Capitalists around the world will get a nice hard-on from this one. Homeless people in Houston given food by volunteers having their food seized by the police and thrown away.
>Local activists attempting to hand out food and gifts were shocked on Thursday afternoon when Houston police forced the homeless to throw away the donations. Around 1 pm on Thursday, several individuals met in downtown Houston to distribute plates of hot food, blankets, and other supplies to the city’s growing homeless population. Soon after, Houston police arrived on the scene of two different intersections where the homeless advocates were giving out gifts and food.
Not seeing what this has to do with capitalism. I guess only capitalists have homeless? I suppose I will ignore Venezuela from now on.
Nicholas Wilson
>police = capitalism ???
Justin Fisher
>Implies Venezuela isn't a capitalist social democracy with a couple of nationalized industries
Jason Lewis
>Probably thinks privatized police forces are a good idea
Robert Thomas
Texas is number one!
James Cooper
Pretty heavily socialist with their use of price controls.
Anthony Clark
>people voluntarily give to the poor >the state wastes money and resources fucking with the free exchange of charity
wow dude free market totally btfo
Daniel Brooks
>Thinks some price controls=socialism >Proves no knowledge of socialism
Nolan Johnson
This was very likely done to prevent the possibility that someone crazy poisoned a bunch of food and gave it out to the homeless. They also probably didn't do this with a permit, which means if some did poison it they'd have no idea of finding out who.
Weird how most of Sup Forums claims it has an IQ of 130 but don't think of basic shit and policy such as this.
Blake Hall
>Thinks free market can actually exist in reality >Forgets negotiating as equals is impossible in a world of uneven wealth distribution
Cameron Morgan
Not in the sense of a ""private'''' company with government contracts. I like what some are doing in Detroit where the government police are so shitty that companies have sprung up that will provide security or training better than the state police.
Adam Carter
>Has not read about recent Houston crackdowns on the homeless >Spoke before reading >Is capitalist
Oliver Foster
>can't negotiate because autist >projects it on the rest of the world
Nathaniel Young
>Likes mercenaries >Will be confused when Wal-Mart's police force shoots his the fuck down in his capitalist dystopia
Camden Martinez
Okay then explain what your definition of a socialist state is.
Nicholas Fisher
All you commies here, just look at the past 100 years. It's the socialism that kills, dont blame capitalism. We dont have it it would be much better if we had capitalism in western world.
Andrew Moore
You're a capitalist too you dipshit, you live in the US.
And even if that is correct there's nothing wrong with discouraging the homeless from congregating.
Leo Gomez
>Doesn't understand that money=power >Calls other autists
Henry Rodriguez
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Isaac Sanchez
I reject the nation-state entirely.
Justin Brown
Just because you suck does not give you right to make everybody else suck. Socialism is bringing success down and poor people to even more poor
Far more have died of starvation and disease under capitalism in the last 100 years than have died of anything under mislabeled communist societies.
David Wilson
Except that wouldn't happen Walmart would instantly lose business because people don't like it when their money goes to fund needless violence.
Jayden Butler
Nice one, imbecile. I'm pretty poor and I can still haggle, bargain, and make deals. It's less about money and more about rhetoric and finding a good position.
Kevin Cruz
>Doesn't know what a dissident is >Wants homeless to be as atomized and anti-social as he is
Chase Robinson
But how do you define socialism? If price controls are not part of a socialist aspect of the economy, what are they part of?
Hudson Lopez
no "muh independent power distribution system"?
Evan Edwards
>there was no starvation or disease in USSR >there is no starvation currently in DPRK >millions didn't die from Mao and other crazy lefties from their stupid communist ideas
Eli Roberts
>Fails to notice that if all government restrictions disappeared tomorrow, the whole world belongs to a select few who have all the money >Fails to notice that in this case, boycotts from the poor won't matter if they want to survive
Christopher Jones
Since theyre having the super bowl near downtown and all these related events downtown theyre building tent cities for the homeless in random vacant lots in shitty areas away from the city. Most of the homeless here are derelict niggers so no care.
Adam Sanders
>Uses irrelevant personal story when we're discussing "free market" concept >Is autistic
Gavin Roberts
Socialism=worker control over the means of production. Price controls are a social democratic treat in a market economy.
James Edwards
That is simply false and absolute lie claim you just made. You have probably read too much propaganda by the eft wing
Jonathan Perry
the cops saved those poor homeless folk. It's south Texas, so it's not like they were freezing and needed a hot meal in particular. As for the hot meal, can you imagine what a bunch of empty-headed leftists cooked up? Tofurkey? Vegan tacos? Boiled lettuce?
Jonathan Campbell
>Failed to notice that even if we erroneously call all those societies socialist, capitalism still wins in the body count - and not by a little bit
Carter Diaz
>every death from starvation and disease in """capitalist""" countries is the fault of capitalism >USSR wasn't really communist these fucking goalposts wtf
Mason Collins
>Has never read numbers that aren't artificially skewed by silly "qualifiers" specifically designed to negate starvation and disease in capitalist societies cuz "those don't count cuz it's the poor's fault for being poor under capitalism" >Needs to read starvation statistics
Sebastian Reyes
This rustles my jimmies. They're seizing and pitching perfectly good stuff because they don't like charity? Fuck them.
Dylan Scott
>Like I said, even if the USSR is communist, capitalism still starved more
Ethan Ramirez
Guess you failed to examined the economic history of the USSR. Worker control means price control because workers are a scarce resource which have supply and demand mechanics. As such workers have prices for their labor. Workers controlling the means of production means workers determine their value and not the free market.
Ryder Russell
well that's because people die all the time and capitalism has stayed as a stable system because socialism/communism kills people at such a high rate that the society collapses and moves to more of a capitalistic system.
Hunter Campbell
That's the opposite of a libertarians dream though, so not sure why you used a picture of Friedman, who supported private charity.
Jackson Williams
>Does not understand difference between command economy and socialism
Adrian Turner
Because leftists are stupid and their entire argument boils down to, "nuh uh capitalism is worse."
John Flores
Private police were a thing for a long time in England and didn't have the problems most opponents think will happen under private police.
John Brooks
If you feed stray animals they stick around.
Why do I want to encourage the mentally ill and drug addicted to hang around my neighborhood?
You sound like you live in a nice white suburb.
Landon Cook
>Fails to know that from 1986-present, capitalism has starved 14 million people a year. >In the 20th century, so-called "Communism" was starving 300,000 a year >14 million a year>300,000 a year >Knows nothing
I love how you can't justify your system politically or economically so all you have is appeal to emotion also >The anti media Kys
Andrew Scott
>Doesn't realize how concentrated wealth is at the present moment >Doesn't understand difference between global private police and one country
Blake Cook
>Thinks Venezuela isn't run by the socialist party Top kek
Josiah Ross
What world do you live in where that's a thing?Organizing to do large scale food distribution has permit complications. Food safety is about two things, not letting people get sick and ensuring legal liability for if someone does get sick. Ilcreating and distributing a product, any product, even for free, has consequences that you need to have a place. In place to deal with. Is it likely anything wrong might happen? In all likelhood, no. But if someone were to get sic and die, that's on someone. In an effort to have some level of preventative measure, they require food distribution to become permitted to minimize the likely hood of food Bourne illness. If they had wanted to do this any one of a hundred church's and charity's would have happily partnered with them to use a permitted facility or if they had contacted the health Dept they could have obtained the required permits, potential wit h any fees waived for being charitable. The cops didn't just go kick over some ones BBQ on the roadside and youre a moron leftist if you think ahit like that happens with any regularity.
Eli Thomas
>Thinks whatever someone calls themselves is what they are >Fails to note that "North Korea" is actually called "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea" >Is autistic
Christopher Sullivan
Any so called socialist or communist nation has always instituted price controls.
Joseph Lewis
So therefore any country that ever does = pure socialist society?
Logic fail.
Levi Phillips
The free market isn't about beating someone in an argument, it's about conducting mutually beneficial transactions. Why wouldn't that happen in real life?
Liam Scott
>Is a socialist >Doesn't know about juche the ruling ideology of the norks Lol it's so funny how commies try to absolve yourself of your numerous failures
>Is not educated on the fallacies of the free market >Will not bother reading this for more than 10 seconds even though red pill cuz it isn't as entertaining as Pizzagate
>Has failed to absolve himself of 14 million starvations a year since 1986 due to capitalism
Thomas Foster
>considers most of the world capitalist >hurr look capitalism causes more starvation
Nolan Morgan
>Did not disprove claim >Just because capitalism is doing a little better now doesn't mean 14 million starvations a year is good >So-called communism still had less starvations
Noah Price
>Will propose new definition of capitalism completely foreign to anything Adam Smith ever talked about >Will still be autistic
Wyatt Butler
>Capitalism
This would be authoritarianism, not capitalism. In a free market the police would have no right to do this. Under corporatism or communism, then yes they would. Under a socialist government the government would be the ones handing out the food along with welfare and healthcare all paid through taxes.
You're new here aren't you? You could at least lurk on leftypol for a little bit longer.
Ryan Roberts
Never implied that, only that price controls are a socialist aspect of the economy. They represent government intervention upon the market. If they do not represent socialism, explain how. If socialism is the state controlling the means of production, then it automatically entails controlling prices.
Henry Richardson
>In a free market, police would be privately owned >Wal-Marts police comes and shoots your police, then demands your house >You cry cuz Ayn Rand said free market gewd
Cooper Wilson
well goy don't you know about the free market capitalist continent of africa.
Sure feels new.
Julian Wood
>Handing out food for photo op for their personal socialist agenda
These are garbage people. Why don't they hand out food and gifts through legal means?
Luis Lopez
If the money is controlled by the government then there is not free market capitalism.
>implying adam smith invented capitalism
Colton Wilson
>state controlling the means of production
Not socialism.
Isaac Morales
>14 millions starvations since 1986 >In Africa
Wew that was imperialism, mercantilism, and Christendom's fault. Communism is just as guilty as capitalism in this regard
Christopher Morris
>Probably thinks capitalism is as old as time immemorial cuz anthropology is librools
Jacob Edwards
That's anarcho Capitalism, not capitalism.
William Lee
You have ZERO chill. Even venezuela doesn't count as socialisim, and you go from privatized police force to full retard.
Food safety laws. If you're running a big food operation, the state expects you to follow the same rules the caterers and restaurants use.
Because he's new here, is a retard, has zero imagination, and understands greentext wrorse than he understands the fundamentals of the social compact.
Ayden Williams
>Looks at numbers
Nope.
>thinks all starvations happened in African countries that are exploited by good American capitalists
Nope.
Elijah Garcia
Then show me the numbers?
Brody Thompson
>Eagerly awaits you to inform us of your preferred version of capitalism
Independent Left journalist in California. Aging roué, lumpen trustafarian in a shackteau, slumming it up in the barrio. Revolutionary, patriotic Leftist
Politics: Green Party, Communist Party USA, Democratic Party
Yeah, that's an honest source of information
Colton Jenkins
USA instituted price controls during WW2 you numb nut.
So i guess USA is a socialist commie central?
Camden Anderson
Capitalism has only relatively recently been defined, but it exists whenever people are free to interact through financial transactions with their own money.
go back to infinitechan
Ian Williams
Already did, scroll up captain.
Daniel Brooks
>Socialism=worker control over the means of production Who is the state or governing body in this system?
Hunter Young
>If someone holds ideology I don't like then the sources they cite must be lying >Breitbart and Infowars
Zachary Cook
FDR was a socialist, yes.
>massive government spending >price controls >seizing private property
Hunter Ross
Topkek no anarcho Capitalism was not capitalism. That's not even a semantically debate, and I'm not even a capitalist either. So what the true definition of your perfect socialist utopia looks like? Is is Luxembourg spartacist tier?
Luis Murphy
>muh new, special snowflake infallible brand of capitalism as never been tried and is ,like, just perfect!!!!
Gabriel Taylor
Yes cuz FDR was a big fat commie cuz he wanted people to be able to retire
Nolan Anderson
Free market capitalism is as old as time immemorial. The free market is the most organic system we have.
Brandon Collins
Price controls were at times used from ancient times onward, before socialism even appeared.
Jose Davis
>I can't argue against it so I'll just call it names
Juan Bell
No state. Worker control=worker democracy.
Owen Butler
Called it!
Kevin Edwards
Who makes the decisions affecting everyone?
Hudson Perry
>Anthropology isn't real, only Pizzagate is!
Hunter Brown
No no no I meant actual numbers not an opinion piece that treats the whole world's issues on starvation as being a priori capitalism without providing any evidence whatsoever of it? Robert Lindsay is your source?
Show me real numbers divided up by continent.
Austin Foster
>creates SS so people can """retire""" >raids the SS funds a few years after it's creation
