I am exactly the same; why are we like this?

Yeah? Can you provide even 1 example of someone on Hexbear posting something a) civil and b) not fascist?

And the admins of Hexbear are relentlessly pro-CCP, implying that they’re homophobic.

It may well be “leftist”, but it’s also maximum authoritarian. Hexbears love fascism like a raccoon loves trash. If you’re anything but a full-on Nazi, absolutely including being a genocide denier, you’ll be relentlessly attacked on there.

I have the entire instance blocked in my client, so I can’t even go searching for a thread for you. But if you don’t, it should be incredibly easy to poke the hexbear, so to speak. Lemme grab you a link…

Here, this one should work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Find an appropriate sublemmy on Hexbear and post this, ideally in a context that explicitly declares you oppose genocide. You’ll get nothing but the following in your thread:

1. Accusations that you are a “shitlib”. Any attempt by you to find out what this word means will result in additional mockery.
2. Denials of the Uyghur genocide.
3. Adoration of the CCP, especially Xi Jinping (but Hexbear likes any authoritarian tyrant in China, so any CCP politician may end up adulated).

You thankfully appear to have not been exposed to a “proper” hexbear thread where all they can do to communicate is call you a shitlib for doing things like acknowledging genocide.

Depends on jurisdiction.

How bad are these that Hexbear didn’t even make the list? Drilling through on the clickable version here makes it clear that the #1, poa.st, has the same basic content as Hexbear, but I’m assuming it’s somehow way worse. Just imagine.

Missing fifth panel:

Nah, the attitude expressed here makes the water utility less money, and hence makes no sense in the US.

Why would they shut off your power? You’d be paying for the extra power being delivered to you, right? Why would they care what you did with it?

And regardless, that’s a far cry from it being illegal.

But that’s not the question I was asked. Answering the question I was asked doesn’t make my answer a strawman.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

“a rich, bored, bourgeois family”

You dislike the middle class?

Corruption is no more likely in capitalism than in any other system.

Every system has flaws, to be sure - e.g. in Saudi Arabia, which is as anticapitalist as possible due to the government owning everything, all wealth is concentrated in the monarch - and capitalism is no exception. My answer to you has to be specific to certain types of goods, because for other types, capitalism will absolutely fail in the manner you describe and needs government regulation not to.

In this context, I will use “fail” to mean the failure you asked about, only 1 wealthy person.

Example where capitalism will generally not fail, and, in fact, has never failed in recorded history: restaurants. If our mysterious wealthy person attempts to own every restaurant simultaneously, someone else will open a rival restaurant and the plan will fail (and even if somehow no one could open a rival anywhere, people could choose to eat at home). No one in any country has ever managed to own every restaurant at once.

Example where capitalism will absolutely fail over time: oil. It is trivial, given enough time, for one person to eventually own all access to oil - Rockefeller is a great example of someone working hard at this, successfully.

That’s not true at all. Capitalism has many flaws, but your claim is simply false.

I’m guessing you’re conflating capitalism with the deeply non-capitalist legal structures that have been erected on top of it in most of the world. One of the most common examples is corporate welfare, which is exactly as capitalist as welfare for private citizens. I’m not trying to attack or defend welfare with this statement, but I am emphasizing that that’s not how capitalism works.

Stop linking xkcd without including the alt-text.

Re-read RickyRigatoni’s comment.