Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "OAN Host Desperately Begs Liberals to Save Her Channel" video.

@Seriouslydave Yeah kind of but there's a difference. When right wingers get government money its a payment for providing services to society. When anyone else gets government money its socialism.
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@torontoenvironment9899 You've just given an example of one of the major problems in the world right now. We have so many commentators across all forms of media confusing the crap out of everyone. On e of the few exceptions was back in January when David interviewed Yanis Varoufakis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lNnXAiL0 He said somethings that really stuck with me. One was that social democracy worked when capitalism worked and capitalism stopped working in 2008. I went back and watched it again before finishing this comment and I urge everyone to go back an listen to it again. Yeah government run fire services are a form of socialism. My parents were high school teachers and they explained this to me decades ago. Its one of those things most people just don't understand because they are never taught it. Socialism and capitalism are NOT types of government they are types of economy. Democracies, monarchies, oligarchies, dictatorships are types of government. Socialism and capitalism are the economic models governments use to run nations. Mostly they are run side by side. Things that societies collectively pay for like roads, schools, police, fire brigade, the army,..... those are forms of socialism. Things where people (as individuals or groups) invest their capital (money & labor) to make money through selling products or providing services is capitalism. Most societies have run both in parallel its just the ratio of socialism to capitalism differs. In America its leans to capitalism and in Europe to socialism. Its like a tree in the wind. The wind blows one way and the tree leans that way but if the wind blows to hard the trees breaks. Worse if you don't care for the tree properly it doesn't take as much wind for it to break. Look at the old Soviet block. What Yanis explained is that after 2008 capitalism has gone so far that its breaking. As yanis said its like beating a sick cow and still expecting to get milk.
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@torontoenvironment9899 Yeah I know that you know, but most people don't. I mainly commented back to you in agreement but also to to point out David's interview with Yanis Varoufakis which I think is David's best interview by a long way because of what they discussed. If you take Yanis's ideas further he's basically saying the NEITHER socialism or capitalism can operate in isolation. Whether you're a socialist or capitalist you need enough of the other side or your system will eat itself.
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