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lol I love how Keynesian capitalists are now "my own." You literally just did it. You'll notice too, that hodj doesn't copy over the linked quote tags so that people can easily track references. Here I'm asking hodj to provide evidence of a specific claim about my posting and instead he's...

Well that immediately circles back to the issue of political taxonomy but unless and until you're willing to have a serious discussion about a rational scheme of identifying necessary and sufficient conditions for such a classification that doesn't rely on an appeal authority, tradition, or...

I just want to point out that: 1. The question is posed in an open ended way (it could say that implementing socialism isn't useful). 2. My original statement only pertained to the actual discussion at hand (which had to do with the selection social and economic systems). Hodj is now...

Literally none of this has anything to do with what we were talking about and frankly, a lot of it borders on the insane. Are you just trying to waste my time?

LOL Ok. You've officially given up on rational argument here. Seriously, what the fuck are you talking about? 1. That rhetoric isn't an anecdote. You still don't know what that is. 2. You still don't know what tautologies are. You're using that word in a way that's completely wrong. 3...

lol uh huh. Are you so retarded you think that Europe in the 18th century was under the impression that the Earth is flat? Seriously, get a fucking refund for that piece of shit education. Explain how studying people's garbage tells us whether or not implementing socialism in the United...

Just so nobody is tricked by this retard, here's what I actually said: That comment was made in the context of a discussion about the proper arrangement of society (not a discussion about human interaction with the environment).

What the fuck does that have to do with anything we were talking about? Did you even read the whole question? What the fuck are you talking about? No. Stop. I never presented any anecdotes nor did I claim that I did. Either you're really so fucking stupid that you actually think this, or...

Socialism, duh. What am I supposed to derive from this? What quantifiable evidence? What the fuck are you blathering about?

Bro, an anecdote is something that's dubious. Just look at the definition.

Pop quiz, dipshit: What "claims that might actually be useful [in the context of deciding what sort of society we want to live in] in the real world" do we get from "the study of remains of plants cultivated or used by man in ancient times, which have survived in archaeological contexts."...

The parts of anthropology that have anything useful to say about the proper configuration of society aren't science.

LOL Uh huh. Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

lol The backwards human rollers is a pretty awesome touch.

lol If you only knew the reality of the situation...

There's no way to apply scientific rigor to any kind of social or political systems on a large scale. The only thing you can do is examine the trends, look for whatever paired examples you can find (and they're not going to be well paired) and see where they lead. In general, soft sciences...

It's funny that you mention plain English given that you don't know what anecdotes are.

Doubling down on what? What are you talking about? Seriously, I don't think you have any grasp of what's going on here.

1. I didn't tell any stories (which is why there's no annecdotes, you fucking dipshit). 2. I'm not the retard who thinks I'm equivocating between chattel and wage slavery, so even if I had been telling stories they wouldn't have been about "chattel owning slavers" in the context of the status...

Again...irony. Also, since you're too dishonest to do it, I'll help you out. I want you to really think about what that means. Do your best (despite your condition).

LOL Try reading this, retard:Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AHAHAHA Seriously bro: Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You're a fucking retard. Aren't you like some humanities major? How the fuck have you not encountered this before. LOL Holy shit.

lol Let me guess. You don't know what an anecdote is, either.

LOL You think anecodotes aren't based on real world observations?!? LOL Jesus man. Wherever you're getting an education...ask for a refund.

I might think you're doing this on purpose but you also don't know what anecdote means so I'm really not sure. Your example is an anecdote and your assertion includes your conclusion in its premise. Your entire argument is predicated on a begging the question fallacy of presumption that...

...and you don't know what anecdotes are. Wonderful.

What?

You showing a list of logical fallacies is the zenith of irony. I don't think I've ever talked to someone who uses more logical fallacies.

I don't have to "equate" it to point out the similarities along the vector of exploitation. That's retarded. Fuck, I forgot who I was talking to. It's not begging the question when I've explicitly given an argument supporting the premise (especially when your only dumbdumb counterargument is...

No it doesn't, because anecdotes aren't a valid basis for deciding how to arrange a society.

It is an oversimplification, but it doesn't fail to capture the reality of the situation (anecdotes aside).

Not when that ownership is used for exploitation (see: chattel slavery). If the ownership isn't valid (and it isn't) then there's no "stealing" about it.

Because some people don't have money and some people do.

There's no reason to assume the boss is going to make better investments than the workers would for themselves. We see what we see because it's the legal prerogative of the boss.

If a union decided they were going to go into the factory and work for themselves men with guns and little metal insignias would show up to stop them. If someone doesn't pay their rent or their mortgage, men with guns and little metal insignias show up to kick them out. If someone doesn't...

We're free to reign as we wish within the framework of laws that protect the right of men to exploit the desperation created by the whips of the natural world. If that need must exist, there's no reason it has to drive the resulting wealth into the hands of the already wealthy. That is...

Whips motivate men too.

That's incredible, given your condition.

lol Whatever you say, brometheus.