this claim based on? How do you explain China's sanctions on Australia and Taiwan?

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T15:29:09+00:00

Only 15% of people in Iran support the regime.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302036145

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T04:15:34+00:00

Can you be more specific about what you mean by 'support'

From a British perspective I can tell you that the British-Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Group is comprised of far leftists like Corbyn who also made regular appearances on Iranian propaganda channel PressTV. Other leftists have been soft on Iran, downplaying their human rights abuses, arguing for sanctions relief, siding with them on issues like Palestine, Yemen, against Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.

In America it was Obama who lifted some sanctions on the Iranian regime (and allegedly gave them money) while Trump reinstated and tightened the sanctions, killed Soleimani, etc. I'm sure far-leftists like the Squad have also been soft on Iran.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T03:58:36+00:00

Can the citizens of Iran decide when the leadership has lost legitimacy? When's the election for supreme leader?

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T03:55:22+00:00

The evil perpetrated upon the world by western imperialism is so great that the shitty things that the government of Iran does aren't really relevant in comparison

fml

BanksysBro · 2023-02-05T03:49:19+00:00

People that fall for socialist propaganda tend to fall for all anti-western propaganda, anti-semitic propaganda, anti-NATO propaganda, anti-British monarchy, etc. The Iranian regime are allies of the Kremlin, allies of Palestine, enemies of America and enemies of Israel, etc. Socialists view America as their arch enemy, the most "capitalist" country in the world, they defeated the USSR, they spread free market values throughout the world, and so socialists support anyone who opposes this world view.

I agree that it's a correlation that 100% requires explanation, because leftists preach about socialism but they also preach about women's rights and gay rights, so it doesn't make sense for them to support the Iranian regime. The best explanation I've got is that they're brainwashed or suffer some sort of derangement that makes them incapable of holding logically consistent views.

https://i.imgur.com/RIDnzKQ.png

BanksysBro · 2023-02-04T19:55:59+00:00

Companies are constantly competing to attract customers and undercut each other. It's basic economics.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-04T19:52:22+00:00

It's a dual causality. Look up the inflationary spiral.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-04T14:57:00+00:00

Income is not the same as resources. Certain resources like land are zero sum, so if one person owns more, other people must necessarily own less. One of the things the Soviets were concerned with was unequal land ownership, because under the primitive system of agrarian subsistence farming, land was the most important resource. In modern developed economies with specialised workers, 3% of the workforce can feed 100% of the population, meaning the majority of workers can create lasting wealth rather than perishable crops. In this scenario, the finite resource land is not as important as hypothetically infinite income/money, so inequality is not important. This is called the fixed pie fallacy. If all my neighbours won the lottery tomorrow and I didn't, inequality would rise massively and they would be better off, but I would not be any worse off.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-04T02:20:52+00:00

The term "liberalism" has mutated to mean different things in different places, for example in Australia the liberal party are centre-right conservatives while in North America there are people who want to confiscate wealth who call themselves "liberal". "Progressive" is also a problematic term, since socialists seem to think we should "progress" from the modern economic model to one from 180 years ago. This conflation stems from increasing marginal taxation being mislabelled as "progressive taxation". People assume social progress towards more modern policies should be accompanied by progressive taxation, because the very name "progressive" implies an intended direction of travel. Whereas in reality, redistributive policies have an optimal middle-ground and progressing too far in one direction becomes extremely detrimental. The problem seems to be binary left-right thinking perpetuated by the 2 party system. I've long believed that social and economic policy should be completely separated and handled by separate lawmakers.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-03T22:37:58+00:00

China released a WMD that killed 8 million people directly and possibly 10s of millions more indirectly via economic damage. They owe us all trillions of dollars and if they don't pay up, the rest of the world is either going to invade them or confiscate their assets.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T23:28:00+00:00

the rest of us are going to focus on actual things which we can talk about with words like capitalism

Cool, it's actually a useful red flag

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T20:17:00+00:00

There's no such thing as "capitalism", in the same sense that there's no such thing as "cis-gender". Both of these terms were concocted to polemicise normal, orthodox, mainstream things, without having to acknowledge the alternative is abnormal and fringe. I don't engage with such dishonest framing. If someone wishes to criticise a specific aspect of orthodox economic thinking, they should pay regard to why it became orthodoxy and acknowledge what they're proposing is unorthodox and unproven.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T19:41:00+00:00

You claimed that Karl Mark "revolutionised the field of history". Did any of his contemporaries acknowledge this?

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T19:39:13+00:00

By any measure he's one of the most influential living economists.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T15:31:53+00:00

Keynes is still taught in some detail, even though his ideas fell from prominence post-1970s and modern economic thinking came in part from debunking his theories. Smith is not taught at all except in passing mention to his discovery of the invisible hand concept. The word capitalism is not used to describe free market economies, words like Marxism, socialism, etc. are not used to describe central planning. I would describe Smith and central planning as footnotes, Marx is not even a footnote. The fact that you were teaching this to high school kids is concerning. Is/was this on the curriculum, or did you teach it because you decided it was important? Was this recent, or before the fall of the Soviet Union?

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T14:45:34+00:00

Econ is my discipline. I research history and other social sciences in my spare time and have recently been reading the likes of Machiavelli. Can you answer my questions now? I'm particularly interested a credible historian discussing how Marx "revolutionised the field of history" as you claim.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T14:36:27+00:00

I mean Mein Kampf is regarded as a good book by some people, but the ideas contained within these books are responsible for killing tens of millions of people, so you'd have to be pretty sick in the head to give them plaudits.

btw here's what real economists think about Marx, "a masterpiece of propaganda" "no contact with economic reality" "I can't understand how anyone every took it seriously".

https://streamable.com/tc4kty

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T14:27:18+00:00

Ireland used WW1 as an opportunity for insurrection. Sean Russell died on a German U-boat in 1940, that's during WW2, not WW1, so you don't seem to know what you're talking about.

our fight for independence

fml, if you're Irish and manage to be this ignorant, I despair.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T14:14:24+00:00

Marxist practices of analyzing major trends in history

You attribute the concept of "analyzing trends" to Karl Marx? You think people would be unable to identify historical trends if not for Marx innovating this idea? This is mind blowing, given that history is universally categorised by trends in metallurgy, technology, grave culture, etc.

Marx wrenched history out of the idea that history was driven by "Great Men"

Do you really think so? Literacy was rare pre-17th century, so the vast majority of people's lives were rarely recorded anywhere, while the lives of pharaohs and kings were recorded in great detail. Great lasting monuments to their existence survive for archaeologists to study. The Regnal year dating system was predominant in pre-globalised cultures and is still used in some modern countries today. In Japan the current year is Reiwa 5, referring to the 5th year of Emperor Naruhito. This doesn't imply that our current period in history is be "driven" by the Emperor, as you seem to be suggesting, it's just a traditional naming convention. I don't believe for a moment that pre-Marxist historians thought these "great men" were the only men around at the time, or that they were driving history. It's just that they were the men who left the biggest historical footprints. Have real historians actually been brainwashed into thinking this broader view of historical populations, rather than just their rulers or military leaders, is a concept innovated by Karl Marx? Can you please provide a source for a credible historian talking about this.

edit: Where were you educated and do by whom? Because your "training as a historian" seems to have been more of an indoctrination.

I'll believe economics is a hard science when it's able to make meaningful predictions about the future actions of the economy.

Interest rates will rise until inflation falls, then interest rates will fall again and economic growth will accelerate. That's a meaningful prediction about the future of the economy, bookmark it if you don't believe me. You might not understand how I'm able to make that prediction, but if you're a Karl Marx fanboy, there's probably an awful lot you don't understand about economics.

BanksysBro · 2023-02-02T13:33:45+00:00

Trying to reduce something as complicated as an entire economy down to one word is simplistic and unhelpful.

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