“mainly” but they’ve also damaged civillian airports while firing hundreds of missiles and drones, as well as the aforementioned cargo ships. The only thing keeping casualties down is how ineffective Iranian/Russian/Chinese weapons have been against US air defence so far.

If my doctor is unwilling to inspect my body then I will find a different doctor. I really miss my old doctor, he served in Vietnam and had good discipline, but he retired.

Being invaded by an asshole authoritarian doesn’t really justify attacking literally everyone in reach with arms funneled in from two other asshole authoritarians.

Not that I’m particularly fond of Exxon Mobil, Dubai, or Qatar.

There is no “good side” in this fight.

And I don’t think those sea mines are American.

If you work without a shirt on and so does your husband, you might be a redneck.

Lol, dudes blaming Iran famine on other countries and not the dictatorship who chose to move out of the capital to avoid it affecting them personally.

Why would I do that? How is lobbying the thing that makes a system more corrupt than examples of other systems attempted like a communist dictatorship or an Anarchy where the guy with the most guns gets to fuck everybody’s wife and daughter?

Capitalism doesn’t require lobbying to be legal in the first place. Capitalism refers to a system of production and distribution of goods with hard requirements of currency, private property, and competition.

Energy would be fine, and central planning for food is good, with incentives and subsidies to grow food which might otherwise be at cost, but if the government owns the production of food directly that can cause problems like it did in China, USSR, Nazi Germany, Ireland, France under Monarchy, and like a hundred other times as well.

In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron. I’m not 100% on whats going on in Cuba but they’re historically an agricultural nation onset by famine during the blockades, so I’m guessing they grew a lot of tobacco and spices.

Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there. Hard agree on everything else you said.

There have always been chiefs and patriarchies, unnecessary starvation and war. Not having electricity didn’t make the gauls or goths more noble in their savagery, nor even the lakota for all their spiritualism about coexistence with nature.

How can corruption be promoted and favored by capitalism when a capitalism is the least corrupt nation on earth and anticapitalist systems have never come close?

There has never been a system without corruption. Corrupt people have existed whether in capitalism or without, and have a vested interest in every scenario.

The singular place on earth with the least corruption is Finland, and it is a capitalism.

“Tell it to the judge, pal, we did our speedometer calibration an hour ago.”

Capitalism isn’t the problem because capitalism and competent democracy have in some cases proven to create happiness and minimize suffering. Meanwhile, supposed solutions to capitalism more often than not create minimal progress and sometimes result in autocratic hellscapes.

The real problem is billions of monkeys who cannot agree on a complicated system of redistribution of wealth and governance that balances civil freedoms with regulatory power to restrict bad actors.

Ty

So the TSA could get payed, Elon Musk has to pay for civil infrastructure, AND the ICE can stay shut down? Good deal.

This post is great because I get to downvote because it’s from a tankie community and also because I actually don’t like the post itself this time.

I disagree with self-diagnosis and also amateur diagnosis. People with these issues might live life in similar ways on certain topics but their clinical symptoms and treatments are very different. Lumping everyone under big umbrellas creates problems, it’s bad enough that Autism is a spectrum on its own with wildly different peoples under it.

The dogs name, quite aptly, was puddles. /jk

My money is on the Beast.

Makes you wonder which one he’s sleeping with?