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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #960 on: April 19, 2012, 10:15:41 pm »
This was posted on Facebook by an old friend of mine, who's become a fundie Paulbot since we last met.



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Free-market capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system in the history of man. The problem with our country today is we no longer have free-market capitalism.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #961 on: April 19, 2012, 10:33:12 pm »
Most of those things the Democrats "don't do" are euphemisms for "screw the poor." And really, the Republican party (since that's who they really mean by "capitalist America") cares about treating all people as equals? Sure could have fooled me, what with the war on women and on the poor and on LGBTQetc. and anyone else who isn't a rich white Christian male.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #962 on: April 19, 2012, 10:42:21 pm »
Capitalists don't give each other special priveleges?! Fuck, that’s how the whole damn system works!
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #963 on: April 19, 2012, 11:03:06 pm »
Very funny chart, especially given that there has never been a pure free market, and everytime there is deregulation of some sort, some greedy fuckwad always makes things unequal in some way. Also stop calling Hitler a fucking socialist, you look like fucking idiot, when you do so.

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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #964 on: April 19, 2012, 11:25:17 pm »
Somebody doesn't understand Free-market capitalism.

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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #965 on: April 20, 2012, 12:41:38 am »
Apparently, Obama 'requires state control over the media to maintain control.' Which media would this be? Fox? The New York Post?
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« Reply #966 on: April 20, 2012, 01:19:58 am »

Someone really needs to learn that "free" doesn't mean "things that scare me the least".
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #967 on: April 20, 2012, 05:24:05 am »
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ARGH. *rage mode!* Nazi Germany was not. bloody. socialist! The Nazi Party was primarily a party of the petty-bourgeois class (as opposed to the working class), and in power it was a pretty capitalist system, it didn't majorly change the economic layout. They abolished the bloody union attached to the party for one.

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Free-market capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system in the history of man. The problem with our country today is we no longer have free-market capitalism.

If you think America is not free market capitalist, you need walloping. Honestly. (Though of course what is or isn't a free market is a political definition rather than an objective one - it's more like a scale with "more free market" at one end and "less free market" at another).

While it's true that capitalism has created the wealth that makes us able to get rid of poverty, left to its own devices it doesn't exactly do this. I mean, if the government legislates that people who are unemployed should get a basic payout to prevent them from starving, that is not caused by capitalism per se (even if capitalism is a necessary condition for it) it's caused by the government offsetting the worst of the system.

I mean there wasn't any poverty in laissez-faire nineteenth century England![/sarcasm]

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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #969 on: April 20, 2012, 04:44:16 pm »
A free market is flawed. Either you can deal with those flaws or you can dogmatically pretend they don't exist, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #970 on: April 20, 2012, 06:49:56 pm »
A free market is flawed. Either you can deal with those flaws or you can dogmatically pretend they don't exist, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
This.

A fully free market, as most people would use the term, won’t stay that way for very long, because there will always be someone who profits best by removing the freedom of others. In this way, a free market naturally collapses in on itself. And that is a pretty big fuckin’ flaw.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #972 on: April 20, 2012, 11:21:03 pm »
Remember, these are the same people who think that being slaves to an invisible, never-speaking, never-shown skydaddy is the ultimate freedom.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #973 on: April 21, 2012, 03:21:06 pm »
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #974 on: April 21, 2012, 03:35:54 pm »
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