Debt Rattle May 11 2018

 

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    #40561
    V. Arnold
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    I’m inclined towards impotent rage over what’s happening to orangutans.
    We’re such a fucked up species as to boggle the mind.
    But, talk, talk, talk just ain’t going to cut it; so, I’ll shut up…

    #40564
    Dr. D
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    The Current Affairs Collectivist article is a hodge-podge impressionistic nonsense. Very popular these days!

    Basically, I can distill the problem down to that they think modern Fascism — a merger of state and corporations, focusing on special rights for some, protections, and monopolies — is “Capitalism” when in fact Fascism is most closely associated with the National Socialist Worker’s Party, which is, like all Socialists, Collectivists. Then being totally baffled when collectivist, socialist A is like collectivist, socialist B. Such are our choices these days.

    You want to know who hires anyone? Who will help out employees when they have families and need to stay home? Sole proprietors and small business under 20. Hey if blacks aren’t being hired, could that be because the once sizeable and healthy black business sector has been destroyed? And how did that happen? An asteroid from space? You know who would (is) eating your record execs, editors, and who would eat Tesla and Wells Fargo along with Best Buy and no-tax-paying-G.E. if the central cartel and government weren’t shovelling trillions in cash on top of their favorite sons, no matter how many fails, no matter how many crimes that would have the rest of us arrested? Yes, those same small businesses.

    It takes tremendous central power, favoritism, and inequality between groups to keep these idiots in power and Capitalism (that is, the freedom to act and to trade) out. That central power and favoritism is called “Fascism,” and I don’t use the word carelessly. So his problem of “collectivism” is that “collectivism” is in fact being used, with the same “some are more equal than others” results you saw with Soviet party members. There’s no difference between the Party/goverment owning and directing all, and giving vouchers to the workers than the “Capitalist” system we have were 2 companies in each industry are protected by bank and government, cannot be prosecuted, and pay off the poor with welfare and UBI. At least in Feudalism they had the decency to tell you they were the gods, you were the rats, and if you got uppity, they’d stab you. These guys can’t even rise to that level, see Greece: “Oh it’s all for your own good! We have nothing to do with it! We’re only completely vacating the population of Greece with our bombs of pure love and caring.”

    Spare their claptrap and give me equal protection under the law. Then I can open 10 million fraudent accounts in other people’s names and charge them overdraft fees and use the money to broker jumbo jets to Mexican drug cartels. I’ll be rich! And I’ll call it my “moral genius” and a “free market” like Elon Musk does! But “Current Affairs” has the collective brains of Harvard, need I say more.

    “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” ― Benito Mussolini.

    #40565
    V. Arnold
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    “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” ― Benito Mussolini.
    So, just what is new in your post? That is old news.
    There is nothing new under the sun; and this whole construct is going down.
    Sorry; I’m not buying what you’re selling.
    Rehash until the cows come home; but you better be paying attention to the day by day…
    You make me tired all over…

    #40566
    zerosum
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    Its all rehash for “q-tips” who want to learn.
    Its all new for the young readers who are not here to hear the info

    Messages might get noticed on ZH if they can get through the noise.

    #40567
    Patricia
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    #40568
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Patricia
    Good catch, thanks.
    No real surprises there, the first U.S. intervention in Thai politics was in 1948 and they have had a foot in here ever since.
    I’ve been here through 2 coups; Thai politics is wrought with instability, historically.
    The U.S. is constantly insulting the kingdom and screaming about democracy in a country that has never had a democracy in the working sense of the word.
    Thailand is hugely corrupt; to the point nothing would work if it weren’t.

    #40569
    V. Arnold
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    zerosum
    You bring up a good point; I’m getting to be a grumpy fuck in my dotage…

    #40570
    zerosum
    Participant

    Breaking news
    I couldn’t wait for tomorrows articles
    I just know how much everyone has been waiting for this news.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/02/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize

    Eighteen lawmakers write to Nobel committee to say president should receive 2019 prize ‘in recognition of his work to end the Korean war’

    Although the letter copiously praises Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign and says there is “no one more deserving of the Committee’s recognition in 2019 than President Trump for his tireless work to bring peace to our world”

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