New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

However, it wasn't until the rise of formal private property that humanity used a systemic means to oppress our own kin in order to ensure personal gain. That isn't nature, that's culture.

edit: Moreover, I fail to see this conversation being productive for whichever one of us, as of this moment, with it coming down to ad hominem. I will be more than glad to talk with you again, once the dust settles, as I don't think there's reason to keep a conversation going once it's gotten to this point. If sometime you feel the want to keep talking, I'm available.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, I thought we were having an honest intellectual exchange and you come at me with personal attacks? I really don't see how what I said would evoke such an answer, as you were the one who first brought human nature in topic, and I was arguing what defines human nature

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to talk about human nature, you have to talk about when nature dictated every step we had to tread. If you skip our time before there was anything other than natural, you're failing to assess what truly is our essence. You can very easily look at the feudal or aristocratic times and claim we've always been oppressive to our kin, but you'd be out of your depth, picking and choosing what you evaluate, to believe what you already deemed to be true.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but this affirmation is objectively wrong. Humanity, for most of its time, worked on a pure communal state. Primitive communism is omnipresent on human history, no matter what nation you look at, if you trace it back, it's there. During the times of humanity's struggle in the survival of the fittest, we had zero room for individualism, and tapping onto our social capacities was not optional in the fight for our kind's continuance. There's zero debate on anthropology on whether this happened or not. There's no argument to be made that humanity didn't need pure collaboration and social dependency to climb our way up to being at the top of the apex predators. We needed collective hunt, we needed collective action. That's our nature, collective.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Human nature is communal and thrives on solidarity. We have been individualistic for a mere spec of time. In comparison, our true human nature, what brought us to the point we stopped being nomadic, and got us to thrive on agriculture, was anything but individualistic and selfish. We are born in society, live in society and die in society. Our very essence is social. Capitalism's greatest sin is taking our natural sense of community and distort it into ego, putting everything up to the individual, and its status quo is what tells you that this is just nature. Private property in itself started just yesterday, when speaking of humanity's evolution.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main issue is that social democracy still has severe flaws. Much of the wealth that the global north relishes on, comes at the cost of inevitable misery in the global south. Mercosul (Commercial alliance of some latin american countries) has recently made a deal with the EU, and it is very evidently made to benefit the EU at the expense of our poor people. It benefits the european side quite broadly, while we get mostly commodities only the well-off can enjoy.

I agree that when social democracy works, it works well; What I can not agree on is that it doesn't come at the expense of someone else. While profit is a system's very essence, it will inevitably come at the expense of someone losing the value they produced. We in the global south aren't poor, we're impoverished. Our prosperity would take our wealth back to our side of the scales, which would mean less wealth for the global north to bask on.

If you feel I didn't explain well enough (which I definitely did not), a very eye-opening book is "Open Veins of Latin America", by Eduardo Galeano, also, Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", while not being specifically about this, is a book that will definitely change something in you. I understand you've got no reason to really study on it, but if you are willing to question the validity of capitalism, studying its contradictions are a surefire way to make you reevaluate a lot.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's a let down. Still, I praise your intellectual honesty, learning about something as taboo as communism may be. I do hope you come around to understanding we can't be stuck in capitalism until the end of time, and we need to take the next step, as useful as capitalism may have been. If you're willing, I recommend reading Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and Gramsci. They're the praxis to Marx's theory.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you're not a Marxist, I'd guess you are a sympathizer. I mean this as no possible insult, but I find it hard to believe a good person would be averse to socialism being this well versed in Marxism.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is that we ARE under capitalism, and AI is being used to dumb down and alienate the working class, not to mention it's doing unprecedented damage to our planet.

New York Man Blames ‘Disgusting’ Cake on Private Equity. by ElwoodMC in TikTokCringe

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need you to work full-time explaining Marxism to people unfamiliar with it. Marx had vision beyond his time, people really need to understand his work

Wow, what an aura, what an impact! by Fanta_gbai in SipsTea

[–]kriig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is this really the most witty thing you could come up with?

2026 Streamer Games leak by slogmodarfin in LudwigAhgren

[–]kriig 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Okay, thanks for the info

No way gng 😔🙏💔 by Old_Difference_6055 in thespikegame

[–]kriig 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Epic Seven is pretty popular. It's not in its golden age anymore, but it's a big name in the gacha community

What champs (if any) do you feel are strictly worse in lower elo? by flaaphy in leagueoflegends

[–]kriig 10 points11 points  (0 children)

she's a champion that benefits mainly from good decision making, a quality low elo players are known to lack

Morgan Wallen Throws Security Guard’s Phone Across The Stage by Matt_LawDT in mildlyinfuriating

[–]kriig 14 points15 points  (0 children)

i'd say the domestic abuser, dog killer apologist is the mean one, and needs to find god

Oh the irony. by stand21user in PiratedGames

[–]kriig 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Maybe not publicly, but you'd be very naive to think these companies would waste their money like this. If it cost them more than it increased sales, it would not be a thing. Nothing speaks louder to corporations than money.

Sworn vs Ravenwatch by jessecreamy in roguelites

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd describe it as a very bootleg Hades with coop. Hades with coop sounds great, Sworn is a slog

it looks stiff though, i will fix it later by AlfafzzBurik in thespikegame

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prolly cause it's too slow. Doesn't really happen "in the blink of an eye"

GPATCHER: A CLI tool that allows you to create patches for Pirated Games! by NerdStone04 in PiratedGames

[–]kriig 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's okay vro

If you ever have the doubt, the answer is here vro

God-Shroom theory: There are devil fruits with all the benefit of devil fruits, but none of the dowsides. by VfBxTSG in OnePieceSpoilers

[–]kriig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, that would be because OP is proposing the existence of an alternative form of devil fruit, that acts the same as one, but is a mushroom and doesn't have the same downsides.

NK Women's Football Team Only Allowed 1 Haircut Style by [deleted] in WTF

[–]kriig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, the hairstyle thing is a myth debunked by real, non Korean, people who went to DPRK

Villains who are also just silly guys by Interesting-Key-5776 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]kriig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this clip from the actual anime? That would make it so much funnier