MacNCheezus

MacNCheezus OP , 7 months ago

It’s a fake product in case that wasn’t obvious. As far as the claim about Pepto itself goes, I’ve never used it but you can just buy some at the store and find out.

The best science is that which you’ve done yourself. Anything you read on the Internet could potentially be fake.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I’ve been here for 17 years, politics has pretty much always been a shit show.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Discord stores all messages and media.

I mean, how else do you think they can make it so all your existing chats show up when you log into your account from a different device? Signal stores all your messages and media as well, the difference is they encrypt it on their servers. Discord doesn’t.

If you delete it, or delete your account, its still there.

That’s more problematic, and there should honestly be a law against that. Come to think of it, doesn’t that violate the GRDP? Either they have to treat their EU customers differently when it comes to this, or there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. In the former case, you might be able to force them to delete your data by using a VPN to pretend you’re in Europe.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

This guy cows

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Would you like fries with that?

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

On that note, I sure hope he doesn’t uses any Apple products either.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Advertisers aren’t interested in your privacy. Simple as.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

*ravenous

It’s ravenous wolves, not ravening. WTH does that even mean?

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Okay but it still says ‘ravenous’ in the original.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

/c/theydidthemath

Thanks for your thorough investigation into this.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

“I made a meme depicting your claim with a mocking Spongebob, therefore your argument is invalid.”

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4e1f6119-aaf0-480f-90aa-a0a3ef04c01e.jpeg

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Capitalism is primarily an economic system, not a political philosophy. And while it requires property rights in order to function, it is primarily concerned with solving problems in the absence of coercion, so it is absolutely compatible with anarchy.

You’re making a fundamental error when you think that property rights would not or do not exist in anarchy. What doesn’t exist in anarchy is the enforcement of such rights by a STATE. A property owner (or in this case, really anyone who lays claim to a property, since a state that could issue official deeds does not exist) still has the right to defend their property using violent means if necessary.

So yes, capitalism and anarchy are absolutely compatible.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Ah yes, I have insulted my opponent in the genital area, therefore his arguments are invalid.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Please enlighten me as to how that is the case.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Nope, anarchy is only the absence of a state. Like I said, it is still possible to enforce property rights in such a scenario… as long as you do it yourself.

This likely WOULD lead to less hoarding and more wealth distribution, because you cannot keep what you cannot defend. But it’s definitely wrong to assume all property would automatically become public and “free use” and everyone would share freely as in a communist utopia, because that requires agreement between people. And in the absence of a state, there is no authority that could enforce such an agreement.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Yup, that is my understanding as well. Likewise, if you’re going around stealing, and someone happens to think that’s bad, they can use force to stop you because there’s no state telling them otherwise.

The idea that if there’s no state we’d automatically be living in communist utopia where everything is shared and nobody owns anything is flawed on its face. It’s certainly possible that there would be groups or tribes of people that choose to live that way, but other tribes would form around the idea that property rights should be protected and build a community around that.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Okay, fair enough, and I am by no means intending to criticize you for your kindheartedness here, but that’s literally the opposite of economic theory, which concerns itself primarily with achieving the maximum output possible given a certain input.

Also, consider that this does not mean that it is therefore by nature entirely inhuman and incompatible with caring about people, but rather that the ability to achieve a high productivity is required in order to have an excess of resources than can be used to care for those who cannot care for themselves.

If you think about it, this is in fact essential to maintain human life. Children for instance always require more resources than they can produce, so parents have to be able to produce more than they need for themselves if they want their children to survive. Same goes for society as a whole — the productive members have to be able to produce an excess or the unproductive (weak, sick, or old) will starve.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Yeah, okay, I get it. You’re an idiot and I’m wasting my time.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I only put that there because the thread starter seems to be an anarcho-communist who thinks that in absence of a state enforcing property rights, property rights simply won’t be enforced. That is not the case. They may or may not be enforced, either by the property owner themselves or their tribe/community.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

If you think about it, such communities probably already exist: most families, even in capitalism, are communist internally: the parents contribute far more to the household than the children do, who tend to consume far more than they produce. From each according to their ability to each according to their need.

This likely also explains the continued popularity of communism as a political philosophy, especially among young people. Going out into the world, where there is competition and conflict is jarring, and the wish for society to be organized more like a family unit is understandable, although it is far more difficult to organize a large country in this way than a household of no more than, say, a dozen people.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Okay, but if there isn’t a state, who is to say the workers don’t have the right to protect their surplus labor value from theft by seizing the means of production, through violence if necessary?

Nobody. But conversely, if there isn’t a state, what’s to prevent property owners from banding together and protecting their property with violence?

Before you say “but there’s more workers than property owners”, keep in mind that given enough money or gold or whatever, they could also hire mercenaries to prevent workers from rebelling.

It really all comes down to who is better at organizing. So it’s possible that in one scenario, workers would seize the means of production successfully, and if they are good enough at keeping it running, they’d operate as a commune, while in another scenario, there’d be a more hierarchical, capitalist structure of organization.

You’re simply arguing from a standpoint of “but I like THIS approach better” when it’s a question of “but can you make it WORK?”

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I made a number of well-reasoned and coherent arguments, to which responded with flippant one liners.

You’re free to convince me that I misjudged you by actually making an argument, but I’m afraid your childish insults aren’t going to change my mind anytime soon.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Are you talking about China? If so, I’m afraid they’re communist in name only. They realized many years ago that Marxist economic theory doesn’t work and began to integrate capitalist principles into their economy. There are banks, there is a stock market, and there is private ownership of the means of production, although all of these are tightly regulated by the state and can be rescinded at any time or for any reason (such as not paying enough bribes).

De facto, China is a capitalist-fascist state more comparable to WW2 Germany than anything Marx ever came up with.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

That would literally be a capitalist state in every meaningful sense.

In the same way that a collective of workers getting together to control the means of production would be a communist state in every meaningful sense.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

No, I’m saying unless you want EVERYONE to starve, excess productivity is required even under communism.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

If the collective has to enforce collective ownership, isn’t that just a monopoly on violence again?

Private ownership doesn’t require a collective, or a monopoly on violence. You only get to keep what you can defend.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I have a gun. Try taking it from me.

There are no laws saying I can’t have one, and there are no laws saying I can’t shoot you if you try to take it.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I got this thing for you, it’s called taxes, you’re gonna love it.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I mean, first of all, have you taken a look at our current society, and second of all, this is just a thought experiment to prove that anarcho-communism is pure fantasy, or at the very least not inevitable.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Okay, as frustrating as it is to have you simply repeat your initial statements despite any arguments made to the contrary, it seems as though your point hinges on the distinction between personal and private property.

However, I don’t see how private property couldn’t be maintained as long as you have the ability to defend it. Hiring guards for instance does not constitute a monopoly on violence, since others can do so as well. In an anarcho-communist scenario, for instance, if the workers want to maintain control of the means of production after ousting the owner, they would potentially have to post guards as well, or the property owner could hire a bunch of mercenaries to take the property back.

The long and short if this is, I don’t see how anarchy would favor either the creation of capitalist or communist structures of organization. Most likely, there would be both, and survival would be a matter of who is better at organizing.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

!oldpeoplefacebook would love this

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

What about doctor-patient privilege, does that not exist anymore?

Admittedly, it wouldn’t apply in this case since the person posted it to Twitter, but I mean in general.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

From Wikpedia:

Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept […] that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from being used against the patient in court.

What am I missing here? Clearly both cannot be true at the same time.

EDIT: nevermind, I found the answer further down on the page:

In the United States, the Federal Rules of Evidence do not recognize doctor–patient privilege.

At the state level, the extent of the privilege varies depending on the law of the applicable jurisdiction. For example, in Texas there is only a limited physician–patient privilege in criminal proceedings, and the privilege is limited in civil cases as well.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

That’s a picture of Chauvin himself lol

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Dumb question perhaps, but why don’t they just make it a web app or a mobile website instead?

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Yeah, right.

forbes.com/…/ammunition-inflation-prompts-gun-buy…

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

No, othering people is alienating. And this is by no means a partisan issue because almost everybody does it.

Democrats: “it’s the Republicans’ fault, they’re evil”
Republicans: “it’s the Democrats’ fault, they’re evil”
Communists: “it’s rich people’s fault, they’re evil”
Capitalists: “it’s poor people’s fault, they’re lazy”
Women: “it’s men’s fault, they’re evil”
Men: “it’s women’s fault, they’re evil”

The more you keep blaming other people for everything that’s wrong with the world, the more you end up isolating yourself and retreating into your own bubble. You might think things would be better if you only spend with people who think like you and who validate your complaints and feelings, but in fact, that only serves to increase your alienation because it increases the gap between you and those “others”.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Gesundheit

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Oh trust me, I’m guilty of this as well.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I can give you more current ones but they’re all from gun magazines, and I’m not sure if that’s allowed here. But I suggest you just google “ammunition prices rising” if you want to know.

Unless you prefer to keep your prejudiced opinion, I guess.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Yeah, according to what I’ve heard, this hasn’t been the case for ammo, whose prices continued to rise in 2022 and 2023, apparently due to massive production shortages (Ukraine might have something to do with it). Like I said, just do the google search I suggested, and you’ll find plenty of articles discussing this.

Either way, the claim that bullets are the only thing that hasn’t gone up in price is definitely fake news.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Weird. I generally don’t mind self-checkout but Walmart’s showing you a video of yourself so you can check yourself out while you’re checking out yourself kinda creeps me out. And I don’t even use the self checkout to steal.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

What if you told you you can take a screenshot of those and share that here…

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

I am now sitting on the left side of my bed instead of the right one.

MacNCheezus , 7 months ago

Hmmm yeah… I know some of those words.