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bigMouthCommie

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you should know i am earnest. i'm learning how to snark. i try to say what i mean and mean what i say.

sometimes i do try to make jokes, but I am not sarcastic.

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bigMouthCommie,
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here's an unpopular opinion in basically every circle: supply and demand is a meaningless tautology in its only "useful" form.

it is a post-hoc explanation for price discovery, but it lacks all predictive value. as scientific theories go, it's widely debunked and discredited, and lacks all predictive value. i would go so far as to say there is no economic theory that is more than post-hoc explanation and, so economic theory is indistinguishable from storytelling.

i agree with the thrust of the position that landlords are leeches. i would never try to use an quantifying economic theory to justify that.

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The Wikipedia article on supply and demand has a great section at the bottom about objections to the theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand#Criticism

bigMouthCommie,
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> I’m a utilitarian if you couldn’t tell.

oh my. how do you deal with the fact that the future is unknowable, so the morality of all actions is also unknowable?

bigMouthCommie,
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> But you think it’s better to give the christofascist better odds than to inconvenience yourself with a vote you don’t 100% agree with

they didn't say it's inconvenient.

it's immoral.

bigMouthCommie,
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>please make sure you don’t get fascism too.

democrats and republicans are both fascist. if you're saying one of them will win, then you are getting genocide and fascism no matter who i vote for.

bigMouthCommie,
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to be clear, you acknowledge that you can't know which actions are moral under your system, but you still rely on it to make moral actions?

bigMouthCommie,
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a deontological system places the morality in the action itself, so you know before you do it whether its the right thing to do. ontological systems change the morality of the action depending on the results in the future.

what if we need trump to be elected in order to escape earth before the sun goes nova? it's an unknowable proposition, but are you willing to risk all of humanity on voting for biden?

bigMouthCommie,
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no one said they are voting for trump

bigMouthCommie,
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pretty sure biden was president when roe v wade was overturned, so i don't see how giving him power again would help the women you're mentioning. also pretty sure biden has been helping oversee the oppression of the working class from dc for about 50 years, so i am not exactly convinced he's going to do anything about it if he literally can't lose any more elections.

bigMouthCommie,
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I think you understand the problem of the unknowableness of the effects of our actions, and subsequently how absurd it is to use that as a basis of our morality.

I'm not trying to get you to vote for trump, I'm trying to get you to choose a useful moral framework.

bigMouthCommie,
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I'm not a trump supporter

bigMouthCommie,
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I expect to have 4 names on my ballot.

bigMouthCommie,
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this is straight up election misinformation. a vote for any candidate may only be voted for that candidate, and it can't be discarded.

bigMouthCommie,
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no, but that's not what i said, either.

bigMouthCommie,
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the uncertainty shifts within the framework from whether my actions will have a good out come to whether i know what actions are moral. i suppose it's possible that i might not know, but the categorical imperative is pretty easy to apply, so my confidence is much higher than i imagine is possible for any action within a utilitarian frame: you are totally dependent on unknowable circumstances to determine the morality of past actions.

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the difference is that voting "whatever" is the same as not voting. by contrast, voting for a candidate is voting... for that candidate.

bigMouthCommie,
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it's not the same result. in one scenario, the vote total doesn't change. in the other, a candidate gets one more vote.

bigMouthCommie,
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of course i care who wins. i want my candidate to win. that's why i vote for them.

bigMouthCommie,
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The government doesn't fund the heritage foundation. Facebook doesn't find the heritage foundation. Google doesn't fund the heritage foundation. who is it that you think funds the heritage foundation?

bigMouthCommie,
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I'm not worried about p2025, if that's what you mean.

bigMouthCommie,
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>Stein says that Russia had no other choice but to invade Ukraine and commit genocide there, and Cornel West has a similar position I believe.

neither of them said this. your comment is straight misinformation.

bigMouthCommie,
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she called the invasion illegal, and the only extent to which your comment is correct, cornel west agrees with that.

bigMouthCommie,
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being antinato is being anti-imperialist.

bigMouthCommie,
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i love that you shared that thread. anyone can see she opposes war and genocide just by reading your link.

bigMouthCommie,
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>Suggesting that the colonists stop fighting and do whatever the colonizers want

no one said that

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