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bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Let me explain it in simple terms.

Imagine there is a nice park which is used by the community. The park is owned by a kind, old man, who allows everyone to use it freely.

When the man passes away, the park is inherites by his son. His son exercises his freedom to build an oil rig on the park, and putting fences around it.

His freedom to do what he wants with private property deprives others of their freedom to use the park.

This is how liberalism works in practice. Freedom to own land means the freedom to deprive others from the use of the land.

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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is gonna blow your fucking mind: Public and Protected Lands exist in the West.

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- bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You know what else exists in the west? Starvation, homelessness and medical debt. The freedom to profit from food, shelter and healthcare means that you are forced into laboring, usually for the benefit and profit of wealthy private individuals, who pay you for less than your work is actually worth.
  
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  - FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Feel free to try to improve the problems you see, but the track record for either autocracies or anarchists doing better is so far Zilch.
    
    The USA, which is actually a pretty horrible country on many issues, has one of the best records for making sure everyone is food of human history. The closest thing they’ve ever had to a famine was the dustbowl.
    
    I think healthcare should be socialized as it is in many European Nations.
    
    Clearly there are many examples of governments in general and very much so Capitalism of addressing all your worries.
    
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    bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Feel free to try to improve the problems you see, but the track record for either autocracies or anarchists doing better is so far Zilch.
    
    Actually, there are current and historical examples of very successful anarchist societies. For a couple of examples, at present, the Zapatistas exist, an anarchist region with at least 300,000 people living under it, and also that Revolutionary Spain existed, an extremely successful example of anarchism in practice which resisted Nazi Germany better than any democratic nation in mainland Europe.
    
    The USA, which is actually a pretty horrible country on many issues, has one of the best records for making sure everyone is food
    
    Someone hasn’t heard of food deserts!
    
    In 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that an estimated 12.8% of the US population were living in low-income and low-access census tracts. Of this number, 19 million people live in “food deserts”, which they define as low-income census tracts that are more than 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas and more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from a supermarket in rural areas.
    
    I think healthcare should be socialized as it is in many European Nations.
    
    So do a majority of Americans, and yet it has not happened. Why not? Because the wealthy rule, because of capitalism.
    
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