Topic: Capitalism + morality = gigantic mess?
Anonymous A started this discussion 5 years ago #99,286
It's not moral to pay everyone to do what you want, but in capitalism it is ain't it? If you aren't spending you're a dead beat consumer. You gotta consume damn it, poor Ahmed needs his shoes, make him cook a pizza for you!
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #1,120,446
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,448
This that kinda shit
Better left unsaid
Bad enough you did
Now you gon' be dead
Better left unsaid
Bad enough you did
Now you gon' be dead
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,452
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 28 minutes later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,465
@1,120,446 (B)
That picture makes no sense. It's the blue states that keep on having to bail out the red states.
That picture makes no sense. It's the blue states that keep on having to bail out the red states.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,467
@previous (D)Yeah NYC ain't exactly full of conservatives but it has a higher GDP than 46 states. Looking at a chart of GDP by state shows no relationship between partisan affiliation and economic success, except generally a slight bias towards Democratic states being more successful. It's kind of a dumb talking point believed only by intellectually lazy people.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,469
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Are Republicans really conservative though? I mean, the conservatives here wouldn't say they are.
Are Republicans really conservative though? I mean, the conservatives here wouldn't say they are.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,470
@previous (A)
In America it is the party you belong to if you call yourself a conservative. The fact that they deficit spend lavishly and don't particularly seem interested in doing any legislating is sort of irrelevant to the party. It's all about aesthetics and signaling. There is no coherent substantive vision behind the Repubs and that's just fine by them.
In America it is the party you belong to if you call yourself a conservative. The fact that they deficit spend lavishly and don't particularly seem interested in doing any legislating is sort of irrelevant to the party. It's all about aesthetics and signaling. There is no coherent substantive vision behind the Repubs and that's just fine by them.
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,482
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Just doesn't seem right to call them conservative. In my mind, the conservatives are between the Republicans and democrats lol
Just doesn't seem right to call them conservative. In my mind, the conservatives are between the Republicans and democrats lol
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,483
@previous (A)
What would you call the Republicans? Labels vary between countries. The US generally has a very right wing skew to its politics. Our leftwing party isn't really that left wing, though that may be changing (luckily!).
What would you call the Republicans? Labels vary between countries. The US generally has a very right wing skew to its politics. Our leftwing party isn't really that left wing, though that may be changing (luckily!).
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Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,488
@1,120,484 (F)
Hard to tell. My sense is center left if you were to take the median poster but we have some pretty bizarre outliers in the NZ troll, bert and svet.
Hard to tell. My sense is center left if you were to take the median poster but we have some pretty bizarre outliers in the NZ troll, bert and svet.
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,489
@1,120,483 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Interesting question but strangely enough I'm not so sure, there's the typical view of them being right and the democrats being left but like you implied, the difference is miniscule. I see the Republicans as a antidote to the democrats and vice versa but I'd rather have a milder version of them both.
Interesting question but strangely enough I'm not so sure, there's the typical view of them being right and the democrats being left but like you implied, the difference is miniscule. I see the Republicans as a antidote to the democrats and vice versa but I'd rather have a milder version of them both.
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 5 years ago, 26 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,120,493
@previous (A)
I want free health care and state sponsored religions. That's pretty paradoxical to Americans i thonk but it ain't in northern Europe.
I want free health care and state sponsored religions. That's pretty paradoxical to Americans i thonk but it ain't in northern Europe.