Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "JRE Clips"
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@c.m.6487 Frankly, those two comments just reveal a vast depth of ignorance. We just traveled over half the country by car, it was a relief to get back into California. The potholes alone were enough to require our car's entire front end to be rebuilt. Then there is capitalism, the one system that has caused more suffering, more debt, more poverty and more pollution than at any other time in human history. I never wrote that socialism would be better for Americans, but I damn well am writing that capitalism did not make Americans the wealthiest people in the world. Capitalism made some very few people into the wealthiest people in the world, and plunged more than half of us into abject poverty. What was that you wrote about me, that "You are objectively delusional" . . . well look into a mirror Pal, the person you see staring back at you is, how did you put it . . . . objectively delusional. You have become a very useful tool, fool, very well indoctrinated.
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@americanwoman9880 - Yes, I agree, when you have a bunch of lazy entitled people that won't work and contribute that's where capitalism fails. Trust fund kids. Family wealth inheritance. The over $100 trillion in financial assets pulling in capital gains that hollow out our economy. Where we differ is the perception of people coming in illegally and not paying their taxes but sucking the government tit. That is a great talking point, but not at all accurate. There is no way for illegals to get anything from the government "tit", and if you tried signing up for any government program, you would know that first hand. Furthermore, illegals pay taxes, but have no rights or government representation. What you are talking about is purely propaganda, put out by the billionaires, the oligarchs, who spend billions on think tanks and indoctrination, convincing you to protect them. Nice job, you have become a tool, useful to the very people who are sucking this country dry.
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@c.m.6487 - OK, game on. Lets see if you can play. Lets begin with the last item in your comment, innovation. It is well established that capitalism does not come up with most innovations. Capitalism has never been the driver for innovation, but is has been excellent at the exploitation of innovation. NASA for example is government funded. And do you know why? Because Capitalists shit their pants at the the thought of the unknown. Capitalists never do anything without cost-benefit analysis (Which is analyzing the rewards and the costs of a business venture). Which they won't be able to do if they encounter something that is unprecedented, unexplored or undeveloped. These facts mean that Capitalism inherently discourages innovation, because it's way too risky for porky. The parts of the smartphone that make it smart–GPS, touchscreens, the Internet–were advanced by the Defense Department. Tesla’s batteries came out of a Department of Energy grant. Google’s search algorithm was boosted by a National Science Foundation innovation. Many new drugs have come out of NIH research, not pharma corporation research. These innovations were all funded by the government (socialism), not capitalism. This means that your final statement is grossly misaligned, it was the government in capitalist countries that came up with and paid for innovations, not the capitalists in the capitalist countries, which puts your entire thesis on really shaky footing.
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@Gamerad360 - Ok, now your game has come into sharp focus. You are advocating for and against ideas that are not your own. Billionaires pay think tanks to come up with the rhetoric which you are parroting, it is meant to divide and conquer. SImply put, those with wealth have gamed the system to get free money from the government, and they don't want us to have any. What you are spouting, that stuff makes you into an excellent tool to use, to protect those with wealth. You really should do more research and stop being such a useful tool for wealthy people. Now you are just going to read this and get all triggered, I know. Tough luck for you, because you only understand things in terms that someone else has defined. Please grow some intelligence, or at least become more inquisitive. It is boring running across the same old indoctrination over and over, it is like my fellow Americans have never acquired critical thinking skills.
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@Bruno Pereira - As with others here, I went back and reviewed the comments you made to which I replied. Since it had been a week since I replied to your initial comment, I had forgotten about you, thinking that you would not reply. Looking back, you made several statements regarding Bernie, socialism and taxes. To make sure we have context, I am copying your comment here and will refer to it:
"I can't wait for Bernie to be elected and destroy the country. I want to see the denialism of you socialists when the American economy collapses with tens of millions of unemployed and hungry (due to political incompetence and bad economic policies, not a pandemic lockdown).
Believing that more taxes are the solution to the mismanagement of taxes already paid is insanity and masochism, but there is no point in explaining the basics of economics to you, you keep talking "Bad capitalism, wicked bourgeois elites. Good socialism, free things for the poor".
The only remaining option is to let the children learn in practice not to play with fire."
As to your opening comment, the country is already being destroyed, by capitalists. The economy is collapsing, tens of millions are unemployed and hungry. This is entirely due to the "political incompetence and bad economic policies" of the republicans and corporate democrats, who are capitalists. Less taxes is clearly not the solution to those problems, in fact the tax cuts of 2017 has accelerated the economic collapse. You closed with "The only remaining option is to let the children learn in practice not to play with fire." Seems that capitalism and the current right wing government have burned down the economy.
Clearly, capitalism is causing problems, because under capitalism, both wealth for a minority and debt for the majority, grow faster than the economy is capable of growing. Proof is had by looking at financial assets. With over $100 trillion in financial assets gaining plus-5% annually, those assets are five times larger than the economy and growing at a faster rate. This is simply unsustainable. This is an inescapable fact of capitalism.
You seem to think capitalism is the best and that socialism leads to catastrophe. There are innumerable problems with capitalism, it drains wealth from the population, it leads to monopolies, causes vast income inequalities and subjects governments to corporate capture. To keep capitalism in its current form is to guarantee that everything will be burned to the ground. This does not mean that "socialism" should take its place, what it does mean is that capitalism in its current form is toxic, therefore the form must be altered.
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@crogers4912 - What is not hard? When people begin a comment without giving context, as in a three word sentence "Its not hard", it makes a reply "hard" to offer. Moving on, you wrote: "Let people keep more of their own money." OK, fine, you are leaving me guessing what you meant, so I am going to suppose you are referring to taxes. What you are probably not referring to is the private taxes we pay in the form of rising costs, costs that go up to fuel capital gains for financial asset holders. That private tax is one you cannot escape or repeal under the current economic model.
The remainder of your comment is mirroring what so many people say, yet it is hardly an original thought. As a matter of fact, for those that repeat this talking point, it is obvious that they have given this subject little, if any thought at all. Exactly how is someone supposed to manage their own situation, when the economic situation is out of the majority of individuals control? Please answer that question. Next you say: "Either make more money to fit your lifestyle or change your lifestyle to match your income." Again, that is impossible and that saying such a thing is a favorite right wing talking point, which makes its validity dubious at best. Lifestyle is thrust upon us, not made by us, so making more money as a lifestyle choice is just an obnoxious suggestion. Costs to live keep rising, while wages remain stagnant. You should know this, except that anyone who says what you have written gets their economic information from billionaire run media establishments, which is another way of saying that you are listening to bullshit advice. C'mon man, you can do better than this.
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