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[theinsane102]

@DrShitandStank nice argument man.

[DrShitandStank]

@theinsane102 Its capitalism's fault you smelling mouth bum

[Broooose]

you had me up to climate change. i love hedges, he's been totally rolled on the climate though.

[theinsane102]

Chris Hedges is confused you can not have scientific , economic, or technological progression with out the destruction of the environment.It's not capitalisms fault it's human progression. Consider what it takes to support a small family on the Western Frontier in the 18th century, would, coal, metal, cattle, wheat, etc. By simply being on the plains of Nevada or California, humans change the environment. As Steinbeck wrote, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region

[scottyb453]

@casimirpyahoocom But thats what capitalism turns into. The most efficient capitalists continue to accumulate wealth and power to the point where a hand full of people own everything. That's the whole point, destroy the competition. The state can act as a barrier to this corporate fascism but becomes co-opted by it. As of now i would say America does not really have a government. It has become a stop gap between the corporations and the people and only continues to get weaker.

[casimirpyahoocom]

Marx was no better than socrates in that he could point out criticisms but he could not provide a better solution. If I had to chose between the ideology that created Mao, Lenin, Stalin or the one that created Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin, that's a no brainer. America is a fascist degradation of free market principles, so don't confuse, as Michael Moore has acknowledged he does not understand, the difference between capitalism and corporate fascism.

[bapyou]

@prayfortruejustice Austrian and Friedmanite free-marketeers are the bane of working people the world over. Free market economics is nothing more than an excuse for the elites to exploit and murder working people. When it is you free marketeers who ought to be slaughtered. And you will be. It's coming very soon. Sooner than you think. We -- THE PEOPLE who create your wealth; who do the jobs you are incapable of doing alone -- have had enough. We are going to kill you all. It is time.

[prayfortruejustice]

@superheronumber1 Now I see your problem. You have no clue what Free Market economics are. You are confusing lack of law enforcement with Austrian economics, when in fact it is the regulation of the markets that have proven to be the benefit of the banks and invetment firms and the bane of the citizen who bails them out. The FASB M2M ban by US Commerce Dept.; TBTF Banks;l GM, Fannie/Freddy bailout, TARP, FED Trillions are ALL part of your regulated market. These don't exist in a free market.

[superheronumber1]

By policy makers in government (not ivory towers) who live in the real world and make intelligent decisions within an insane framework. I’m not defending the current system in any way, what I’m pointing out is that corporate tyrannies is where power is and they call the shots, who could possibly want to deregulate these despots? If anything we should be controlling their every move in accordance to DEMOCRATICALLY determined economic objectives. Maximization of profits should NOT trump democracy.

[superheronumber1]

Free market fundamentalism is as utopian and silly as any ideology. Do you honestly think it’s all going to be peaches and cream the minute we deregulate and let corporate interest do whatever they want? The point I’m making is that they already are, just they’re also using the US government to further their aims and cover their losses, at US tax payer’s expense. It couldn’t be otherwise because without such corrupt government assistance capitalism would be back to flea markets and bartering.