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What’s not interesting is you offering your “reality-based arguments” (how about every socialist country in existence) to something you yourself imagined. Yes, I can believe that your imagination is the constant in all those conversations.

You are not being smart, and you are not being funny. Go away.

You should have used the word “sheeple” to complete the impression from your second paragraph.

You don’t know shit of what I believe to be a political philosophy in the first place.

You should re-read the first paragraph of the comment you were answering.

Also you are writing nonsense exposing your ignorance of … really everything, but you know that yourself, judging by it starting with an attempt to snatch the word “libertarianism” from under me instead of actually addressing what I say.

Also you should be more modest, drop that pretentious tone and not enter arguments with leftist moonspeak.

Libertarianism is a socialist philosophy - false. Or more precisely, meaningless. When people mean libertarianism, they mean primate of liberty. That at some point people in favor of it hugely intersected with socialists is a fact that doesn’t necessarily invalidate libertarians who are not in any way socialist.

Libertarianism has nothing to do with the Libertarian party of the USA - true.

Without government regulations unions being powerless - false. Or more precisely, government regulations work the way governments want. Today’s governments are working in favor of corporations, not sitting idle, so the reality confirms that centralizing power is a bad idea. Or maybe you are going to tell me how you are going to persuade power working against you to work for you.

As such almost every young man could at some point

Something is wrong with your stats. “Almost every” would be above 97%. Or if by “could” you mean it happening in a perfectly normal situation - yes.

OK, I don’t really like talking about that age and that subject. Just batch-commenting everything.

It’s the “burn that witch” reaction.

See how they hate pedophiles and not child rapists.

The crowd wants to feel its power by condemning (and lynching if possible) someone.

I’d rather want to investigate those calling for “investigation” and further violation of privacy of people who for all we know have committed no crime.

That’s about freedom of speech and yelling “fire” in a crowded theater and thousand hills radio, you know the argument.

It probably stuck from the time when porn was becoming a bit more normal to watch, so it still had some nominal plot initially. Still gender roles with women being at home busy with washing machines and all such, or babysitting.

to cultures like Japan and Russia that don’t strongly condemn such things

As someone from Russia - what?

Unless you mean being attracted to post-puberty, but pre-legal girls. That, ahem, makes sense biologically.

Girls of that age are sometimes kinda cruel to boys, though, so my personal teenage years trauma prevents me from dreaming of them. But if not for it, I think I would.

Toddlers are a completely different issue.

“Power corrupts” is not specific to capitalism.

I guess it’s hard to explain to somebody without grand-grandparents or relatives of the same generation, some of which were jailed for years and some executed by NKVD, in all cases with very vague convictions similar to “fuck you that’s why”.

Or to somebody who probably doesn’t know that today’s Russian elites (and, by the way, Baltic and Transcaucasian ; but not Ukrainian surprisingly, I don’t know how that happened, and not entirely Central Asian ; Ukrainian elites are those capitalists you consider very bad and evil) in culture and approaches (and level of intelligence) are still descendants of those NKVD executioners.

I’ve had one Stalinist moron wave that “power corrupts” to me, so when I pointed out that his idea accumulates power even more, he just said he hates autists and doesn’t want them making decisions with consequences for the society.

That was in person and you might have already guessed that the guy was a lawyer (I don’t remember if I said to him that some people think of lawyers the same way he thinks of autists, and that a few good things like stoic philosophy work even better with autists ; that latter thing - likely, cause he very often referred to antique things and reacted positively to my such references, but I don’t think he ever managed to finish to what end those arguments were ; seems to be a pattern with Marxists to make prolonged speeches with pretentious tone&expression without logical structure and any definite outcome, as if they thought that more words mean more value - would be consistent with definitions of work and value by Marx).

But that’s offtopic, about what you said:

Getting back to capitalism, and since I remembered Marx, let’s accept some of his reductions. Say that “feudalism” was before “capitalism”. Of course, it wasn’t just “feudalism”, it was a fabric of non-uniform subjects of economy and politics with non-linear traditional relationships to each other.

But suppose we just take arbitrary power over those weaker than us, and lack of organization or technology from that mass to resist, and inherent subjectiveness of information and mistrust into it. We are coming back to it, not further from it into “capitalism” with its flow of verifiable information, accumulation of trust and values of upholding deals and cooperation.

There is a concept of “the new Middle Ages”, I was interested in it and emotionally felt we are coming there in my teens in 2008-2014. I’ve also met a few reptile and immoral, but rather perceptive people interested in that same concept. And if you are interested in Middle Ages in Europe, the similarities in cultural developments are uncanny.

So we are already there. We all talk about simulacra, while whole peoples fight for their lives in Tigray, in other regions of the African continent. We discuss global warming when whole countries are under threat of abrupt annihilation. We discuss “AI slop” affecting internal politics of some big country, when in other places “AI slop” is used to justify genocide and rewrite history. And we all don’t see each other and don’t know what to believe.

Our world has been becoming smaller for centuries, but it is becoming bigger again. Our time is equivalent to late Rome.

There are upsides to such changes, but those depend on ties and mechanisms that build up very slowly.

I repeat. People

who think they can attribute every bad idea they can think of to libertarians

are usually wrong and really dumb. My true self comes through this no more than through the beginning.

Can’t expect people to do something they don’t think they need.

It’s a very fat industry. When (due to big fish failing, anti-monopoly activities, new systems, revolutions and nuclear wars) it finally becomes normal, there will be unions.

Just in case you didn’t know, libertarians are not against unions.

Actually libertarians are more in favor of unions than the rest because vertical regulation is unacceptable for them.

Also people who think they can attribute every bad idea they can think of to libertarians are usually wrong and really dumb.

But ambiguity is the worst thing for a top-level domain. Unknowingly, this decision created an environment in which .su became a digital wild west. Today, it is a barely policed top-level domain, a plausibly deniable home for Russian dark ops and a place where supremacist content and cyber-crime have found cover.

So much drama.

“Supremacist content”, “dark ops”, “cyber-crime”.

“The free world” has recently equated itself to Hitler at least two more times, and somebody’s worried that there are places with less censorship.

Also my anecdotal experience with .su domains is better than with .ru domains.

The fate of us all \ lies deep in the dark \ when time stands still at the Iron Hill