Your view of my politics is as wrong as your differentiating economics and politics. They are as inseparable as physics and mathematics.
I suggest you've had way too much academic education at the expense of practical education. You ought to get ought more, meet people you don't agree with, and learn a little, rather than wave the sheepskin flags of academia.
Fascism IS socialism. State controls the means of production. The distinction between the State directly owning businesses and factories vs the State co-opting the owners and telling them what to do is a distinction without a difference.
Anyone who thinks there is a significant difference between Communism and Fascism is deluding themselves, and willfully.
Anyone who tries to define socialism so finely as to exclude Communism and Fascism, while at the same time labeling everything else capitalism, is a hypocrite of the first water, and also willfully.
My grandpas and grandmas would have had to start with quarks, except without atoms, they wouldn't have existed yet. Makes me doubt my own existence, now that I think about it, since humans are made largely of water. I has confusion.
You cluelessness about libertarians is typical of those who don't want to understand personal responsibility because it scares them. So much easier to assign responsibility to a bunch of strangers, and then to whine about the bad decisions they make, which really means they didn't force you to go along with a decision you haven't got the guts to make yourself.
People are building houses they want on property they own?
The infamy!
I wonder how the whiners felt about the people who lived in the area as the whiners' houses were being built. What, no retroactive self-shaming guilt trips? I am shocked, shocked! to discover egocentric whining.
Someone else who hasn't bothered actually reading stuff written in support of minimum wage legislation. They make up all sorts of specious claims as to how employers really do have all that money lying around unused, or how the increased pay will spark improved productivity, or how employers will invest in more training for their suddenly-expensive employees.... yada yada yada. All so very simple, by their reckoning, and they are super smart and know so much more about how to run businesses than the actual owners and employers do.
Here's an interesting insight: If I knew of a simple way to make money that required so little investment, I could make a fortune doing so and help others in the process. Yet not a single one of these know-it-alls, these nannies who claim to want to help the poor and unskilled, is willing to put their efforts where their mouth is both make money and help the poor.
Not a single one.
I guess I know how much they believe in their own theories.
You haven't been paying attention if you really believe " I don't think anyone believes the minimum wage will increase demand for workers." There are quite a few who believe exactly that. They seem to think that business owners throw all their profits into a pool like Scrooge McDuck so they can swim in it, and all the pay hikes will come out of those Scrooge McDuck pools.
They tax booze, tobacco, and anything fun, and raise tariffs, expressly to reduce demand. They subsidize whatever they want more of, to nudge people and to reward cronies.
Yet they think raising the minimum wage will increase the demand for low skill workers, they think wage and price controls will reduce demand and increase supply, they think capping surge pricing will increase supply and reduce demand, on and on the hypocrisy goes.
That's true. I bet only BASIC has more shoddy code out there (including Visual Basic). But I was thinking more of the newbie who has no clue and only wants to find out what programming is, not become an expert. You might almost say shoddy examples are better, because if someone still likes it, they can survive and prosper.
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Your view of my politics is as wrong as your differentiating economics and politics. They are as inseparable as physics and mathematics.
I suggest you've had way too much academic education at the expense of practical education. You ought to get ought more, meet people you don't agree with, and learn a little, rather than wave the sheepskin flags of academia.
Just because fascism is socialism doesn't mean socialism is fascism. That's one of the most basic logic failures.
Fascism IS socialism. State controls the means of production. The distinction between the State directly owning businesses and factories vs the State co-opting the owners and telling them what to do is a distinction without a difference.
Anyone who thinks there is a significant difference between Communism and Fascism is deluding themselves, and willfully.
Anyone who tries to define socialism so finely as to exclude Communism and Fascism, while at the same time labeling everything else capitalism, is a hypocrite of the first water, and also willfully.
I see. You just redefine a word to suit your newspeak. Problem solved, or at least obfuscated.
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Good stuff!
USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nazi = National Socialism
Typing != literacy
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There were plenty of communist countries during the period covered, and there are still several right now.
Time to take the blinders off, bud.
Capitalist societies polluted far less than the communist societies did and still do.
Capitalist societies also lifted billions out of poverty while socialism killed 100 million.
If some bozo wants to start toting up a bill, I'd like to see his calculations for what he rest of the world owes the US.
In other words, fuck off and die, slaver. There are some things you just can't calculate on a balance sheet.
My grandpas and grandmas would have had to start with quarks, except without atoms, they wouldn't have existed yet. Makes me doubt my own existence, now that I think about it, since humans are made largely of water. I has confusion.
After a while, I bet all that constant light gave you headaches, especially with no matter to cast shadows. Probably a relief when He created dark!
Huh. I'd have fired you for crawling so low that everything just whooshed right on over you.
Do fire and wheels count?
"You punks had water?!? We had to get our own oxygen and hydrogen atoms and smash them together before we could walk uphill both ways in a snowstorm!"
You mean more than the cluelessness to which I responded, or that you have shown?
Nah. I'm a libertarian. I don't try to force feed people.
Oooh, same old nonsense to trot out. Haven't had a new thought in a while have you?
Was there anything like the 1787 constitution before the US created it?
Was there anything like the Wright Brothers flyer before they created it?
Everything is new at some point.
And Ayn Rand ... (rolls eyes) .... if that is your idea of libertarianism, you really are clueless.
Go, find someone else's leg to pull, and I can guarantee it won't be a libertarian's if that's the best argument you got.
You cluelessness about libertarians is typical of those who don't want to understand personal responsibility because it scares them. So much easier to assign responsibility to a bunch of strangers, and then to whine about the bad decisions they make, which really means they didn't force you to go along with a decision you haven't got the guts to make yourself.
People are building houses they want on property they own?
The infamy!
I wonder how the whiners felt about the people who lived in the area as the whiners' houses were being built. What, no retroactive self-shaming guilt trips? I am shocked, shocked! to discover egocentric whining.
You aren't adept even at switching topics or changing tunes. Take up another line of work, sonny.
Someone else who hasn't bothered actually reading stuff written in support of minimum wage legislation. They make up all sorts of specious claims as to how employers really do have all that money lying around unused, or how the increased pay will spark improved productivity, or how employers will invest in more training for their suddenly-expensive employees .... yada yada yada. All so very simple, by their reckoning, and they are super smart and know so much more about how to run businesses than the actual owners and employers do.
Here's an interesting insight: If I knew of a simple way to make money that required so little investment, I could make a fortune doing so and help others in the process. Yet not a single one of these know-it-alls, these nannies who claim to want to help the poor and unskilled, is willing to put their efforts where their mouth is both make money and help the poor.
Not a single one.
I guess I know how much they believe in their own theories.
You haven't been paying attention if you really believe " I don't think anyone believes the minimum wage will increase demand for workers." There are quite a few who believe exactly that. They seem to think that business owners throw all their profits into a pool like Scrooge McDuck so they can swim in it, and all the pay hikes will come out of those Scrooge McDuck pools.
Check out the UID. You need to rethink how ignorant and unobservant you are.
Looks like I hit a nerve. Someone feeling the burn? Thought maybe the hypocrisy wasn't noticeable? Trying to deflect the attention?
They tax booze, tobacco, and anything fun, and raise tariffs, expressly to reduce demand. They subsidize whatever they want more of, to nudge people and to reward cronies.
Yet they think raising the minimum wage will increase the demand for low skill workers, they think wage and price controls will reduce demand and increase supply, they think capping surge pricing will increase supply and reduce demand, on and on the hypocrisy goes.
Just go away, nannies. Go away.
Interesting idea. You're basically arguing that the IDE and pointy-clicky interface are more important for newbies.
It would be interesting to find a pool of newbies and do some comparisons.
That's true. I bet only BASIC has more shoddy code out there (including Visual Basic). But I was thinking more of the newbie who has no clue and only wants to find out what programming is, not become an expert. You might almost say shoddy examples are better, because if someone still likes it, they can survive and prosper.