"constantly doing crimes" as if shrewshrew isn't the one defining criminality to include what is almost certainly normal cat behavior and/or expected cat response to systemic oppression
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America effectively becomes a Chinese colony (while boasting about it)
the american century of humiliation, except america is kinda into it
so goldbugs are people who believe the price of gold will go up. in a sense, they're invested in gold futures.
was black_mold_futures the account for mencius moldbug? or is this more of a convergent evolution kind of thing?
what's brown and sticky?
a stick
newsom is surely lying but it'll be super funny when trump retaliates by selling california to china so that he can tariff california
god deflected the bullet so that he can fulfill his mission 
that said, it's probably most fruitful to focus on the "supply" side of things. how are goods and services supplied? does the supply of goods and services ultimately depend on anything else that perhaps provides the true source of value? some kind of socially useful labor time, perhaps? get your friend to the labor theory of value on his own intuition and he'll drop this silly supply and demand liberal economics nonsense.
Where would be a good place to start? Should I just quote Das Kapital to him?
of course not. start with value, price and profit and engels' synopsis of das kapital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/1868-syn/
well sure, a phd from gippity u. is the bare minimum qualification and you're acting like it's some kind of entitlement!
Ain't no fucking chance you're replacing doctors and teachers with a fucking tickle-me-elmo chatbot.
he means replacing the doctors and teachers for poor people. see, this way "everyone" will have "access" to "healthcare" and "education" at a fraction of the cost!
no more half and half measures walter
i'm not watching a 3+ hour video before attempting to answer. but personally, i think protestantism and capitalism developed alongside one another.
the more power and wealth accumulated by the nascent bourgeoisie class and the more they were able to enclose the commons for privatized exploitation, then too the more feudal theocratic catholicism represented an oppressive regime. a new ideology had to develop, and there was no shortage of legitimate complaints to be had with the church, so it wasn't hard to find rebellious theologians to fund and support:
the nascent bourgeois naturally chose to provide funding and support to theologians like luther, zwingli, and calvin rather than theologians like hus and hesse. there's a selection bias leading to a feedback mechanism whereby the protestant ideas that got the most widespread adoption by the ruling class were the ones funded by that class. ideas from the radical reformation like the anabaptist movement, on the other hand, tended to get brutally suppressed by both the church and the bourgeois, much like the waldensians and fraticelli before them.
so yes, the fact that "protestantism" took hold and became widely adopted by the ruling class was a direct consequence of the birth of a new ruling class with interests opposed to the old ruling class. it's not like there weren't heretical movements throughout church history. but luther got money and support from some german merchants sufficiently far from papal authority that their wealth protected him enough to publish. many words have been written already about the role of the printing press in the spread of lutheranism, but not much that i've seen about the role of capital in funding those printing presses.