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  • Capitalism ≠ Free Market

    Capitalism, by definition, is the pursuit and hoarding of wealth at all costs. This is ideologically opposed to the concept of a free market, because it will inevitably lead to captured markets and trusts.

    While I agree that this particular scenario is unrelated to Capitalism as it is a matter of national protectionism, I’m simply taking umbrage with using “free market” and “capitalism” in a sentence together. Capitalism will always ultimately kill a free market.








  • Well trained and well equipped. One of the reasons the 2A exists is because Congress did such a godawful job keeping the continental army equipped during the revolutionary war. The US was originally to have no standing army but militias by and from the populace under the supervision and training of professional federal officers. With a structure like that, militia members need to be able to provide their own arms rather than rely on Congress, which was seen as untrustworthy and partial, particularly in possible disputes between states. However, the 2A was ratified at about the same time the US was realizing that a standing army of some kind was existentially necessary, following catastrophic defeats in conflicts with the natives. It was never meant to be used the way it is now being used.





  • I think people here are honest about Linux, but there is a catch that often isn’t clarified - there are many distros and desktops out there and they are all optimized for particular use-cases.

    Want to game and nothing else without technical headaches? Bazzite. Want to game and love to tinker? EndeavorOS. Want to do productivity stuff? Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Fedora.

    Want updates fast, including graphics drivers? Arch or openSuse Tumbleweed. Want stability instead? Debian.

    MacOS fan? GNOME desktop. Windows fan? KDE Plasma or Cinnamon desktop.

    It goes on and on. I still keep a Windows partition because a few things I need simply wont work properly on Linux no matter what I do… notably, the Affinity suite. But Linux as a whole is getting better fast. More people are working on it and that work is starting to snowball. I’m hopeful that in a few years I’ll finally be able to get away from Windows entirely… but you’re right, not everyone can. Not yet.