Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.
What irony?
Lone-wolf attacks are a status quo and politically easy to manage/misdirect.
Organised change in the benefit of all people? What are you, a dirty communist? /s
The real irony is that you can tell what ideas are actually good and progressive by looking at the ones Trump&co does not like. It’s almost like there is no such thing as bad press.
Sovcit Hussein spouting off more shit like the throbbing asshole that he is.
Anti-his-capital-ism.
But let’s just be anti-capitalism to be on the safe side.
The crime is coming from inside the House.
I really hope we can reach a point where we don’t give this guy headlines.
“Trump declares that anybody that’s EVER made fun of him is currently being targeted by every international police force which he has command over, and also that the sky is purple” is a statement totally disconnected from reality. We DO NOT NEED an “Um, actually!” to disprove him.
New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:
and the precog is just Trump in a bathtub full of Sudafed watching Fox News and Newsmax on repeat.
That’s funny because Trump isn’t a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.
Capitalism =/= free market
There’s a fundamental contradiction in the definition of a free market. To some, it means a competitive market. To some, it means an unregulated market. But there can be no competitive market without regulation: without regulation, it almost immediately degenerates into oligopoly and anticompetitive market-rigging among the players. Businesses hate nothing more than they hate competition.
That great cheerleader of capitalism Adam Smith (the original guy, not the twat using his name now) knew that.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
That’s from his classic work, The Wealth of Nations.
Exactly, if the demand isn’t/can’t be flexible (eg healthcare, housing) then no matter the amount of competition on the supply side will balance things out in an unregulated market in the long term.
Everyone with the freedom of choice is on the supply side, and everyone on that side benefits from higher prices.
And there is no other metric of success other than profit.
(Nobody has the incentive to undercut the competition unless for later monopoly reasons. But the same manoeuvre can be achieved cheaper via mergers without the loss of revenue due to lower margins.)That’s why healthcare was a problem (with a constantly giant inflation) in the USA even before all the consolidations.
And former eastern block =/= communism.
I obviously used the mainstream meaning of that word.
Fact is, Trump opposes free market capitalism because he’s a terrible business man.
I remember running around twenty years ago asking people (generally educated successful people) how they define capitalism.
Most people are not 100% sure, so they usually guess some form of market and blend it with consumerism.
My guess is that most of this came from Mikhail Gorbachev advertising for Pizza Hut.
One simple definition of capitalism is making money from ownership instead of from work.
That’s a very narrow definition of capitalism. If free markets hinder the main function of the capitalist system (accumulating capital at the top), it will be eroded and abolished. Monopolies for example are much more profitable than competetive situations. Getting rid of or circumventing open market competition is always good business.
Are we starting to use the word “capitalist” the way the Nazis or Soviets used the word “socialist?” As a meaningless label for “the dictator’s side?”
He may be dependent himself on public funding as much as Elon and the others, but, to be fair, so have all capitalists in history at some point in time or at some level.
Pure capitalism is just a wild fantasy that would require complete disregard of human rights and/or huge advancements and investments in technology with the energy expenditure that entices.
So yeah, capitalist has always been a swear word to me, but I see it used appropriately in this context and in general.
These are (neutrally) powerful words that could get people ideas in their heads if used and understood properly/literally.
Same even with capitalism and communism, these words (unfortunately but intentionally) mean much more than an economic system basis.
This makes me think of the of the right wingers calling themselves deplorable or terrorists in response to being labeled as such.
Let’s not own up to their labels, let’s reject everything they have to say rather than amplify their messaging.
Let’s not mess with labels at all. Let’s organize to drive them from power.
You make a decent point.
However, when I made this, my thought process was that they are arresting people for using their first amendment rights while peacefully protesting. Now, the regime is planning to arrest people for “pre-crime”. People will absolutely be arrested and charged as a domestic terrorist on the basis that they don’t like fascism (Antifa). It’s a lot like how they labeled people dangerous subversive communists during the second red scare.
But also, I think it’s preferable to litterally do crime against a fascist state then to comply.
Conservatives: “why not both.”
Every day I hope he gets Julius Caesar’d. Every day… disappointment.
I don’t. I hope he has a stroke big enough to trap him in his body but not so big that he isn’t aware. Bastard deserves to suffer.
I’m hoping for natural causes, tbh. If he’s actually killed I don’t even want to think about how much insane wanton violence the hardcore MAGA wing will commit in response.
Loooooong bout with locked-in syndrome. 🤞🤞
Since when is there even such a thing as a “political crime”, let alone any kind of “pre-crime”?
You can’t criminalize someone’s political beliefs, unless you’re talking about making “thought crimes” a thing. And last time I checked “pre-crime” implies you haven’t actually committed any crimes yet…which makes you not actually guilty of anything.
This whole fucking premise is based on stupidity.
You can’t criminalize someone’s political beliefs
Clearly you can if you’re a fascist scum. I’m not surprised at all and things will only get worse if no one stands up to him.
Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.
This whole fucking premise is based on
stupiditycontrol and power.FTFY
See, if it were based on stupidity, that would imply these measures are based on good faith efforts to solve a real problem.
What we have here is fabricated issues being “solved” with measures that don’t need to make sense. They just need it to give them more power, more control. It doesn’t matter if they look “stupid”. They aren’t acting in good faith to begin with.
This is the entire goal of Palantir, presictive policing using mass surveillance data on citizens. Tie in digital ID and you have an even worse version of the CCP’s Social Credit system.
Just wait until the dream police come, get jailed for dream crimes.
You joke, but my wife gets mad at me for stuff I did in HER dreams, sometimes. The injustice is real.
Omg for real. To be fair, I’m a huge prick in her dreams.
My partner has face blindness, mine is one of a handful of faces that she recognizes on their own because I have a facial feature that’s distinctive enough that she recognizes it. So I am a frequent character in her dreams. Luckily she’s not the type to get mad at me for something I did in her dreams.
Okay, now it’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. With hints of Minority Report, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil, and our old friend Idiocracy, of course.
I used to scoff at the comparison to Idiocracy but at this point I’d actually prefer that timeline.
President Camacho cared about his people, recognized problems, and deferred to the knowledge of people he openly admitted were smarter than him to fix them.
I would much prefer a Camacho over a Trump right about now.
So, Terry Crews for president?
Where’s that venn diagram with all these, and “you are here” in the middle?
“don”'t build the torment nexus"
“make me”
I hereby characterize MAGA as early dementia.
There’s a tentative connection between stroke and MAGA. Just ask Fetterman
Not that early.
“classifies” as a crime?
What does that even mean?
He isn’t a lawmaker.
Basically providing a framework for who law enforcement should investigate as “suspicious”
Read the article
Just wait till he learns Ben Franklin socialized Fire Departments
