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[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

The whole free market doesn't allow authoritarians is a Nirvana fallacy. You are always going to have a group of people in power forcing their authority over others.

Modern communist regimes are actually Super-Darwinian-Capitalist systems. It's not important to just have capable people in power, but to defend the meritocracy. To me ethics should also be part of the meritocracy. The ethics of a politician are just as important when it comes to judging if he should rule or not as his own skills.

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The trick is to not trust anyone to be ethical. You can't legislate ethical behavior. Although these goddamn lawyers kill a million trees every year trying.

Modern communist regimes are actually Super-Darwinian-Capitalist systems.

I hope this is a hot take, because it sounds literally batshit crazy. Unless you mean real communist* countries, which have failed and turned to anarchy.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Dude, the US, the prime example of capitalism in the world has been waging war on like half the entire world for decades now for things Americans themselves don't really understand. You have the Intelligence groups making fortunes with the drug dealing, the Pharma companies downright killing people left and right, why is it that capitalism isn't allowing people to live in a proper Republic?

Capitalism (from the Social Darwinist movement onwards) was designed to be an imitation of what Plato described as "Oligarchy", the type of government of the rich in which money replaces virtue and people are hopelessly distracted by material goods like to properly regulate government themselves. By manipulating the constitution for their ends, the oligarchs turn into a powerful tyranny.

This is because the Jesuits are a group of Neo-Platonists.

Communism (which the Jesuits also created) is what happens when those flaws I described in the oligarchy get much, much worse.

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Dude, the US, the prime example of capitalism

I wish. It's corporatism or corporate socialism or crony capitalism. Or yeah, straight up oligarchy. Your pharma example is good, so are 'too big to fail' corporations.

Capitalism isn't even really a political system, it is the natural state of trading freely with your neighbors. Our constitutional republic is failing for lots of reasons. Yes it is a terror state. CIA running drugs could certainly happen in a communist or capitalist system.

I don't even know what we're arguing, but I disagree with this authoritarian shit being a solution to anything.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

That's fine. I'm just saying authoritarian governments can also work, not that they are the only solution.

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I agree, lots of these hardcore nazi types seem to turn authoritarian. I don't say that as a smear, just like, there are other authoritarians.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree with this authoritarian shit being a solution to anything.

Ditto.