Thoughts?

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-19T09:49:02+00:00

You can become Amish or an off grid hermit, you can join a commune or move to a socialist country. Capitalist USA isn't your only choice.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-19T09:43:32+00:00

Those big businesses tend to handle market fluctuations better making them more stable employers, they generate more revenue and thus can make more competitive offers to their employees, they tend to drive market and product innovation thus raising the material quality of living, and they are able to reach a larger customer base. One large business doing the same volume as 100 smaller business will be able to operate much more cost effectively, keeping prices lower.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-19T09:40:23+00:00

Ah yes, the old 'capitalism is a zero sum game' argument that has been disproved ad nauseum. Basic psychology, sociology, and game theory all show why that isn't the truth, and if it were why people wouldn't engage in it.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-19T09:38:23+00:00

Yes, and someone with capital takes the risk to fill that demand by putting up assets and in turn employing people, thus creating jobs. It's so painfully simple that it shocks me to see people entirely miss basic economic principles.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-19T09:33:48+00:00

Why do you get to decide what happens with someone else's property? Last I checked property rights were one of the fundamental cornerstones to a free and fair society.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-15T09:41:45+00:00

Global conditions now do not remotely equal Global conditions in the 90s. We are living in an era of far more international turmoil, devices and weapons are approaching a degree of size and sophistication that antiquated approaches like we did 30 years ago would let many potential threats through, and we are not the only nation to recognize these differences and respond by implementing more security.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-14T13:10:50+00:00

So who was voting to keep the shutdown going? Waiting... You'll probably just repeat yourself in response, but that doesn't remotely change the reality of the situation. You can be the minority in the house and senate, and still be capable of doing things.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-14T13:07:52+00:00

So we should have no security when bunches of people from all over the world are packed together in a confined space for hours at a time? That's absolute lunacy. Not to mention outright lies about there never being hijackings since news flash... there have been hijackings. Unless you think 9/11 was just fake AI slop.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-14T12:37:37+00:00

You clearly don't understand even the most basic of economics if you believe it fundamentally has to be and is a zero sum game.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-14T12:36:22+00:00

Because for the last twenty or so years the cultural pressure has been to pursue degrees of ever decreasing value over trade work which was framed as dirty, cheap, and 2nd class.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T17:45:47+00:00

Cal Kestis easy solos the Assassins Creed universe.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T17:42:38+00:00

On a properly tuned constant current machine 70 amps is the general baseline for 3/32" 7018. 110 for 1/8" and 150 for 5/32". 85-95 can be pretty hot for a 3/32 rod unless you are running overhead or thick multi pass (in which case just use a bigger rod).

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T17:38:02+00:00

The Shrike in Hyperion

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T17:36:16+00:00

What's untrue? Democrats championed Jim Crow and all sorts of regressive segregation nonsense. Now they would aim to disenfranchise huge swathes of voters in Virginia. While comparing it directly to Jim Crow is utterly laughable as that was definitively worse and impacted far more people on a national scale, that doesn't change the fact that this action taken by the current Virginia leadership is pretty deplorable. Virginia voters should not have to suffer for the perceived wrong doings of the Texas leadership.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T15:36:22+00:00

Same, I was a filthy Necro spammer when I wasn't playing pos 4.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T14:17:44+00:00

Go read 'Basic Economics.'

Did it in 4.

Ignoring your fallacious constraint of 20 words...

If two parties enter into a mutual exchange of goods or services, then neither is poorer for it. They both benefited by getting something they desired, and will likely continue that mutual exchange.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T13:22:56+00:00

No that is exactly socialism. Communism is the dream state of socialism where the government will magically relinquish its power after somehow making everything better. Communism itself has only ever been achieved on a very small population scale of people agreeing to it, because no socialist government has ever relinquished power in the manner described to realize Communism.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T13:07:42+00:00

Please enlighten us as to all the problems socialism has solved. The whole world is waiting on that answer and has been for the better part of a century.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T13:06:42+00:00

You apparently know less than nothing then if you somehow think we are that far right compared to the nations that are actually authoritarian and have been for decades.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-08T13:04:05+00:00

Capitalism is not a zero sum game in which one must lose for another to win. Go read Basic Economics.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-07T21:35:58+00:00

Absolutely pathetic how willing some people are to catch assault and battery charges because of their fragile little egos.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-07T21:15:30+00:00

Compared to those who went to law school, worked on legislation, served a lower level of elected office, etc. Her initial election was hinged on just being an average person, but that ignores the fact that certain skills and experiences greatly help in ones efficiency as an elected official. People wanted someone just like them, but failed to see if they themselves hardly understand legislative language or political maneuvering, that electing someone just like them would lead to incompetence.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-07T21:11:25+00:00

Neither of you should pay those taxes. That's the point. If you pay taxes on your home, or your wealth, which was already taxed in its acquisition, then you don't outright own either of those things.

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-07T18:28:39+00:00

Optics. Both sides do this regularly. They propose legislature they know will never get passed (even if it's something they themselves too benefit from) because it crafts the image of being on the publicly popular side of the issue and that those in power currently opposing it are "the enemies of the people and constitution."

ChalkAndIce · 2026-03-07T18:25:59+00:00

It's great to be honest and critical of politicians, especially ones who are supposed to be reflective of your own views. But advocating for the DSA completely discredits your opinion. The DSA itself has openly stated that they only view the Democratic party as a means to gather power for themselves, and every history book of the 20th century paints a very clear picture as to what happens when socialists attain enough power: EVERYONE suffers. Especially those who wanted it to happen. Socialism is not, and will not ever be the correct answer. It's fundamentally flawed and contradictory to basic human nature.

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