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Democracy dies in the free market.
"free" "market"
Who wants democracy, when we can have an anarcho-capitalist libertarian utopia?
I hate that edgelord libertarians are trying to rebrand themselves as "anarcho-capatalist". Anarchy and capitalism are antithetical to one another. It doesn't have anything to do with anarchy if you aren't evaluating hierarchy, and capitalism is literally one of the most hierarchical organizational structures possible.
So, sociopath.
That's like a narcissist hat on top of a sociopath hat. It's a hat on a hat.
Fun fact: Conservatism was literally invented by a monarchist in the aftermath of the French revolution trying to find a way for an aristocracy to exist within democracy.
I would like to read more about this shitstain, and why I should throw axes at a printed out image of his face. Name and source?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
Except England wasn't a democracy at the time, it was a heavily rigged parliamentary system with a limited franchise, and it could be overridden by the Lords. But yeah, conservatism represented the interests of the aristocrats, in opposition to Englightenment notions like equality, accountability, rule of law and meritocracy.
I at least was talking about Burke, whose most influential work was talking about the French revolution, not the English revolution(s). That one was, at least in the start, a proper democracy.
Actually, American style " libertarianism" IS anarcho-capitalism. They've just been trying to keep that a secret until recently.
Yes, and no. Anarcho-capitalism is anarchic in the colloquial "no rules, no order" sense, whereas political anarchy very much isn't.
The stupidity of the term is what makes it apt, though: the people politically illiterate enough to think that a total lack of regulations and worker's rights would lead to anything resembling freedom also think that the colloquial definition of anarchy is the politically accurate one.
It's anarchy for the hierarchies, not for the components of the hierarchies
At least guns and ammo will be plentiful because the market will soon demand more.
Ammoseek is pretty good for ammo. Just be careful around the low rated vendors
Thank you. What about good gun deals?
People voted for the leopards, you can't say it's not democracy.
I see this comment a lot, and I legit don't think we did. I think it's weird how Elon had this team of hackers ready to go for Doge. The weird, "they'll never know what we did" comment out of his kid who seemed to be imitating Elon in the Tucker Carlson interview, and Trump's odd vote counting computers comment has me seriously thinking they hacked it. I think they both had their backs against the wall. Trump with his criminal prosecution, and musk with the starlink investigation.
With Elon, let's start at the smallest issue. Recently Musk has talked about how he's like the greatest gamer ever and is ranked super high in a bunch of games. Turns out he's just paying people to grind those games and boost his ranking. He's so concerned about being on top that he's willing to hire people to get a top the leader board and lie about how good he is to stroke his own ego. It's a very small thing, but points to a larger pattern of behavior for Musk.
Now, onto the Ukraine thing. If anyone remembers, he wouldn't let Ukraine use starlink for an attack because he was "worried it'd start a nuclear war." Whether it would or wouldn't was not up to him as the guy selling Internet satellites to the government. He had provided all the starlink kits to Ukraine during a war to help them, and the US was paying it. He was not supposed to be the arbiter of what they could/ couldn't be used for. I wouldn't be surprised if they were going to come after him for treason as he actively aided a (then) adversary through this action.
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-air-force-fde93d9a69d7dbd1326022ecfdbc53c2
Trump and Musk had to win, or they were fucked. The guy that worked for Doge happened to make a sketchy ballot counting app which you can read about below that could have been used to disqualify dem ballots.
https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3lhowh3ijgs2f
Elon has always found ways around the rules. When his company needed money all of the sudden magically the value exploded. I think he was involved in squeezing the stock price up through the use of call options, and once that happened, they were able to raise money in the form of multiple stock sales. You can read this now 5 year old thread that proves itself time and time again. Do I have any proof Elon was behind this? No, but who has enough money to do something like this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/hk7nqe/tesla_infinity_call_gamma_squeeze/
When the election came in 2024, Elon gave away (illegally I might add) $100 to anyone who registered Republican. There had to be something nefarious going on there too. I would not be surprised if they thought anyone who took them up on that was only doing it for the free money and wasn't actually going to vote so they cast ballots in their names. Again, I have no proof, but if anyone would have the will to do something so shitty to win, it'd be him.
As for Trump, Jack Smith said they had enough evidence to convict Trump, and only couldn't because of arbitrary sitting president rules. They have like a 99% conviction rate for a reason.
Trump and Musk are absolutely petty enough to bend / break rules and laws to get what they want, and are going to go all out to avoid prison. I strongly believe that this is not what we voted for, and we are going to be stuck with this the rest of our lives because what is happening cannot be undone, and they will cling to power as long as possible to avoid facing any consequences. They will break everything and fire anyone who was involved in any way shape or form in any of the investigations and will break the system beyond repair to ensure that they remain in power. Elections are still going to happen, but they will never be voted out.
That's a very well written comment, and Elon and trump certainly have committed more crimes than we can count, but the polls before the election were all pointing to the same result, so trumps victory wasn't a major upset. I don't think they hacked the election, I think the people are that dumb.
A real democracy wouldn't allow a fascist to even run for office. Advocating for fascism and authoritarianism in a republic isn't a valid political stance. It's sedition.
Well, if over 50% of votes agree, is it sedition? The American people wanted the treasonous, corrupt, criminal, draft dodger sexual predator as president. We might not like it, but it's what the majority wanted.
*Plurality and it's still sedition on the part of the leaders. If you advocate for authoritarianism in a republic then you are inherently advocating for overthrowing the republic. You are advocating for some people to have rights, while others don't.
It doesn't matter if a majority of voters want that, they don't have the right to strip the minority of their right to representation.
All authoritarian ideologies are inherently incompatible with the concept of natural rights
Those who don't vote make an explicit choice, so it is a majority.
And the fascist, dictatorial intentions were known from the beginning so kind of hard to argue with the result.
People voted to convert the republic to an empire.
In a more democratic system there wouldn’t be president Trump because there would be no presidents. So I disagree with the premise.
The presidency is fundamentally undemocratic, regardless of the quasi-performative democratic ritual by which he is selected.
Capitalism
There is no such thing as a free market.