A two part question for those considering Socialism

You fools think the debate between capitalism v socialism is a zero sum game..... it’s not, every modern society is a blend, including the US.

Socialism is a cancer, and millions of humans have cancer. You're saying modern societies are a blend of socialism and capitalism. That's like saying cancer victims are a blend of health and cancer.
 
Socialism is a cancer, and millions of humans have cancer. You're saying modern societies are a blend of socialism and capitalism. That's like saying cancer victims are a blend of health and cancer.

No, it's nothing like that at all and he's correct. But you are some type of weird blend of sick versus healthy.
 
You fools think the debate between capitalism v socialism is a zero sum game..... it’s not, every modern society is a blend, including the US.

Oh they know, they're bickering over who socialism benefits and they reject the notion of everyone.
 
Part 1): Can you name just one thing in your home that is not there as a result of capitalism?
part 1: love.
The definition of ‘thing’ is “an inanimate material object as distinct from a living sentient being.” Love is not an inanimate material object.

Part 2): Can you name just one modern, full time, wage-paying job that you could have today, if rich capitalists never existed?
That's a chicken or egg question.

Not really. You can ask whether things that don’t exist, exist. For instance, do ghosts exist?

A question for you.

Fire away.

Would there be any rich capitalist today if there were no proles?

No – they have a symbiotic relationship, benefiting each other. A smart guy thinks of a way to make a product or service lots of people will want. He then employs a bunch of people to make this happen. The workers benefit from wages, consumers (including the workers) benefit from the product or service, and the smart guy benefits by making money that he can give to others.
 
A good friend of mine is an electrical engineer for our power company, he makes very good money, it’s a quasi socialist company, strongly regulated and enforced monopoly.

You're saying that's the modern, full time, wage-paying job that he could have if rich capitalists never existed? All his tools are made by capitalists. Are you saying he can do his job without tools?
 
You're saying that's the modern, full time, wage-paying job that he could have if rich capitalists never existed? All his tools are made by capitalists. Are you saying he can do his job without tools?

Deny our blended economic system all ya like. It is what it is, some just feel socialism is too good for the masses.
 
Part 1): Can you name just one thing in your home that is not there as a result of capitalism?
fine

1) the mud I track in

I think you might be right with that one. You score a point. At this time you’re in front.

Part 2): Can you name just one modern, full time, wage-paying job that you could have today, if rich capitalists never existed?
2) "wage paying" turns your question into a circular game. It is like asking "Name one thing you have purchased not using money or credit."

At the moment you can find plenty of modern, full time, wage-paying jobs. If you removed all pianos in the world, you could still find them. If you removed all French people, you could still find them. If you removed all Russians, you could still find them. If you removed all musicians, you could still find them. The question is, could you find even one if rich capitalists had never existed? If so, what modern, full time, wage-paying job would that be?

Incidentally, I bought a car by trading my bike. No money or credit was exchanged. I've also traded artwork for various things.
 
Wait until capital figures out that if they remove all the money from society and extract all the resources of the planet, there will be no more wealth to extract.
 
"What Is the Soyuz?"
"The Soyuz (saw-yooz) is a Russian spacecraft. The Soyuz carries people and supplies to and from the space station. The Soyuz can also bring people back to Earth.
Russia is a big country. Russia helps the United States run the International Space Station. Other countries also help with the space station. But only Russian spacecraft carry people to it right now."
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-soyuz-spacecraft-k-4

I don't know, Rob. These Commie bastards look like they may know something.
Like most thieves they certainly know how to copy. Ever heard of the genius of art forgers and counterfeiters? The Soyuz Design is a copy of the General Electric Apollo Proposal. Changes were made, but that’s what cunning thieves do. See the details here.

Aside from the obvious theft the technology that made Soyuz was already invented and put together by hundreds of capitalist companies the world over. Without capitalism the Russians would have been lucky to make a slingshot, as they stood naked on the dirt, eating raw pig and pissing in the wind. :D
 
Yeah, Don's confused on why those kinda nonshithole nation folk don't wanna immigrate.

You mean Sweden, Norway and Denmark? Hah. Gee, I wonder where all these Swiss Americans came from. How about these 4,642,526 Norwegian Americans? Or these 1,516,126 Danish Americans.

We're not considering socialism,

Untrue. The means of production, distribution, and exchange are not run by the State in America or Britain, much as you would love that.

we embraced it long ago

You embraced it long ago. Americans didn’t.

the rub as always is that the aristocracy wants it all for themselves alone.

That’s whimsical, drug-inspired poetry, not history. You get high and listen to Pink Floyd, and imagine your beloved communists have won. They’re far from winning. You forgot about the Trump factor. That’s when you take us all the way to the edge and the best come out of the woods to stop you. They don’t come out normally because they’re too busy, but when you threaten their whole world and family, they have little choice. Remember that, because when you get close again there’ll be more Trumps. They will always come out to stop you just as they came out to stop socialists like Hitler, Stalin and all the other creeps down through the ages.

Corporate socialism is quite accepted. Pro sports team owners for example are eager recipients of socialism. The public funds their cathedral stadiums.

The cancer is there, which is why Trump is there. He’s the surgeon cutting it out, without anesthetic. We hear the howls of pain from the wicked Left.

No, it's nothing like that at all and he's correct. But you are some type of weird blend of sick versus healthy.

Nah, I’m just the guy who turned off your Pink Floyd and opened a curtain. It’s time you cleaned this joint up and fed the dog. Get out of bed man.


Looking at that page, without scrolling down, I see the following:

Windcheaters, shirts, jackets, hats, brick walls, buildings, windows, glass, window frames, sneakers, gloves, clean shaven faces (shavers and shaving cream being used), haircuts (scissors and combs being used), a sign with ‘please ring’ meaning they have a phone, the back of a truck, wooden boxes and plastic bags of donations, coats, scarves, tables, chairs, tablecloths, cups, plates, food, knives, forks, napkins, rooms, a kitchen, steel counters, serving spoons, more food, glass shelves, electric lights, ceilings, notice boards, a clock, a U.S. flag, doors, bowls, pots, more clothes, more hats, jackets, shirts, more clean shaven faces, buildings, walls, windows, cardboard signs, more food, more cups, drinks, eyeglasses, napkins and food, all there thanks to capitalism.

Now let’s start scrolling. Tables, chairs, clothes, food, plates, forks, spoons, hair bands, bottles, drinks, tablecloths, paper, containers, more clothes and more tables, all there thanks to capitalism. Let’s continue down. More buildings, rooms, windows, glass, window frames, bookshelves, books, tables, chairs, boxes, donations, clothes, necklaces, hats, clean shaven faces, eyeglasses, jackets, coats, buttons, boxes, walls, rooms, chairs, tables, more boxes, more donations, more hats, more food, plates, seats, tables, forks, food, more rooms, bottles, cans, donations, chairs, tables, food, etc., all there thanks to capitalism. I see a webpage with all this being advertised, asking for help, again, thanks to capitalism. Take capitalism out and you would have a bunch of naked old people, probably dead, lying in the mud.

Wait until capital figures out that if they remove all the money from society and extract all the resources of the planet, there will be no more wealth to extract.

Lefties stopped us using much nuclear power, and it requires very little of what you call “resources”. Once Trump sorts that out there’ll be plenty of cheap, clean and safe power for everyone. Fusion is coming too, so “resources” aren’t a problem.
 
We are no more (and no one is proposing) a completely socialist economy than we are a completely capitalist economy...nor should we be.

We have a blended economy. We have socialist policies like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and public education and much much more...and we have private enterprise .

Threads and discussions like this are hyperbolic and dishonest.

The real discussion is and should be "How much socialism do we want?" and it should be engaged in cooling and reasonably.

Not with idiotic and hyperbolic claims
 
supernatural capitalism^

BTW, there is usually jizz associated with love. It how you got here.

For you I will change it to baby gravy.

Sperm isn't a 'thing', as was explained in the OP. Maybe if you try reading you wouldn't have to embarrass yourself every time you open your stupid Marxist mouth.
 
We are no more (and no one is proposing) a completely socialist economy than we are a completely capitalist economy...nor should we be.
That’s the latest ‘fad’ expression going around. A few of your socialist comrades came up with that one and you’re busy repeating it like a good little commie. The reason you have ten thousand capitalist products in your home (including your phone, iPad, computer, TV, car), and not one that is the result of socialism, is because capitalism owns you like a pimp owns a whore. It’s your drug and you can’t go two inches without it. From the moment you get out of your capitalist bed in the morning, put on your capitalist slippers, make your way to your capitalist bathroom to use your capitalist toothbrush, shower, shampoo, towel and scales, before sitting at your capitalist dining table and devouring your capitalist sugar flakes, belching, reading your Pravda, scratch your arse and drink your capitalist coffee, you are utterly dependent on capitalism.

All your talk about socialism is actually about theft. You have voted for ways to steal money off business and naïvely believe this is helping you. It isn’t. It only makes your life worse. Let’s back up and go through everything you just did to see how much better things would have been without your stupid socialist inspired theft. For a start the coffee would be much better, and cost about a tenth its present price. The cup it’s in would be a much nicer, better quality one. The sugary flakes you eat would not exist because you would not be addicted to sugar thanks to much better education and pharmaceuticals. Instead you would have a beautiful plate of artificial eggs and bacon delivered by a robot. It would be made perfectly and taste like heaven. Your experience in the bathroom would be very different too. A machine would clean your teeth in about twenty seconds, removing all plaque, bacteria and leaving your mouth fresh and sparkling. The shower would be an amazing experience too, with advanced plumbing you can only dream of. Looking in the mirror you would see a much younger and slimmer you. Backwards to the bed. Your slippers would not be necessary because your heated floor would be spotless and constantly so, and your bed would be far better for your back. Your linen would be perfectly clean too, and free of all the tiny critters you currently sleep with. The reason you don’t enjoy all those things is because you constantly find ways to steal from business, thus holding them back. You call this theft “a blended economy”, which is mind-numbingly dumb.

We have a blended economy.

You have a blend of capitalism and theft. The more theft you legalize the less comforts and health you will have.

We have socialist policies like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and public education and much much more...and we have private enterprise .

Translation: You have thieves stealing money from business. That only slows down business and makes everything more expensive.

Threads and discussions like this are hyperbolic and dishonest.

To a thieving National Socialist, yes. Nazis want obedience.
 
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