BurgerPunk [he/him,comrade/them]

i deserve passive income

We know that housing can be decommodified and that everyone can have a home because socialist nations have already done that.

The concept has been thought through. Theres a nearly 200 year long intellectual tradition of thinking this through. You’re just really into the idea of exploiting other people because you and people like you feel entitled to passive income.

You’re getting that feeling because people in this thread do think that housing should be decommodified. We don’t think anyone should be able to profit off of human needs. Housing should be a right. Our needs shouldn’t be exploited so some “average dude” can use us to fund the retirement we aren’t going to get.

The reason you think this is ridiculous is because you’re a

You think if you invest smart then you’ll get to wear the boot, but there’s a crisis in profitablity. They’re going to be all out of boots, no matter what you do.

And when you say “there’s more than enough housing for everyone” and then say there’s homeless people because they’re addicts and mentally ill, that’s not just facts, its a pretty fucked up dehumanizing perspective

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Its interesting that you say drugs and mental illness are the problems. Isn’t the fact that housing is commodified and costs money the HUGE problem? They can’t afford it, is the reason they’re homeless. The way you’re making it look is that the problem is just them, which is an extremely dehumanizing starement, especially when you are ignoring the obvious answer that’s its because some people are allowed to profit off of others need for shelter.

Are you a libertarian? The way you bring up printing money, cronyism, ill-conceived laws etc. sounds like you might be

There’s more than enough housing that everyone can afford to own? Why are there homeless people then?

Why should a human necesssity be an investment?

Didn’t sound like it so

Oh the risk! Well sure that entitles them to take money from people who actually work. Go find a landlord and

No they usually don’t pay for anything to be built. Even if they did, they just pay for it with other peoples labor (their renters)

Why should it be an investment at all?

Commodifying things makes them cheap? As opposed to decommodifying? That makes no sense

CIA backed insugents grew opium. What dies that have to do with anything i said?

The issue is that it isn’t imperialist. You are unable to demarcate between what you consider unsavory actions and imperialism.

I’m not saying that i agree with all of the USSR’s actions. I never said i was in support of this particular action for that matter. I am saying that the USSR was not imperialist because it did not engage in capitalist extraction or monopolization.

How could the USSR have invaded Afghanistan for the same reason as the US?

The USSR was there to oppose the US by fighting their proxies and defend the socialists in Afghanistan who supported them during the invasion.

The US invaded under the War on Terror pretext as a war profiteering entrerprise. They brought Unaco, Haliburton, KBR, PMCs, and other contractors in to extract value from the region to bring profits to the imperial core.

How are these two things the same?

What’s bullshit about it? You just say its bullshit but not why.

That’s why you get called a

Do you even read the Wikipedia articles you link people to? The Afghans were asking for Soviet aid against insurgents backed by the US. The invasion happened when the USSR feared their allies in Afghanistan were not capable of handling the US supported insurgency that they thought would institute a theocracy there as had happened in Iran. Which is exactly what ended up happening there.

That’s not what happened during the US invasion of Afghanistan. That invasion was a cover for war profiteeering, mineral extraction, and opiate production. Rhe US extracted value and resources from that region to enrich capitalists in the imperial core. That’s what makes it imperialist.

They were supporting the socialists in Afghanistan against the CIA backed Mujahideen. How is that imperialist?

Edit clarity: an invasion is not imperialist on its own., It’s not about who does it, it’s about the objectives of the invasion.

nonsense