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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World

 
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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World
This is a great presentation from the CATO institute about socialism and capitalism and differences between them.

This video and the book it discusses should be required viewing/reading for all aspiring socialists in USSA - AOC take notice here :)

It's rather lengthy but worth the time.




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most socialist like college students are just naive. they have a good heart and good intentions but what they never input into their socialist equation are two variables, psycho paths, and centralization of power. they don't understand that it's easier to pass a law than it is to undo it. all those rules and regulations, all the taxes, all the centralized power is a great place for people who list for power.
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cato = garbage pile grifters
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you guys know cato is a libertarian open borders think tank right?
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most socialist like college students are just naive. they have a good heart and good intentions but what they never input into their socialist equation are two variables, psycho paths, and centralization of power. they don't understand that it's easier to pass a law than it is to undo it. all those rules and regulations, all the taxes, all the centralized power is a great place for people who list for power.
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Ironically, most socialists living in non socialist nations are also driven by resentment, jealousy, and the thrill of overpowering other people (authoritative) to look virtuous in front of their peers.
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cato = garbage pile grifters
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Great video!

Historically. No one has ever loaded their family up into a rickety homemade raft and pushed out to the open sea, or dug through a gravel trench under barbed wire with their bare hands to escape capitalism. The MSM highlights only the worst elements of capitalism and cronyism as examples of true capitalism and highlights only the cherry-picked Utopian vision of a future socialism as true socialism. Capitalism, or any other system, cannot be compared against Utopian visions of systems that don't exist in reality. Any system must be compared to alternatives that actually exist. Any system is only as good as the people who participate in it. The Founding Fathers openly admitted that the system they designed was unfit for any other than a morally virtuous people. Individual moral virtue is the best place to start to improve anything.
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Great video!

Historically. No one has ever loaded their family up into a rickety homemade raft and pushed out to the open sea, or dug through a gravel trench under barbed wire with their bare hands to escape capitalism. The MSM highlights only the worst elements of capitalism and cronyism as examples of true capitalism and highlights only the cherry-picked Utopian vision of a future socialism as true socialism. Capitalism, or any other system, cannot be compared against Utopian visions of systems that don't exist in reality. Any system must be compared to alternatives that actually exist. Any system is only as good as the people who participate in it. The Founding Fathers openly admitted that the system they designed was unfit for any other than a morally virtuous people. Individual moral virtue is the best place to start to improve anything.
clappa
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sounds pretty utopian then
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Great video!

Historically. No one has ever loaded their family up into a rickety homemade raft and pushed out to the open sea, or dug through a gravel trench under barbed wire with their bare hands to escape capitalism. The MSM highlights only the worst elements of capitalism and cronyism as examples of true capitalism and highlights only the cherry-picked Utopian vision of a future socialism as true socialism. Capitalism, or any other system, cannot be compared against Utopian visions of systems that don't exist in reality. Any system must be compared to alternatives that actually exist. Any system is only as good as the people who participate in it. The Founding Fathers openly admitted that the system they designed was unfit for any other than a morally virtuous people. Individual moral virtue is the best place to start to improve anything.
clappa
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sounds pretty utopian then
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it's a lie their founders were all white nationalists capitalism doesn't exist in their nation and most of them do not understand what it is
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Communism/Socialism only appeals to disarmed serfs.
Kamala Harris is not a Natural Born Citizen. She's illegally running.

Used by the Founders...
Book I of The Law of Nations, Chapter XIX, § 212 (Joseph Chitty numbering) – “Citizens and natives”
reads: 'The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to
its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in
the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by
the children of the citizens
, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all
their rights.' 1758 Emerich de Vattel

Oh' What the Hell, do I look like I want to die in some nursing home one day...
America must have 4 new Constitutional Amendments...
1. Drug Tests and Mental Evaluations on all politicians and judges randomly five times per year.
2. Term Limits for Federal politicians and judges.
3. Mental and health standards for Supreme Court Justices and retirement age set.
4. A 'Star Chamber' of elected Natural Born Citizens (no attorney's) to ivestigate, try, and prosecute the politicians and government employee's as they see fit.

Mandatory death penalty by public hanging is the merciful sentence for pedos and their associates.

Democrats are a WMD, literally.

Let Justice Be Done Though The Heavens Fall.
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Communism/Socialism only appeals to disarmed serfs.
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what group theorised both?
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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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Great video!

Historically. No one has ever loaded their family up into a rickety homemade raft and pushed out to the open sea, or dug through a gravel trench under barbed wire with their bare hands to escape capitalism. The MSM highlights only the worst elements of capitalism and cronyism as examples of true capitalism and highlights only the cherry-picked Utopian vision of a future socialism as true socialism. Capitalism, or any other system, cannot be compared against Utopian visions of systems that don't exist in reality. Any system must be compared to alternatives that actually exist. Any system is only as good as the people who participate in it. The Founding Fathers openly admitted that the system they designed was unfit for any other than a morally virtuous people. Individual moral virtue is the best place to start to improve anything.
clappa
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sounds pretty utopian then
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In a way it was. But then compare the results of their creation to the results of other systems. What has ever existed that has led to better results?
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they have a good heart and good intentions
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That heart and those intentions are anything but kind, caring and compassionate when they're also combined with - as they almost always are with people of the left - reactions of dishonesty, irrationality and a lack of logic and ethics.

Adolph Hitler was a big animal-rights supporter. His great love of Fido, Kitty and other animals would have made casual observers of him back the 1920s-30s naively assume he was a kind, caring, humane soul.

Beware of people bearing false gifts and fake compassion.

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someone told me there is free stuff in this thread
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you guys know cato is a libertarian open borders think tank right?
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Yes, but they advocate capitalism upon which our country was built and they are against "American socialists"-aka AOC et al.
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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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...and who's keeping you there?
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it's a lie their founders were all white nationalists capitalism doesn't exist in their nation and most of them do not understand what it is
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specialstupid
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Thanks for the pine hf
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someone told me there is free stuff in this thread
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CSnow already nabbed it waving his AARP card and whining for early bird pricing
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it's a lie their founders were all white nationalists capitalism doesn't exist in their nation and most of them do not understand what it is
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specialstupid
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not an argument
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local liquor store happened to have some Chinese beer, made in china, so I bought one ... and indeed it was probably the worst beer I ever had. tasted a bit "industrial" if u know what I mean. they have bad record on food safety so I just hope I don't get cancer from it eventually
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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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so you are saying that it is an easy way out for those people?
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someone told me there is free stuff in this thread
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CSnow already nabbed it waving his AARP card and whining for early bird pricing
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lmao

You still can't do something as simple as saying you're a liberal/leftist/progressive.

What's that all about>

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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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so you are saying that it is an easy way out for those people?
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their nation is in intractable debt mathematically impossible to get out from under within the expected outcome abilities of the humans toiling under it. they could halve spending and double taxes and they wouldn't touch the principal proper for 61 years
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someone told me there is free stuff in this thread
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CSnow already nabbed it waving his AARP card and whining for early bird pricing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77021025


lmao

You still can't do something as simple as saying you're a liberal/leftist/progressive.

What's that all about>

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shifts in reverse spins in circle
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local liquor store happened to have some Chinese beer, made in china, so I bought one ... and indeed it was probably the worst beer I ever had. tasted a bit "industrial" if u know what I mean. they have bad record on food safety so I just hope I don't get cancer from it eventually
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Buyer beware.

But the People's Republic of George-Orwellian-1984 China, where integrity and ethics have been long taught and promoted (as most leftwing places tend to do), does have an overall ethos where honesty is the best policy.

Left-leaning biases: So reliable, so competent, so humane.

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local liquor store happened to have some Chinese beer, made in china, so I bought one ... and indeed it was probably the worst beer I ever had. tasted a bit "industrial" if u know what I mean. they have bad record on food safety so I just hope I don't get cancer from it eventually
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66333235


new LOL label sourced globally manufactured locally...Chicom melamine protein hmmmmmmmm
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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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so you are saying that it is an easy way out for those people?
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their nation is in intractable debt mathematically impossible to get out from under within the expected outcome abilities of the humans toiling under it. they could halve spending and double taxes and they wouldn't touch the principal proper for 61 years
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you believe "they" have any intention of paying it off?
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NOT IF YOU ARE POOR, DEEPLY IN DEBT AND LIVING IN MOM"S BASEMENT!
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so you are saying that it is an easy way out for those people?
 Quoting: Rosicrucian1 76025956


their nation is in intractable debt mathematically impossible to get out from under within the expected outcome abilities of the humans toiling under it. they could halve spending and double taxes and they wouldn't touch the principal proper for 61 years
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77021025


you believe "they" have any intention of paying it off?
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it is the buyer's sentiments that are important they stop buying you will implode as the leverages are insane like 53X at the top end





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