bennieandthez

bennieandthez, 8 hours ago

The state of the german economy 😂 they are increasing the military budget at this moment, where would they get money to subsidize kebabs.

This article almost feels like an Onion article, the german left is a joke.

bennieandthez, 5 days ago

incredibly rare W, literally can’t state how rare this is

bennieandthez, 5 days ago

At this point we need a MLK quote bot about the white moderate.

bennieandthez, 6 days ago

biden speedrunning losing the youth vote

bennieandthez, 6 days ago

Come on, he is just bring pragmatic.

bennieandthez, 6 days ago

Im pretty sure he implied that they are backed by Iran or smt iol

bennieandthez, 8 days ago

Sorry but “making nice” with genocide is not “pragmatism”.

bennieandthez, 13 days ago

You forget peoples names.

bennieandthez, 14 days ago

His level of political literacy is not even deserving of these low ranking officials.

bennieandthez, 14 days ago

And Blinken shamelessly calls China the muslim genociders.

bennieandthez, 14 days ago

Wheat is a commodity like any other crop, and just like any other commodity, it has value. Also it’s even more profitable when its stolen since you don’t even have to invest in production costs.

bennieandthez, 14 days ago

Trump has fucking bragged about it 😂 you libs are so shamelessly disingenous.

bennieandthez, 14 days ago

Its super profitable considering US taxpayers pay the production costs and big oil keeps the profits 😂

bennieandthez, 16 days ago

lol i laughed my ass off when lib mentioned that 5ha is a small plot of land.

Also the entire narrative doesn’t make sense. He mentions that eastern europe is not densely populated, that Stalin deported 15 million people, the kulaks worked the land themselves, etc… With that huge amount of manpower exiled in a low populated are one would assume that it simply would’ve collapsed, yet literally just 10 years later they fight back the Nazis and win the war. It’s like an alternate reality.

bennieandthez, 16 days ago

Its not equivalent to walking 50 kilometers since its an area measurement and farming doesn’t require to cover every single meter but yea it did require walking many kilometers and not just that but doing manual work too (sowing, taking weeds out, cutting the grain, moving the grain, etc…) nowadays its all done with machinery so 5ha is done in a breeze, but back then it was a gargantuan amount of work.

Also you have your math wrong:

50,000square meters =/= 50 square kilometers

1 square meter = 1x10^-6 square kilometers

The vatican area is 50ha, 5ha would be 1/10 of the vatican. Still a huge area to farm by hand and horse.

bennieandthez, 16 days ago

I can finally apply for a loan to buy a house!

bennieandthez, 17 days ago

There is no such thing as anarchic capitalism, private property is built on authority by private individuals.

bennieandthez, 17 days ago

The unabomber was a reactionary, being good at solving math problems does not make you good at understanding our world.

bennieandthez, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

A couple of things you must understand before talking about “AnCap”:

The state, in this day and age, is run by the capitalist class.

“The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state.” - The origin of the family, private property and the state by Engels

Now to answer your questions:

Can you explain exactly why do you think that AnCap society would not have ownership ?

I didn’t say that. How would it be capitalism if the capitalist themselves didn’t exist? The characteristic of the capitalist class is that it has private ownership of production, it pockets the products of the processes of production. How is this ownership enforced? With violence, laws are made to protect these relations of production and when broken violence is used to enforce them. Who enforces this ownership? The state, through police and military.

Also can you compare that to the current system in real life?

“AnCaps” want the same society we have but without the state, in their twisted mind the state is some commie plot and must be gotten rid of.

What would happen if the state magically disappears? There would be no one to enforce private property, the capitalists would have to enforce these relations themselves by turning into some sort of warlords, imagine a world where each capitalist needs a private army to enforce their property (who would stop their army itself of taking over?), it is literally going back to the past it is comically dumb.

Another point is that AnCaps are grifters, see Milei in argentina for example. He claimed to be an AnCap but he is doing everything in its power to turn argentina into a police state run by the US!

From: nakedcapitalism.com/…/musical-chairs-in-latin-ame…

In those two months, the Milei government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States allowing members of the US Army Corps of Engineers to operate along the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway, including large parts of the river Plata basin, upon which roughly 80% of all Argentine exports travel. It has agreed to buy $300 million of second-hand, 40-year-old F-16 fighters from Denmark, with the help of US financing. It has also announced the establishment of a US naval base in Ushuaia, on the southern tip of Tierra de Fuego, often described as the last stop before Antarctica.

Accused of selling out his country’s sovereignty for seemingly nothing in return, Milei argued, with a straight face, that allowing the installation of a US military base in Usuahia is the greatest act of sovereignty of the past 40 years since it will strengthen Argentina’s territorial claims over the Antarctic.

bennieandthez, 19 days ago

Things are not getting objectively worse in the West, its just russian propaganda!

bennieandthez, 19 days ago

Only the US and Europe has the unalienable right to invade and bomb anywhere they want.

bennieandthez, 19 days ago

The global majority prefers multipolarity than the US hegemony, the US has spent decades destabilizing our countries while China has developed win-win respectful relationships.

The US has military bases in countries that you do not know they exist, spends more in war than the redt of the world combined and has killed exponentially more people than anyone else.

Here is how the good ol’ US of A sees our countries: youtu.be/fCZLWWD1okg?si=cFZPxH-4U-GkqOF2, just a “region” filled with “rare earth minerals”.

bennieandthez, 19 days ago

Surely the Ukranian people had much control on the decisions made by the puppet goverment after the 2014 coup 😂 surely the Ukranian people must’ve enjoyed the increase in military budget, that surely increased their living standards data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.ZS?end=2…