Comments by "Michael Mappin" (@michaelmappin1830) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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@jwdeet3396 , democracy has nothing to do with freedom? It's the epitome of freedom. If people can't democratically decide how to run their communities, workplaces, schools, Etc. Then someone else has to make those decisions. And of course the ruling class wants to be in that dominant position. And that's why they hate democracy.
Of course there has to be accountability, as with all things. Just like with capitalism, there has to be rules and the protection of Rights. That's why we have checks and balances. Otherwise, people would be selling children, slaves, organs, Etc. the idea that we shouldn't have a Democratic Society, or that we should get rid of democracy, that doesn't make any sense. If you eliminate democracy, you end up with a dictatorship or some other form of unaccountable hierarchy.
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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@andrewbalderree338 , well I'm not sure how interesting it is. Capitalism is the private ownership of capital and the means of production. The capital and resources go to the highest bidder. there for you end up with a situation where the richest members of society control the resource. Those who control Capital get most of the wealth produced by labour.
So what Richard Wolff is proposing is that workers combine their resources to obtain their own Capital/means of production. That way they can actually keep the wealth that their labour produces. Otherwise, they have to rent themselves out as wage slaves.
Of course anyone in their right mind wouldn't want to work at a company making money for someone else. Well, not if they had the option of getting paid the full value of their labour.
I mean it doesn't really matter what you call it. you can attach whatever label you like. the key difference is that you get to keep the wealth that your labour produces.
for example, in Spain there's a worker Cooperative that produces 25 billion dollars per year in sales. that money goes to the workers because they are the owners. but when a company such as Amazon or Walmart does 25 billion in sales, most of that money goes to shareholders. that's really bad for the economy because workers have very little purchasing power.
jobs are tied to consumption. every dollar extracted from a worker is one less dollar they have to spend into the economy. that's why we have so much debt.
. Capitalism is a debt based system. in order to maintain consumption levels so that people don't get laid off, reduced purchasing power has to be offset with increased access to credit. that's why they came up with fractional Reserve banking. in order for the economy to expand and consumption to be maintained, you either have to pay workers more or you have to give them greater access to credit. One or the other. so they started printing IOUs.
without fractional Reserve banking you end up with a ceiling limit on how much wealth if you can extract from workers.
if you take 50% of the honey from a beehive, the bees have to work 50% longer in order to replace what you've taken. so how do you get around that barrier? if you take too much honey, the bees starve. so, they started replacing the valuable honey with high fructose corn syrup. with workers, they increased the access to credit. whether you're a cow, a honey bee or a worker, the point of capitalism is to extract wealth from someone else's labour.
if you give bovine growth hormone to a cow in order to double milk production, does that result in the cow getting to work half as many hours or getting twice the amount of milk? no. The firmer gets twice the amount of milk. that's why we still have the 40 Hour Work Week under capitalism. All increases in productivity go to the owners of capital which are the richest members of society. that's why we saw the Advent of the billionaire class rather than a reduction in the working hours when increases in productivity tripled since 1950 thanks to labor-saving technology.
capitalism is basically a human livestock management system. and that's why capitalism didn't exist prior to the enclosure movement. people had to be driven off of their land and placed into an extreme state of dependency before they would accept doing someone else's work. The conversion to capitalism was extremely violent and bloody.
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@ejackcity34 , what are you talkin about? :-) leftist policies in the UK? Privatization and deregulation is rampant.
I already told you that Trudeau is not a leftist. And besides, the environment of Canada today was shaped by Stephen Harper, who was in power for an entire decade prior to Trudeau! He would be the equivalent of your George Bush. Are you familiar with the political Spectrum, its history and evolution? For your information leftists don't cut regulations, increase privatization, bail out Banks, Etc. if you want an example of a leftist, consider Eugene Victor Debs, Big Bill Haywood, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Janet Rankin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rosa Parks, Susan B Anthony, Etc. LOL would you really compare Justin Trudeau and Obama to any of those people? :-)
you say that I'm the typical leftists? How would you know? But yeah, I am! I believe that wealth should actually stay with the wealth producers. no one should be entitled to the wealth generated by someone else! I believe that communities should own and control their own resources and labour.
But anyway, like I said, if you want to trust the news that's paid for by big corporations, go for it! But don't tell me that it's reliable, objective and impartial. Because it's not! again, it's like the tobacco industry spending billions of dollars on studies that show there's no correlation between smoking and lung cancer. and again, their record speaks for itself.
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@llffoomm what are you talkin about? You just described capitalism. Marxism doesn't have anything to do with taking things you haven't worked for. That is the core of capitalism. People should only be entitled to the well that they generate themselves with their own work. Do you really think an individual can convert their labour energy into a billion dollars? If your annual income was $100,000 a year after-tax, and you could save 100% of it each year , it would take you ten thousand years to accumulate a billion dollars. Capitalism makes this possible because it allows you to steal the wealth generated by other people's work. Just like when you capitalize on animals, like a cow or honey bees. People accumulate beehives so they can actually steal the wealth created by honey bees. If you can make a dollar off of each beehive per hour, and you have a million beehives, you can generate a million dollars per hour. and that's what capitalism is all about. I'm sure you've played the Monopoly board game. capitalism is about the maximization of capital accumulation so that you don't have to work for a living. those who don't have Capital have to pay rent in usage fees. why do you think the conversion to capitalism was so violent and bloody? Who wants to be human livestock? capitalism reduces human beings to livestock. if you are owned, if you are an employee, it doesn't matter what you're productive output is. It all goes to the owners a capital. for example, if you give a cow bovine growth hormone in order to double milk production, the cow doesn't have twice as much milk. The farmer does. But if the cow is free, the more milk it produces, the more it has. There's the difference. if you take 50% of the honey from a beehive, the bees have to work 50% longer in order to replace what you've stolen. And that is why we still have the 40 Hour Work Week even though productivity levels have increased exponentially over the last hundred and fifty years. Working hours remain the same because people are owned under capitalism just like livestock. why do you think 80% of the world's population subsists on $10 a day or less? Why do you think 44% of the American population now earns $18,000 a year or less? It is because the wealth produced by their labour is being siphoned off by those who own most of the capital. The more Capital you own, the more wealth you can extract from other people's labour. and every time you have a dollar that goes to a non producer, somewhere else you have someone who work for a dollar that he doesn't get. if your against theft. If your against exploitation, then you would be anti-capitalist. technically, capitalism is not even a real economic system because it violates Market and economic principles. If you expropriate most of the wealth produced by your workers so that they're earning only minimum wage, they then don't have the purchasing power to actually afford the very goods and services are producing in the first place. Consumption and jobs have to be maintained through debt. And that's why the Federal Reserve is currently pumping trillions of dollars into the economy at record low interest rates.
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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@davewade30 , for example,
1. you completely ignore how many times Jordan Peterson has been caught lying. Even after he was caught lying and challenged on it, he continue to lie!
2. Mr. Peterson has gone out of his way to stop Bill C 16 which would greatly harm and probably lead to the continued deaths of many gay and transgender people. Does mr. Peterson care? Well, he continue to stop the bill even though he was corrected on the nature and limitations of that bill. That is a fact. Not my personal opinion. Why would he do such a thing? What is his motive?
3. Mr. Peterson makes spurious and fallacious claims. He does this constantly! For example, saying that it's not possible to stop smoking without Supernatural intervention. You tried to defend that point, saying people just misunderstand. You're grasping at straws! He outright said that it's not possible. any person with half a clue would have said that Supernatural intervention would greatly improve one's odds of stopping smoking. That would be the natural response. But he didn't say that, did he? No. He said it's not possible! When the interviewer then expressed extreme incredulity, Peterson said, not really. the fact that you would actually try to defend mr. Peterson on this point is absolutely ridiculous! I could probably bring up another 30 or 40 examples of this type of behaviour. but you would just make excuses, as Peterson often does, claiming that people are just simply misunderstanding him. Again, there has to be some motive for you to actually try to defend untenable positions.
4. Jordan Peterson to this very day continues to claim that Marxist will not debate him! but you'll never see him debating mr. Richard Wolff, because Peterson has made so many false claims, stating them as truth , that he now has no choice other than to avoid mr. Wolf. Peterson doesn't understand Marxism. he made numerous claims as to know what marks was talking in various areas. He was dead wrong on most of them! simple things that even a child should have been able to grasp. now these statements are on the internet and Peterson has to run like a child. :-) just like with that idiotic claim as to thinking that ancient civilizations had knowledge of DNA. there's actually another video where he was challenged on that statement. a person went up to him and said he could make such a claim. Peterson at first try to deny it! see, more evidence of the type of lying sack of that he is. when the person pointed out that he actually attended the class where he made the claim, Peterson then backtracked and said that wasn't what he meant. he said it was just a mere suspicion. LOL
anyway, I could go on and on and on, probably for hours. the man is a joke. it should be obvious to you. it's not too hard to substantiate. but you're not able to for some reason. I find that interesting. I find it interesting that there's so many people that are taken in by snake oil salesman.
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Dore 2024!
Yes, I know, it’s always premature to discuss the next presidential contest. But I’ll make my pick for 2024 known now: Jimmy Dore.
For those who dismiss a comedian running for the highest office, I say, why not? Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party. The comedian and civil rights activist used his run to energize the anti-war movement, draw attention to the needs of the working class and the harassment many people of color still faced following the passage of numerous civil rights bills.
Gregory, although he only accumulated close to 50,000 votes, frightened the Nixon administration with his campaign. Personnel in the Nixon White House feared Gregory may become the “black messiah” J. Edgar Hoover long warned about. Shortly after that warning, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Fred Hampton were gunned down. Fearful of his profile and his building of a true rainbow coalition, Gregory was placed on Nixon’s dreaded enemies list.
I sincerely believe a Dore presidential campaign could have the same effect. It could empower various social movements and make the oligarchs and their two corporate/puppet parties quake in their boots. Dore could start the race with genuine grassroots support and funding from the people.
Dore has expressed both interest and some hesitancy. But if history is any guide, I say he shouldn’t be worried. Run, Jimmy! Scare the oligarchs and empower the people!
Dore 2024!
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