Comments by "" (@Josh93B93) on "David Pakman Show"
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@darkeimp555 that is an interesting idea, but there are no "right rules" for a system based on unlimited exploitation and growth on the consumption of finite resources. There is no way under capitalism to ensure anyone to follow any rules or maintain sensible checks on said growth for profit because the capitalism was never designed or theorized to really do that, it was engineered to be o more socially acceptavle institution whilst maintaining the same feudal power structures it replaced.
For an example, enough food is produced globaly every year to meed in excess 10 billion people, there are only 7.53 billion currently inhabbiting this planet, yet 36 million will die from hunger alone just this year, as it stands, capitalism is responsible for 100 million preventable deaths every decade, capitalism as an institution has existed for around 500 years, it's not getting any better, while i do not know how many decades more must past, or how many more millions of lives must be lost before it is understood that capitalism can and will only lead to a dead end. This is not solely opinion on the matter, these were the results of of a thorough analysis of the relations of labor-wages-profit using dialectical materialism that has been known since 1867, the finding were published in the book Das Kapital, give it a read when you have the chance m8.
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@pdoylemi nice thought, but in the end, after someone is in court so often for manslaughter cases, at which point do repeated offences become murder? Maybe they should have thier firearms permit revoked under said circumstances?
Otherwise it will just keep happening, again, and again, whilst using the money aquired from the victims to pay court cost.
In my home country troops have only ever been deployed overseas under auspices of United Nations as peacekeepers, in my current adopted country the armed forces have only been deployed upon the request of soveriegn states for assistance, the last time that happened was 3 decades ago to defend the sovereignty of Angola and gurantee the independence of Namibia from Apartheid South Africa, since then it has only participated in humanitarian relief missions in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. If the US only makes blunders and this is not pre-meditated, then the sensible thing to do is to only deploy it's forces under UN mandate and scruitiny, when that happens, I might actually be able to believe some of America's claims, but my faith and trust in the system was broken long ago in primary school, The Americans sided with Churchill and Kitchener as well as the crown in branding my ancestors as terrorist for striving for independence from the same empire that you yourselves fought to be free from, you chose your own geopolitical interest as oppossed to recognizing our plight for freedom when we needed your support.
When my countrymen were deployed to the Congo after Lumumba was murdered your country was busy giving Mobutu Sese Seko money to arm french and belgian mercenaries that were then used to kill my countrymen.
I, along with the rest of Ireland, still happen to be quite pissed about this, our men died trying to keep the peace whilst your CIA was doing everything in its power to break it in order to control the Uranium mines, while not giving a damn about the Congolese struggle for freedom. These injustices are far too common to be excused as accidents or simple blunders, as the US has repeatedly failed to rectify these past mistakes, and only goes on continuing in subverting the third world to its will by means of force.
I cannot believe in or support americas foriegn policy, as it is preditive in nature and imperialist in practice, so with that being said I do not believe we will be able to come to an understanding on the matter. With that I respectfully say goodnight and goodbye to you sir.
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@pdoylemi and you lost me completely on that last one, your anti-communist dogma is showing, most of the military juntas installed in latin america were orchestrated by the US to topple democraticly elected governments that were replace with ruthless dictators, Batista, Pinochet, Rios Mont for just three examples of this, and the region has never recovered from what the US did, meanwhile a third of your nation wishes to close its doors to the refugees fleeing the shitholes your country created. So again, we're not going to agree on this, goodbye.
And dont give me that 80 years shite, in 1954 your CIA destroyed liberal democracy in Guatemala solely to protect the interest of the United Fruit Company. I would be glad to give you more examples, but given you've ignored everything i said in my last comment to you whats the point?
Rethorical question there, again goodbye.
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@pdoylemi given that you chose to ignore my grievences and the facts attributed to them, why should I? As you are just as culpable in being wedded to the ideas of american exceptionalism.
Ohh, where I live one has to hold full political rights for 5 years to participate in palimentery elections, and I only moved to Cuba 4 years ago, and only recieved my papers of permenant residencey last February, that being said, I still took time to give support to Miguel Diaz, even though I disagree with his legalization of private property, a measure Ive been active in the protest to have overturned, as it is a measure that only compromises the revolution that Fidel and millions of Cubans spent they're lives working to build and maintain, before I came here I had lived and traveled all over central america, In Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicuragua, I've personally witnessed the long term effects of American imperialism, coupling that with my country's grievences as well as the continued economic embargo your empire places over my adopted country that does nothing but make life more difficult for everyone here including myself, maybe you can start to realize your not winning me over to your way of thinking.
If I am evil for defending the rights of the oppressed peoples of the world from american brutality and exploitation, then call me what you will, try me, judge me, fuck all shoot me, but in the end, history will absolve me.
Gabh trasna ort fhéin cúl tona.
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@vikramlothe1709 lol, small world, I spent 3 years living in the US, about a year of it was spent in a small town in the arse end of no where about an hour from Roanoke, i moved to Santa Clara, Cuba about 4 years ago now, and just got perminent residence status approved back in february, without full citizenship I cant vote in the general assembly, but I greatly prefer its method all the same, if all goes to plan and me and my fiance get married in March, i can apply for full citizenship and have the ability to vote within 5 years, it's a long wait but worth every day of it.
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@darkeimp555 well, humanity has about 50 years to make said changes, or our grandkids will get to see humanity die out, if you think that this can be prevented under capitalism, or a modified version of it, you have a rude awakening coming my friend, when your ready to give up on it, and accept that the radical series of changes needed ensure humanity's survival will be a violent social upheaval, there will be a red banner and some molotovs waiting for you. Until then, I respectfully bid you adieu, and good luck.
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@dougd1573 weird flex, I dont recall there being any monuments to Karl Marx in the United States? Aside from that, he was a writer, historian, philosopher, and economist, he held no slaves, led no imperialist conquest, and inspired millions of people to to liberate themselves from the oppressions of colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism and the gross exploitation of the working class by the powers that be. Given that his character and actions in life exemplified the ideals he espoused, I have no qualms with his comemeration, but there dont need to be more statues made regardless, as it only leads to cult of personality worship, leading people to blindly follow these idealist and leaders without trully understanding who they were or what were the ideals they believed in and worked to realize, as well as the mistakes they made along the way or finding nuance in those mistakes.
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