Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis" video.

  1. Capitalism has already eaten democracy ... we are just seeing and hearing the post-prandial burps and farts from the meal.
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  2.  @Knaeben  I could generally agree with that, but what puts it in better perspective is that: Socialism = Capitalism + Democracy Fascism = Capitalism - Democracy That is, a system driven by money alone ahead of people will always take over government, just as Marx wrote about. Capitalism is dehumanizing and ruinous on its own.
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  3.  @user-os7qq9xk4o  Like most Conservatives you a limited understanding and a closed mind.
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  4.  @horatio59  shove your stupid ideas where the sun don't shine pal, quit wasting my time and get lost.
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  5.  @samsonthebarbarian5593  Don't give your your warmed over condescending lecture pal. Socialism has very little meaning outside of denoting alternate systems that put people before money. Socialism = Capitalism + Democracy Fascism = Capitalism - Democracy
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  6.  @horatio59  You can tell me your opinion, but you cannot say he is right. There is no country or economy on Earth that is either totally driven by market forces, or planned by human planners. It is a useless discussion to have, which is why useless people want to discuss it that way. The issue is whether an elite of any type is going to to run the country and the economy or whether the people come before money. Putting people before money is socialism. That is the point of socialism, that is what the social in socialism means. As I have said elsewhere ... Capitalism + Democracy = Socialism Capitalism - Democracy = Fascism
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  7. Capitalism + Democracy = Socialism Capitalism - Democracy = Fascism
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  8.  @rorymcleod2088  LOL!
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  9.  @horatio59  It's capitalism when it suits the right wing, and it's not capitalism when it doesn't suit the right-wing. It's become a meaningless word per se, so you have to dig into the context of the one who is using the term. If you are unwilling to do that, you just waste your own time and everyone else's as well.
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  10.  Raptor Jet  It's all capitalism, the difference is in the regulation. Democracy/Socialism is the controls on the capitalist system. If there is not vote, if there is no citizen or worker representation it is tyranny, facsism. Those are the two poles of capitalism.
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  11.  Raptor Jet  No code there. You don't get to decide what I say, I said it, plain and simple, and in words anyone, even you, could understand. All the other forms of democracy and capitalism are doing better than the US. The US problem is nothing but massive corruption that has twisted our version of capitalism into something that has taken us down to where there is hardly a national metric that we do not come in lower than every other democracy nation in the world.
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  12.  Raptor Jet  If I was spouting ignorance you'd be lapping it up as that is all you seem to deal in.
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  13.  Raptor Jet  Spoken like a true Republican. NewsMax much?
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  14.  Raptor Jet  Not too bad. Happy I don't need to waste my time raging on YT.
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  15.  @tgr5772  God can only "rule" the minds of people who have been wrongly programmed with it.
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  16.  @tgr5772  I was programmed to know not but keep and open mind and pay attention. Can't quite be a believer or an atheist.
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  17.  Raptor Jet  My feeling is that capitalism is the system and socialist vs. fascism are the two poles of the issue. If you see that a country or system is not democratic, like the US of late, then it is more fascistic. If you want to lessen a fascist system you create more democracy.
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  18.  @ML6103  There is a great book called "The End Of The Megamachine". It is a great book ... with a mediocre to bad title. But it is the only book I've read that makes the point that democracy evolved as a counter to Capitalism, Feudalism, Tyranny and Libertarianism - but mainly Capitalism because that is what all oppressive systems that kick out people and take their land, labor, futures, and lives for fun and profit. Maybe the book does not state it that forcefully, but that is the message I got from it. That is what the SOBs on the Right want to justify and go back to.
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