reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: November 7th, 2020

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  • I don’t think this particular scenario would have unfolded under a Harris presidency, but for a bit of a contradictory reason: Israel began striking Iran to throw a wrench into the renegotiation of the nuclear deal with the US (and the US government let it happen, these fucking rubes). Kamala, however, was far more hawkish on Iran and would never in her life entered these negotiations in the first place, thus not prompting this particular escalation to occur to begin with. Would Kamala have willingly and happily supported any strikes on Iran by Israel under any pretext, however flimsy? Absolutely. Whould this particular scenario have arisen? I don’t think so.



  • I mean, they are, but scalpers literally just perform a correction of prices of scarce goods to market value. This is literally just markets working as intended and not even remotely unique to, say, concert tickets. Scalpers, as is expected with the high degree of proliferation and Landnahme after multiple centuries of capitalism, are simply a symptom of capitalism, just a particularly noticeable one. A much bigger example of this type of rent seeking is… rent. Yet, landlords do not receive even a fracture of the ire directed at scalpers (I know, on Hexbear they do).

    Tl;dr: I don’t know what the fuss is about, this is literally how all markets work and we are completely immersed in this shit.