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14521
« on: August 17, 2014, 02:05:43 PM »
If you guys just give me all your money I'll let it trickle down.
At least supply-side works.
14522
« on: August 17, 2014, 01:34:32 PM »
He who controls the media controls elections.
Unless you outlaw advertising and privately-owned media outlets, that's not going to change any time soon.
Hell, even publicly owned news networks are partially dependent on advertising money, just look at the CBC.
I didn't say otherwise. The point is to structure government in such a way as to remove the incentive for trying to determine the outcome of an election.
14523
« on: August 17, 2014, 01:21:25 PM »
Capitalism makes it possible for the rich to manipulate politics, it's a system designed to keep them in power.
I don't pretend to have any solutions, but I also don't pretend that the system currently in place is worth defending. Teaching people how badly the game is rigged is a good enough start, I suppose.
No, the nature of government allows capitalists to manipulate politics. Oligarchs and plutocrats are symptoms, not the illness.
14524
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:29:34 PM »
Still one of the leading examples of state capitalism.
Whether power is concentrated in the hands of the state or the hands of the ultra-rich, it makes little difference. They're two sides of the same coin.
Well, not really. The rich only get rich by providing value for people. That's how innovation and competition work. The problem is when the rich are able to use their money to get into political structures. Regardless, if it makes no difference to you, why're you complaining? According to you, a proper capitalist system is just as bad as a cronyist system, yet they're both evidently better than a central planning or State capitalist system. What alternative do you want to pursue here?
14525
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:16:09 PM »
I'm not fond f Keynes either, see previous comment^
China says hi.
So long as wealth is concentrated in the hands of the highest social class, it will always be planned top-down.
lol China's only seeing large growth precisely because they moved to a market-based system and away from a planning one. That being said, despite their really quite astonishing growth, they're going to have to face crippling levels of internal debt.
14526
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:08:39 PM »
This thread is going to give me fucking epilepsy.
14527
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:06:39 PM »
>thinks OP means some western country
>OP means liberia
lel
14528
« on: August 17, 2014, 12:03:12 PM »
Wealth goes where people who control wealth want it to go*
That's a symptom of political problems, not problems with capitalism. I don't like Keynes, but even he realised capitalism was necessary for the freedom of a country. You can't generate wealth and plan it from the top-down at the same time, it doesn't work.
14529
« on: August 17, 2014, 11:33:04 AM »
When that wealth isn't being used for the benefit of the majority of the population? Yes.
Wealth goes where people want it to go - that's the point of the market.
14530
« on: August 17, 2014, 10:36:42 AM »
You should do it, good to get the experience under your belt.
I have applied for it, it's just my mother going on about it that's getting on my tits.
14531
« on: August 17, 2014, 10:33:06 AM »
>humanizing capitalism
when will they realize it's a scam?
The thing that's given 1% of human history 99% of all the wealth ever created is a scam?
14532
« on: August 17, 2014, 10:31:28 AM »
What's the job may I ask?
Some menial assistant position at the local Morrisons.
14533
« on: August 17, 2014, 08:49:17 AM »
Jesus Christ, man, aren't you married?
Fucking talk to her.
14534
« on: August 17, 2014, 08:45:13 AM »
I know right. My mom's making me apply for a job I don't even fucking want.
Feel like taking three sleeping pills with a bottle of Stella.
14535
« on: August 16, 2014, 11:14:50 PM »
Ruthless.
14536
« on: August 16, 2014, 06:58:03 PM »
Probably about time you guys just got rid of the FDA.
14537
« on: August 16, 2014, 05:11:33 PM »
It's in account of the 12-foot pole in his ass.
You're being generous. It's at least twice that length. And sideways.
14538
« on: August 16, 2014, 05:03:35 PM »
I now assume most people into politics are like you.
Fuck.
Most people who have political aspirations probably are.
14539
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:53:30 PM »
14540
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:51:04 PM »
But counselor, therapist, and psychologist are synonyms...at least where I live.
Well, you see, that's because America's mental health system is even worse than the U.K.'s?
14541
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:50:24 PM »
Would it be wise to go, then, if you believe you'll get diagnosed with that eventually? I don't imagine having Antisocial Personality in your medical files would do anyone much good.
I don't really see the point. If anything it's contributed to what successes I've had in life; the problem of it lies with everybody else. Doesn't bother me none, and I wonder how a diagnosis would impede me in life.
14542
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:48:08 PM »
Meta comes to Mr. P's house like this.
The fuck is wrong with you? I don't wear my hair like that.
14543
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:46:53 PM »
If they are any good at their job, it would be like trying to herd cats <.<
I was a catherder in a past life, boy.
14544
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:45:05 PM »
You said AMA.
I didn't imagine one would be so foolish as to ask an already answered question. However, were they not so popular, I wouldn't make them. Cut me some slack, I haven't done a single one on this site.
14545
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:43:13 PM »
Mr P is gonna get murdered.....
I was thinking rape, but whatever man. Whatever takes you cake.
14546
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:42:46 PM »
What possesses you to make these blogs about your life?
What deficiency leads you to particularly poor reading skills?
14547
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:41:37 PM »
as in putting people in mental hospitals?
did you drink the thomas szasz kool-aid?
No, I'm talking about prisons. Like, when people are in prisons for so long under certain conditions that they feel they can't "make it" on the outside. Like the Shawshank Redemption.
14548
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:40:44 PM »
What did you do that made your councilor suggest you see a therapist?
I have a particularly antisocial personality. Although I'm six months too young to qualify for a diagnosis.
14549
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:39:41 PM »
Doesn't Mr P live near you?
Just go see him.
lel He lives in the same county, just one district over. I might pay him a visit. *wink wink*
14550
« on: August 16, 2014, 04:38:17 PM »
Was talking to my counselor this Tuesday passed, and she asked me how I felt about seeing a psychologist. I haven't really thought about it, but am undivided so far, maybe you guys'll help me reach a decision. So, AMA because I'm bored and my ego needs feeding. 
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