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Still at it? I don't need to look at any Wiki page to know that it isn't going to say that the term Capitalism is "A term invented just about the time Marx wrote" because I know it was already used by others a couple of decades before Ricardo described The Capitalist in a book he published...

See Gary? He gets confused and defensive if you just point out one of his errors. But he never takes more care to get it right next time, so he will make all the same mistakes again and again. He's easy meat. I'm throwing this fish back now.

...how are we to define "capitalism"? Capitalism -- abstract noun. A term invented just about the time Marx wrote, by Socialist writers, to signify an imaginary ideology of "capital-worshipping," thereafter employed so that the pseudo-religion of Marxism would have a bogeyman ag...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:35 pm

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:15 am

Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:31 pm this war started with the peanut farmer...

-Imp

That's sort of just a lie really isn't it?

so much a lie, it has it has its own wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

-Imp

That's just stupid.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:31 pm this war started with the peanut farmer...

-Imp

That's sort of just a lie really isn't it?

The Straits of Hormuz have indeed now pretty much closed, so Oil and Gas prices are spiralling , soon we we can all join in the global phenomenon of Trumpoverty. Hooray. How should we best celebrate our newly impecunious situation? The answer comes of course from legendary roadkill gourmand and Secr...

Does any single person in the world feel "safer" now that my stupid country has attacked Iran? Does anyone think we're preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons? No need to do anything about the nuclear stuff right now, that program was obliterated last June, so they must be decades ...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 1:47 am Is there anyone one who doesn't fight "God's cause?"

There are two such forces. One is the army of neanderthals that support Millwall Football Club, a benighted homunculoid race that exists beyond God's sight. The other is the The Khmer Rouge.

That's not really a list of capitalists, those are Robber Barons. Crony capitalists. They buy permission to build cartels and monopolies from politicians. Trump just happens to have been the first to realise this can be all be done out in the open now, and that if you do it in this manner, the bidd...

That's not really a list of capitalists, those are Robber Barons. Crony capitalists. They buy permission to build cartels and monopolies from politicians. Trump just happens to have been the first to realise this can be all be done out in the open now, and that if you do it in this manner, the biddi...

What, because of the server being in Canada? I did wonder about that. When we turned off the image function before, it not only saved us paperwork with the regulator but my fellow mods (as far as I recall) thought it was an improvement anyway. Are you in favour of restoring the ability to post imag...

He better be careful, FIFA might take that peace prize away.

And you really aren't in a better position as a deist. You can't get ALL of morality from deism. You need a moral judgement "if there is a God, I should follow the moral dictates of that God". As a deist, you believe the "if" part true, so the conclusion true, you should follow ...

That's a long story. Experience suggests you want to be fed in McNuggets and will reject anything else as overcomplicated. So there's not much likelihood of this working out. Oh, I'm sure, with your vast wisdom and mighty intellect (not to mention your infinite patience), you could find some way to...

slavery, I would think, implies involuntary action on the part of the enslaved I don't know if that could be achieved... the treatment and use of one's fellows as property happens all the time your boss does that- but pays you... being made to perform - in lieu of physical pain - could be a form of...