Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.
That’s funny because Trump isn’t a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.
Capitalism =/= free market
There’s a fundamental contradiction in the definition of a free market. To some, it means a competitive market. To some, it means an unregulated market. But there can be no competitive market without regulation: without regulation, it almost immediately degenerates into oligopoly and anticompetitive market-rigging among the players. Businesses hate nothing more than they hate competition.
That great cheerleader of capitalism Adam Smith (the original guy, not the twat using his name now) knew that.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
That’s from his classic work, The Wealth of Nations.
New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:
Conservatives: “why not both.”
Since when is there even such a thing as a “political crime”, let alone any kind of “pre-crime”?
You can’t criminalize someone’s political beliefs, unless you’re talking about making “thought crimes” a thing. And last time I checked “pre-crime” implies you haven’t actually committed any crimes yet…which makes you not actually guilty of anything.
This whole fucking premise is based on stupidity.
Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.
Okay, now it’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. With hints of Minority Report, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil, and our old friend Idiocracy, of course.
I used to scoff at the comparison to Idiocracy but at this point I’d actually prefer that timeline.
President Camacho cared about his people, recognized problems, and deferred to the knowledge of people he openly admitted were smarter than him to fix them.
I would much prefer a Camacho over a Trump right about now.
So, Terry Crews for president?
He does seem like a good dude, but I’m not sure he even wants the job.
but I’m not sure he even wants the job.
Perfect, he’s hired!
