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"We've always brought the country together. 'We the people, we hold these truths to be self-evident.' (Trump) flies in the face of all the basic things that we've never really met the standard (of, but) we've never abandoned it before," Biden said. "He looks like he's just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people."
Riiiiiight. Never really met...or tried to meet. Why try to meet it when you can have the rich on one side and the French fry servers on the other. We're one people, 'cept some of us are more 'one' than others. Moooooo.
"Biden on Monday also doubled down on his support for a new assault weapons ban and suggested his administration would try to create a buyback program to get those weapons off the street."
Riiiiiight. That'll work. The crazies will be ALL over that.
"Biden was clear that he would not seek to confiscate privately owned or purchased guns, instead advocating for "a national buyback program" intended to get the weapons "off the street."
You can vote for me because the laws I make won't matter.
"The fact of the matter is (assault weapons) should be illegal. Period," Biden said. "The Second Amendment doesn't say you can't restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. You can't buy a bazooka. You can't have a flame-thrower."
The 2nd amendment ALSO says you can't restrict hand guns either: clubs are arms. Ban ALL hand guns too!
Good ol' creepy Uncle Joe: it's safe to vote for him cos he'll do nothing to piss you off, really.... except feel your daughter's boob and sniff your wife's hair.
This guy is same old same old ( but creepier).
So.......the parties SAFE choice, I guess.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday August 06 2019, @11:23AM (13 children)
Funny how all the policies are about attacking rich people instead of fixing capitalism. For example, from the Wikipedia page for Sawant:
That's just a thief with pretty words. Notice that last sentence. Here's what she actually said [salon.com]:
Capitalism despite its flaws doesn't need to be global. It works well at any scale. Meanwhile her "socialist economy" needs to stamp out any potential competitors in order to work. Also note the implicit promise of a "really high" standard of living? What she doesn't mention is that it's just not possible to provide that standard of living with her scheme too.
This last bit is a common behavioral flaw of criticism of capitalism - nothing better is suggested, instead the critic moves on to their ideological hobbyhorse, ignoring that they're proposing something worse. I think this is also why so many would-be critics fantasize about the collapse of capitalism. They'd be laughed out of the room (and probably have many times), if they proposed a transition directly from a functional capitalism system to a dysfunctional socialist one. But going from a post-apocalyptic society to a socialist society is far less of a stretch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 06 2019, @11:36AM (6 children)
Where may I find capitalism in one country?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 06 2019, @11:39AM (4 children)
You can't. Hallow and all his kind have a habit of building castles in the air and insisting that not only is the map the territory, but the fact that the map is of a country that does not and cannot exist is immaterial. He'll have some "obvious rebuttal" for you somewhere, count on it...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 06 2019, @02:54PM (3 children)
FTFY
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 08 2019, @03:05PM (2 children)
And if you search my post history for Marx, you'll notice just about every time I mention him it's in context of "the guy's a natural critic, which means he's good at pointing out what's gone wrong but Madokami have mercy on you if you take his advice for fixing it."
PS: tu quoque is a fallacy as well as a shit argument.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 08 2019, @03:21PM (1 child)
Well, I seldom expose my quoque in public.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 08 2019, @07:40PM
Really? You do it all the goddamn time here on SN, and it gets exactly the disparaging laughter it deserves for being so tiny and weak.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 06 2019, @05:18PM
Like Sweden? US? China?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 06 2019, @12:24PM (5 children)
"Capitalism despite its flaws doesn't need to be global"
But for the ultra rich to become ultra-ier rich-ier, it MUST be global: proof is in things like the TPP, that the ultra rich wrote (notice that WE little people weren't allowed to see what was in it until it was a done deal). Make job loss global and you have, globally, people willing to work 3 jobs for minimum wage.
Control the government with your money and you have governments willing to do ANYTHING you ask.
Control ALL governments and you have global ability to make money FREELY and fuck the people over.
Global capitalism is polluting the planet and screwing people over.
'Socialism' is needed to put controls on people who are out of control.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 06 2019, @02:56PM (3 children)
It can all be fixed, though. Torches and pitchforks have a wonderful way of tearing down the royalty who think they are better than all the rest of us.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 06 2019, @06:10PM (2 children)
First we have to get through the sycophant grunts who surround the rich assholes. Being one of the grunts are you sure you want to risk flaming impalement?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 06 2019, @07:04PM (1 child)
-5 idiot
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 06 2019, @07:21PM
+5 stable genius
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 07 2019, @03:43AM
So? Education is also something that ultra-rich benefit from. Should we get rid of that? You need a better argument than that.
So is job growth. We have more of that than we do job loss.
Except of course, that doesn't happen in the first place.
And making most peoples' live better.
Like who? There's no out of control businesses in the entire developed world and China for two glaring counter examples.