"what the fuck is 'water'?" 
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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capitalism has gotten so evil and indefensible that its supporters have fallen to the level of denying that it as a system even exists and so no criticism against it is valid at all
There is a spectre not haunting the world
Important insight into the liberal mind. They literally believe that Capitalism is just what you get when there's no rules at all (ie. True Freedom™) and Communism is when there's rules and government and shit.
I am against the vacuum of space
Even aside from the capitalism nonsense, wtf is going on in this guy's head?
So you can't be against the absence of for example justice, because that's the exact same as saying you're against freezing temperatures or darkness, since they're all the absence of something?
wtf is going on in this guy's head?
"I'm so frickin smart dude holy shit"
Combo of and this 
also you obviously can think it's too cold and dark
Capitalist 
There were literally major strikes this year caused by the absence of good working conditions.
Unfortunately the idea that capitalism is made-up isn't new. It's something libertarians say. To them, socialists made up capitalism to couch their own political ideology. If the modern world is based on human nature, if economic laws are eternal and automatic, then there is no "ism", it's just what must happen, and therefore anything else (like socialism) is false and contrived.
lmao, this is exactly the same as when American Christian fundamentalists argue that Christianity isn't a religion but all the other religions are
WHAT lmao I havent seen that one either.
In footnote 34 of Capital vol 1 Marx quotes himself in this passage from The Poverty of Philosophy:
"Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God. When the economists say that present-day relations – the relations of bourgeois production – are natural, they imply that these are the relations in which wealth is created and productive forces developed in conformity with the laws of nature. These relations therefore are themselves natural laws independent of the influence of time. They are eternal laws which must always govern society. Thus, there has been history, but there is no longer any. There has been history, since there were the institutions of feudalism, and in these institutions of feudalism we find quite different relations of production from those of bourgeois society, which the economists try to pass off as natural and as such, eternal."
It is amazing how many current debates this Marx guy was able to anticipate.
Maybe he was on to something right?? 
It was something about how atheism, science and other religions are beliefs but Christianity isn't because it's the truth or whatever the twisted logic pretzel was
Grew up in the Evangelical church - the way they always explained it to us is that it's not a religion (which is a dogmatic set of beliefs that one only obey because they are told to), but rather it's a personal relationship with Jesus, and you do the things he tells you to do only because you love him so much.
It also opens the door for some weird loopholes for dealing with apostates, since if you stop doing the things they tell you to, you must not truly have loved Jesus to begin with.
It really feels like they've honed the edge of the mind virus extra razor-sharp. Lots of wacky thought-terminating logic structures, kinda cool if it weren't so devious.
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Centrist liberals excels at this at well. How often have you heard drivel like "ideologies are bad!" or "we just listen to the experts!"?
Media bias sites that treat centrism as neutrality.
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Capitalism is a strawman is the ultimate evolution of reddit brain.
We must counter it with "communism is whataboutism"
whataboutism 
whataboutism
Is this bot coded into the site? It's so fast to react to whataboutism
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
It's like saying you're against the vacuum of space..
Hows'about'ya step into this here airlock... 
This guy's right, rather than naming something and talking about it we should call every present ruling ideology "the current system" and all past ruling ideologies ""the current system"". That makes much more sense.
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Liberals obviously have no grasp of reality, but libertarians and ancaps take it to an entirely different level lol
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amazing! all the encoding of communication, with none of that pesky 'meaning'
Jeff is back. He still hasn’t heard of The Wall Street Journal, read by capitalists, socialists, communists, the Amish, drug traffickers, et. al.
Fuck you I hate space! Fight me!
How can capitalism be real if our eyes aren’t real 
I am quite certain that the vacuum of space is thoroughly permeated by various fields and filled with unfathomable numbers of short lived virtual particles. I am pretty sure it has been experimentally shown that the vacuum can exert a force, entirely on its own? It is for these reasons that I am against the vacuum of space!
https://physicsworld.com/a/the-casimir-effect-a-force-from-nothing/
When you take the phrase "Marx was formulating a criticism of society, starting with capital" entirely the wrong way.
Is that what happens when liberals read theory?
It's what happens when you get your theory from the Rand institute
bruh what
So many words just to say "capitalism is a spook."
The opposite of "Everything is a social construct". "Everything that isn't a social construct isn't actually really". Antimaterialism as dogma.
The thing is, he's sort of right. Capitalism was defined by its detractors describing what was around them. You can absolutely be against the current order of things, whether you describe it under a term "capitalism" or not.
I don't agree with the first point. Here's a book that's a lot more readable than Capital and traces the development of capitalism to agrarian and then industrial British capitalism (and how those arise due to the specific nature of British property relations) http://gesd.free.fr/wood1999.pdf
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i mean it's true insofar as the most incisive theorists of capitalism were and are its critics. For its proponents, it works best when it is unperceivable.
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