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Hey, everyone. You can call me Akai, or whatever else you'd like. I just randomly typed up "I hate school" in the searchbar in health class and this awesome website popped up. This looks like just the kind of website I was looking for, for the past while.
Some background information: I'm a libertarian communist with strong interest in the arts. All of them. 
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HAI 2 U
Who am I? Who are YOU?
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Hai thar, commie. You'll fit right in, just remember to pick up a straitjacket in the third door to the right's front upside down left.
Problem, officer?
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Akai Wrote:libertarian communist
Isn't that self-contradictory?
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
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Faby Wrote:Akai Wrote:libertarian communist
Isn't that self-contradictory?
Nope... real communism is more to the left than democracy. Get the propaganda out of our eyes.
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Ceiling Cat Wrote:Faby Wrote:Akai Wrote:libertarian communist
Isn't that self-contradictory?
Nope... real communism is more to the left than democracy. Get the propaganda out of our eyes.
Libertarianism implies free market. Wasn't free market something that pertained to capitalism?
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Capitalism isn't even close to free market. Nothing that involves money, is.
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Libertarianism was originally a term to describe communist-anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, etc. The Libertarian Party(Capitalist) stole the term in the 1970s.
Welcome Comrade! Solidarity Forever!
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Why helloooo. I'm Moriko...welcome to the site. Do you taste good when cooked?
Tentacles, lesbianism, Nazis, postwhoring.
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Ceiling Cat Wrote:Capitalism isn't even close to free market. Nothing that involves money, is.
Do you know the definition of a market?
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John Tuttle Wrote:Ceiling Cat Wrote:Capitalism isn't even close to free market. Nothing that involves money, is.
Do you know the definition of a market?
Yes, it doesn't have to involve a currency with its value carefully controlled by the government, so the lowest people don't get too rich.
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John Tuttle
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Ceiling Cat Wrote:John Tuttle Wrote:Ceiling Cat Wrote:Capitalism isn't even close to free market. Nothing that involves money, is.
Do you know the definition of a market?
Yes, it doesn't have to involve a currency with its value carefully controlled by the government, so the lowest people don't get too rich.
Then how come every nation that has embraced free-market ideology seen a reduction in poverty? South Korea did so, and they transformed from a war-torn impoverished nation to one of the most prosperous nations in the world. Need more examples? Sure: Germany, Japan, and Italy post WW2, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, Poland, et cetera. I rather live in any of those places than in some stagnant, disease-ridden, agrarian village.
BTW: definition of a market:
Quote:A market is any one of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures where by persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy. It is an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to exchange things
Markets can be barter-based - but this limits progress and favours those in control of resources. Money eliminates this problem.
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