We may as be watching the death rattle of the US. If we have to result to national thuggery to gain access to natural resources, then we are no better totalitarians of the past.
Where is the fucking hope and change you voted for? We are still in these godforsaken wars....and a few more ObamaWars™
For what? Still oil now pussies? Now that your man is in the White House...it is cool to be killing all those innocent men and women in USELESS FUCKING FOREIGN WARS. BUCK UP AND GROW A PAIR ALL YOU FUCKING USEFUL IDIOTS. What...are you scared you will be called a racist for not supporting OBAMA'S MURDERING in these wars? If so...you are all fools. PEACE NOW. NO WAR FOR OIL.
Geologist believe 250.000.000.000 Barrels of OIL must be lying under ground in IRAQ HIGH quality OIL 25.000.000.000.000 $ in dollars
WHY are you so surprised about USA going to war for OIL and GAS , USA president said OIL is foreign policy of USA, WHO ever intervene to take middle east OIL will be considered an attack on USA.
where is all this oil we supposedly gotten from the wars? where? I sure as hell dont see it at the pump with $3.75 a gallon gas. bunch of bullshit told by libturds.
if all you assholes in here dont like this country or capitalism, go to cuba or some other third world shithole and see if like the alternative to captialism. bunch of fucking lowlife ingrates. bet none of those making these moronic comments are homeless, or hungry. pathetic saps and whiners.
The size of the United States as a Federal entity cannot be discounted in assessing what that Nation is capable of. Iintercontinental trade allows both East and West coast markets to compete against the middle, to prey on itself, tighten the Bible Belt, is grit to the mill more than grist, foil more than oil, spoil more than toil.The belief in technology as saving the absentee landlord from all sorts of sin also discounted cannot be in understanding why culturally we see less good education now.
So 1% of the US population is employed, to protect 100% of the worlds oil. And the US takes one fifth (20% of the global Oil product) for its cut of the pie. Well, this is interesting!
Money, oil, land and resources, they are all juicy fruits, and a War machine makes for a great juicer! While the rich, eat the poor, the clever eat the rich, and war makes the game unpredictable, and uncontrollable. As long as the war goes on, no one fighting entity can gain or cede total control, to another- War and hostile occupation keep the arms of control in chaos and under an obscurity- does anyone really know who, is fighting, whom, or why they fight? Human rights, anyone?
@ArtetlaMusique87 It doesn't mean he wasn't a Liberal on race, it just means he was an establishment politician who saw Civil Rights activism as a annoyance. He had the national guard ready and waiting to crush the March on Washington, such was the distrust he had in MLK's ability to control black marchers.
Also, a key way Democrats of the time persuaded people to accept Civil Rights, was in the words of one Democrat, if they didn't then White people would have a Civil War in their backyard.
COINTELPRO took place between 1956 and 1971 so that includes Kennedys administration.
It was aimed at the entire new left, at the women's movement, at the whole black movement, it was extremely broad. Its actions went as far as political assassination.
@ArtetlaMusique87 Truman desegregated the fed, and that was when it was unfashionable. Kennedy was certainly Progressive, but in the same way as Tony Blair was a Progressive (and Tony Blair did some good shit, but he was still a warmonger and fully embedded in the establishment). He's not the deeply courageous radical who would have overthrown the NWO single handed and ended all war and brought in a space utopia, as me learned friend here believed, before you butted in :)
@ArtetlaMusique87 I quote what he told Civil Rights leaders, "Can't you get your friend off those god damn buses?" He viewed the Civil Rights activists as a inconvenience to his glamourous, television and foreign policy based Presidency. Also, like most Democrats at the time Kennedy viewed Civil Rights legislation as a way to avoid racial violence.
@elouwen That's not a justification for cruelty and murder, nothing is, but you have to see the world as is. British was just one power is a sea of aggressive nation states. All the great Empires were once little nations battling it out against the big powers who threatened their independence, and all the little nations were once invaders seeking land and food.
Blaming something as recent as central banking for the sins of a race that has been committing crimes for thousands of years is foolish
@elouwen Please, learn some real history man! Your never going to convince me of anything by just calling me a debt slave (I'm not one, yet....) and sprouting sweet sounding myths which have nothing to do with the cold hard facts of history.
You know one of the main reasons the British were Imperialists? Because if we hadn't gone to America, it would have become the property of absolutists from European mainland who would have used that wealth to conquer Europe.
@elouwen I mean seriously, do you know anything about John Kennedy other than that he was assassinated? I presume you are unaware that far from being a courageous, world changing radical hero he was a politician who ushered in a age of style without substance. He was up to his eyeballs in the war machine, turned his nose up at the civil rights movement and had not a single anti-war bone in his body.
@elouwen Why should my view be based on hate? I don't hate anyone in particular. Fear? Your making personal judgements about somebody you barely know.
Perhaps, just perhaps, you should accept that I may just be horrified by the fact that your world-view, which is very nice, very nice indeed, is totally and utterly bankrupt from a historical point of view. I just checked your channel, and frankly it's all nonsense. I'm sorry, but it is.
After so many years of being brainwashed & propaganda being drummed into his head, I appreciate Mr. Wilkerson’s comments & his story of waking up. It should be clear that today, the US is an empire & it’s actions are those of what they say the enemy is - terrorists. The evidence is there for the world to see; killing millions of innocent men, women & children. The empire says that they have to kill millions of innocents so that there will be peace. War is peace. Lies are truth.
all these people who blame capitalism as evil. The largest number of people murdered in this world have been exterminated by Socialist, communism, all of which minus socialism , created by St. Simon a rich french man who lost hiwealth just like Che, his parents lost all their money then he became a cold blooded killer. All these posts who deride capitalism should research the CFR, The Riia in England and will find socialism is an idea of the rich for the rich against the every day man
@mikeoli Well that is all well and good but the regimes you are citing... yeah they were semi capitalists posing as Communists. Socialist countries... like Canada and Sweden... we don't do too much killing. Now total up the death toll for the US of A starting with millions of indians and ending with millions of middle easterners... you'd be bedazzled at how fucking terrible capitalism has done. Now include deaths due to starvation, crime and illness and you'll wanna slit your wrists.
I'd like to address our common use of predatory to describe imperial crime. Predators stalk and hunt members of other species for food. Cannibilism is inter-species....Predators aren't cannibals.
Just before the 1980 election George HW Bush with the help of the cia convinced the Iranians to NOT release the American hostages until after the election.They feared that if they were released before the election it might help Carter.Of course they were released 20 minutes after Reagan was sworn in as President and in exchange Reagan sold missles to Iran.
wtf are you all chimpering about? name a proven surviving system that is better than capitalism in a multicultural society ...I personally would love to experience it. and if you say communism, I swear I will beat you...
@elouwenAnarcho-capitalism has never existed, it existed in the same way Karl Marx's Primitive Communism existed. Do you KNOW ANYTHING about human societies actual history that would support the notion that as marginal an idea as Anarcho-Capitalism was ever an existing system before modern capitalism. Humans have almost always lived in aggressive, militaristic, hierarchical slave owning tribal groups. Decentralised maybe, but defiantly not societies free from coercion or violence.
@elouwen "Anarcho capitalism. That capitalism which existed before central government imposed legal tender fiat money and central banking debt based economics."
You're kidding, right? Capitalism has NEVER existed without a state and I'd like for your to give me an example of when it has.
Reagan was daft. During his last term in office it was obvious that he was not up to task on running the office of the Presidency. What a shame that so many Republicans view Reagan as being this great leader which he was certainly not. True, most small businesses prospered and the military sure got a good share of funding but look at the national debt under Reagan. It accelerated dramatically. Revisionist history has a certain tinge of irony to it.
@DackIsBack his handlers had him shake hands while they orchestrated the stabbings. Reagan was not only not very bright, but he was likely already mildly demented. He was glad to take his cues from the Goldman Sachs inner circel, who, although merely average, appeared really really smart to Saint Ronnie.
"But but but, this is NOT the REAL capitalism!!! This isn't REAL capitalism!!!! This is CORPORATISM and it is because RON PAUL said so!!!!!!!! REAL capitalism makes everyone a millionaire and NEVER causes wars!!!!"
Okay, that was my parody of about 2/3rds of the comments this video will receive.
@Parazitas999 Since I (and those I regard as sane and intelligent) view capitalism as the economics of predation and exploitation, my 'word play' is just a restatement of your comment.
@woodbell67 Since I and the people I regard sane, view broccoli as Martian invaders who need to be destroyed to save Earth, your argument sounds as convincing as any other opinion. But seriously, why? Why do you view capitalism as predatory?
@woodbell67 No I do not need help I was just interested why you claim that capitalism is by definition predatory? I do not find that in the definition of capitalism. That is all I was wondering.
@Parazitas999 Dictionary aside, what about your own lived experience, and powers of observation and interpretation? (To say nothing of libraries full of books on the subject.)
@woodbell67 Books are fine and I'm not saying that capitalism is the greatest idea ever and we should not chalange it. But why create your own definitions and try to explain how evil it is just because you decided to change definition?
@Parazitas999 Yes it is, moreover it was famously predicated by Karl Marx in the 19th Century. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him, because he was a paid writer for the Rothschilds for one thing, yet he wasn't without talent for keen observation.
@wotan20 I like your arguing style, let me try it too. No it isn't :) And simply stating that some authority figure thought the same is not a proof and not even an argument. So let's try it again. Why do YOU think that capitalism is predatory, and no it is not self evident. And yes I do want to hear a coherent explanation.
@Parazitas999 Sorry to disappoint you, but there appear to be some confusion here, I haven't argued in either way, but someone mentioned that predatory Capitalism to him is a redundant terminology, for which I tried to explain, that what Mr. Wilkerson may have meant was Monopolistic Capitalism. Then someone else chimed in.... and that's where we are now.
@woodbell67 You have a point, yet what I think Mr. Wilkerson tried to say is, that Capitalism is in its more aggressive, more concentrated monopole-Capitalistic phase.
@woodbell67 I think the word you want here is "tautology", the unnecessary repetition of words that mean the same thing, or, in logic, a necessarily true statement.
@woodbell67 True capitalism. Not the fascism our government passes off for capitalism, and makes people like you look like an idiot for not knowing the difference.
@woodbell67 Donald Trump is an idiot. Ayn Rand was more of a philosopher and doesn't speak for libertarianism. Einstein wasn't an economist, and he had his noticeable biases such as denying quantum mechanics. If our country followed the bible and truly adhered to its teachings we would be like Afghanistan. Cya later.
@woodbell67 Jesus Christ? How is being a Christian something to brag about in this day and age. Theists, especially Christians, have a horrible track record for being the most intellectually dishonest, amoral, and hypocritical people on the planet. Religion is a lake of hot piss... and you are bragging that you have bathed in that lake. It makes you sound like a disgusting pedophillic creep. Religion should be something we are embarrassed about. Just like an adult that still believes in Santa.
@MzBUZZKILINGTON "True capitalism. Not the fascism our government passes off for capitalism, and makes people like you look like an idiot for not knowing the difference."
When did "True capitalism" take place in the history and why it didn't last long?
@woodbell67 I think that's almost exactly the misconception. Predatory capitalism is where companies focus only on the short term interests of their bottom lines. Non-predatory capitalism imposes standards that say that suggest that a competition between companies should ultimately produce something that strengthens society as a whole. It's difficult to enforce as a cut-and-dry law but that doesn't make it any less relevant.
@woodbell67 Social Democratic Capitalism, where it is clear, that the state sets and controls the rules, that markets adhere to, while not the activities in the markets themselves.
@BusterXXXL That type of capitalism exists in the same realm as communism(not Soviet communism, the basic idea) good ideas flawed by human greed. Whats to stop the state from passing a law that says "All who do not work are criminals"? Capitalism, in all its forms, is like war, it only brings out the worst in humanity because capitalism is the ultimate form of self worship. Additionally, what happens when 1 big company sees an emerging technology that threatens their business? See the problem?
Capitalism is the rule of capital, money is the means of policy, and policy is all about money.
Capitalism isn't possible without private ownership, and it can't be regulated, if you regulate the power of capital then it's not capitalism anymore.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi It wouldn't be capitalism, it would be corporatism because the regulators serve the interests of the highest bidders (lobbyists). Please tell me you were trolling.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Bureaucrats regulating the market correctly, isn't that an oxymoron? Tell me how can bureaucrats regulate something they don't understand?
You know not every country is an unregulated catastrophe like the United States. Some countries actually do have reasonable regulations while still being capitalist.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I'm not for a complete free-market. Obviously regulation should and will exist for fraud, theft, false advertising, libel, assault, battery, ect. The government's exuberant involvement in the market was made relevant to prevent monopolies. If the formation of monopolies can't be quelled then the cycle will repeat. I'm an advocate for regulation to prevent monopolies from formation & ceasing complete control of their domain. We have even stronger monopolies today; failure.
Classic capitalism (i have two cows, make them breed and sell the calfs)
Neo capitalism (i lend you two cows, but i only have one, i lend the second cow myself, and demand a part of a cow intrest even tough i gave you two female cows, you somehow have to make em breed, i just want my beef and cows back after some time. if you cant pay then the state will refund me my cows.)
@woodbell67 Makes sense since we are predators after all, let predators run free and guess what... predators will they be. Try to stop predators from being who they are and... well, you get modern society in all it's glory. If the predator knows what they are... then perhaps there is room for meaningful change, but without that knowledge you get existences based mostly on ideology not on facts. In other words, knowledge is the key.
Yeah next time you guys go to war for oil, could you actually get some?? Seriously you should see what I'm paying for gas.
TheTomar15 21 hours ago
I meant international thuggery
mikypi3151592 1 month ago
We may as be watching the death rattle of the US. If we have to result to national thuggery to gain access to natural resources, then we are no better totalitarians of the past.
mikypi3151592 1 month ago
I really wish you would put related segments into easy to follow titles -- part 1, part, 2, part 3, etc.
Aiden057 2 months ago
Where is the fucking hope and change you voted for? We are still in these godforsaken wars....and a few more ObamaWars™
For what? Still oil now pussies? Now that your man is in the White House...it is cool to be killing all those innocent men and women in USELESS FUCKING FOREIGN WARS. BUCK UP AND GROW A PAIR ALL YOU FUCKING USEFUL IDIOTS. What...are you scared you will be called a racist for not supporting OBAMA'S MURDERING in these wars? If so...you are all fools. PEACE NOW. NO WAR FOR OIL.
theothertoolbox 5 months ago
@theothertoolbox Stop feeding the beast. That's the first step. The second is to join The Free World Charter . org
By making everything free, 99% can enjoy all this earth has to offer. NOT the select silver spoon fed elite.
Check it out
a2zhandi 4 months ago
@a2zhandi Thanks dood. I guess we have to start somewhere. Take care.
theothertoolbox 4 months ago
Geologist believe 250.000.000.000 Barrels of OIL must be lying under ground in IRAQ HIGH quality OIL 25.000.000.000.000 $ in dollars
WHY are you so surprised about USA going to war for OIL and GAS , USA president said OIL is foreign policy of USA, WHO ever intervene to take middle east OIL will be considered an attack on USA.
aviomaster 7 months ago
The problem isn't "capitalisim" it's monopolism! What do you call the ultimate monopoly? Communisim.
Break up the monopolies so capitalisim can do its thing through competition.
dlucas90 8 months ago
where is all this oil we supposedly gotten from the wars? where? I sure as hell dont see it at the pump with $3.75 a gallon gas. bunch of bullshit told by libturds.
uzimodem 8 months ago
Iraq for oil. Hmmm. So how much are we getting out of Iraq in terms of barrals of crude oil? Give a source as well, please.
the82spartans 8 months ago
if all you assholes in here dont like this country or capitalism, go to cuba or some other third world shithole and see if like the alternative to captialism. bunch of fucking lowlife ingrates. bet none of those making these moronic comments are homeless, or hungry. pathetic saps and whiners.
usaeagle1776 8 months ago
The size of the United States as a Federal entity cannot be discounted in assessing what that Nation is capable of. Iintercontinental trade allows both East and West coast markets to compete against the middle, to prey on itself, tighten the Bible Belt, is grit to the mill more than grist, foil more than oil, spoil more than toil.The belief in technology as saving the absentee landlord from all sorts of sin also discounted cannot be in understanding why culturally we see less good education now.
Lieu3C4 8 months ago
So 1% of the US population is employed, to protect 100% of the worlds oil. And the US takes one fifth (20% of the global Oil product) for its cut of the pie. Well, this is interesting!
O2streaming 8 months ago
Money, oil, land and resources, they are all juicy fruits, and a War machine makes for a great juicer! While the rich, eat the poor, the clever eat the rich, and war makes the game unpredictable, and uncontrollable. As long as the war goes on, no one fighting entity can gain or cede total control, to another- War and hostile occupation keep the arms of control in chaos and under an obscurity- does anyone really know who, is fighting, whom, or why they fight? Human rights, anyone?
O2streaming 8 months ago
this is the most profound interviewer ever... We are no longer a Republic!
vanvanbluz 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 Seriously man, I was reacting to the utter crazyness on his page.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 If you want to know about why I was talking about space utopia, look at elouwen's channel page.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 It doesn't mean he wasn't a Liberal on race, it just means he was an establishment politician who saw Civil Rights activism as a annoyance. He had the national guard ready and waiting to crush the March on Washington, such was the distrust he had in MLK's ability to control black marchers.
Also, a key way Democrats of the time persuaded people to accept Civil Rights, was in the words of one Democrat, if they didn't then White people would have a Civil War in their backyard.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 Disprove the quote to me then. Show me it was a forgery.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87
COINTELPRO took place between 1956 and 1971 so that includes Kennedys administration.
It was aimed at the entire new left, at the women's movement, at the whole black movement, it was extremely broad. Its actions went as far as political assassination.
nasri1011 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 Truman desegregated the fed, and that was when it was unfashionable. Kennedy was certainly Progressive, but in the same way as Tony Blair was a Progressive (and Tony Blair did some good shit, but he was still a warmonger and fully embedded in the establishment). He's not the deeply courageous radical who would have overthrown the NWO single handed and ended all war and brought in a space utopia, as me learned friend here believed, before you butted in :)
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
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DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
Like we needed Wilkerson to tell us that. The powers that killed Kennedy took over America as a permanent war government. They're fascists.
Exiles800 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 I quote what he told Civil Rights leaders, "Can't you get your friend off those god damn buses?" He viewed the Civil Rights activists as a inconvenience to his glamourous, television and foreign policy based Presidency. Also, like most Democrats at the time Kennedy viewed Civil Rights legislation as a way to avoid racial violence.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@elouwen That's not a justification for cruelty and murder, nothing is, but you have to see the world as is. British was just one power is a sea of aggressive nation states. All the great Empires were once little nations battling it out against the big powers who threatened their independence, and all the little nations were once invaders seeking land and food.
Blaming something as recent as central banking for the sins of a race that has been committing crimes for thousands of years is foolish
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@elouwen Please, learn some real history man! Your never going to convince me of anything by just calling me a debt slave (I'm not one, yet....) and sprouting sweet sounding myths which have nothing to do with the cold hard facts of history.
You know one of the main reasons the British were Imperialists? Because if we hadn't gone to America, it would have become the property of absolutists from European mainland who would have used that wealth to conquer Europe.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@elouwen I mean seriously, do you know anything about John Kennedy other than that he was assassinated? I presume you are unaware that far from being a courageous, world changing radical hero he was a politician who ushered in a age of style without substance. He was up to his eyeballs in the war machine, turned his nose up at the civil rights movement and had not a single anti-war bone in his body.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@elouwen Why should my view be based on hate? I don't hate anyone in particular. Fear? Your making personal judgements about somebody you barely know.
Perhaps, just perhaps, you should accept that I may just be horrified by the fact that your world-view, which is very nice, very nice indeed, is totally and utterly bankrupt from a historical point of view. I just checked your channel, and frankly it's all nonsense. I'm sorry, but it is.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
After so many years of being brainwashed & propaganda being drummed into his head, I appreciate Mr. Wilkerson’s comments & his story of waking up. It should be clear that today, the US is an empire & it’s actions are those of what they say the enemy is - terrorists. The evidence is there for the world to see; killing millions of innocent men, women & children. The empire says that they have to kill millions of innocents so that there will be peace. War is peace. Lies are truth.
iknownothingnow 8 months ago
@ArtetlaMusique87 I like his quote: "It's a slow process" no Larry it's not, you're just stupid or complicit.
jaba987 8 months ago
9:18 ``This is what we do today, we do war !`` HAHAHA epic !
Mankindfails 8 months ago
all these people who blame capitalism as evil. The largest number of people murdered in this world have been exterminated by Socialist, communism, all of which minus socialism , created by St. Simon a rich french man who lost hiwealth just like Che, his parents lost all their money then he became a cold blooded killer. All these posts who deride capitalism should research the CFR, The Riia in England and will find socialism is an idea of the rich for the rich against the every day man
mikeoli 8 months ago
@mikeoli Well that is all well and good but the regimes you are citing... yeah they were semi capitalists posing as Communists. Socialist countries... like Canada and Sweden... we don't do too much killing. Now total up the death toll for the US of A starting with millions of indians and ending with millions of middle easterners... you'd be bedazzled at how fucking terrible capitalism has done. Now include deaths due to starvation, crime and illness and you'll wanna slit your wrists.
elbowbiter1 8 months ago
The military industrial complex is a monster they have to unleash every few years, the president only gets to choose where tho.
yuri35435 8 months ago
Brilliant interview. Thanks, Paul.
jhip87 8 months ago
Man I could listen to Larry for hours. Very great analysis.
Shisho2k 8 months ago 4
I'd like to address our common use of predatory to describe imperial crime. Predators stalk and hunt members of other species for food. Cannibilism is inter-species....Predators aren't cannibals.
WorldFleece 8 months ago
I DID NOT vote for Reagan in both elections. To me - a bad actor did not translate to a good President.
yo1dude1man 8 months ago 3
Reagan and Clinton working together. What does that say about the theater of the absurd which is US politics?
MrYadakun 8 months ago
all the people who want socialism/communism don't worry, you're gonna get it, then you can rut in it and watch your living standards plummet.
HuxleyWasRight 8 months ago
Capitalism is the creed of greed, it's day is done, we need a different system. Socialism , then when we are ready Anarchism.
HelmetBlissta 8 months ago 3
These interviews with Larry wilkerson, are so informative; please keep em up!
MrFinnbar5000 8 months ago
Just before the 1980 election George HW Bush with the help of the cia convinced the Iranians to NOT release the American hostages until after the election.They feared that if they were released before the election it might help Carter.Of course they were released 20 minutes after Reagan was sworn in as President and in exchange Reagan sold missles to Iran.
themeaningoflife38 8 months ago
wtf are you all chimpering about? name a proven surviving system that is better than capitalism in a multicultural society ...I personally would love to experience it. and if you say communism, I swear I will beat you...
dangermous1968 8 months ago 3
@dangermous1968 Anarchy.
MrMemag 8 months ago 2
@dangermous1968 free enterprise
cheddyrod 8 months ago
@cheddyrod zi'm sorry where is that being practiced?
dangermous1968 8 months ago
@dangermous1968 What for of capitalism is there in the USA?
cheddyrod 8 months ago
@elouwenAnarcho-capitalism has never existed, it existed in the same way Karl Marx's Primitive Communism existed. Do you KNOW ANYTHING about human societies actual history that would support the notion that as marginal an idea as Anarcho-Capitalism was ever an existing system before modern capitalism. Humans have almost always lived in aggressive, militaristic, hierarchical slave owning tribal groups. Decentralised maybe, but defiantly not societies free from coercion or violence.
DerBlitzStag 8 months ago
@elouwen ...like Somalia ?
woodbell67 8 months ago
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@elouwen "Anarcho capitalism. That capitalism which existed before central government imposed legal tender fiat money and central banking debt based economics."
You're kidding, right? Capitalism has NEVER existed without a state and I'd like for your to give me an example of when it has.
juliaisafilmbuff123 8 months ago
@elouwen I never said capitalism was a system of government. It's an economic system based on exploitative property and profit.
juliaisafilmbuff123 8 months ago
Reagan was daft. During his last term in office it was obvious that he was not up to task on running the office of the Presidency. What a shame that so many Republicans view Reagan as being this great leader which he was certainly not. True, most small businesses prospered and the military sure got a good share of funding but look at the national debt under Reagan. It accelerated dramatically. Revisionist history has a certain tinge of irony to it.
clearasvodka 8 months ago 3
Hunter S. Thompson on Reagan:
"He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time."
DackIsBack 8 months ago 28
@DackIsBack his handlers had him shake hands while they orchestrated the stabbings. Reagan was not only not very bright, but he was likely already mildly demented. He was glad to take his cues from the Goldman Sachs inner circel, who, although merely average, appeared really really smart to Saint Ronnie.
TripleSpeak 8 months ago
great interviews
billybobhobnob101 8 months ago
"But but but, this is NOT the REAL capitalism!!! This isn't REAL capitalism!!!! This is CORPORATISM and it is because RON PAUL said so!!!!!!!! REAL capitalism makes everyone a millionaire and NEVER causes wars!!!!"
Okay, that was my parody of about 2/3rds of the comments this video will receive.
juliaisafilmbuff123 8 months ago
@juliaisafilmbuff123 'Predatory Capitalism' is a redundancy.
What other kind of capitalism is there?
woodbell67 8 months ago 41
@woodbell67 regulated capitalism
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 regulated predation
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 hmm.. word play :) What do you mean by "regulated predation" ?
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 Since I (and those I regard as sane and intelligent) view capitalism as the economics of predation and exploitation, my 'word play' is just a restatement of your comment.
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Since I and the people I regard sane, view broccoli as Martian invaders who need to be destroyed to save Earth, your argument sounds as convincing as any other opinion. But seriously, why? Why do you view capitalism as predatory?
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 You are evidently not one of those aforementioned people.
When you go to work in a capitalist system you exploit or are exploited, by definition.
The profit motive.
Do you need some help?
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 No I do not need help I was just interested why you claim that capitalism is by definition predatory? I do not find that in the definition of capitalism. That is all I was wondering.
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 Dictionary aside, what about your own lived experience, and powers of observation and interpretation? (To say nothing of libraries full of books on the subject.)
Rhetorical question, no need to reply.
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Books are fine and I'm not saying that capitalism is the greatest idea ever and we should not chalange it. But why create your own definitions and try to explain how evil it is just because you decided to change definition?
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 Yes it is, moreover it was famously predicated by Karl Marx in the 19th Century. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him, because he was a paid writer for the Rothschilds for one thing, yet he wasn't without talent for keen observation.
wotan20 8 months ago
@wotan20 I like your arguing style, let me try it too. No it isn't :) And simply stating that some authority figure thought the same is not a proof and not even an argument. So let's try it again. Why do YOU think that capitalism is predatory, and no it is not self evident. And yes I do want to hear a coherent explanation.
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 Sorry to disappoint you, but there appear to be some confusion here, I haven't argued in either way, but someone mentioned that predatory Capitalism to him is a redundant terminology, for which I tried to explain, that what Mr. Wilkerson may have meant was Monopolistic Capitalism. Then someone else chimed in.... and that's where we are now.
wotan20 8 months ago
@wotan20 Yes there is some sort of confusion, sorry your nicknames are similiar. Just trying to have discusion.
Parazitas999 8 months ago
@Parazitas999 OK docky.
wotan20 8 months ago
@woodbell67 You have a point, yet what I think Mr. Wilkerson tried to say is, that Capitalism is in its more aggressive, more concentrated monopole-Capitalistic phase.
wotan20 8 months ago
@wotan20 In other words, its inevitable and logical late-stage expression.
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 I think the word you want here is "tautology", the unnecessary repetition of words that mean the same thing, or, in logic, a necessarily true statement.
JohmScriv 8 months ago
@woodbell67 True capitalism. Not the fascism our government passes off for capitalism, and makes people like you look like an idiot for not knowing the difference.
MzBUZZKILINGTON 8 months ago
@MzBUZZKILINGTON
What "your" government passes off as capitalism is the easily and often predicted end result of what
people like you call "real" capitalism. You're welcome to it.
You get Donald Trump and Ayn Rand, I get Einstein and Jesus Christ.
Bye-bye.
woodbell67 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Donald Trump is an idiot. Ayn Rand was more of a philosopher and doesn't speak for libertarianism. Einstein wasn't an economist, and he had his noticeable biases such as denying quantum mechanics. If our country followed the bible and truly adhered to its teachings we would be like Afghanistan. Cya later.
MzBUZZKILINGTON 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Jesus Christ? How is being a Christian something to brag about in this day and age. Theists, especially Christians, have a horrible track record for being the most intellectually dishonest, amoral, and hypocritical people on the planet. Religion is a lake of hot piss... and you are bragging that you have bathed in that lake. It makes you sound like a disgusting pedophillic creep. Religion should be something we are embarrassed about. Just like an adult that still believes in Santa.
elbowbiter1 8 months ago
@elbowbiter1 "the teachings of Jesus", or any moralist you could name.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, be a steward and not a destroyer of this planet etc.
I think you have the wrong video...
woodbell67 8 months ago
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@MzBUZZKILINGTON "True capitalism. Not the fascism our government passes off for capitalism, and makes people like you look like an idiot for not knowing the difference."
When did "True capitalism" take place in the history and why it didn't last long?
allgoo19 8 months ago
@woodbell67 I think that's almost exactly the misconception. Predatory capitalism is where companies focus only on the short term interests of their bottom lines. Non-predatory capitalism imposes standards that say that suggest that a competition between companies should ultimately produce something that strengthens society as a whole. It's difficult to enforce as a cut-and-dry law but that doesn't make it any less relevant.
neanderslob 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Social Democratic Capitalism, where it is clear, that the state sets and controls the rules, that markets adhere to, while not the activities in the markets themselves.
BusterXXXL 8 months ago
@BusterXXXL That type of capitalism exists in the same realm as communism(not Soviet communism, the basic idea) good ideas flawed by human greed. Whats to stop the state from passing a law that says "All who do not work are criminals"? Capitalism, in all its forms, is like war, it only brings out the worst in humanity because capitalism is the ultimate form of self worship. Additionally, what happens when 1 big company sees an emerging technology that threatens their business? See the problem?
nds87 8 months ago
@woodbell67
Highly (and correctly) regulated capitalism wouldn't be predatory.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi The problem is private ownership. "regulatory capture"
woodbell67 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi
But highly regulated capitalism isn't capitalism at all. it's planned economy.
So you cannot regulate capitalism without destroying it. and if you dont regulate it eventually it will destroy itself and consume whatever it can.
shorun666 8 months ago
@shorun666
"Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit."
You can (and most countries do) have a regulated version of this.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi
No, that is free market.
Capitalism is the rule of capital, money is the means of policy, and policy is all about money.
Capitalism isn't possible without private ownership, and it can't be regulated, if you regulate the power of capital then it's not capitalism anymore.
shorun666 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi It wouldn't be capitalism, it would be corporatism because the regulators serve the interests of the highest bidders (lobbyists). Please tell me you were trolling.
baihbalm 8 months ago
@baihbalm
What part of the word "correctly" do you not understand? For example, you make lobbying illegal and have an effective system to enforce such a law.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Bureaucrats regulating the market correctly, isn't that an oxymoron? Tell me how can bureaucrats regulate something they don't understand?
baihbalm 8 months ago
@baihbalm
You know not every country is an unregulated catastrophe like the United States. Some countries actually do have reasonable regulations while still being capitalist.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I'm not for a complete free-market. Obviously regulation should and will exist for fraud, theft, false advertising, libel, assault, battery, ect. The government's exuberant involvement in the market was made relevant to prevent monopolies. If the formation of monopolies can't be quelled then the cycle will repeat. I'm an advocate for regulation to prevent monopolies from formation & ceasing complete control of their domain. We have even stronger monopolies today; failure.
baihbalm 8 months ago
@baihbalm
Can't argue with you there.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 8 months ago
@woodbell67
Classic capitalism (i have two cows, make them breed and sell the calfs)
Neo capitalism (i lend you two cows, but i only have one, i lend the second cow myself, and demand a part of a cow intrest even tough i gave you two female cows, you somehow have to make em breed, i just want my beef and cows back after some time. if you cant pay then the state will refund me my cows.)
shorun666 8 months ago
@woodbell67 Makes sense since we are predators after all, let predators run free and guess what... predators will they be. Try to stop predators from being who they are and... well, you get modern society in all it's glory. If the predator knows what they are... then perhaps there is room for meaningful change, but without that knowledge you get existences based mostly on ideology not on facts. In other words, knowledge is the key.
baihbalm 8 months ago
@juliaisafilmbuff123
what's your point, or better what's your alternative
just because economic policy is fucked up it's not like any other system has fared any better
GohanMH1 8 months ago
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surfboardhacker 8 months ago