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Chronicles of a stable genius - all the biggliest stuff

Lupi said:
More cognitive dissonance on your part. America is a finance economy because manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas.

Who benefitted from this? Only Wall Street did, not the American worker.

Now the current president is doing something to benefit the American worker and your people are crying about it? Why? Because you cannot figure anything out for yourselves and let media hysteria (financed by Wall Street) do your thinking for you.
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You truly think this shitshow will end up benefitting the American worker? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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Massive plot twist if the final act of this cult is a mass suicide when shit hits the fan as per usual cultish endings
 
the caring left seem happy with the status quo of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
 
the amount of kool aid you’d need to drink to boot lick so hard that you think the world’s biggest grifter and the world’s richest man are looking to take from the rich and give to the poor is absolutely mind blowing.
 
Muz said:
Complete, some would say 'deliberate, misrepresentation.
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Sure it's anti greed and corruption but plenty amongst them bang on about evil capitalism and dismantle the whole system.

Now it's, oh no we need good economic policies to ensure growth of the economy through the means of capitalistic investments.

They've gone from wish to see the entire system destroyed to now wanting to preserve it? They should be egging it on as that's the only way they'll potentially get the big changes they want.
 
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JS96 said:
Sure it's anti greed and corruption but plenty amongst them bang on about evil capitalism and dismantle the whole system.

Now it's, oh no we need good economic policies to ensure growth of the economy through the means of capitalistic investments.

They're gone from wish to see the entire system destroyed to now wanting to preserve it? They should be egging it on as that's the only way they'll potentially get the big changes they want.
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Well those people are clowns. There's always been fringe far left idiots. Shit, last time I was in Melbourne the Communist League were out the front of the Town Hall(?) with a table and pamphlets. They're not to be taken seriously and they represent fringe elements that the 'right' frame as typical of the left when they're anything but.

Go up to the bit about Norway. That's what I want. I dare say that's what most people want. An economy that benefits everyone not just a select few.
 
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JS96 said:
Sure it's anti greed and corruption but plenty amongst them bang on about evil capitalism and dismantle the whole system.

Now it's, oh no we need good economic policies to ensure growth of the economy through the means of capitalistic investments.

They're gone from wish to see the entire system destroyed to now wanting to preserve it? They should be egging it on as that's the only way they'll potentially get the big changes they want.
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And capitialism can be evil. There's a thousand examples. Spend 2 minutes reading anything to do with Monsanto and you'll want to go all Luigi on their arses.

I mean fuck these cunts. https://www.farmstandapp.com/3745/what-bad-things-has-monsanto-done/

That's just one company.

What about shit like Enron? Capitalism with the brakes off is what led to the GFC.

I could go on and on.

Everyone talks about regulation as if it's a bad thing. I don't know about you but I want strong regulation and safeguards around drugs, business, banking, food, pesticides and all the rest of it.
 
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Muz said:
Well those people are clowns. There's always been fringe far left idiots. Shit, last time I was in Melbourne the Communist League were out the front of the Town Hall(?) with a table and pamphlets. They're not to be taken seriously and they represent fringe elements that the 'right' frame as typical of the left when they're anything but.

Go up to the bit about Norway. That's what I want. I dare say that's what most people want. An economy that benefits everyone not just a select few.
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I suppose it's the extreme elements of both sides who are loudest and most prevelant. Then you've got the well of from each side as well with their own arrogant delusions and then there's the rest of us trying to make sense of it all.

I agree, Scandinavian models are the best practice.

We got the same square on the ABC political poll and I daresay it was likely our social support mechanisms that put us there. People need help in case the solid system to thrive doesn't work for them. We have neither in many countries currently and too many people fall through the cracks.
 
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I'll admit when I first started reading the article I posted I thought it was going to spin into some diatribe but no, the man is seemingly too intelligent for that and made a good analysis and comparison of how wrong things have become.

Some will say he's gaslighting in that a psychologist could clarify how people feeling so but he also underlined that we wouldn't have these issues were a solid system like northern Europe to exist elsewhere.
 
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JS96 said:
I suppose it's the extreme elements of both sides who are loudest and most prevelant. Then you've got the well of from each side as well with their own arrogant delusions and then there's the rest of us trying to make sense of it all.

I agree, Scandinavian models are the best practice.

We got the same square on the ABC political poll and I daresay it was likely our social support mechanisms that put us there. People need help in case the solid system to thrive doesn't work for them. We have neither in many countries currently and too many people fall through the cracks.
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There's no doubt that capitalism is the best system. The only thing to argue is what 'type' of capitalism. To me the Scando countries have got it right and are probably the best version and the America and China (a different version again) are shitshows.

My biggest worry from watching this sort of things for decades is we're (in Australia) slipping towards the US version.
 
JS96 said:
I'll admit when I first started reading the article I posted I thought it was going to spin into some diatribe but no, the man is seemingly too intelligent for that and made a good analysis and comparison of how wrong things have become.

Some will say he's gaslighting in that a psychologist could clarify how people feeling so but he also underlined that we wouldn't have these issues were a solid system like northern Europe to exist elsewhere.
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I think the thing is people probably thought globalisation would 'trickle down' to the masses.

You could argue, many would, it has worked a treat. We live in unimaginable luxury compared to our parents and our grandparents would assume we're all worth several million dollars each. I grew up in a one car family, one TV, 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house. Now 2 cars, 4 TVs, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and an ensuite, a media room and a giant kitchen are standard.

The problem is it's (globalisation) gone too far, IMO, and needs a handbrake put on. Just about every measure shows the wealth inequality gap is growing. I think that's got a lot to do with it.

I'd love to grab the CEO of Woolies or Coles and say to him are you happy that children are going hungry because parents can't buy decent food because you're the most profitable supermarkets in the world?

Of course they'd just say 'we have a responsibility to our shareholders'.

And they're right, they do.
 
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Muz said:
And capitialism can be evil. There's a thousand examples. Spend 2 minutes reading anything to do with Monsanto and you'll want to go all Luigi on their arses.

I mean fuck these cunts. https://www.farmstandapp.com/3745/what-bad-things-has-monsanto-done/

That's just one company.

What about shit like Enron? Capitalism with the brakes off is what led to the GFC.

I could go on and on.

Everyone talks about regulation as if it's a bad thing. I don't know about you but I want string regulation and safeguards around drugs, business, banking, food, pesticides and all the rest of it.
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No denying that at all. I have an ESL lesson on Enron and it's baffling.

I think these are examples that the vast majority do agree with.

I guess a lot of general people also expect the economy to work well that they do benefit. As we know the economic circumstances are very different to to romantic decades long ago.
 
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