I MIGHT be misrembering. Shortly after Luigi Mangione was wrongly accused of having done nothing, admins said they would be removing any content that glorified violence and were required to do so under Dutch law.

.world is hosted on Dutch servers, and the Netherlands are adjacent to Germany?

Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?

Is that the definition of a sandwich, or is there something about ‘sanwhich’ that transcends its constituent parts? Could ‘sandwich’ be a cluster of different properties that, when considered as a whole, become ‘sandwhich’? I think to get to the heart of this ‘sandwhich’ question, we need not look at the sandwhich but instead at ‘cake’. What is ‘cake’ and do those propertie exclude sandwhich? What common aspects do cake and sandwhich have, and are both of those elements essential?

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Ligma balls.

I think it’s a substitute for sorting ones own identity out by putting yourself in a predefined box so you can do zero self development and feel cool about it. It is a consolation prized coined by so-called ‘alpha male’ grifters when they realized they would need to carve out an exception for people sympathetic to their grift, but, shared all common traits with what they called ‘betas’. It’s all bathwater, and there isn’t even a tub. Anyway, you seem more like a ligma to me.

I never claimed there was anything wrong with money? As far as I thought, I was arguing that it was a tool so useful it would be reinvented if a society did away with it.

I wouldn’t kill my neighbor? Was that too complicated an example? I think that money, like an axe, is a tool that can be used differently in different contexts. ‘Money’ isn’t the issue. How it’s used is the issue, which is why I think we would invent it. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of an axe. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of money. Capitalism uses stand-ins for value to harm people, but I am not convinced it’s an inherent trait of value stand-ins. I think LV’s are money, so I think you think that is true also.

I am aware of this. It’s functionally no different than a dollar bill. The fact that I intend to melt down an axe after I use it to chop a tree down doesn’t make it not an axehead. If I used that same axe to hack my neighbor to death, well, that’s a completely different use. In the case of communist ‘money’, I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.

Anything you exchange as a representation or substitute for something else of value. I think communism would reinvent what I consider money but wouldn’t use it as it’s used under capitalism.

I think if we eliminated money, we would just invent it again and call it something else.

While I agree with most of what you are saying, I don’t think this is an example of gaslighting. This is just run of the mill dishonesty.