ROFL. Stow the faux benevolence. It’s nonsense. Nobody is acting out of the goodness of their hearts in a capitalist transaction. They’re choosing to pollute instead of choosing to do other things. That’s not for anyone’s benefit but their own. The long-term consequences are so well-understood that only the extremely selfish are optimizing for the short-term.

China’s choice to build a national highway system instead of a national railway system wasn’t done with ecological concerns as the priority. They’re, again, choosing to pollute more purely because of the short-run benefit instead of doing something else that optimizes for humanity’s collective benefit.

So weird how the supposedly collectivist country isn’t acting in all of our best interest. Communism is an idea so good that they’ll silence you forever if you disagree.

China is still the world’s leading polluter, in a time where those so-called “scientists” most definitely know what they’re doing contributing to global climate change like they are. No country is innocent, but making no attempt to not be first isn’t a defensible policy position.

Feel free to read Friedman’s Economic History of the United States. His treatise is the most authoritative on the subject and has withstood decades of peer review.

There is quite literally no need to be making stuff up, like you’re doing.

ROFL. That’s an ahistoric narrative. The Great Depression was caused by a lack of liquidity caused by a failure to respond to mass withdrawal. FDR then made it worse with the New Deal, causing a double-dip that only resolved itself with the WWII wartime economy.

It was the lack of Federal Reserve banks and the failures of their predecessor organizations. Vaguely blaming “capitalism” is purely ignorance combined with intellectual laziness.

The modern problems can be laid at the feet of Reagan and Nixon, mostly. Bush Sr and Bush Jr contributed. But it’s mostly Nixon and Reagan that helped corrupt the antitrust framework. The fallout breaking up Ma Bell and the Microsoft Antitrust case about Internet Explorer were both critical decisions instrumental to this deterioration.

Two of them likely did. Elon couldn’t get an invite to those parties, but he definitely tried.

They gotta make it up in volume! /s

The weakest of us possess opinions like this.

ThIs CrEaTeS jObS

In America, rights aren’t “given”, they are “respected”. This is the same distinction made about the right-of-way while driving. Nobody ever has the right-of-way, but there are times when right-of-way must be yielded to others.

The US Constitution declares all of the rights that the US Government must not infringe upon. Nothing declares what rights Americans have. There is no external authority that “gives” Americans rights. They are inherent within us from birth. It is up to our systems of government to recognize and respect what has always been there.

The Second Amendment declares a right to self-defense that extends to defense against any threat including government agents. A modernizing of the 2A language would be, approximately - A free state is a critically important feature of civilization, therefore the people of that state possess the right to self-defense using the same level of technology as the state’s agents.

The offensive use of arms is not a basic human right, but the defensive use is.

I do. Do you?

A fetish is not necessarily something that needs or must be indulged. Some fetishes are better addressed with therapy. For a lot of the same reasons that nobody should be encouraging indulging in fetishes involving children.

Seek help.