Mark Graybill writes:
I wish you allowed people to express capitalist ideas on your blog. Posts like these make me want to discuss your economic attitudes, but I don’t think you would allow it.
Yes you cannot really cheer for laissez faire capitalism on here. You can support some sort of a market, but you aren’t really supposed to cheer it on, more like you have to say at least that it has a lot of good points and also a lot of bad points.
You can support highly regulated capitalism, state capitalism, capitalism with social liberalism, social democracy or a mixed economy, or market socialism or socialism with a market or Socialism with Chinese Characteristics like in China, but laissez faire, Hell no, I ban on that.
You also have to support some sort of a safety net and some sort of social programs, even as meager as US social liberalism. You are not really allowed to advocate gutting or getting rid of essential social programs. I ban on that too.
We used to have Libertarians and economic conservatives on here all the time, and all I did was argue with them constantly. It took up a lot of time and I do not feeling like wasting that energy anymore. I also had to waste a lot of time chasing down rejoinders to their arguments, which were almost always lies or untruths of some sort, by the way.
At one point, almost everyone on here was an economic conservative and I thought, “Wait a minute! I am a socialist, and this is supposed to be a pro-socialist website, and all the commenters are free marketeers! Screw this, this is stupid.”
So I made some rules about that. I hate to say it, but economic conservatives actually bug me a lot more that White nationalists, anti-Semites or White racists. One Republican is worse than 100 American White nationalists. I consider those racist types to be unpleasant but mostly harmless, but the economic conservatives are in power now, and they are committing tremendous harm to millions of people. Lots of people are being hurt, and lots are dying. They are the enemies of all mankind, are dangerous as Hell, sadly are quite popular in some lands, and they really need to be resisted.
