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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The radical leftists marxists communists won’t let us crush orphans anymore

Make Orphan Crushing Great Again

Trump 2024

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Of course it's a mystery. An honest discussion about why orphan-crushing machines need to exist would lead to an honest discussion about where your society's pain really comes from.

And the owner class doesn't want that discussion to happen. Because it would come out that they don't pay their fair share of the tax burden, which would keep orphan-crushing machines from existing in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hey that orphan-crushing machine is a constitutionally enshrined right. I have the right to mount that thing on wheels and drive it around to crush up orphans wherever I want! And if somebody tries to stop me and gets caught up in and jams the mechanism, I have the right to sue his estate for damages!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, because everybody knows the obvious answer. It's untethered capitalism. And no it hasn't always been that way. Politicians weren't always whores for the rich. That's a rather recent development that can absolutely be stopped by the will of the people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about Roman politics to contradict but "any civilisation really" is definitely too broad of a stroke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Greed and corruption has been around for as long as land and money have.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure. But it only really becomes a problem in very large communities. A chieftain overseeing 50-100 villagers isn't as easily corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At that point, the scale is just different. That's when the brother of the chief gets to build his new hut on the nice hill.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Lol, that's the mildest form of corruption I can imagine.

But do you really think a village has zoning laws in the first place?

At that scale, it's also much easier to just remove the chief's son from his hut on the "nice hill". And the chief along with him. Scale being the key factor is the essence of my argument.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Listen, we here are Orphan Crushing Incorporated are a family business...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Will nobody think of the jobs in the orphan crushing industry?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's more commonly a US thing and it's like, "Americans saved from America." whether health, education, or some basic social service that's being used for profiteering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Give man a fish and they call you a communist. Create a baby crashing machine and they call you shrewd businessman. Or something like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's the subreddit I'm missing here...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

What's a subreddit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

... the orphan-crushing one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

r/OrphanCrushingMachine was a popular subreddit inspired by this tweet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Haha oh boy, I had no idea, and it took almost a day before anyone mentioned it. Now I know.