r/me_irl • u/megapenguinx a drunk ocelot on a beach with the mods • Oct 01 '16

Me😺irl

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '16

give me your dang tooth brush timmy.

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u/b1b2b3 me too thanks Oct 01 '16

I always wonder how this meme started

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u/ZSCroft Oct 02 '16

It stems from a lack if understanding of the differences between personal and private property... I mean me too thanks

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u/b1b2b3 me too thanks Oct 02 '16

Instead of calling it personal property, just call it means of consumption. There is way less misunderstanding

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u/vwermisso hates freedom Oct 06 '16

the problem has more to do with what we call private property than what we call personal property though---"private property is theft" creates more issues than the "we're not talking about personal property!" explanation that comes afterwards.

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u/SpiritofJames Oct 02 '16

A nonsense difference.

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u/lakelly99 Oct 02 '16

na there's a pretty huge difference

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u/ZSCroft Oct 02 '16

This is what im talking about. This isn't even a communism thing Adam Smith talked about personal property in his works.

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u/SpiritofJames Oct 02 '16

And he was confused.

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u/ZSCroft Oct 02 '16

Of course. Well since you know so much about this when can I expect to read your book discrediting the past 250 years of economic theory? I'm sure you're working hard on it in between reddit posts and cheeto handfuls right?

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u/BlondeFlip staunch marxist Oct 02 '16

Ah yes. Both grandfathers of modern economics agree on the difference between private and personal property, you know better than both of them, right?

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u/VladimirLemin Oct 02 '16

Someone didn't Google it even briefly before commenting about it, huh?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '16

the Bourgeoisie started it

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u/b1b2b3 me too thanks Oct 02 '16

Probably u.s. anti communist 1950s propaganda

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '16

i saw it on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY first

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u/sgtpeppers508 cathy brennan is a fake goth Oct 02 '16

i was pretty sure tumblr user edwad used it first, but i'm not 100% positive