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  • Honestly, calling people like this Capitalists is like likening all communists to Stalin. The idea of capitalism is based on competition. If you are eroding competition, you are eroding capitalism.

    But Marx tells us (in Das Kapital ) that the capitalist will always be seek to bypass regulations and ultimately capture the regulating government.

    I am assuming he neglected to mention that the same type of people will seek to capture the government in any system. Socialist, communist, capitalist, feudal, doesn’t matter.

    The means they use to capture the government are different. To intention is the same.



  • Is what everyone in the US thought as well few years back. Now you have a person in jail for speaking up against cop city and police officers routinely stalking their wifes/girlfriends/exes via flock or phone geolocation. Not like few cases news are outraged about. Thousands of known cases. In one state that demanded police disclose their geolocation requests with reason, comparing numbers disclosed with number of request, 2/3 were undisclosed. Even though it was a legal requirement. So the system was probably abused to violate peoples rights more often than it was used to actually investigate crimes.

    Plus, even if you are not the one whose speech is suppressed, or who is spied on by your deranged ex, political speech being suppressed still hurts you by getting more bullshit laws passed.

    Now if you don’t care about that, I guess there is no helping it, but I can’t think of a political issue more worth caring about than this.