• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Okay well you’re just literally making shit up about what I said now. Out of the two of us, I’m the only one who has shown any actual source material or evidenced any tracking of sources. You have obviously read the wiki, confused its ideological edit war as a university somehow, and are just resorting to ad hominems at this point.

    If a university agrees with you in any more than the most general sense of elements of capitalism pre-existing Adam Smith please feel free to show us. They aren’t shy about leaving knowledge around for people to pick up and use. Otherwise stop being an ass. Nobody likes a confident ass much less one who’s just so wrong.

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      24 hours ago

      You literally think you know better than wiki, thinking you know better and confidently claimed so, despite misusing basic terminology around the subject. You commnet is nothing other than a lack of self awareness, drawing in irony.

      You:

      Which is when Adam Smith starts ranting about Mercantilism and he and David Hume are really cooking up Capitalism

      Also you, the link you sent

      Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism. While accurate to some extent, this description is both overly simplistic and dangerously misleading.

      I’m embarrassed for you.

      Nobody likes a confident ass much less one who’s just so wrong.

      Exactly, take your own advice and fuck off and get your money back from that university.

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        23 hours ago

        Did… Did you read the whole link? Or just the snip the part that sounds like it supports your argument?

        And yes, if you can’t do better than the wiki then you didn’t get a college education on a topic. It’s an encyclopedia, not a 4 year degree with several thousand hours of learning. And that’s when it’s working well. This article has been cut to shit by ideologues trying to revise history for their own benefit.

        You thought you were going to show up here 3 weeks later and leave some kind of last word discrediting my education when I’m the one pulling the .edu links for you to look at. The fucking irony.

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          23 hours ago

          As you clearly read none of it, I only had to read the first part, as that disproved your nonsense straight away which can be seen by your own words and your own link.

          I don’t need to do better than wiki. You haven’t disproven them. You just declared them to be shit, thinking your arrogance alone can refute what it says. You university should’ve taught you to actually quote specific parts of articles and not just link their entirety, declaring them to agree with you despite it disproving you within the first couple of sentences.

          The edu link disproved you, instantly. So, that’s literally exactly what happened. Its not my fault you made a clown out of yourself by proving yourself wrong. I wish you hadn’t done it too. Its taken the sport out of it.