DragonTypeWyvern

This guy understands population control

The trick is to use sketchy pre-work out caffeine overdoses AND sketchy post-work out caffeine overdoses

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It's always been hard to tell who's just a lazy bastard though

Don't yuck the yum

She just loves manipulating people!

A couple are dead, they just weren't the ones I expected.

One is a park ranger across the country and caught a pedophile from our home county that went on the run with their grooming victim! Im not sure if he did it in the course of park ranger business or what, but he got a cash reward from the parents regardless which is neat.

Everyone else is boring because we were a boring class.

Since states aren't real things with wills of their own and there are only people and their social constructs, you're effectively arguing that it is impossible for anyone to act honestly or for altruistic purposes.

No system can withstand the people who make it up acting in bad faith. That does not mean that is impossible for systems to have integrity on the whole.

Interesting choice! It breaks the rules, obviously, but they're made to be broken.

I think you're sleeping on the marry/kill combo with two oligarchs on the list but I respect it anyways.

Someone working towards communism is a communist. A state that is working towards communism is a communist state.

Whether the state is actually trying to make itself obsolete is a different thing.

But that of course isn't what they said even if might be what they meant. A communist society implies it has achieved communism because language is fun.

Essential? No. It's ultimately just as harmful to an idealized version of the maximized productivity via competition dream. Smith and Locke both have quite a lot to say on the topic. Smith in particular makes a lot of points on how regulation is required to prevent capitalism strangling itself, which modern laissez-faire enthusiasts always conveniently "forget." This is the exactly wrong kind of artificial control by the ruling class that they did rail against.

It's what every capitalist does anyways because it's the easiest way to steal money, yes, and because every modern capitalist is trained to be that way through the ideology that has developed around an economic theory.

In what way? Because there's more than one thing you could mean.