Oversimplified theory of politics:

Theocracy: What if the people who know our regional religion best were in charge of everything? God would never allow frauds and hypocrites to take positions of power.

Feudal Caste System: One tribe of people got to be in charge of everything, another tribe was the slaves, and everyone else was between these two extremes.

Imperialism: Let us, as a society, go to other lands and steal stuff and people that will (probably) benefit everyone back home. And if people try to stop us, we kill them.

Democracy: What if the people who promised the nicest things to the most number of people were put in charge, by the people? Surely, this will not result in a new caste of incompetent rulers.

Capitalism: What if the people who were best at imperialism got to be in charge, rather than because they were in the ruling tribe? Surely this will not result in a new incompetent ruling caste.

Anarchism: The tribes thing would have worked if some tribes hadn't taken charge. Let's try that again but we discourage the accumulation of power.

Communism: What if we did Imperialism to the rich people in our own country? Surely, that would fix our problems and not result in a new ruling caste.

Fascism: What if we did Imperialism to poor people, people we don't like, and ethnic minorities everywhere? Surely, that would fix our problems because those people are actually secretly rich so we can steal their treasure and use it to pay for everything.

Argument for a functional government

There are five kinds of disasters, listed in order from least caused by human activity to most:

In times of crisis, an organized government with widely distributed resource stockpiles and logistics infrastructure can help far more people than local individuals volunteering the bare minimum... Unless the people in charge are libertarian's who are opposed to "government wasting resources on undeserving people," then all of that stuff gets neglected and rotted away until a crisis befalls the people that the libertarians care about. Then there's a desperate scramble to resupply and rebuild capabilities until the crisis eventually passes. And then libertarians go back to cost cutting because "we don't need it anymore," and the cycle repeats itself. This applies to both the military and more importantly emergency services.

Lefty-anarchists have their own version of shortsightedness. They believe communities can help and defend their own most vulnerable without outside assistance. This makes sense if the community is wealthy and with favorable geography. But it doesn't make sense in poor and geographically isolated communities, especially after a disaster or against an organized enemy. Those victimized communities are typically abandoned and forgotten, it's people forced to join other communities at a disadvantage. Because of this form of Survivor Bias, wealthy anarchists could never imagine their own communities being destroyed and having to flee, so they insist that paying up to a big government is oppressive, despite the insurance it provides.

I think you might have messaged the wrong person, but I will share what little I know. When you look at who receives government farming subsidies it's large corporations like monsanto, that own farms, not farmers themselves. Pre-Green Revolution the government funds given out to farmers was meant to protect them from predatory banks loans in case of a bad harvest due to blight and bad weather. After the green revolution, crops became much more resilient thanks to genetic engineering, and corporations that invested in that engineering became the new predatory lending banks... And that brings me back to Monsanto. The old banks thought farmland was just another unstable commodity they could sell to traders. Modern Agri-Corps treat farmland like factories for products they can sell on the global market. And when sales don't line up with projections that's where the government steps in with subsidies. Government isn't keeping corporations afloat, it's padding the net worth of Executives and Investors in the hopes they keep their business at home and not overseas.

I'm not a libertarian and I hate Libertarianism. Because a libertarian/AnCap solution to this problem of the government giving money to large corporations would be to get rid of government. They believe that without the government to provide subsidies, Monsanto would collapse and be overtaken by smaller competitors. That is wrong, without government corporations would be able to use any and all means to eliminate competition and expand operations. They have done this since the Virginia Tobacco Company first bought slaves from Africa and stole land from Native Americans. Or when fruit companies set up their own Banana Republics in Central America. Or when the East India Trading Company starved millions to death in India.

I love how Tachanka a.k.a. Alexsandr Senaviev has been added to Arknights canon. He's just this old soviet soldier who outlived Russian communism. He's also a divorced dad (two grown up kids and an ex-wife) and his sister is a nurse. And now he gets isekaid to Terra where he just adopts things like originium slugs and the entire ursus student union. He's old school military so he's used to the idea of never seeing home again and is just trying to make the best of it.

I can't wait to see if he tries introducing the concept of Communism to the Ursus Empire. Those bear-folks desperately need some Marxist doctrine in their lives.

Little Nightmares Theory: Labor in Pale City

I haven't seen anyone on tumblr make a connection between the Porcelain Students, The Hospital Mannequins, The Viewers, and locations within The Pale City:

The Viewers spend all their days watching TV while their faces atrophy into nothingness. So how is the city still barely intact and who is maintaining it?

My theory is that magically animated dolls are laborers for the Viewers. Somewhere in the Pale City might be a place where the dolls are assembled and then brought to life. Once animated, the dolls are shipped off to The School where they are trained to do their jobs by The Teacher.

As these dolls get older, they replace parts of their bodies. When a mannequin becomes too broken to work, they get put into storage at the Hospital. They wait there until they can be repaired by The Doctor with organic or non-organic components. A patients recovery at the hospital can go faster if they cannibalize weaker patients for parts. The doctor is the only intact person left in the hospital because he is on the ceiling and none of the patient mannequins can reach him. It definitely seemed like the doctor decided who got to live and who cut up for parts...

It's possible that there is no doll factory and that the School and the Hospital are a part of a loop. When an animating spirit refuses to go back to work in an adult sized doll, it is transferred back into a student sized doll and retrained. These spirits are scared of being broken down further but they don't want to go back to work. Hence the Porcelain Students going crazy when they aren't being supervised.

Recycling these laboring spirits instead of making new ones is an interesting version of the Bourgeois trying to keep the Proletariat population in check. Perhaps the Dolls rebelled against the Viewers and so in retaliation the production of new doll parts ceased.

Mono and Six may have doomed the Dolls and the Viewers by trapping and burning the Doctor in that incinerator...

I ain’t a Communist but...

Hey Guys, here’s a bunch of loosely connected arguments against libertarianism. Do you whatever you want with them. If you are a libertarian, feel free to form arguments against these points. If you are NOT a libertarian feel free to find research supporting the following statements: