If you weren’t a shit lib jabroni intent on knee jerk defending a system that does literally nothing for you unless you own capital
So you fail to understand how basic investment works, but you criticize Capitalism copy-pasting ideological statements.
Ok.
The Middle Ages were a long period with a lot of varietyomg just shut the fuck up you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about
Sure, if you say so.
The US, which has an incarceration rate roughly 5x that of China and the single largest prison population in the world, is notably absent from your authoritarian examples (other than blaming it on Trump of course lmao)
That's because the US is not an authoritarian regime: there can be regular elections, there is freedom of speech, separation of powers, etc. It's true that it's far from being perfect https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2024
Now please don't reply that it's a single-party state with two options. It's an old joke, it has some truth in it, but it's just a joke.
You must be amazing at parties 😂
jason hickel talks a lot about actual medieval living standards
tell him to fix the Wikipedia then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317
Capitalism hasn’t done shit for you you brainwashed piece of shit
And how do you know that? I'm curious.
in the medieval age when everyone was starving?
Mao has a great quote about how if you don’t investigate something, you have no right to speak. Basically “shut up you stupid fucker” and statements like this are what it was for.
That's cool. Do you imply that starvation was uncommon in the medieval age?
How many times are you going to say “bye” before you actually fuck off?
Mate, you’re the one running away because you can’t deal with people having different beliefs to you
pick one
Don't put words that are not mine in my mouth.
Society is constantly evolving with huge differences even noticeable in a lifespan. It means that obviously 100+ years ago, something unacceptable for modern standards was the norm. It also means that it's ridiculous to bring up events of 100+ years ago to criticize the modern world.
To make an example: 80 years ago Europe was literally bombing Germany and Italy and their nazi-fascist regimes, but just a couple of decades later they were forming an alliance that eventually led to the EU. Even if today there are still nazi-fascist movements in the EU, and neo-fascist parties are even leading countries, one must be blinded by ideology to deny that there was an improvement. Improvement does not imply perfection.
Trump is a step back and I find his term horrifying. However, even in Trump's America, even with all the regressions in terms of civil rights, even with the changes to shift even more money towards billionaires, even with what ICE is doing, even with all of that, it remains a country where the vast majority lives a better life than in the large part of the present and past world. Failing to acknowledge that in the name of pure ideology is simply nonsensical. "US = authoritarian regime" or "they exploit the south" may have some truth in it, but it's such an extreme position to be unreasonable and, frankly, childish. It works only here, in a bubble in a corner of internet where everyone reinforce each other's ideas and violently reject any different opinion.
Don't suffocate in your bubble.
Saved in the life hack folder.
So you agree with Elon?
That's ironic.