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Damn, nextdoor done went full blown communist
WilyRickWiles comments on Apr 4, 2021:
Because communism is not being a white supremacist?
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 4, 2021:
@Beachslim You know this company is in America, yes?
Damn, nextdoor done went full blown communist
WilyRickWiles comments on Apr 4, 2021:
Because communism is not being a white supremacist?
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 4, 2021:
@Beachslim Complain to me about communism once you stop being a neo-Bircher.
Damn, nextdoor done went full blown communist
WilyRickWiles comments on Apr 4, 2021:
Because communism is not being a white supremacist?
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 4, 2021:
@Beachslim
I've just read this article with interest and I thought I would share it: ...
FuzzyMarineVet comments on Apr 4, 2021:
To be honest, there is a difference between capitalism, a straw-man invented by Marx, and free enterprise, the economic system that destroyed European feudalism. In capitalism the lords and ladies are replaced by the capitalists who serve the same parasitic function. Either capitalism or feudalism...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 4, 2021:
My understanding is that Marx was describing an existing, dominant system, one which you've acknowledged, rather than a theoretical one. Therefore, not really a straw man.
"The White House shares its final report from the 1776 Commission, which states that criticism of ...
SpikeTalon comments on Apr 3, 2021:
After awhile, the arguing over racism both past and present in the US gets rather tiring. Who's in the mood to sing a song, Camptown Races anyone?
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 3, 2021:
Tiring to you. You posture as a nonconformist. Good luck getting anyone to offer solidarity to your cause. I guess you're hoping for support from the elite.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Odd though that you do not seem to apply the same standard to your linking of the Great Society and the 2008 crash.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
ThE sKy Is FaLlInG! ReAlLy ThIs TiMe!
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
Adding a similar chart from https://prospect.org/politics/congress-biggest-obstacle-congressional-budget-office/
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
Hanno comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Thank you @wolfhnd for your post below. I learned a lot from that and was a new perspective for me. I did not reply to your comment directly as it got polluted by the local socialist.
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@Hanno I remember that, but I think sometimes your disagreement is arbitrarily forceful or the result of blind spots. Then again, I am willing to suffer the consequences of my occasional trolling.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd I mean, I don't think either of us are interested in fully hashing out a secondary argument.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
Hanno comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Thank you @wolfhnd for your post below. I learned a lot from that and was a new perspective for me. I did not reply to your comment directly as it got polluted by the local socialist.
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
There's some truth in there... of course you see the light when a non-socialist says it!
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Born conservative. The testing never ends.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Why generalize when we know the specific history of this country?
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd The corruption was racial capitalism.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Great Society died within a year.
Like the ball memes
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd No it does not. Yet people keep randomly asking me to defend the honor of Stalin, Mao, and Venezuela!
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
wolfhnd comments on Apr 1, 2021:
Money is not a commodity. When it was tied to gold it was treated as a commodity contributing to the 1929 depression. It's tempting to think of the money supply as representative of the total of commodities being exchanged actively. The problem is that similarly to money commodities in a ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
That famous socialist, George W. Bush.
Like the ball memes
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Saudi?
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WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Apr 1, 2021:
@wolfhnd Given the US's role in those theocracies, that example is close enough.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
The problem is that the only thing that's inflated are the assets of the global ruling class, including y'all's hero Trump. Despite subtle ideological differences that have no real material basis, they're united and they're too big to fail. If they're truly afraid, the only solution is for them to ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@2FollowHim He's a real estate mogul. Literally could not be more representative of our economy's emerging elite as manufacturing has faded and rent-seeking has risen.
I am no expert, but I have been talking to Business Owners, Realtors, and Bankers!!! They all agree...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
The problem is that the only thing that's inflated are the assets of the global ruling class, including y'all's hero Trump. Despite subtle ideological differences that have no real material basis, they're united and they're too big to fail. If they're truly afraid, the only solution is for them to ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@Beachslim And yet you seem to agree with some of my conclusions if not the narrative.
Like the ball memes
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@wolfhnd There's a difference between a selecting a symbol as your avatar and apologizing for state-sponsored terrorism.
Like the ball memes
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@wolfhnd Whatever lets you sleep at night.
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WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@wolfhnd Those American neoliberal blockades and interventions against Venezuela and nations across the globe.
Democrats oppose requiring IDs for voting but want you to carry a vaccine passport- ...
Garsco comments on Mar 31, 2021:
Hypocrites all!
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
Indeed, anyone who thinks these positions are mutually inclusive yet opposes a "vaccine passport" and supports voter ID laws, is a hypocrite! Support both, neither, or admit that they aren't mutually inclusive!
Like the ball memes
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 31, 2021:
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@wolfhnd How are those blockades and interventions going?
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? [lareviewofbooks.org]
wolfhnd comments on Mar 31, 2021:
Couldn't even get past the first paragraph. This is the kind of gibberish that passes for intellectual work these days. You could take the same hypothesis and say neo fascism the end of communism in China or how the communist party represented a new feudal system in Soviet Russia with Stalin as ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
The basis for the article is a right-wing critique, by the way.
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? [lareviewofbooks.org]
wolfhnd comments on Mar 31, 2021:
Couldn't even get past the first paragraph. This is the kind of gibberish that passes for intellectual work these days. You could take the same hypothesis and say neo fascism the end of communism in China or how the communist party represented a new feudal system in Soviet Russia with Stalin as ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@wolfhnd Just saying there's a touch of what you criticize in your criticism.
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? [lareviewofbooks.org]
wolfhnd comments on Mar 31, 2021:
Couldn't even get past the first paragraph. This is the kind of gibberish that passes for intellectual work these days. You could take the same hypothesis and say neo fascism the end of communism in China or how the communist party represented a new feudal system in Soviet Russia with Stalin as ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
You have a lot to say about something you haven't read.
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? [lareviewofbooks.org]
Hanno comments on Mar 31, 2021:
Neo-socialism: The end of civilisation?
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
What socialism? Get in the real world, man!
You got my vote (but it'll get turned by Dominion)
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 30, 2021:
Should I burn my childhood vaccination record?
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 31, 2021:
@Weltansicht Also by her logic, either they're both good or they're both bad. Which one is it?
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 30, 2021:
@Naomi Haiti is probably a model for what would happen if something approximating your proposal was attempted. It's basically under US occupation and the Coast Guard prevents people from leaving. AFRICOM is perhaps another model. Incidentally, I hear CENTCOM has its eyes on Haiti after they have to give back Guantanamo. A formal military occupation throughout the broader region, perhaps. For maintaining the economic status quo minus any unwanted migration.
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 30, 2021:
@Naomi Basically, we need to figure out a way to incentivize the policy.
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 30, 2021:
@Naomi Basically every solution boils down to abolishing capitalism for me these days. 🤣 Most policy ideas, even beyond immigration, seem intractable because they are counter to an economy where financialized international luxury real estate speculation is central, eclipsing the liberal national manufacturing economies of old. The world is so aligned in its material interests that there is not a lot of substance to ideological conflicts. Washington could help resolve this by financing more local governments and public goods, but making that happen is another chicken and egg problem. Wild card is if there is a shock to commercial real estate if people decide not to return to the corporate office post-COVID.
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Naomi It's also counter to US economic interests.
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Naomi I highly doubt it.
They've been reporting on TV that more and more people are crossing the US-Mexico border.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 29, 2021:
Look up the United Fruit Company and the US-led coups in the region. The US already has hegemony over the region's politics, economy, and crime. It is not interested in more development any more than it is interested in more development of slums in the US. The state of the region is a function of ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Naomi Captive labor.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Paralamente "As long as the people can't talk together and colaborate, the elite will hack the system for power and profit, whether they are on the left or right." That's an interesting point. I've been impressed by what is possible working together with my neighbors and in socialist groups in the last year. Our employers, for example, prevent us from communicating like that.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 I already addressed that in my original comment on the topic.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 I don't care about the label, just give me a system where we aren't stuck in a real estate-dominated death spiral.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 As for my avatar, my point is, debate my arguments, not what an imagined communist would argue.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 The problem is that local governments increasingly have less money to spend on those things. Washington has been decreasing its contribution for decades, making them more dependent on property taxes. And that dependence creates an incentive to use land use powers to redevelop public and low income spaces into luxury condos. Trade unions benefit from construction work so they sell out the rest of the labor movement. International speculation is primed by Washington pumping money into the financialized real estate market (but not the municipal debt market). And to top it off, local governments and trade unions end up captive to the same financial interests behind development for financing their debt and investing their pensions, allowing those interests to increasingly call the political shots. Finally, a small army of property managers, realtors, police, etc. are formed to manage populations and maintain speculative property values in which most of the global professional class is invested. When did all of this start? At the end of the civil rights movement against the inequities imposed by those same forces and as the economy shifted away from national manufacturing.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 Stop arguing with my avatar.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 Education, health care, and housing for starters.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Tom81 Here's a solution for my neck of the woods at least: remove the artificial local dependency on real estate taxes in the US--something that creates perverse political and economic incentives--by federally financing public goods. Of course any policy change like that likely requires organizing the working class to counterbalance the power of elites, and it's an open question how feasible that is without elites being divided as they were in past centuries. Our political economy is rather sticky. That's something conservatives should learn as well, though they have the advantage that real estate is fundamentally reactionary and its dominance is increasing through accumulation.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Paralamente Bottom line, I think there is an irony to criticizing the rationality of one group without any data to back it up.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 29, 2021:
@Paralamente Believe me, the kids did not create mad king Trump or the failed coup attempt in the US. 2020 was rather hopefully one of the last outbursts of the Boomers.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@Paralamente How about some numbers or percentages of how representative these supposed categories are in specific institutions or the population at large? You came to these conclusions rationally, no?
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@Paralamente Marcuse existed. Can't deny that. Here are a few things you haven't established: 1. Who Snowflakes/SJW/woke are 2. Who the New Left is 3. That Marcuse is representative of the above groups' thinking 4. That the above groups are representative of the left, academia, or young people broadly 5. The difference between "political correctness" and support of civil rights. If they are the same, you have not established that civil rights are bad other than to describe them with negative buzzword. Moreover, is it not a traditional form of "political correctness" when white supremacy and patriarchy are the norm? 6. The difference between "cancel culture" and mere ideological disagreement that challenges white supremacy and patriarchy. Moreover, is it not "cancel culture" when someone is fired from academia for challenging white supremacy and patriarchy? 7. That any of these topics are more common on the left than the right, have a material basis, and constitute a moral crisis. I sense that you are painting with a broad brush and conflating the left, neoliberals, young people, certain parts of the humanities, and other parts of academia in order to propagandize for a neoliberal or reactionary agenda.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@Paralamente You have a narrative stitching together a number of alleged phenomena but no evidence establishing your categories nor said phenomena.
Young people in our schools and universities have been influenced by the New Left with neo-marxist ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@Paralamente Whatever you call it, it has little grounding in reality.
So leftist cities want to arrest homeless people for being homeless but not people skipping the ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
The leftists are the people protesting the arrests. The cities are neoliberal. The neoliberals are also continuing Trump's policies at the border.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@RitBorg What binds neoliberalism together? The dominance of the financialized international real estate economy, local governments' power over land use and dependence on property taxes (in the absence of federal spending on social goods), and the selfish behavior of trade unions. In the distant past, differences in political ideology were founded on opposed economic interests (think manufacturing vs. slave system circa the Civil War). Today, all elite interests are linked in a system that is fundamentally reactionary.
So leftist cities want to arrest homeless people for being homeless but not people skipping the ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
The leftists are the people protesting the arrests. The cities are neoliberal. The neoliberals are also continuing Trump's policies at the border.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@RitBorg As a side note, leftists support immigration rights out of working class solidarity. Neoliberals support immigration rights when they want to increase the pool of captive labor and they support immigration restrictions when they want to make such laborers more captive.
So leftist cities want to arrest homeless people for being homeless but not people skipping the ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 28, 2021:
The leftists are the people protesting the arrests. The cities are neoliberal. The neoliberals are also continuing Trump's policies at the border.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 28, 2021:
@RitBorg For the last 50 years or so, the US government has been neoliberal. Neoliberals are generally of the center-left (Democrat) or center-right (Republican). They are in favor of privatization, low taxes, cutting spending on public goods, deregulation, and global free trade. They may be in favor of legal civil rights but their support stops at anything that would require systemic changes led by the state and create real freedom for the majority of people. This leads to appearances of hyprocrisy, as they use identity issues opportunistically. Leftists in the US tend to be social democrats (progressives are similar). They are in favor of a mixed economy where the government plays a strong role in providing public goods and they also support expanded democracy, higher taxes, regulation, and working class solidarity. Other leftists may be democratic socialists, who focus more on building labor and community power, or more radical socialists or anarchists. Activists like those protesting these arrests are likely to be leftists and be critical of the Democratic Party (though they of course are also highly critical of the right broadly). Of course, just as with conservatives in the Republican Party (which nevertheless has been increasingly influenced by the far right), the neoliberal status quo has a strong influence over leftists who engage in electoral politics. The word liberal has been confused in the US, which is why I try to avoid it. In most of the world, it means pretty much the same thing as neoliberal. In the US it has historically been used similarly to leftist because FDR used it as a label for his brand of social democracy. As the Democratic party became more neoliberal over the last 50 years, its "liberal" politics shriveled to mere social liberalism--i.e. the aforementioned focus on civil rights without economic freedom. Our discourse is often disjointed between fearmongering about leftist priorities (that neoliberals do not actually support), claims of hypocrisy (that are explained by the fact that they are neoliberals, not leftists), and resultant conflation of leftists and neoliberals. I should also note that most of the rest of the world's politics is a notch to the left of the US, with social democrats participating in neoliberal coalitions.
you tell 'em Bubba
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 26, 2021:
Both are racist.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 27, 2021:
@Forra888
you tell 'em Bubba
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 26, 2021:
Both are racist.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 26, 2021:
@Forra888 Hooded horse at that.
you tell 'em Bubba
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 26, 2021:
Both are racist.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 26, 2021:
@Forra888 How about you get off your high horse and recognize like I have--pithy responses to memes aside--that racism is about actions and systems--much less so about people. Get out of here with your "real racists" BS.
the federal reserve corporation may print the money but they are making the taxpayer the slave to ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 25, 2021:
No, actually it's funded by the productive capacity. I'm guessing your taxes don't represent a meaningful share of that--but maybe your labor does? And if that's not even the case, then we're back to the Fed, representative democracy, and the social contract.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 25, 2021:
Of course, today our political economy is dominated by international real estate speculation boosted by the Fed. This is quite a shift from the more progressive national (Yankee) manufacturing economy of old and has been a boon to the reactionary petit bourgeoisie (the descendants of the urban white redliners, blockbusters, and school bus firebombers) around the country who have been enlisted to manage their neighbors. If that describes you, then why the hell are you badmouthing your daddy the Fed? The Fed has showed favoritism to your assets instead of financing public goods for taxpayers.
the federal reserve corporation may print the money but they are making the taxpayer the slave to ...
HistoryCorner comments on Mar 24, 2021:
American communists always point to Norway and say: Look! They have free healthcare!!! But we don't! We pay an INSANE amount of taxes to fund our healthcare system. By all means, when it works, it's awesome! But when it doesn't.... There's no alternative. And we've paid our butts off in taxes for ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 25, 2021:
In America we pay $300+ a month and get nothing AT ALL for it. And when we actually need it, our employers and insurance companies can arbitrarily refuse to pay in favor of a cheaper legal settlement (especially if we or our families are desperate). Which also involves illegally firing us from our job, spying on us in our homes, and paying doctors and medical groups to lie about us in court and in the media, respectively. Count your blessings!
You are all being played
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 24, 2021:
Good to see someone owning up to the Boomers' increasingly destructive behavior as they age.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 24, 2021:
@Tom81 You're so ignorant. I feel sorry for you!
You are all being played
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 24, 2021:
Good to see someone owning up to the Boomers' increasingly destructive behavior as they age.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 24, 2021:
@Poncho69 I think he means that Boomers have no self control and are provoked into madness by the left's political speech.
I Recognize...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 24, 2021:
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perhaps?
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 24, 2021:
@Tom81 It's brought millions of poor people into the middle class.
I Recognize...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 24, 2021:
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perhaps?
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 24, 2021:
@2peros Sometimes I call them America!
Jesus sounds totally commie just saying.
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 24, 2021:
The true Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2L-R8NgrA
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 24, 2021:
@Beachslim You're putting words in my mouth.
Doctors drugs kill more than they save
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 23, 2021:
True. And the reason: capitalism. And no, this doesn't mean vaccines in general should be avoided.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@Hanno Sure, neoliberal disinvestment in public goods has nothing to do with incentivizing the shrinking number of hospital beds in the US for decades and predatory drug rackets. It must be something else that I'm blind to...
Doctors drugs kill more than they save
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 23, 2021:
True. And the reason: capitalism. And no, this doesn't mean vaccines in general should be avoided.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@Hanno LOL, I was being hypothetical about accusing you of blaming communism for everything. You didn't have to prove my hypothetical right! The OP meme had nothing to do with South Africa or communism. It is universal fact of capitalist health care around the world.
Intersectionality on steroids in Compton murder
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
From Mary Maxwell: "When I first learned about Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, I misunderstood it. I misunderstood it for years, until I started teaching it, and my students started to parrot back my misunderstanding, and then -- as things often do when you teach them -- ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@wolfhnd Conservative logic: if it doesn't fit my bias it must be false. Hence the catch 22 of black women not meeting their legal standard of discrimination because multiple categories of discrimination were intertwined and looked different.
Intersectionality on steroids in Compton murder
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
From Mary Maxwell: "When I first learned about Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, I misunderstood it. I misunderstood it for years, until I started teaching it, and my students started to parrot back my misunderstanding, and then -- as things often do when you teach them -- ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@wolfhnd You completely missed the point.
Doctors drugs kill more than they save
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 23, 2021:
True. And the reason: capitalism. And no, this doesn't mean vaccines in general should be avoided.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@Hanno I blame capitalism for what it produces and the poor incentives it creates especially for public goods. I blame racism for the things historically linked to racism and perpetuated by capitalism. I'd appreciate if you could stay on topic. You don't see me chasing you from thread saying "LOL he blames the defunct system of communism for everything he doesn't like!"
Doctors drugs kill more than they save
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 23, 2021:
True. And the reason: capitalism. And no, this doesn't mean vaccines in general should be avoided.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@Hanno Speak for yourself.
Direct link between fathers at home and development of children... who would have thought?
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
Nope, nothing systemic to see here.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@Hanno We must be at The End of History!
Direct link between fathers at home and development of children... who would have thought?
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
Nope, nothing systemic to see here.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@wolfhnd You're full of shit.
Direct link between fathers at home and development of children... who would have thought?
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
Nope, nothing systemic to see here.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 23, 2021:
@wolfhnd It was discussed.
Direct link between fathers at home and development of children... who would have thought?
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 22, 2021:
Nope, nothing systemic to see here.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 22, 2021:
@wolfhnd On the contrary. Whether something matters is subjective. Whether it exists is objective.
With a mindset that there is racism everywhere, people perceive everything in connection with ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 21, 2021:
Virtue signalling has a motive. E.g. career advancement and the continued exploitation of the marginalized while signaling false solidarity. Immigration policies on the other hand have much to do with the history of colonialism and imperialism. And in the United States, the history of immigration ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 21, 2021:
@FrankZeleniuk Yes, neoliberal Democrats are often guilty of virtue signaling. Not the left, though. Re: racist immigration law, they are still on the books (they began with the Chinese Exclusion Act) and the original racist justifications are still used to keep them there. Moreover, the same racism still exists in society. It doesn't just go away when Stephen Miller cleans out his desk.
"Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the day after eight people were murdered at three ...
ZuzecaSape comments on Mar 21, 2021:
I'd like to meet #RafiaZakaria someday, so I can explain to her, in person, why she's an ignorant cunt.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 21, 2021:
No criticism on the merits?
Great article on cancel culture and the defense of history and tradition! [breitbart.com]
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 21, 2021:
Since when does the right care about history?
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 21, 2021:
@DaisyCousens Lol.
Communist colon said troops need to be educated because they are questioning why they didn't respond...
FuzzyMarineVet comments on Mar 20, 2021:
I guess there are some members of the military who believe that their oaths of enlistment or office are more than hot air and noise. The rest don't understand the words. When the Constitution of the United States is under assault the military is oath-bound to defend it. And I assure you there is ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 21, 2021:
Mind giving an example of how the Constitution is under assault and how it relates to the subject at hand?
I think it is time to get out of the weeds and start asking the Dems some real questions about their...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
I wish.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@FrankZeleniuk The further America moves to the right, the more our myths are challenged and we must face up to the fundamental failures of our institutions and the need for their power to be confronted.
I think it is time to get out of the weeds and start asking the Dems some real questions about their...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
I wish.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@FrankZeleniuk What's all this about "whitey?" "Not God bless America, God damn America. That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. Think about this, think about this." https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4719157=1
Well well well
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
Ignorant and proud you are.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@Weltansicht Appropriate avatar you have!
Well well well
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
Ignorant and proud you are.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@Weltansicht What does any of this have to do with Hillary?
Well well well
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
Ignorant and proud you are.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@Weltansicht Also https://www.businessinsider.com/photoshopped-hillary-clinton-confederate-flag-photo-2015-7
Well well well
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
Ignorant and proud you are.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@Weltansicht Better to be specific.
I think it is time to get out of the weeds and start asking the Dems some real questions about their...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
I wish.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@FrankZeleniuk As Rev. Wright said, it's in the Bible.
I think it is time to get out of the weeds and start asking the Dems some real questions about their...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
I wish.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@FrankZeleniuk God damn America!
We live in a society where more people get offended at cartoons, and not so much at what appears to ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 19, 2021:
The right is OBSESSED with cartoons.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 19, 2021:
@wolfhnd I really don't know what that means.
Oof.
RitBorg comments on Mar 18, 2021:
During the century measured, more people died as a result of communism than from homicide (58 million) and genocide (30 million) put together. The combined death tolls of WWI (37 million) and WWII (66 million) exceed communism's total by only 9 million. ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 18, 2021:
Now do fascism and neoliberalism.
CONCERNING REACTION TO THE JAB 4 people suffer from aniphilactic shock in 48 hours in ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 17, 2021:
Completely normal. The excipient that may cause an allergic reaction is commonly used in vaccines. Allergic reaction is very rare but possible. Supervision for 15-30 minutes is sufficient in case an epinephrine injection is needed. Allergy can also be tested for prior to vaccination. ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 18, 2021:
@Poncho69 Something like .000002% of people will have an allergic reaction. We're talking like 19,000 people if the whole world is vaccinated. A similarly small percentage of that miniscule percentage has the potential to die, I suppose, if the reaction is server, they aren't treated, and depending on their overall health. No one has died yet after millions of vaccinations (just talking about COVID here). Nothing is without risk. Your dinner probably has a higher chance of giving you a heart attack. To live, we have to make calculated risks, e.g. weighing one risk against another.
CONCERNING REACTION TO THE JAB 4 people suffer from aniphilactic shock in 48 hours in ...
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 17, 2021:
Completely normal. The excipient that may cause an allergic reaction is commonly used in vaccines. Allergic reaction is very rare but possible. Supervision for 15-30 minutes is sufficient in case an epinephrine injection is needed. Allergy can also be tested for prior to vaccination. ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 17, 2021:
I imagine that's the type of issue in these cases, but the allergist I linked to may have updates on other types of allergic reactions that are being monitored.
Did Obama use federal tax money to fund woke army?
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 5, 2021:
Seems like the majority of you want to send more money to a STEM grad the likes of me! I'm flattered! I'll accept IDW coins to start.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 11, 2021:
@parsifal This online community's original and current alternate name is the IDW (Intellectual Dark Web) Community. It gives you coins for participating that you can redeem for merchandise or cash. You can also give them to someone else.
WHERE ARE MY COINS, @dmatic?
dmatic comments on Mar 5, 2021:
Interesting. I sent the coins before your demand. I do protest, of course. But, Congratulations anyway.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 5, 2021:
Hmm...I did not see them until after (only 1 coin a while back which I assumed was a tease but maybe was a glitch?). Nevertheless, thanks.
WHERE ARE MY COINS, @dmatic?
WayneHawthorne comments on Mar 5, 2021:
Coins? I just give them away to members who thank me for my "auto" greeting. It's just an electronic pat on the back that might bring a smile.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 5, 2021:
55,908 more and I'll claim the $1,000 prize! Who wants to help me?
WHERE ARE MY COINS, @dmatic?
Tom81 comments on Mar 5, 2021:
🤔 sounds like you're a closet capitalist, asking for coins like that... They've redistributed your coins to the masses for the greater good, comrade😉
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 5, 2021:
A bet's a bet.
IS IDW GOING LIBERAL?
Hanno comments on Mar 5, 2021:
Who was banned, who left, who moved, who are removed? So you have heard rumours and came to your own conclusions and made decisions while actually having no idea what you are talking about. Sounds about right...
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 5, 2021:
Sounds about Right indeed.
Breaking News:
WilyRickWiles comments on Mar 2, 2021:
This just in, conservatives are firing employees because union organizing is offensive to little tyrants.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 3, 2021:
@DeplorableToo Let them starve!
Why do Blacks have a much higher risk of being murdered by other Blacks than they do from Whites?
SpikeTalon comments on Feb 2, 2021:
Gangs appear to be more of a problem among blacks than whites. I gather the medias gain more views when they report on such topics.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 1, 2021:
@SpikeTalon Not so much that "union." Though, yes, there is still residual support in the mainstream labor movement and Democratic party. But you better believe the GOP has their back.
Why do Blacks have a much higher risk of being murdered by other Blacks than they do from Whites?
SpikeTalon comments on Feb 2, 2021:
Gangs appear to be more of a problem among blacks than whites. I gather the medias gain more views when they report on such topics.
WilyRickWiles replies on Mar 1, 2021:
Appear? They've largely been disintegrated. There are more gangs in Latino communities. And white gangs have been integrated into police departments and other law enforcement agencies.
Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?
WilyRickWiles comments on Feb 17, 2021:
Right-wing interests cultivate racist and sexist backlashes when civil rights threaten their bottom line.
WilyRickWiles replies on Feb 17, 2021:
@Hanno Because anything to the left of the right-moving status quo is Stalinism...
Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?
WilyRickWiles comments on Feb 17, 2021:
Right-wing interests cultivate racist and sexist backlashes when civil rights threaten their bottom line.
WilyRickWiles replies on Feb 17, 2021:
@parsifal Who exactly do you think are the powerful left wing interests in this day and age? I don't think there are any.
"50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, London School of Economics study says" ...
wolfhnd comments on Feb 14, 2021:
You are pretty out of touch. It's not your daddy's London School of Economics. There is nothing voodoo about low taxes, deficit spending and deregulation. A ten year old could understand that level of thought on stimulus. To the intellectual community it's all in the name, or to be more ...
WilyRickWiles replies on Feb 15, 2021:
@wolfhnd Never said anything about virtue or morality, or the little guy having more of it. But I think it is good for every individual to have agency over their means of survival.
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