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So can I just bring up Lavrentiy Beria to make the most pointless inference that communists are pedophiles? No worries, I wouldn’t do that because that would be the logic of a moron.What exactly makes this different from a monarchy, fascist regime, socialist collective, etc? Acquisition of power always brings on these kinds of behaviors because there is no real authoritative body to keep them in check. This fundamentally a human problem, not a capitalist or communist or fascist problem. Warlords in Afghanistan were doing the same thing to young boys and our troops knew about it. Tell me where they fit into the capitalist elite.
The abuse predates U.S. involvement, predates modern capitalism, and tracks with local power structures and impunity. At this point, you’re just relabeling power as capitalism so the theory can’t be falsified. You have no idea what you’re talking about and should feel bad for even trying to attempt an input into this conversation off a whim.
Nope, I’m explaining power dynamics to be between classes, which has how it has historically been. Capitalism has only existed since the Industrial Revolution, class struggle has existed a lot longer. You can call it power, sure, but the power is structured around upper and lower levels of society.
King’s individually raped and probably even to some extent raped in an organized fashion but in no other system has there been this level of a global interconnected network of pedophilia and rape. You know this is true, you just can’t admit it because you’re more married to your ideology than reality
The post is calling out the power dynamic between the victims and the criminals, it is a dynamic of capitalism, where the working class is abused by the owning class. Would you classify the people on the Epstein list as anything other than capitalists? Elon musk, Trump, the Clinton’s, etc.
You’re mistaking technological capacity for moral causation. Pre-modern elites abused at the maximum scale their infrastructure allowed; modern systems scale abuse because they scale everything. That doesn’t make capitalism the cause. Using technological advancement as an excuse to blame capitalism is wild lol
Yea man cause the monarchs of middle af Europe were so disconnected and too far apart. It totally wasn’t the fact that feudalism created competing interests among the heads of state rather than aligning their interests as capitalism dies which allows for a broader ability to collaborate in the abuse
You jump from coordination to capitalism as moral cause. Coordination is produced by infrastructure and technology, not by capitalism as an ethical system. That’s the exact category error I’ve pointed out REPEATEDLY. If coordination itself is what you’re calling capitalism, then the claim is definitional, not causal, and can’t be argued or proven either way.
This level of Coordination is allowed because of capitalism, an argument you haven’t responded to, rather you just repeat yourself like a broken record. There’s also the fact that capitalism creates people who have more wealth and power than ever before in human history and permits them to behave like gods
I’ve made 4 or 5 different arguments directly in favor of capitalism being the exclusive reason why this is possible and you have failed to directly respond to the substance of any of these arguments. I just hope you know that you, and people like you, are the reason why Epstein and associates view the common person as so easily manipulated and stupid
You’re asserting necessity without demonstrating it. Saying “this level of coordination is allowed because of capitalism” is just restating your conclusion. I’ve already responded by pointing out that coordination follows infrastructure, technology, and institutional power, all of which exist independently of capitalism. You have to make the connection that capitalism is the necessary condition and not merely coincident with modern infrastructure. You just keep repeating the premise.
I literally did make the connection about how capitalism aligns political entities interests under the banner of capitalism which then allows for that coordination to occur. You did not respond to this analysis, rather simply crying like a pathetic baby and repeating yourself like a mental patient
If “alignment of interests under capital” is what defines capitalism, then you still haven’t shown why alignment itself is unique to capitalism rather than a general feature of large-scale power systems. Show me the mechanism by which capitalism alone, and not state power, empire, bureaucracy, ideology, or technology, makes such coordination possible or concede that capitalism is coincident with modern scale, not its necessary cause.
Ya know it’s the sign of an intellectually weak man when you project this hard about looping and not providing justifications. Your refusal to engage in the substance I provide and instead simply attempting to hand wave it away by repeating yourself is truly pathetic. You should be ashamed of your self but your too stupid to be capable of that
“organized rape by the 1% of business owners, politicians, and world leaders (aka capitalists) has only existed under capitalism” “Working class people were victims, owning class people are the assaulters” We can agree that this isn’t always the case, right? What about the Rotherham grooming gangs? USA Gymnastics? Penn State? You could argue that Nassar wasn’t exactly working class, but he wasn’t a billionaire either
You could argue that the Karolyis and Paterno were the owning class in this situation, but they were enablers who turned a blind eye or just let it happen. They didn’t play an active role in actually assaulting or trafficking children (or in the PSU case, adults, but still, there’s the power dynamic)
You can’t use any US or modern examples btw. When you really get to meat of their argument, it just ends up being everything good is socialism and everything bad is capitalism. Even working class people get annoyed with these people who try to use their misfortunes for moral credibility.
To them, only scale matters. That’s why when I brought Genghis Khan, they started to try and run with the argument that it still wasn’t as global. Like no shit, the global population was like 400 million at best 😂 They don’t care about Power Theory. The world is more exciting when you have an big evil bad guy with a big evil ideology and a narrative.
Also, #4, your first comment is stupid as fuck and missing the point of what we were saying, yet again. I invite you to try to concoct a reply that doesn’t create a straw man and actually engages with the substance of my argument. I don’t think you will tho because you don’t have an argument to make
That’s not what I’m saying at all and I’ve made that abundantly clear. If you are misunderstanding, that’s your fault! I’m clearly making the argument that in order for this broad scale global cabal of abusers to exist, capitalism must exist first! I never stated that forms of organized criminal enterprises that engage in similar behavior can’t exist outside of that or originating from the working class, but rather that capitalism creates the conditions that allows for global organized abuse
Also, human trafficking occurring on an individual scale, even if that individual scale is broad, is starkly different than state sponsored abuse committed by the most powerful and influential people in the world. You know this. You won’t admit it tho cause it nukes your entire argument
Are you really this dumb and need everything spelled out for you like a toddler? Current “communist” countries still operate using capital! Because capital is how you engage in trade! Those countries’ governments exert more influence over said capital than in “capitalist” countries, but they are still fundamentally rooted in capital. If capital disappears, all countries convert to socialism, then we can actually point and say “ok so is this how communism as a fully fledged economic system would
I never said that capitalism is necessary for the *behavior* of organized pedophilia to exist, I stated that in order for it to be allowed to exist in such a large, global scale, involving multiple state intelligence agencies, and the most powerful people on the planet, that capitalism is a necessary condition. This is clear if you can read and aren’t being a dishonest ass
Show me evidence you dumb fucking prick that this was occurring as a grand scale, coordinated by the state, and involving all the most powerful people on the planet before capitalism. You cannot. Because it wasn’t. And you know this. I’m done with this argument. I refuse to debase myself by arguing with someone who is either painfully stupid and needs help or is this dishonest
Wow crazy please point to where that states it was a coordinated organization of multiple state actors and allowed for people to commit atrocities that were at that time period viewed as fundamentally immoral, rather than a simple system of economic trade, which although objectively wrong, was not viewed as such at the time