As time goes on, the comments of Tell Them They’re Idiots on Intelligencer get more and more ridiculous. They are as thick as molasses but with almost no value at all. I used to applaud TTTI for at least HAVING ideas (as opposed to being a robotic partisan narrative shill like dsimon) but maybe I gave him/her/it too much credit.
I once asked TTTI, who of course endlessly bemoans the “genocide” in Gaza, what his/her alternative would be? TTTI said that we should transform Gaza into a paradise, a place no one could complain about, where there was as a result of this prosperity.
Now let us forget for a moment that TTTI, who is Marxist, is apparently proposing that we employ that supposedly evil capitalism to work an economic miracle. Anyone who thinks you can wave some wand, even with capitalism, in a lawless society is probably a fool. It would like trying to bring advanced capitalism to France in the Dark Ages.
To sum up TTTI’s economic knowledge, s/he opposes the existence of private property. People that don’t believe you can’t own anything should not be surprised when no one has the incentive to BUILD anything.
TTTL, to my knowledge, really has no real world solutions for any actual problem. Marxism, of course not only does not work but impoverishes people and robs them of their liberty. When you are like TTTI you don’t understand that, and you can’t justify your proposals in the real world. So you have nothing left except to attack the people that mostly agree with you (conservatives don’t care about your nonsense at all).
While liberals do deserve to be endlessly attacked, when it comes from a place of delusion like TTTI displays, it gets to be grating, like nails on a chalkboard. TTTI just hates. S/he can’t really talk about anything else.