> The $20,000 luxury car has now turned into a $50,000 subcompact.
You are confusing the United States with Denmark. I bought my last truck for less than $20K.
This kind of deranged hysterical bullshit just makes you look like you've never bought a car for yourself ever in your life and still live in your mother's basement.
It's like you are confusing bad Facebook memes with real life.
> Capitalism is "the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds"- jmk
Socialism is this on steroids.
Capitalism is merely economic freedom.
Socialism takes the evil distributed in many smaller entities and concentrates it into one single source of evil that there is no escape from.
Socialism turns commerce into a capital crime where people risk their lives providing bare basic necessities for their fellow citizens.
I found it amusing how this headline went out of it's way to try and bash Trump over this situation rather than acknowledge the obvious legal friction going on here.
Liberals (and liberal journalists) have lost any pretense at all about APPEARING to care about ANY part of the Bill of Rights.
> Bwahahaahaha have you looked at who your current president is? You already have a tyrannical government and no one is doing anything about it.
What about the current president? He hasn't done anything outside his enumerated powers. Even then he has been well checked by both the Congress and the Courts.
In reality he's the exact opposite of a tyrant.
You need to lay off the Huff Po. It's rotting your brain.
>> You should get beyond your 1st or 2nd grade education and move straight to a basic civics class. The 2nd amendment is already a limited right in our country. > > The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to bear arms. It's intended to keep the government from infringing on that right.
The ENTIRE US Constitution is meant to be an enumeration of the powers of the federal government. Our rights are not enumerated by the Bill of Rights. They are not limited by what's written down in the Constitution. What the federal government is allowed to do is what's limited by the Constitution.
This is a very basic, core principle that some people that whine about "civics" fail to grasp or acknowledge.
Also, the whole thing still has to be viewed through a prism of over 200 years of case law. So just looking at that old document isn't enough.
That is another important fundemental element of Anglo-American law that a lot of people like to gloss over.
That's the only part of your comment that is true or relevant.
Socialism gives government the power to screw up everything. The noose can be a little bit tighter but it constricts the economy all the same. It leads to severe distortions and shortages.
It really amazes me how some people can demonize one group of corrupt self-centered idiots while having blind faith that another set of them won't be just as harmful.
What gets me is the idea that this is a "mass shooting". This deranged nonsense completely distorts any useful information from the media or any sort of sane public discourse.
If the local drug dealer puts 3 different kids in the hospital on the same night does that become a "mass beating"?
The life long chain smoker that gave me my cancer is doing just fine. It's not exactly an automatic thing. The real world is not nearly that deterministic.
Life is not nearly as fair as you seem to think it is.
Luxury towers are inhabited by people who have the means to spend the money to consume more energy. This means central air and the money to pay the corresponding electric bill.
Same goes for McMansions in flyover country.
If you have money to spend, you have money to "waste".
No they aren't. They are readily available but they are rather unusual. They are restricted primarily to power users who are willing to pay more than average for a better product.
Most people are cheap bastards content with the cheapest available option.
I can appreciate those of us who aren't helpless helping out those who genuinely are. However, there is no reason for those of us that are independent adults who can fend for ourselves to be wards of the state. We are not children. Not only should we be able to fend for ourselves, we should be able to help fend for others.
Beyond that, if you want the likes of Trump, Cruz, and Ryan to have MORE control over your health care you are simply nuts.
If you are looking for some kind of "bargain" then all you are going to do is HARM those of us that actually use the medical system.
You can't suck money and resources out of the system and expect the same results.
> What do I need to do to get residency in NZ so I can buy a house there?
You aren't rich enough to buy a house there.
Before you decide to relocate yourself to a place, you might want to actually get somewhat of a clue about it. You don't even have to visit. You can simply read the local press.
> Actually, there is less than $1 of epinephrine in each Epipen.
That remark would be relevant if you were only getting the drug. Since you aren't just getting the drug but also the delivery system, that remark is utter nonsense.
This is precisely the kind of inane bullshit that completely pollutes discussion of this issue.
> So instead of a government program with some measure of accountability,
It cracks me up when anyone tries to say something like this.
WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY? When have you EVER seen genuine government accountability? At least with any market not dominated by a single monopoly player I can go elsewhere.
We are quite literally living in the age of Trump and all of the media narrative surrounding him and you have the epic gall to claim that government is "accountable". That's utterly deranged.
No. The rich and well motivated provide for themselves. It's the rest of you takers are that are fucked. Most public school teachers are glorified babysitters. They are among the LEAST motivated of everyone that you went to school with. They are not trained in the subjects they teach and are mired in office politics, partisan politics, and academic dogma.
So the blue states where all of the Occupy Wall Street protests were held have no problems in this area? That's some serious reality distortion field you're sitting in there.
> Most developed countries have a tuition free public university system
So fucking what? You failed to address the original point. Public universities are the responsibilities of the states and they have dropped the ball. Republican and Democrat state governments alike have screwed the pooch already here.
Pointing to some other jurisdiction as justification as treating the government as your lord and savior is not really terribly compelling here. It doesn't even if we take your blind worship of those particular governments entirely at face value.
The current problem is already government fail.
You are expecting the people that broke it to fix it.
The fact that you're too much of an indoctrinated moron to take advantage of it doesn't mean the rest of us aren't. Southern Italy has a nice layabout culture. That's about it.
There are plenty of OTHER places in Europe that will make you fell like you are living in a police state. HELL, just the machine guns toted around by local cops in Italian cities should give you the creeps if you're American.
French speeding cameras are very efficient (oddly enough) and you need to take a class to fish in Germany.
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Sure. Except these jokers have done NONE of that.
Your average dieter is more of a scientist than these clowns.
> The $20,000 luxury car has now turned into a $50,000 subcompact.
You are confusing the United States with Denmark. I bought my last truck for less than $20K.
This kind of deranged hysterical bullshit just makes you look like you've never bought a car for yourself ever in your life and still live in your mother's basement.
It's like you are confusing bad Facebook memes with real life.
> Capitalism is "the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds"- jmk
Socialism is this on steroids.
Capitalism is merely economic freedom.
Socialism takes the evil distributed in many smaller entities and concentrates it into one single source of evil that there is no escape from.
Socialism turns commerce into a capital crime where people risk their lives providing bare basic necessities for their fellow citizens.
I found it amusing how this headline went out of it's way to try and bash Trump over this situation rather than acknowledge the obvious legal friction going on here.
Liberals (and liberal journalists) have lost any pretense at all about APPEARING to care about ANY part of the Bill of Rights.
> Bwahahaahaha have you looked at who your current president is? You already have a tyrannical government and no one is doing anything about it.
What about the current president? He hasn't done anything outside his enumerated powers. Even then he has been well checked by both the Congress and the Courts.
In reality he's the exact opposite of a tyrant.
You need to lay off the Huff Po. It's rotting your brain.
>> You should get beyond your 1st or 2nd grade education and move straight to a basic civics class. The 2nd amendment is already a limited right in our country.
>
> The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to bear arms. It's intended to keep the government from infringing on that right.
The ENTIRE US Constitution is meant to be an enumeration of the powers of the federal government. Our rights are not enumerated by the Bill of Rights. They are not limited by what's written down in the Constitution. What the federal government is allowed to do is what's limited by the Constitution.
This is a very basic, core principle that some people that whine about "civics" fail to grasp or acknowledge.
Also, the whole thing still has to be viewed through a prism of over 200 years of case law. So just looking at that old document isn't enough.
That is another important fundemental element of Anglo-American law that a lot of people like to gloss over.
> Socialism is a state run economy
That's the only part of your comment that is true or relevant.
Socialism gives government the power to screw up everything. The noose can be a little bit tighter but it constricts the economy all the same. It leads to severe distortions and shortages.
It really amazes me how some people can demonize one group of corrupt self-centered idiots while having blind faith that another set of them won't be just as harmful.
> What part of "well regulated" do you not understand, dickhead?
You're the moron without a clue.
"Well regulated" means that YOU are personally able to competently fire an M-16 and go off adventuring with the Army to Canada.
> but seriously I don't know of any developed country that incarcerates mentally ill people unless they post a threat to society.
So what threat is there exactly from some guy that doesn't want to take his meds and ends up living on the street talking to trees?
How exactly does your socialist utopia solve that little problem unless you actually do unjustly imprison the sick?
You are making a number of bogus assumptions based on nothing but blind faith and wishful thinking.
Some of you people really can't think shit through at all.
> They vote for a Putin-picked coward who went bankrupt 6 times?
Only clueless, financially illiterate losers, get excited about business bankruptcy. Idiots like you make poll tests seem like a reasonable idea.
What gets me is the idea that this is a "mass shooting". This deranged nonsense completely distorts any useful information from the media or any sort of sane public discourse.
If the local drug dealer puts 3 different kids in the hospital on the same night does that become a "mass beating"?
> Smoking causes cancer, Einstein.
The life long chain smoker that gave me my cancer is doing just fine. It's not exactly an automatic thing. The real world is not nearly that deterministic.
Life is not nearly as fair as you seem to think it is.
Luxury towers are inhabited by people who have the means to spend the money to consume more energy. This means central air and the money to pay the corresponding electric bill.
Same goes for McMansions in flyover country.
If you have money to spend, you have money to "waste".
Pretty obvious really.
> Today 6 core CPUs are common
No they aren't. They are readily available but they are rather unusual. They are restricted primarily to power users who are willing to pay more than average for a better product.
Most people are cheap bastards content with the cheapest available option.
That's how we got the dominance of Microsoft.
> Looks like even Microsoft did something right with their micro kernel design.
Except their userland is crap. So that negates all of the benefits of the microkernel.
I can appreciate those of us who aren't helpless helping out those who genuinely are. However, there is no reason for those of us that are independent adults who can fend for ourselves to be wards of the state. We are not children. Not only should we be able to fend for ourselves, we should be able to help fend for others.
Beyond that, if you want the likes of Trump, Cruz, and Ryan to have MORE control over your health care you are simply nuts.
If you are looking for some kind of "bargain" then all you are going to do is HARM those of us that actually use the medical system.
You can't suck money and resources out of the system and expect the same results.
> No, but if you'll die if you don't get one, then it shouldn't cost $600.
That will be a fun way to ensure that nobody ever makes anything useful for you EVER.
$600 really isn't that much in this area really. You clearly have don't have enough real experience here to have ANY sort of perspective at all.
Attitudes like yours ultimately kill people.
> What makes your think Orange Julius Caesar had anything to do with this?
This didn't happen during the administration of your lord and savior.
> What do I need to do to get residency in NZ so I can buy a house there?
You aren't rich enough to buy a house there.
Before you decide to relocate yourself to a place, you might want to actually get somewhat of a clue about it. You don't even have to visit. You can simply read the local press.
> Actually, there is less than $1 of epinephrine in each Epipen.
That remark would be relevant if you were only getting the drug. Since you aren't just getting the drug but also the delivery system, that remark is utter nonsense.
This is precisely the kind of inane bullshit that completely pollutes discussion of this issue.
> So instead of a government program with some measure of accountability,
It cracks me up when anyone tries to say something like this.
WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY? When have you EVER seen genuine government accountability? At least with any market not dominated by a single monopoly player I can go elsewhere.
We are quite literally living in the age of Trump and all of the media narrative surrounding him and you have the epic gall to claim that government is "accountable". That's utterly deranged.
No. The rich and well motivated provide for themselves. It's the rest of you takers are that are fucked. Most public school teachers are glorified babysitters. They are among the LEAST motivated of everyone that you went to school with. They are not trained in the subjects they teach and are mired in office politics, partisan politics, and academic dogma.
So the blue states where all of the Occupy Wall Street protests were held have no problems in this area? That's some serious reality distortion field you're sitting in there.
> Most developed countries have a tuition free public university system
So fucking what? You failed to address the original point. Public universities are the responsibilities of the states and they have dropped the ball. Republican and Democrat state governments alike have screwed the pooch already here.
Pointing to some other jurisdiction as justification as treating the government as your lord and savior is not really terribly compelling here. It doesn't even if we take your blind worship of those particular governments entirely at face value.
The current problem is already government fail.
You are expecting the people that broke it to fix it.
> Economic freedom in the US?
The fact that you're too much of an indoctrinated moron to take advantage of it doesn't mean the rest of us aren't. Southern Italy has a nice layabout culture. That's about it.
There are plenty of OTHER places in Europe that will make you fell like you are living in a police state. HELL, just the machine guns toted around by local cops in Italian cities should give you the creeps if you're American.
French speeding cameras are very efficient (oddly enough) and you need to take a class to fish in Germany.