You’ve heard of no true Scotsman, well that’s compared to me, the only true Scotsman. Everything I am is all things that are forever and not, therefore the fallacy isn’t.

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  • Both of those statements are allowed in .ml, you just can’t repeat us state department propaganda without extreme amounts of proof to back it up. There is a difference between: “I think China is authoritarian” and “oog boog look remember that genocide that the UN investigated and found wasn’t a genocide where all the ‘victims’ that were touted are now millionaires in other countries after selling a story the UN specifically found didn’t happen… It happened!!!1!1!!1”



  • I don’t, but that doesn’t matter. Geothermal is limited in use case. Hydro is worse for the environment than coal unless you make it a hydro battery, and then you only have so many places you can build it, and wind is naturally unreliable by definition. Solar is the most consistent renewable, and the cheapest, and it’s useless on average half of a day.

    Renewables are great, and eventually when we figure out perfect energy storage using hydrogen or other super common material based battery they’ll be almost good enough for most use cases on earth.

    Until then, though, and for all future applications, fission and fusion are going to be needed.

    Edit: also lol if you think wave generators are anything but an express way to shed micro plastics into the ocean.





  • It doesn’t have to come out today tax payers pockets, that’s the entire thing. The money doesn’t exist, the debt doesn’t exist.

    We made up this system specifically so we didn’t have to keep exact books, that’s the point of fiat currency over backed currency. If we don’t use its primary feature for good, ever, we may as well go back to the gold standard which would elimate nearly all banks and lenders at this point in the capitalist finite curve.


  • No it can be ‘magically’ erased, it was ‘magically’ created out of thin air with nothing backing it. The money doesn’t actually exist, the asset for non existent money can simply have zero value. Loans are erased this way literally constantly. In fact more loans are erased this way than actually paid, if only by volume and not purported value. This is what happens when you default and no value is reclaimed on a loan, or when one defaults on a healthcare bill with an arbitrary price tag.

    There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, the lender has to be made whole. That’s not a thing in other circumstances where loans lose all value and the money created for them disappears.



  • No.

    Stealing is usually defined as taking something that exists in a way that denies the original owner its use and grants the illegitimate owner its use.

    This is how loans work in fractional reserve banking: loan provider has assets of $1 million, they loan out $10 million, having wholesale created the additional $9 million. If those loans are forgiven, but the original assets did not change, what has been stolen?

    A fictitious amount of theoretical money.

    If I make up an image, and I make a copy of that image that i send to you and you delete, but I get to keep the original, is that theft? No. Obviously not. Made up money is no different.