I mean, like … seriously, dude. WTF’nF!
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Yeah, yeah, I know — beating up on the defenseless.
Funny thing is, they aaaaaaaalmost nailed it, then they dismissed the concept of trading value for value via divisible, portable, and fungible barter. You know, money. *sigh*
But wait. There’s more!
Freddie Sykes in comments (11)
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#OWS’s 99% is seductive, right up until you ask a second question.
Socialism can have a strong influence on the weak-minded (cultural ref @4m:00s).
This is not the economic system you are looking for.
And just to belabor the criticism:
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God help us. I’ll be in my bunk(er).
That’s a really good Tea Party ad.
When I have the developed the business acumen to create a flat screen T.V. and you have developed the business acumen to light your own farts, I don’t understand how we could be of equal value to a society. Nor do I see it the government’s role to attempt to make us equal. In the words of Judge Smails “The world needs ditch diggers too.”
OK, now I get it. You make stuff, I take it. What could be better?
I was trying to watch the whole thing, but it made my head hurt long about 2:00.
They were righhttt there, but couldn’t close the deal. I think those fucking ubiquitous bongoes addled their brains to the point they just couldn’t make the connection.
That and the guy on the left (either way you want to take it) has three extra cervical vertebrae, so his tracheal pressure drop is such that he doesn’t get enough oxygen to his brain.
I hate fucking hippies! I made 2 minutes also.
Kiss my aura, Dora
It’s real Angora
And how ’bout you, Fauna?
Ya wanna?
I made it to 1:48. My G-d, why can stupid people procreate, let alone Vote!
You ought to label these things “The Great “How Long Can You Bear The Stupid” Competition.
I cheated, I kept pausing it to smash my head against the table. And I only made it to 1:32.
Seriously, people. Plane tickets to North Korea.
Money is an instrument to store labor. Why? Because that way you don’t have to find someone who wants to trade handjobs for TVs or whatever your dealio is. You trade your handjobs for money, and then your money for the TV. That way, people can barter without spending a year trying to find the right exchange.
Also they have no clue what Capitalism even *is*.
For those with weak digestive systems, may I suggest the second video in the series.
It starts like the first but interviews more people and uses amusing movie cuts.
Hey – they were absolutely right! They were describing true, unfettered-by-government Capitalism. What they CAN’T see is the interfering hand of government screwing up everything it touches. (And it thinks it has a license to touch EVERYthing).
They even got the morality right. They were talking about how you have to be “a good person”? Well, how do “handshake” contracts work? We trust the guy we are making a contract with. In the “old days”, you would know the guy you were making the contract with subscribed to Christian morality, so you could trust his word. These guys don’t know about that.
The reason the poor and the rich are morals-less is because the rich have the $$ to insulate themselves from disaster, and the poor have nothin’ to lose. Only the Middle Class needs morals to keep from becoming impoverished by making stupid choices.
Merovign- yeah!! on the definition of ‘money’. I like to think of money as “stored energy”.
Susan Lee
Dunno Doug. Might be a smidge of mercy inyewr heart that needs purgin. Me? I see 2 guize who jist recently climbed down outa a tree, shed they`s body hair and can durn near walk on their hind legs, purt near a half of a day. Afore I`d ask them a question about capitalism, I might ease into em with a few questions to first gimme a hint of the physical soundness of their *brane exercise program*….
Sum warmup questions like:
1. Why is toast?
2. Are banana peels a pain in the ass? If so, why?
3. (a ques to measure integrity…) Who ties your shoes?
4. (multiple choice…) Where do Coco Puffs come from, a bush, a tree or Puff the magic dragon?
5. (Yes or No-honesty question…) The last time you saw a vagina was at your birth—-Yes or No?
I suspect this short quiz might confirm that both of these critters, early in their youth had surgery which installed a titanium bar between their ears in order to prevent the vacuum pressure from smashing said ears together at midpoint inside their skulls…..
Question # 5 —I don’t think they’d understand the v word. You may have to use a more descriptive word.
Freddie (11)
Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
That has been elevated above the fold.
Watched them all in full… My eyes are now bleeding. The one woman I would like to remind her that the natives was killing each other for nearly 10,000 years for hunting grounds before Columbus was born. Normally I would try to be witty and urbane, but commies ruin everything. Sighs..
I still want a big screen TV.
… and to end poverty and world hunger and get everybody clean water.
BTW: What is it with this clean water shit? Get your own fucking clean water.
That TV drama “To Serve Man” was actually a reality show, and these are some of the farm-bred livestock that managed to escape.
Damn it, that IS better than a Nobel Prize!
I don’t have to watch that shit.
I already know that I hate every last one of the cocksuckers.
You might what to ad they were responsible for the extinction of the horse (hence the god like status granted to Europeans when they brought them over) and many other local species.
^ Yes I have had this or a similar conversation with Mexicans, the one remark that always sets them off is “Spanish is a European language.”
DougM, I’ll have to comment later!
Those 2 vids short-circuited parts of my brainz &
I can’t process & sort out what I saw & heard, in
a logical & coherent way!
Ok, DougM, I’ve thought ’bout this sit-chi-aye-shun & I think we
should give them just what they want, without the problems &
reminders of evil capitalism! Yanno out west where the
gubbmint has bazillions of square miles of open, unspoiled land!
Put a big fence around somma it & toss ‘em in! Then tell them
to go create whatever kind of utopia they want! Also that we
won’t bother or interfere with them in any way! ‘Cept to donate
many truckloads of evil capitalist ‘refuse’ for them to ‘recycle’
to help get their new ‘society’ functioning!
Merovign: “You trade your handjobs for money, and then your money for the TV. That way, people can barter without spending a year trying to find the right exchange.”
Why couldn’t I have met you earlier in life? I would have one big-ass TV right about now if I did.