Op your summary is wildly inaccurate. This is not the NY Times reporting on anything. This is an opinion piece. Now I’ll grant you it’s heartening that they allowed it to be published, though I suspect it was accompanied by or will soon be accompanied by either one or multiple horrific rebuttals because that’s their MO. However it’s not the same as reporting.

Memories fade though. Looking through old photos can help keep them alive. Especially when you’ve lost someone. Believe me I know.

Old photos are something people don’t always realize are important and special until years later.

I don’t understand why you would even respond to that.

My disappointment is immeasurable.

925 rent? Yeah that would help.

It’s absolutely fair because it is absolutely true. Those are simply facts. His entire performance was basically one scene which I thought came off a teeny bit of ham fisted but not bad. He simply was not in the movie all that much. To say otherwise is simply inaccurate.

He was a very minor character. Who died very early on too.

What’s Paraguay’s problem?

Those God damn dastardly Dutch

Always odd when people are more concerned with potential damage caused by change than the massive amounts of damage caused everyday by the current reality.

I knew someone once who thought capitalism was basically all forms of commerce. Like there was no trade before capitalism i guess. Don’t understand how they thought the world worked for most of the last few thousand years.

Course a distressingly number of people in this thread seem to think similarly. Which makes me sad for the world.

I think you’re partially right. Because the end goal of capitalism is fascism. But then again fascism often does consist of monopolies. So glass half full.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Well corporatism and capitalism are heavily linked they are not the same thing. Lot of people own their own company it doesn’t make them capitalists. You can have a company which is you mowing lawns but I wouldn’t say you control the means of production. You’re just providing a service. And certainly no one’s dumb enough to think selling your labor makes you a capitalist.

The entire point of capitalism is it doesn’t serve everyone’s benefit. It serves the benefits of the few. That’s literally the point.

It’s not his definition that’s the definition. Your definition is so absurdly broad as to be meaningless. No since the dawn of Agriculture capitalism has not existed.

Hell since dawn of agriculture it’s been very rare that farmers have owned their own land so your entire premise is absurd.

I don’t think you can be a Social Democrat and be a capitalist at the same time. A Social Democrat is someone who understands that capitalism is a destructive system and needs Band-Aids otherwise it’ll destroy us all. They understand the capitalism is a rabid dog that needs to be muzzled. They understand that we should replace it they just don’t have any better ideas at the moment. But certainly I don’t think you can be a real capitalist and a Social Democrat the same time.

You think capitalism is your identity? Well that’s soul crushingly sad.

And now the new guy will implement “austerity” measures to fight it right? Same old song and dance.

A lot of romance was like Pirates and shit. It’s not like it was ever really particularly grounded.