I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

H.E. Pennypacker

Mmm, Mombasa!
as long as we call a square a square.

democracy is not blowing up a country half to bits.

freedom is not taking orders all day from a boss making someone rich, and being used as a tool.

That’s :censored2:ed Up‏ @RedactedTonight 21h21 hours ago




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vantexan

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I guess you are a foreigner.
America is socialist.
Deal with it.
Or don't.
The stock markets. The futures markets. The banks. Wall Street. The insurance industry. The real estate markets. Craigslist. eBay. The Fortune 500. The financial media. 401k's. Car manufacturers. Aircraft manufacturers. The military-industrial complex. Hollywood. Big pharma. Higher Education. The medical industry in all of it's forms. Air cargo. The trucking industry. Wal-Mart, Target, Costco. McDonald's and the rest. Have I left anyone out? Oh yeah, we are soooooo socialist. It'll take more than a pretty Hispanic girl to bring down capitalism in this country.
 

rickyb

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The stock markets. The futures markets. The banks. Wall Street. The insurance industry. The real estate markets. Craigslist. eBay. The Fortune 500. The financial media. 401k's. Car manufacturers. Aircraft manufacturers. The military-industrial complex. Hollywood. Big pharma. Higher Education. The medical industry in all of it's forms. Air cargo. The trucking industry. Wal-Mart, Target, Costco. McDonald's and the rest. Have I left anyone out? Oh yeah, we are soooooo socialist. It'll take more than a pretty Hispanic girl to bring down capitalism in this country.
most of the things you mentioned have heavy government involvement.

America spends a lot of govt money on war. that's your major govt socialist program.

capitalism will bring down itself, it doesn't need help. it consumes too fast.
 

vantexan

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most of the things you mentioned have heavy government involvement.

America spends a lot of govt money on war. that's your major govt socialist program.

capitalism will bring down itself, it doesn't need help. it consumes too fast.
Capitalism has brought more prosperity, more freedom, to more people, than any other ism in history. If you deny that then you either don't know history or you have certain issues.
 

rickyb

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Capitalism has brought more prosperity, more freedom, to more people, than any other ism in history. If you deny that then you either don't know history or you have certain issues.
ppl fighting for justice is why ppl have whatever freedoms they have. most of America isn't free and the rich :censored2:s have to look out for everyone who isn't. living standards rose under slavery btw.

America is a boiling pot. so are many countries.

capitalism for the rich is like drinking too much and the next day ur hungover bc of climate change. u just don't see it bc we haven't scorched the earth enough. but u will.
 
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vantexan

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ppl fighting for justice is why ppl have whatever freedoms they have. most of America isn't free and the rich :censored2:s have to look out for everyone who isn't. living standards rose under slavery btw.

America is a boiling pot. so are many countries.

capitalism for the rich is like drinking too much and the next day ur hungover bc of climate change. u just don't see it bc we haven't scorched the earth enough. but u will.
Ricky I have the freedom to work as much or as little as I want or need. I can move to the other side of the city, the state, the country without asking for permission. I can start a business or live off the grid in the boondocks growing my own food. I can travel around the country if I so choose in a RV. The sky is the limit on what I can do based on my efforts to achieve my goals. All you're proposing is another way to do work and under your system I suspect I'll have no choice but to work until I'm too old to because the state requires it for the common good. Under your system the state will decide a lot of things for me so that everyone is more or less equal. Can't just move anywhere because the state has decided they need me right here. Can't have a RV because the state has decided they hurt the environment. You talk of freedom but I don't see freedom under you system. And frankly I don't care if a guy gets richer than me under capitalism. Good for him. All I care about is doing what I want when I want when I'm old enough to not want to work anymore. I'm there now. The 1% can have all the luxury, they can't make me work for them. If you envy the wealth they have, resent it, then you are the one with the problem. At the end of the day it's only money.
 

DriveInDriveOut

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The stock markets. The futures markets. The banks. Wall Street. The insurance industry. The real estate markets. Craigslist. eBay. The Fortune 500. The financial media. 401k's. Car manufacturers. Aircraft manufacturers. The military-industrial complex. Hollywood. Big pharma. Higher Education. The medical industry in all of it's forms. Air cargo. The trucking industry. Wal-Mart, Target, Costco. McDonald's and the rest. Have I left anyone out? Oh yeah, we are soooooo socialist. It'll take more than a pretty Hispanic girl to bring down capitalism in this country.
Everything you listed is socialist in a way. So, nice try, but a big fail.
 

rickyb

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Ricky I have the freedom to work as much or as little as I want or need. I can move to the other side of the city, the state, the country without asking for permission. I can start a business or live off the grid in the boondocks growing my own food. I can travel around the country if I so choose in a RV. The sky is the limit on what I can do based on my efforts to achieve my goals. All you're proposing is another way to do work and under your system I suspect I'll have no choice but to work until I'm too old to because the state requires it for the common good. Under your system the state will decide a lot of things for me so that everyone is more or less equal. Can't just move anywhere because the state has decided they need me right here. Can't have a RV because the state has decided they hurt the environment. You talk of freedom but I don't see freedom under you system. And frankly I don't care if a guy gets richer than me under capitalism. Good for him. All I care about is doing what I want when I want when I'm old enough to not want to work anymore. I'm there now. The 1% can have all the luxury, they can't make me work for them. If you envy the wealth they have, resent it, then you are the one with the problem. At the end of the day it's only money.
yea your not free, u take orders at a job, similar to the system u criticize.

a lie encompasses 90% or more of our lives
 

rickyb

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Again, life is about more than the work you do. But everything with you is focused on work.
because its 8 hours a day. so 1/3 of the time ur taking orders, and the rest is lies from the capitalists which affect the whole culture. its damage control

the ppl who control the jobs also control what everyone thinks outside of work
 
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rickyb

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i was thinking the germans had hyper inflation back in the day that led to the nazis, and north america has had a kind of inflation that wasnt counted as such. im thinking in terms of rents and housing prices relative to incomes. where im from housing prices are up over 10,000% since 1970s relative to incomes. so i guess this is where we can see part of the madness of the political system (america electing its first black prez, and trump scapegoating / muslim creeping fascism)
 
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vantexan

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i was thinking the germans had hyper inflation back in the day that led to the nazis, and north america has had a kind of inflation that wasnt counted as such. im thinking in terms of rents and housing prices relative to incomes. where im from housing prices are up over 10,000% since 1970s relative to incomes. so i guess this is where we can see part of the madness of the political system (america electing its first black prez, and trump scapegoating / muslim creeping fascism)
You consider electing a Black president madness? No wonder they call Canada "The Great White North."
 
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