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  1. Because you want an uneducated mass of unemployable people? Why don't you go all out and submit a constitutional amendment to create a caste of Untouchables a la India.

  2. Re:amazing. on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's because that system has been corrupted and is now pushing people back into poverty.

    Capitalism, like a monarchy, is inherently corrupted. When you set up an amoral system that rewards screwing every one and every thing over if it means another nickel in dividends, while shielding shareholders from the companies actions, the results are a given.

  3. By destroying the means of production - which every genuine socialist country has done

    Socialism gives ownership of the means of production to workers. If you don't like socialism, you must not like democracy and think you, your friends, family & coworkers are all incompetent baboons who couldn't tie your own shoes without a feudal lord telling you what to do.

    then more and more people will be poor

    Every country that has tried socialism has immediately and drastically reduced poverty, homelessness and people dying for lack of basic medical care. Then they get targeted for CIA-sponsored coups, so people like yourself can prattle on about how socialism is a failure while the murdered are dissolving in acid.

    Then there's the fact your cult is throwing stones within a glass house, as capitalism is a miserable failure for anyone who's gamble on stocks or business doesn't pay off. Do you guys take pills to suppress your sense of self-awareness that 3 or 4 billionaires in the US have as much wealth as the bottom half of the population?

  4. And who not only pushes debt but makes it a necessity? Capitalists. Debt to get a college education when capitalists demand BA's when they used to demand high school diplomas, debt to get needed medical care, debt to fix the car you need to keep your job.....

    Debt and capital go hand in hand.

  5. No one has ever been made less poor because of capitalism, as jobs are created by demand, and only demand. Capitalism has made billions of people more poor, however, as it incentives screwing anyone and anything over if it means another nickel in dividends.

  6. Re:We've had laissez faire capitalism for centurie on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And without the incentive to make money, technology and science won't exist.

    Rinky-dink embargoed communist Cuba developed a vaccine for lung cancer, and sends far more doctors to disaster areas than the infinity richer USA does. The Soviets put a man in space long before anyone else did.

    One characteristic of capitalists is to say 'what's in it for me?'

    Just because capitalists operate on pure avarice, doesn't mean the rest of humanity does the same.

  7. the amazing cult of capitalism on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's see, the economic system that has raised more people out of poverty than any other

    You mean socialism. Not capitalism, which has only ever increased poverty and wealth inequality. Job creation? That comes from demand, not capitalism.

  8. The only connection between your premise and your conclusion is the air between your ears.

  9. Globally, socialism has lifted one billion people out of abject poverty in the last 2 generations.

    Fixed your autocorrect for you, you may want to check your settings. Capitalism doesn't cure poverty, it causes it. Of course, it's hard to get capitalists to understand that fact when their cult is dependent on not understanding it.

  10. Re:Nobody likes joining a Monopoly game... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  11. Re:I'd like men to live as long as women on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    For example, we should be teaching young boys to communicate their feelings better and not get caught up in toxic ideas about masculinity that lead to depression and suicide.

    Combating sexism with sexist attitudes! Let us know how that works out for you.

  12. Re:Too many regulations hurt job creators on EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They're only banned in small amount of Western countries.

    Because asbestos (and DDT, and leaded gasoline, etc) are only health problems in western countries. Insert eyeroll emoji here.

    Reminder: do not inflict Western capitalist exploitation upon the world. We're a tiny minority.

    FTFY

  13. Re:The administration of regression on EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's as embarrassing as a Birther seeing a picture of Obama eating humus and using it as proof that the man is a Muslim who was born in Kenya.

  14. Re:We need LESS money on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So you bring up an example of possible election fraud that has nothing to do with voter ID? Thanks for proving both my points.

  15. Re:Why change what's working? on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as it was "worth it" to "thoroughly investigate" the possibility that Obama's parents planted a fake birth announcement in a newspaper because they knew he could be president some 45 years in advance.

    While I would like to see more evidence of Russia's involvement, I believe that some data needs to be classified.

    Why. Why would "FSB agent Romanov hacked voting machines in Michigan and Pennsylvania" or whatever need to remain classified. Not only is the USG applying sanctions to Russia based on a conspiracy theory, it has a Navy fleet deployed to the Black Sea, is arming literal neo-Nazis in Ukraine after overthrowing its government, and has artillery in range of Russia's second largest city. Why would you be OK with (mostly) unelected officials dragging you towards planetary annihilation without showing cause?

    Also, unlike the Iraq war, we are making a minimal commitment based on this intelligence.

    Yes, the Iraq war. Which blew the "just trust us" line all to hell, but you're willing to believe unsupported claims from the very same liars who got you into Iraq?

    The fact that major Republicans have seen the classified evidence and are not fighting the investigation does give strong support.

    Not when the subject is "never Trump Republicans", its not. The establishment of the Republican Party has no love for Trump as he's not one of them. If Jeb Bush had won the nomination and then the presidency, these same Republicans wouldn't GAF about the Chinese couple who gave his campaign $1.3 million, because the Bush's are the epitome of the GOP establishment.

    Yes, many people are hopeful that this is a way to get rid of Trump, but I do think many/most Democrats don't see impeachment as the solution.

    Then they'd be focused on beating Trump at the ballot box with something other than "we're not Trump", which they ran on two years ago to great results. But that's their only game plan, along with McCarthyite CT and talking impeachment, which would lead directly to President Pence, who would be far more of a danger to their base's interests than Trump ever was.

  16. CC permits are like the NRA: all about supporting gun sales not gun rights. When cops are free to gun you down with impunity for the "crime" of having a gun in an open carry state - or even a garden hose on your own property - do you have any real right to carry? At all?

  17. You lost me on how non-compete clauses in California relate to hotel room security in Las Vegas.

    Analogy was easy enough to grasp the first time. Understanding it would get in the way of the corporatist bootlicking, however - do you take them black or do you sprinkle them with sugar first?

    If you're trying to imply that this is not legal under Nevada state law, the usual next step is to cite the actual law you're referring to.

    Since you're so set on allowing corporations to intrude on your privacy on a moment's notice based on an event as rare as winning a Powerball and a Mega Millions on the same day, and that you've been relentlessly badging someone for saying he's not a Nevada lawyer, why don't you take a break and show your evidence that these are legal searches.

  18. Do you like your corporatist boots black, or do you like them with a bit of sugar? Your landlord may also have a stipulation in rental agreements that they can come and examine your prostate at a moment's notice. You have no choice in agreeing to such a stipulation if every other landlord has the same stipulation - which is why tenants have rights, and you and the landlord can both sod off, bootlicker.

  19. If the price of oil rises again, capitalist wankers like yourself will suddenly remember that Venezuela's economy is still overwhelmingly capitalist. In 2011 - before the United States and Saudi Arabia decided to start overproducing oil as an aggressive move against other suppliers - Fox News ran a 'what socialism?!?' story lauding Venezuela's economy because it's still capitalist outside of the oil industry.

  20. If we had more concealed carry friendly jurisdictions, we would not even be having this discussion.

    And how well did that work out for Philando Castile and Jason Washington? More guns just get more people killed for no reason.

  21. Please see Venezuela for what happens when the CIA targets your country for regime change and coup plotters are given total amnesty instead of a noose

    FTFY

  22. Gee, I can't imagine why some techies get bad reputations as complete douchebags *eyeroll*

    The douchebags are the ones demanding to search rooms that people paid for - douchebag.

    Just because someone has a job you dislike, doesn't mean being a complete dick about it is the proper response.

    My, what a Good German you are, my dear.

  23. All government which does things for The People is socialist.

    Not when socialism has an old and well defined meaning: workers own the means of production, so you may be thinking of social democracy.

  24. Again, did you read the hotel agreement? You see the part where it says security may enter your room for literally any reason? So, why exactly do you expect that you would not be intruded upon when it explicitly says you will?

    Which is explicitly irrelevant if it's not legal under state law. The state of California heavily regulates non-compete clauses in employment, but that doesn't stop companies from asking workers to sign them.

  25. Re:We need LESS money on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oooo, slight of hand. Substituting election fraud (which wingnuts DGAF about) for in-person vote fraud, in the same way you like to hold up examples of registration fraud, which has noting to do with actually casting votes.

    If you guys cared about election, you'd be demanding paper trails, not voter ID.