when anticommunists warn you that the end result will just be a bunch of people in power well off while the Rest Of Us out here don’t even have the option to get rich

@Lady ah, you see, the difference is that in Communism, the interchangeable cogs serve a different purpose than profit. no i will not specify what that purpose is. something about making the people in charge nice and well-off

yes the video was some pretty sus evopsych but

“now before you call me a communist, just let me first say, i think people aren’t all equal and it’s useless to pretend otherwise”, yeah ok have you talked to a disabled commie ever

https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1440468392721276936

@Zest rawr

@Zest yea

https://twitter.com/F0XnR0LL/status/1308938052719521795

@Lady any idea if the do block thing is advancing in the standardization process or no?

@Lady right

@Lady

YES

@Lady why not just blocks then?

@Lady yeah i hate two-space indent too, but whatcha gonna do?

i mean actually MMTers are certain about that

@Lady lol yeah

@tindall@cybre.space yeah we disabled registration on our matrix homeserver immediately lol

@tindall@cybre.space O O F

(in fact i’ve seen MMT-ers argue that taxing the rich isn’t even probably that deflationary because they invest way way more than they actually spend, so you might not even necessarily prevent the economy from running out of control anyway)

granted, congress normally acts as if they do need funding for spending, so in practice you probably need to fight for a tax to cover a particular bill anyway. even though the economic reality is that you don’t

i know an MMT perspective (sorry) would say taxing the rich is important only insofar as it prevents wealth inequality and that you don’t really need to do it to actually fund your priorities (at the federal level, anyway)