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The B.L.M., terrorists knocked seven bells out a C.N.N. reporter who was there to put on record that this group only ever staged peaceful protests.
The leaders of history's Marxist/Leninist revolutions always ended up living a life of privileged luxury while those peasants who survived the purging of their comrades lived and worked in a state of imposed deprivation.
This kind of thing is nothing new when you see the full breath of these groups.
We've seen that most of their top holding members are either already wealthy, and don't actually live in the communities that they claim to fight for. Or they usually tend to be in it for the money that comes with running such enterprises.
I agree that many of those who who wish to control the lives of their fellow citizens with their leftist ideology do start from a position of wealth, but it should be noted that those who don't become corrupt, self-serving rogues who soon begin to practise their double standards.
Once the leaders of paramilitary organizations, such as B.L.M., and repressive political doctrines have achieved control over the people they immediately start to line their own pockets and those of their family.
Any whistles blowers or complainants end up like Alexei Navalny.
Capitalism is a fiscal position where you sell a product for money. This was someone creating a social organization to fraudulently launder money to herself. Also, to be a Marxist "acting like a Capitalist" would just prove even more that the Marxists you suckle are liars and hypocrites who don't practice what they preach or even believe in it. Marxism is a carrot to get fools to give you something for a promise of something you never plan on giving them in return. In this example, someone like you is the fool. People like you gave her money for a "cause" baiting you with "I'm in your tribe". The cause was her wallet, she doesn't see you as being in her tribe, and wink, nod, thanks for the "support".
The difference between you and me, is that I don't have to LOVE the person at the top to BELIEVE what she says.. Personally, I don't CARE that this woman is a cheat, a liar and a hypocrite.. It changes what she advocates for not a whit..
Here's a story that you CAN'T relate to, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.. I took a business course once.. It was fucking GREAT. I LOVED it. I USED what I learned to further myself in business and my personal life.. But, I WASN'T him.
Some time later, it was revealed that this guy was a child molester.. But, lemme remind you again, I'm NOT him..
That he's a shit changes not one iota of his work.. That this woman is a crook and a liar changes not one iota of her work..
The difference between you and me, is that I don't have to LOVE the person at the top to BELIEVE what she says.. Personally, I don't CARE that this woman is a cheat, a liar and a hypocrite..
That this woman is a crook and a liar changes not one iota of her work..
Based on this comment, I assume you are familiar with her work. She believes fathers shouldn't be in the home because they teach boys to have a spine and masculine qualities, that the police should be abolished nationwide and that their should be no courts or judicial system. She's openly a Communist who believes Capitalism is evil and that the only way to destroy it and get Communism is to burn the entire thing to the ground. The person she sites the most is Vladimir Lenin who genecided millions of his own people. Hopefully you have no property or home you were interested in keeping. If I see you in a future bread line, I'm sprinting right for you at full speed with no regard for my life because at that point, being alive would be pointless. My first priority will be to go directly for your nuts, so if you see someone headed your way, you'd better put your hands directly in front of those babies. But do not be fooled. Either way, I'll get them one way or another. Maybe you should build yourself some steel underwear while you still have the chance.
Based on this comment, I assume you are familiar with her work.
Hello T:
Maybe I didn't make myself clear.. She's the head of an organization that is doing good work.. That she's an asshole OUTSIDE of her work for BLM, bothers me NOT one iota..
Do you get it yet??
OK.. Lemme make it clearer for you.. Of the 55 million or so voters who voted for Biden, 49 million of 'em are assholes who lead pathetic lives, can't pay their rent and beat their children.. But, they voted for Biden, and that makes them the most wonderful people in the world..
Do you get it yet?? Proly not.
Alright.. Lemme try it a third time.. Matt Gaetz fucks children.. He's a righty like you.. Does that mean YOU fuck children, or support fuckers of children?? Really?? Do you???
Trump grabbed women by the pussy.. Do YOU grab women by the pussy??? Do you teach your son to grab women by the pussy?? Why the fuck not?
Capitalism is fiscally libertarian..................................................................................................................................
So, when you got NOTHING, you make personal attacks.. When you got double NOTHING, you attack and then HIDE behind some new iteration of your sorry self. DUDE!
The ONLY reason you'd HIDE, is because you're ashamed of yourself.. DUDE!! I DON'T hide.. Does that make me BETTER than you??
Ahahaha! That's literally the argument you idiots make every time capitalism fails. You call it "crony capitalism" and pretend it's different from "real" capitalism.
I'm not a utopian idealist and I recognise that all systems tend towards corruption. What capitalism has over communism is the inherent dissolution of economic power over each and every business. When a business grows too large and inevitably too corrupt, others can take it's place. When a communist state grows corrupt, tens of millions die.
When the cancer comes, as it always will, having more than just one cell makes the difference between life and death of the system.
Oh, and it's telling that all you have to say in response is "what about you".
I'm not a utopian idealist and I recognise that all systems tend towards corruption. What capitalism has over communism is the inherent dissolution of economic power over each and every business.
But factual reality shows that is indeed a Utopian belief which in no way reflects the real world. We KNOW that the largest companies can and do manipulate the market in their favour, and we KNOW that new businesses have a 50 percent failure rate within the first five years. Power is not diluted; it is concentrated into the hands of a few ultra wealthy oligarchs.
Yes, and some of those companies are probably corrupt, along with the government that typically keeps them afloat. But you know what? Even the largest businesses fail, half of the top 500 businesses from 20 years ago aren't at the top anymore.
All the people need do is avoid a business and it will fail, and you hold a part of the power to do that. That a company exists, even a large one, is evidence that the people believe their infractions are lesser than their contributions. As that changes, the company will die.
The other issue is compared to what? You'd replace this inherently democratic system with a forcefully imposed communist one that would inevitably turn corrupt, impoverish hundreds of millions, kill tens of millions, and then fail, as the #NotRealCommunism wheel turns again.
Two different systems. Same bug. Same outcome. One is on the scale of a catastrophe, one is on the scale of a setback.
But you know what? Even the largest businesses fail
"Even the largest empires fall, so therefore fascism is great", reasoned Hitler.
half of the top 500 businesses from 20 years ago aren't at the top anymore.
Those businesses merge into other businesses, the owners sell and reinvest etc... Your apparent theory that half of the ultra wealthy people from 20 years ago are no longer ultra wealthy, simply because the businesses they were previously associated with have renamed or been bought out, is RIDICULOUS. Private ownership is being consolidated, not diluted, and that can be evidenced in a great variety of different ways. For example, 40 years ago there were fifty different media companies responsible for the total sum of information in America. Today it is six companies. See:-
Wealth does not get diluted and spread around to the poor in capitalism. That is an absolute fantasy with no relationship to the facts. It gets hoarded by the ultra wealthy.
"Even the largest empires fall, so therefore fascism is great", reasoned Hitler.
I don't know the context, but I'm assuming he means that the idea of fascism will survive its hosts? In the context I said that, I'm describing fascism as the cancer that the host will survive - no one corrupt company can take control while the people, the other cells, disagree.
40 years ago there were fifty different media companies responsible for the total sum of information in America. Today it is six companies.
The media companies those 6 companies control are currently haemorrhaging money. I hear about layoffs every year.
Wealth does not get diluted and spread around to the poor in capitalism. That is an absolute fantasy with no relationship to the facts. It gets hoarded by the ultra wealthy.
Both happens. And even when the wealthy 'hoard the wealth' by voluntary exchange with the poor, the people collectively hold equal power in that exchange. You hold the power to dissolve Amazon, Microsoft, SpaceX, whatever; should the people agree they should be dissolved more than they want delivered goods, tech, space exploration, etc. People give these companies their wealth, and they can take it away at any moment.
There is no "voluntary exchange" with the poor you narcissistic retard. The poor are exploited for labour. That's how capitalism works. If they weren't poor they wouldn't be selling their labour. They'd be spending their days in the sun just like the people exploiting them, not making stuff in factories.
By the exact same fallacious reasoning, slaveowners have a "voluntary exchange" with slaves. Otherwise the slaves would just refuse to work, right?
You are purposefully conflating coercion with volunteering. Nobody works because they want to work. They work because if they don't work they are likely going to starve. Your description of that as a "voluntary" arrangement is so offensive and backwards that one must wonder how you even manage to tie your shoelaces without assistance.
The poor are exploited to the extent that they have needs and serve others to have those needs served in kind. Society works this way because it's more efficient to specialise than to do everything yourself. But if you really want to live in the woods alone where nobody will 'exploit' you, more power to you.
Nobody works because they want to work.
Well, if I wanted I could retire on my inheritance and my past earnings (while reducing expenses) and leech off the work of others for the rest of my life. But I don't. I work because I find satisfaction in doing good work. I also get to ask others to work to give me things I don't really need with my surplus earnings, like a takeaway meal, or a new phone.
Your description of that as a "voluntary" arrangement is so offensive and backwards
It's true that human existence in society is in part not a voluntary arrangement. But we are oppressed by nature as a part of reality, irrespective of the governing system. You need food. You need water. You need shelter. Etc. And you can't just force others to give you these things, you have to convince them to give you them in exchange for something else. It is not fair that they work for something and you just steal it, and if everyone did, what reason is there to work for anything to have it stolen by others?
These things don't just pop into existence. You have to work to produce and maintain systems that process, deliver, and provide these resources and products, as every communist country learns the hard way to horrifying consequences.
I don't know the context, but I'm assuming he means that the idea of fascism will survive its hosts?
It isn't a real quote you fool. I'm saying the exception doesn't disprove the rule. If one billionaire loses all his money that doesn't mean wealth isn't horded by the top echelon of society and it certainly doesn't mean his money is ever going to reach the poor. Even when well-known businesses fail they are usually bought out by other well-known businesses.
I'm saying the exception doesn't disprove the rule.
Half of those companies didn't fit the rule. Big companies fail all the time. It doesn't matter to me that other companies buy up the wreckage, the rulers are continuously and non-violently deposed so long as the basis for society is economical and not physical. No more bloody revolutions, thank you very much.
it certainly doesn't mean his money is ever going to reach the poor.
I'm trying to tell you that the wealth that these businesses are 'hoarding' isn't being hoarded at all. They make money by spending it, money circulates through big business like any other. They spend it on expansion, building new buildings, hiring new staff, funding new projects, etc.
So where does the money come from? The so called poor. The poor spend their money buying stuff that they need and want. The poor voluntarily give their earnings to amazon, to apple, to walmart, etc in exchange for goods and services.