Link to article about the cafe failing

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R/Toronto Thread

ITT: brain-dead conservatives spewing the anti-leftist propaganda their mommies and daddies brainwashed them in, which they never questioned or thought seriously about.

As opposed to the super intelligent anti capitalist hate monger that couldnt keep their business alive for more than a year paying 1/2 price rent.🤔

im not supporting this cafe cause i don’t know their true intentions. but why is everyone here a super fan of capitalism? Y’all better be landlords or factory owners cause the bootlicking is crazy 😝

For most of us it's worked out pretty well! And the alternatives don't look very appealing.

Yes, it worked well if you are a boomer who was able to buy up all the properties and become a full time landlord. For, the rest of us housing has become a luxury. This in my eyes is a systematic failure.

I'm GenX and have been eating the shit most of my adult life. But jcd ain't wrong (and often is), no alternative system provides better quality of life for the majority of people that we've figured out, thus far. Where we're really failing is on who we elect and how we balance our current system. But that's a whole other topic.

You do realize that capitalism is one of the only systems that marks basic human needs as luxuries? The only difference is that failures under capitalism are not properly accounted for. If a person is homeless under capitalism, it’s marked as the persons fault and not the states. If a person is hungry under capitalism, it’s marked as the persons fault and not the states. Since capitalism depends on the core belief that the meritocracy is real, every failure is attributed to personal failure and not a systematic issue. This is why people think capitalism is the best system because every failure is accredited to the individual suffering those conditions.

R/Neoliberal

Idk, you could literally just get together with some people and start a co-op. I lean left myself and don’t understand why we don’t just start a general co-op culture

Having dealt with co-ops, they tend to be really poorly run and are prone to major internal political drama as different types of employees have different interests. Older co-op owners tend not to want to reinvest in the business to maximize their own returns. Smarter younger owners do want to reinvest so they make more money long term. Dumb younger owners want to do all sorts of different shit. People want to cut corners. People don't want to do bad jobs and everyone suddenly thinks they're a business genius.

Your argument basically boils down to "people are too dumb for democracy to work". I'm not asking this to be snarky, this is honestly something I struggle with myself. Do you think that the problem you describe here justifies the authoritarian mode of production we use now? If so, why is this different from how we run our governments? Should we be modeling our government more like China's to make sure it's run better and not prone to internal political drama?

What exactly made it anti-capitalist? It says they had Marxist literature, but so does Barnes & Noble, but they sure as heck aren't anti-capitalist.

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R/Destiny

So, is this one of the bad leftie Twitter people, or are we just laughing at the misfortune of others at this point?

it's just laughing at a stupid business that existed in contradiction to what it seemingly was preaching. it's like having a pro-Semitic non-racist Jewish Death Camp or a homosexual who's only attracted to the opposite s*x.

Frick lefties I wish them the worst, this bottom feeding commie hopefully learns what being poor is

Twitter Sneed

I don't see being a successful anticapitalist service within the structure & culture of unbridled capitalism. To make it work people frequenting cafe would have to share anticapitalist values & they obviously did not.

NOOOO THE CUSTOMERS HAD THE WRONG VALUES THATS WHY IT FAILED

Link

Someone make a marsey of the meme

Socialism. Does. Not. Work.

Imagine seeing a Cafe called ‘The Anarchist’ going out of business and in response you say “Socialism. Does. Not. Work.”. Do you not know what Anarchism is? Do you not know what Socialism is? Can you even read?

No and I dont care

[Twitter search for the cafe](https://x.com/search?q=toronto cafe&t=SL0NgnPVHsAMTlONYcbNjg&s=09) mostly just capitalist chuds gloating