Plantagenet wrote:Most of the youth spend their time staring at the spam on their iPhones and doing FACETIME on their iPads and wasting time posting on chat sites like this when they're not working boring jobs at minimal wages to pay off the huge college loans the system loads on them.
Who's got time to kill the old system? I've got to update my FACEBOOK page again!
dissident wrote:Youth are gullible saps who are manipulated by evil doers to enact their agenda. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" fits youth idealism based activism perfectly. Revolutions are for idiots.
Shaved Monkey wrote:Everyones still waiting for trickle down economics to trickle down to them.
KaiserJeep wrote:It takes a mentally deficient person to believe in anything but Capitalism and Democracy.
KaiserJeep wrote:Shaved Monkey wrote:Everyones still waiting for trickle down economics to trickle down to them.
That's about as ignorant a statement as I have ever read. Those who are on welfare and live in state-provided housing in the USA are still among the wealthiest 10% of humans on Earth.
Meanwhile Marxism/Socialism/Communism/other "isms" have slaughtered people by the millions, and failed to produce viable economies dozens of times.
It takes a mentally deficient person to believe in anything but Capitalism and Democracy.
Shaved Monkey wrote: How many people were killed for Capitalism and Democracy? How much effort was put in to make those systems fail,economically and militarily ?
Ibon wrote:KaiserJeep wrote:It takes a mentally deficient person to believe in anything but Capitalism and Democracy.
Looking back I agree with your statement except that it also takes a mentally deficient person to believe we ever really had pure capitalism and democracy. The game has always been rigged to a lessor or greater degree and the trend isn't looking very good at the moment.
Looking forward it is not about comparing the superiority of capitalism and democracy but rather the challenge in how it will be forced to modify some of its core tenants in order to adapt to increasing constraints.
jesus_of_suburbia wrote:Shaved Monkey wrote: How many people were killed for Capitalism and Democracy? How much effort was put in to make those systems fail,economically and militarily ?
Ask and you shall receive...
Outcast_Searcher wrote:For example: Does anyone really think medical costs will be realistically constrained in the US if the end consumer of medical care doesn't have some meaningful stake in what their care costs? I don't.
jesus_of_suburbia wrote:Although there is some confusion in the phrasing, yes, this is meant to be global.
You think it's ridiculous, but is it anymore ridiculous than the claim that an economic system where workers own the means of production is responsible for tens of millions of deaths? Also, name a country that has tried to implement elements of socialism who the US hasn't tried to rat fuck using propaganda, sanctions, embargoes, or flat out backing fascist military goons to unleash death on its civilians.
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