human:
have you ever talked to people from the occupy movement?
or did i imagine them and they aren’t real?
lol
Austerity still does not mean higher taxes. It means cuts in government services.
No. I’m correcting your mistakes.
This is projection at its finest. You are accusing people of belonging to an overly-broad organized group while decrying others who are supposedly doing the same.
who cares? so what if he is? what difference does it make?
some of the things he said (opinions) are spot on.
sorry, i dont fall for the ‘attacking the messenger’ type fallacies that run wild around here, and the scapegoating.
It’d make him a bit less than reliable. He doesn’t offer any facts or any reason to believe what he’s saying. I guess it’s appealing if you already agree with him, but if you don’t, it’s not just unconvincing - it has no content and doesn’t say much of anything. The post goes “A BUNCH OF BAD STUFF THAT I THINK COULD HAPPEN… COLLECTIVISM!”
Which ones, and why? Maybe you can provide the facts and reasoning he didn’t.
heavy progressive income tax is one of 10 planks of the communist manifesto (as is a private central bank, that goes along with it).
what mistake did you correct?
please go read Marx, because you obv havent, or your reading comprehension needs some work?
:mad: I’ll stop beating her when she wises up, thank you very much!
so you are still taking about it, why???
lol
so interesting…
“Heavy progressive income tax” is not the same as higher taxes, though.
You keep calling austerity “higher taxes” when it has nothing to do with higher taxes. It means deep cuts in government services and other programs and benefits.
Because you continue to post about it as if it meant anything. I didn’t bring it up.
:rolleyes: Dude, be careful who you cite. That’s Jon Rappoport. He’s a nutcase-crank like Alex Jones, or worse.
:dubious: Yes, and?
Morally, you need to start thinking in terms of consequentialism, not deontology.
Evolving, not eroding. The direction you’re describing is better.
Ohhh aren’t you the little dissembler. Actually the 1st line is placed below with your cherry picking bolded.
Nationalization of the means of production, that’s what could be more collectivist than that. Which is on the table nowhere. Sometimes taxes need to be increased. You don’t need to be any kind of Marxist or collectivist to see that, and those making the relevant decisions are not such.
ok, you finally came out of the closet.
why don’t you move to N Korea then, if its so much better??
I love how people argue for collectivism but still have a too much sense of shame to come out and admit it, and they want to just apologize for it without being accountable for that.
you really think Mao was a step in the right direction for humanity? (the great leap forward)
if youre an environmentalist, i could see that, since he cleansed the earth of so many carbon footprints…
Would you mind quoting where BrainGlutton said anything good about North Korea? I must’ve missed that post.
You mean Argumentum ad hominem, but be careful there: It’s not always a fallacy. The most important piece of information in any message is the name of the messenger.
no, federal reserve= marxism
IRS= marxism
go read ‘the Communist Manifesto’ instead of auto-denying it.
put research before conclusions, instead of the opposite.
And Hitler Ate Sugar. And conceived the Autobahnen system which Eisenhower, conquering his way through Germany, was so impressed by that he copied it for America later, which is why we have the Interstate Highway System. Which does not make it a Nazi system, nor Eisenhower a Nazi sympathizer.
If Marx said something was a good idea, that does not make it a bad idea, nor does necessarily it make it a Communist idea. Marx also called for public schooling. Good idea. And so is progressive income tax, and so is a central bank.
brain, I suggest you read the George Orwell book 1984, of which i posted a link to a free pdf.
maybe it will cure that.