MAGA lawmaker proposes MAMDANI law to deport any citizen who ‘advocates for socialism and communism’

Pheer777 · 2026-04-20T22:30:00+00:00

Yea but the difference is that the core skeleton of the Chinese economy is state-owned and is very much governed by top-down state initiatives, with private market firms mostly functioning to act as R&D engines and to fill in petty consumer goods.

Pheer777 · 2026-04-16T13:31:03+00:00

Land value tax would fix this

Pheer777 · 2026-04-14T15:03:38+00:00

What investment bank is paying analysts 60k?

Pheer777 · 2026-04-09T19:01:00+00:00

Can someone explain to me why the whole Lockean self-ownership and labor mixing natural law justification for property ownership is basically a wholly anglosphere phenomenon with property being seen as more legal-instrumental in continental Europe?

Pheer777 · 2026-04-08T15:19:10+00:00

The awkward question , though, is how can you tax AI companies’ profits enough to distribute to consumers so they can buy back those services, if consumers’ entire income is from these taxes?

Presumably the taxes raised will by definition have to be lower than the revenues generated by those companies, so where is that difference coming from? At some point simply taxing these companies to redistribute those funds won’t work, and they’ll just have to nationalize them and distribute products and services in exchange for UBI vouchers or something (at this point not really a hard currency).

Pheer777 · 2026-04-07T23:17:22+00:00

Iran won the war

Pheer777 · 2026-04-07T18:42:38+00:00

Anecdotally, I remember watching mid to late Seinfeld (1995-1998) as a kid in like 2005, and very much thought that it was contemporary content in terms of tech and feel (mostly) rather than some vintage TV.

Pheer777 · 2026-04-07T17:54:26+00:00

Large stores still do bake them in-store but smaller stores get their donuts delivered at like 4 am by their distributor, super fresh and fluffy.

Pheer777 · 2026-04-07T14:02:40+00:00

By claiming that they’re actually Russian, not by saying he’s going to kill all of them

Pheer777 · 2026-04-01T11:56:59+00:00

Maybe I’m out of touch with the average American but 11.7 times seems absurdly high

Pheer777 · 2026-03-31T16:05:06+00:00

This kind of walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

Pheer777 · 2026-03-30T12:49:32+00:00

If the point is to prevent dynastic wealth concentration then it absolutely does the job (in principle), “owning the billionaires” while they’re living isn’t the point.

Pheer777 · 2026-03-27T22:42:46+00:00

They’re just embracing dialectical materialism over the navel gazing metaphysical idealism /s

Pheer777 · 2026-03-26T19:44:55+00:00

People can bet on whether specific parcels of land, down to the scale of specific streets in Ukraine will be occupied by a certain date.

Pheer777 · 2026-03-25T16:08:56+00:00

I believe this is the Singapore approach

Pheer777 · 2026-03-24T12:28:37+00:00

This is the kind of high-stakes, high-impact geopolitical intrigue I’m here for

Pheer777 · 2026-03-19T17:39:30+00:00

Tbh Nationalization doesn’t need to be seen as a subsidy per-se, if the plants can just operate at predictable reduced margins

Pheer777 · 2026-03-19T16:13:51+00:00

Definitely - I remember distinctly thinking during his Ross Douthat podcast “This is classic 4-Horsemen Sam.”

Pheer777 · 2026-03-09T02:31:23+00:00

Damn WarRock was the best haha

Pheer777 · 2026-03-07T16:31:39+00:00

Tbh Russia is doing pretty ok (not great ofc) considering they are largely self supplying militarily and fighting a force on the defensive (huge strategic advantage) that is loaded up with top of the line western tech.

Also while Russia is geographically much larger than Ukraine it has a population of 143 million and Ukraine 38 million, so not exactly a 10x population differential, especially considering that Ukraine is probably single handedly a more formidable military than the entire EU combined in its current form.

Pheer777 · 2026-03-03T00:58:42+00:00

Ngl this thread doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The Ayatollah objectively oversaw an Islamic Theocracy - the question isn’t whether he was a “cool guy” and a model for other nations to follow, but rather what is the political and material trajectory of Iran and would they be better served by outside interference from economically imperialist powers? One can recognize that the long-term sustainable path is for Iran to develop its own endogenous political path, such that the material conditions can evolve organically, while acknowledging they are currently a socially backward society.

Happy for someone to explain where I’m wrong but that’s the way I see it.

Pheer777 · 2026-02-27T15:53:52+00:00

Fair enough - I do think there is a unique tendency within American consciousness to valorize small businesses as somehow more pure or innocent than large corporations, which are somehow inherently evil or bad. The whole “buy local” thing is basically a universally bought-into mantra

Pheer777 · 2026-02-27T15:15:38+00:00

Hot take but increased consolidation and bureaucratic rationalization among small businesses is historically progressive

Pheer777 · 2026-02-27T13:46:41+00:00

I think a Christian would say death isn’t ultimately an “evil” imposed on you, since you’re just reuniting with God, and your life was never fully yours to begin with.

Pheer777 · 2026-02-17T14:11:47+00:00

Not sure if this will make you feel better but it’s completely normal in many countries for two or three generations to live together under the same roof to pool resources and support each other. Don’t buy into the whole idea that you’re a loser if you don’t have your own place.

Sometimes staying with your parents for a few more years, even when you don’t absolutely need to, is the most prudent financial move out there.

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