Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Debating TWO Communists in a Row" video.

Yea being an ignorant kid is pretty much the only excuse for thinking communism is a good idea.
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@susanmaguire1503 no, they can, I realized a few years ago that I suffered from the same tic, not to an extreme degree, but after noticing someone who said "like" almost every other word and having a good laugh about it, I thought about myself and realized I used it a lot too. So with some effort I cut that out of my vocabulary for the most part. Same with "literally", I only use that word when I'm making fun of stupid people or when I actually mean it in it's intended usage.
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@5353Jumper "regulated capitalism" is an oxymoron, regardless of how well or poorly regulated it is. You're accidentally proving my point about leftists not understanding what capitalism means.
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@ghost mall well fascism, just like communism, always results in authoritarianism. Even if it's sold as "libertarian" and the person pushing it makes it seem like some kind of utopia where everyone is living in peace and prosperity, that's not what actually happens when it's implemented. Both ideologies rely pretty heavily on the populace agreeing with the ideology, there's really no way to get an entire population to fall in line with an ideology without using force.
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@amyjones2490 imagine you own a small business, about 15-20 employees, and they all decide they should get $50/hr and only have to work 20 hours a week, full benefits, holiday pay for every obscure holiday that ever existed. Do you think you could keep your business in operation that way?
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@TechHarmonic never sounded good to me. I mean I guess I can understand why it might sound good when you're a kid. But even when I was a kid and I learned about it, my immediate reaction was "well that's a dumb idea, there's about 13 obvious reasons that wouldn't work and would be disastrous even if it did work."
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@5353Jumper the government picking winners and losers is the literal opposite of capitalism.
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@slokling I never said I did. I'm simply stating the objective fact, that government regulations are not capitalist by the very definition of the terms. If you must know, I just want less regulations. Economies tend to thrive when the government takes a more light handed approach and only applies basic regulations.
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Leftists think men can get pregnant. I'm pretty sure some hillbilly in the most secluded part of the country, whose never picked up a book or even owned a pair of shoes is smarter than that.
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@bryanrhodes369 when you're in competition, that means you can improve your situation by being better at competing.
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@bryanrhodes369 you have to start somewhere. If you're under the delusion that all your life's problems are due to capitalism, then you're in a perpetual cycle that can only end in you either living a meek and meaningless life, or turning into some lunatic that commits an act of terror like we see so often on the left. If we're being honest you're probably not smart enough to recognize the difference or even understand the control you're in the grasp of, that's why you're a leftist, the 2 options I layed out are basically all you have. I just hope it's the first one.
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@juniorgod321 if leftists understood how capitalism works, they wouldn't be leftists.
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@slokling it doesn't matter what semantics you want to use, capitalism is not regulated by the government, it allows the market to regulate itself. That's precisely what capitalism is. When someone refers to a nation such as the US as "capitalist", they just mean that the economy is based more on capitalist principles than socialist. And the same goes for nations that are considered socialist, they're not an absolute socialist economy, that would be as idealistic and unreasonable as an unregulated capitalist system, since some form of capitalism is needed to generate currency. Practically every economy that's ever existed was a mixed economy. But when leftists complain about how "capitalism is bad, because ______", that blank is almost 100% of the time a problem with government corruption, not capitalism.
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@M Anderson but the regulation part is not capitalism. Yes, we should have regulations in order to protect workers and hold companies accountable to basic environmental responsibilities. I'm not saying I'm against those things. But those things are not capitalist, that is government regulation, by definition. You're making the same mistake that makes leftists so easy to manipulate, you can't separate your opinion from objective reality. That's why you're projecting that on to me, you're the 2nd person in this thread making assumptions about my own personal position just based on the descriptive explanations I'm giving to capitalism, which are accurate. I've also already explained the difference between capitalism as a principle and referring to an economy as capitalist. No economy is 100% capitalist or 100% socialist. It's not possible, at least not on a scale any more broad than a handful of people who all know each other personally.
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@slokling every leftist argument against capitalism is actually just whining about government corruption. Which is extremely frustrating, because normal people don't like government corruption either, but it's the left that consistently votes for bigger and more powerful government.
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@noel7777noel Jesus Christ that hurts just to read it. You're an actual crazy person, aren't you? Seriously, when my mom lost her marbles she started talking like that, except talking instead of written text. It's fucking creepy. Dear Lord. Try to stay away from the prescription medication, it only made it worse for my mom. Honestly I don't know what to tell you, but I know what she did wasn't working. So don't do that. Take an internet break, it can't hurt.
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psycho supposeiam that's why I like the triangular spectrum better than the traditional left/right, authoritarian/libertarian. It has liberal at the top corner, communism on the bottom left, and fascism on the bottom right, this more properly illustrates the differences and relationships between different ideologies. Traditional liberal and conservative in the American context would both be closest to liberal on this spectrum, liberals being a little lower and toward the left slope and conservatives being lower and towards the right slope.
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