• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well, they certainly are mad that the free market decided a certain movie was to make over a Barbillion dollars for “going woke”.

    Truly, truly outrageous. 🥰

    • BeardedSingleMalt@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Them: Keep the government out of my personal life

      Also them: [screams about banning everything they’re told they shouldn’t like]

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        11 months ago

        Stay out of my personal life! *attacks marriage and LGBT existence and medical privacy *

        This country is about liberty! denies bodily autonomy to half the population

        Though at the top levels where propaganda strategies get decided, the abortion thing is probably more about keeping the working class fully staffed.

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          That’s exactly what it is

          News articles started talking about lowered birth rates and then Republicans immediately started pushing anti abortion propaganda

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    11 months ago

    Also “let the States decide” if in the US. Just not the States they don’t like.

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    11 months ago

    Conservatives are all about what benefits them and them only. If it also benefits people they don’t like, then it’s not good enough. If it comes at the cost of others, even better, but it’s all about privilege. They don’t have fixed ideological positions like ‘free market over regulation, always and everywhere’. If the free market gives them what they want, they favour it. If the free market decides in a way that doesn’t benefit them, they’re against it. If regulation gives them what they want, regulation is good. If regulation works against them, regulation is bad.

    That’s literally all there is to it.

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    Thucydides unknowingly described capitalism from a conflict between Athens and Melos around 400 BC

    δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν

    or as Richard Crawley translated it, “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

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      11 months ago

      This seems very general, applicable to capitalism as well as to all other economic and government types.

      Or do you say feudalism isn’t perfectly described by that statement?

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    11 months ago

    A good heuristic for conservative thought remains “Ingroups to protect, outgroups to bind.”. They’re assholes.

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    10 months ago

    Image Transcription: Twitter


    Nathalie Baptiste @nhbaptiste

    Conservatives: LET THE FREE MARKET DECIDE

    Free market: *decides*

    Conservatives: this is outRAGEOUS

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    11 months ago

    This is so true for the housing crisis. Conservative NIMBYs will be like “deregulation good!” and “free market good!”, but then they religiously show up to any and all city hall meetings to rant and rave about how we need to use heavy-handed regulations to protect “historic” parking lots and the “neighborhood character”.

  • anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org
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    10 months ago

    Libertarians: Let the free market decide. Free Market decides. Libertarians: Cool!

    Just as well the Free Market means many markets/options.