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@alaskafido You make it sound so hopeless, as if the two current mainstream parties have rigged the system beyond repair already, and there's nothing you and your fellow constituents can do about it. Either it is the way it is because the people have allowed it, or it IS a two-party system. I do ...

@kropotkinbeard1 I'm not going to read your little intellectual tantrum. In response to the very first thing you said: Your original claim was that Chomsky's video is in itself irrefutable to a rational person. You now suggest that one cannot judge his videos unless one has read his books. If tha...

@K4Kelso In reality, you clearly have no concept of what "profit" really is. In your mind it is probably a vague untouchable, an evil which you must never allow yourself to try to justify. Profit is simply the process of getting more out of something than you put into it. Of course if your work i...

And no, not even the needy can be entitled to slave labour. Do you think that no one should think of it as slave labour? That everyone should be willing? Everyone is not willing. To those who are not willing it is slave labour.

I am not for bumper sticker police nor speech regulation of any kind, though I assume this was meant to be facetious.

@blastsummit You cannot stop politicians from taking bribes under the table. So you suggest that, since you can't control what rich people do with their money, you must prevent anyone from ever becoming rich. This is obviously fundamentally opposed to individual freedom as a cornerstone of a pros...

@educatedandinformed The only alternative to reason is belief without evidence - belief based on emotions and whims. That kind of thinking does not solve real world problems, and in case somehow you thought otherwise, there are no problems outside of the real world.

@callumWLB To be clear, by the way, I don't judge little girls for not knowing better, only you.

@ummmerrrrummm This assumes that reducing emissions is a person's only goal, though, as opposed to one of many disperate objectives which need to be weighed against each other with every decision. If recycling is a more expensive process, or a corrupt business, or a personal waste of time, then a...

@dnsmithnc Maher is not foremost a comedian, though. He is foremost a pundit, that is people tune into his show to hear his cleverly articulated political opinions, in exactly the same way people tune into fox news. It isn't news, but it isn't comedy either. Maher very frequently gets serious and...

@EyeQue782 And yet those were her only successful applause lines. The capitalist side keeps explaining moral principles, and the socialist side keeps giving examples of principles at work, without bothering to argue where the merits of those principles supposedly come from, but the audience doesn...

@allencrider She believed that man could live for himself and by himself, with reason and not faith as his tool. Is this not the message of Satan? One doesn't have to think very hard to see why Christianity says so.

You cannot have capitalism without unapologetic self-interest, which is what the propoganda of socialism is designed to exploit. To submit to a morality of altruism, as most under the weight of Christianity have in the west today, is to submit already that others have a higher right to what you e...

@ivar197 Interesting analysis. I've never thought of an open map being bad for zerg against protoss before, and you may have something there. Plague and cracklings and at least a few lurkers would've been very helpful though, even if he continued making predominantly hydras.

And as far as "it's not that impressive what you can buy with money," amazingly full of shit. The man probably doesn't know how to enjoy the plethora of things he can buy, for example first class plane tickets, because he feels so guilty for being rich, which is actually a sickness. Fancy clothes...

To have a will of your own as to what should be done with money, is to have a desire to own money. Every man who works does so to make money so that he can decide how to spend it. Every time you commit your effort to pleasing someone, you create new value, and the quantity of money you are given ...

First imagine what it would be like if it was illegal to play basketball. Then imagine what it would be like if it was mandatory to buy an hour of time on the basketball court every time you went to the local recreation center. This means quite literally that if you do not abide, you could be sho...

The idea of unions is fine, as long as it's a matter purely of consent. I think there was a time when a union was technically considered a form of collusion under the law, in violation of anti-trust laws, which of course are bogus anyway. At some point the whole labour movement became a target fo...

I grew up as a liberal, until about 3 years ago when I stumbled across some Ayn Rand interviews on Youtube. I had long been interested in philosophy and hers intrigued me. One day I endeavored to read a classical novel, any classical novel, as an exercise, and I picked up The Fountainhead off a l...

@Zigz15 It's because of their completely unreasoned choice of methods, which is to set up a damned tent city in the middle of a public park, so that they can protest against life in the capitalist system by not working or paying rent. Whereas the Tea Party just gathered and protested on their off...

@Tartersauce101 Some plan you've got there for coming to rely less on the rich. Just take their money, they've got plenty of it! And use it to pay for the inefficiently conducted, politicized wars and the unsustainable entitlements, and subsidies for market bubbles, and the economic stimulus need...

@fruitkill11 I'm quite sure that was the point he was making already.

@mrsklet What does anyone who works for the government do when the government is forced to cut spending? Go find a real job. Hey, if you want to tell me that all of the United States military operations are money well spent and work that needs doing, do so, but that is the real issue and the ques...

Yugar claims that he isn't painting all rich people with the same brush, but he clearly uses the worst cases to exemplify "the 1%" and later insults Schiff claiming that he himself just wants to continue profitting from the corporatist system, which is a blatant stereotype that does not apply to ...