1016 Shadow Revolt

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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:19 am

A woman who had heard some of our travels came up and asked me which country to retire to: I said the U.S. She was incredulous. I asked if she’d ever lived anywhere else: she hadn’t. I told her America-haters take the fruits of White Supremacy for granted: they just expect other people to be conscientious, honest, timely & courteous, but that’s the exception, and why the West is exceptional.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by StCapps » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:25 am

supporting the penalization of merit

through confiscation of inheritances

is not pro-meritocracy

it's anti-meritocracy

yet those who are actually side with the meritocracy are slandered as fascists by those siding against the meritocracy

when it is pointed out they are betraying the ideals they claim to hold



meritocracy is government confiscation of inheritances

anti-meritocratic fascism is refusing to punitively punish the successful

that's orwellian af
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am

It’s quite the Oral Illusion to equate nepotism with meritocracy. Congratulations.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by DBTrek » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am

Now... if MH was like "We need to dismantle the policies whereby government tilts the tables to favor existing billionaires and stifle the ascension of new members to its ranks" - I'm listening. All the billionaires made simply by the government declaring them the "winners" - that's bullshit. Freemarket should determine the winners. Not D.C.

Walmart and Amazon didn't out-compete everyone else by virtue of their merits alone.
A lot of government help (in the form of tax breaks, post office subsidies, and welfare subsidies) went into declaring them winners and keeping them there. That's bullshit.

But taking individual's inheritance money isn't fixing that shit either way.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by DBTrek » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am
It’s quite the Oral Illusion to equate nepotism with meritocracy. Congratulations.
Trivial compared to equating mass government confiscation with "Liberty" tho.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:33 am

The heirs of Sam Walton didn’t get that way through merit.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by StCapps » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:34 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am
It’s quite the Oral Illusion to equate nepotism with meritocracy. Congratulations.
it's quite the oral illusion to equate government confiscation of the most successful as meritocracy. Congratulations.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by Martin Hash » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:34 am

DBTrek wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am
Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am
It’s quite the Oral Illusion to equate nepotism with meritocracy. Congratulations.
Trivial compared to equating mass government confiscation with "Liberty" tho.
That’s a libertarian argument: Libertarians are Fascists.
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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by StCapps » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:35 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:33 am
The heirs of Sam Walton didn’t get that way through merit.
many successful people did though, and you want to punish them because the Waltons exist

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Re: 1016 Shadow Revolt

Post by StCapps » Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:35 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:34 am
DBTrek wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:31 am
Martin Hash wrote:
Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:30 am
It’s quite the Oral Illusion to equate nepotism with meritocracy. Congratulations.
Trivial compared to equating mass government confiscation with "Liberty" tho.
That’s a libertarian argument: Libertarians are Fascists.
mass government confiscation is far more fascist

Libertarians are Fascists is stupid argument
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