SmilingSolaris

And the Democrat party has no blame worth mentioning. No sir, they ran the perfect platform, perfect messaging, perfect policies. It's them damn non voters. The Dems should run the same playbook again in all it's glory. And if it don't work again then by God, the world just isn't ready for its glory yet and we should keep that ship steady as she goes until it is, ungrateful ass non voters be damned. Yessir.

Anything to excuse the white man ey wizard?

Get a history degree. Beat you to it. Teaching your children too.

UK conquered effectively the entire world. They are literally the source for global capitalism as it exists. If your hangup is "well, UK didn't really start capitalism" then your on a semantic that makes any further argument with you disingenuous, either due to you willfully manipulating the conversation or ignorantly being unable to comprehend what is being said. Either way really.

And theres the rub. You are willing to grant this system that HAS committed great evils every kinda leeway in the book. You'll handwave away any kind of evils it has committed as "well those things just happen, and its not really capitalism as a systems fault" but when it comes to communism you will do away with those same excuses. So lets play the game where no system has excuses, count the bodies and then compare then? Or we excuse both for their human failings, count the bodies and compare. Either way you cut it, capitalism comes out worse, so you wont do that. You'll excuse the one and not the other. It's the only way you can see past your bodies.

Go out and ask your local starving homeless how communism has effected him before betting on anything.

Scale. It's about scale. Capitalism gave the economic incentive to take these historical evils and industrialize them to a scale not even imaginable before. A scale so large that even you, today, with the world at your fingertips are unable to comprehend, evidenced by the fact that you are currently failing to comprehend it.

King mansa musa does not compare even an iota to the transatlantic slave trade. It's not about the fact slavery was happening. It's that capitalism industrialized slave trade to a degree that was unfathomable to humanity before.

Scale. It's about scale and centralization. Sure there were slaves but capitalism made more than ever in human history. Sure there were wars but capitalism made them bigger and further away from the rich nations committing them's population.

It's about scale. It's like comparing a single thief to a crime syndicate of organized thieves and saying "well there has always been thieving"

Yes. But never with so much damage.

I did. They didn't. There's no evidence, no cameras, no one would talk. Not my partner through training, not any of the doctors, none of the nurses, none of the sergeants or lieutenant, not even the inmate. It's like it didn't happen. That's why people say ACAB. Because it is every single fucking one.

Mine didnt either. I walked out of that prison immediately after and called my dad, the person I trusted the most in the world just to have him tell me to go back inside. My heart shattered. In that moment I realized I was truly alone in this situation.

"You — against the atom, the charm and the spin. Where the whole world failed — matter failed to bend to human will; human will failed to get out of bed and tie its laces"

I'm sorry that happened to you. I wish I could be something more than sorry.