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Trump: Set to declare 2024 presidential bid tonight; will indictments follow soon?
Just stumbled across this article. Looks to me like Libertarians are capable of being just as nasty, cruel, and thoughtless as all the rest of us. Dilip, why should anyone believe that Libertarians are capable of running anything in a non-dystopian fashion? People in general are crap, Dilip.
Peter,
Whoever put up that post mocking John McCain, harmed only themselves by losing the goodwill of those who honored McCain. McCain's family should realize that there is no reason for them to be 'in pain' just because there is someone somewhere who thinks that McCain was worth mocking (nobody is entitled to the whole world loving them, as posters on Chesstalk know very well ! ) What Libertarianism will not provide is wiping away of differences of opinion, but it will provide enforcement of the Natural Law, so that if someone really harms you, he will have to adequately compensate you for that...
Dystopia is a characteristic of Marxism, not Libertarianism, Bob, for the simple reason that enforcement of the Natural Law and easy access to capital for all creates Utopia, while oppression of the hard & smart working by the 'entitlement-oriented' leads to unfairness and downfall of Marxist societies, as history has shown repeatedly...
Just stumbled across this article. Looks to me like Libertarians are capable of being just as nasty, cruel, and thoughtless as all the rest of us. Dilip, why should anyone believe that Libertarians are capable of running anything in a non-dystopian fashion? People in general are crap, Dilip.
I likely was saved by my mRNA vaccine (I'll take the long-term consequences, if any)......I had COVID-19 somewhat badly, and I am a diabetic senior (Group with the worst mortality stats).
Lucky me that for once in human history, mega-corporations managed something beneficial.
But I wonder......how much did they profit off of human, planetary misery? Maybe not totally altruistic? Also seems there may have been some corners cut re safety to get the $$ rolling in?
Countries bought a lot of vaccine, that they distributed free (It wasn't the pharmaceutical industry that made it free, was it?)
anomaly \uh-NAH-muh-lee\ noun. 1 : something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous. 2 : deviation from the common rule : irregularity.
Though Trump's pandering to the large corporations/their owners/their CEO's, especially in the fossil fuel industries, is its own form of autocracy/oligarchy.
I fear the acceptance of on the street revolution will ramp up quickly under Libertarianism.
Libertarianism will drive the wealth/income gap wider than even regulated capitalism. The poor, who have nothing to lose, when oppressed, will start to publicly object.
As well, as in the wild west days of the nostalgic American saga, crime was rampant, except for regulation by some amazing American Sheriffs.....the gangs ruled.......we've seen them ride into town and have their way with the ordinary city folk. Will be no different with Libertarianism, both on the economic, and social, fronts.
The plan that the rich will impose austerity on the poor is bound to fail (Listen up Milei).
The future: Cooperation over Competition; Socialism over Capitalism. It is destined to be. Capitalism is imploding. The world economy has been a mess for the last years. Any recovery is just masking the foundational weakness of Capitalism.
Bob A
Dystopia is a characteristic of Marxism, not Libertarianism, Bob, for the simple reason that enforcement of the Natural Law and easy access to capital for all creates Utopia, while oppression of the hard & smart working by the 'entitlement-oriented' leads to unfairness and downfall of Marxist societies, as history has shown repeatedly...
Last edited by Dilip Panjwani; Wednesday, 12th June, 2024, 04:09 AM.
Though Trump's pandering to the large corporations/their owners/their CEO's, especially in the fossil fuel industries, is its own form of autocracy/oligarchy.
Maybe we need, though, to bring some of this to the Democratic Marxism thread?
I fear the acceptance of on the street revolution will ramp up quickly under Libertarianism.
Libertarianism will drive the wealth/income gap wider than even regulated capitalism. The poor, who have nothing to lose, when oppressed, will start to publicly object.
As well, as in the wild west days of the nostalgic American saga, crime was rampant, except for regulation by some amazing American Sheriffs.....the gangs ruled.......we've seen them ride into town and have their way with the ordinary city folk. Will be no different with Libertarianism, both on the economic, and social, fronts.
The plan that the rich will impose austerity on the poor is bound to fail (Listen up Milei).
The future: Cooperation over Competition; Socialism over Capitalism. It is destined to be. Capitalism is imploding. The world economy has been a mess for the last years. Any recovery is just masking the foundational weakness of Capitalism.
Grabbed a bag of popcorn for the fall of the Biden crime family, ha!
Starting with the prosecution of crack head Hunter with his laptop from hell. You know ... the laptop that Lying Joe Biden denied existed during the debate with Trump right in front of a national audience.
10% for the Big Guy ... Hunter's father Joe Biden, ha!
3 of crack head Hunter's former business partners are testifying against him and his Big Guy dad.
The fall of the Biden crime family ... grab that bag of popcorn folks!!!
C'mon man! Fun times!
That laptop ... LOOL ... Big Guy to share a prison cell with his now CONVICTED son???
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