What Is Wrong with "Trickle Down Economics"?
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Okay, I'm totally stealing that.
Plus, as Mars surely is aware, Nixon had asked Dr. Manhattan to join the Comedian and intervene in Vietnam. The war would have been over in no time once the 'Cong saw that giant codpiece and faced the full wrath of that enormous red, white, but mostly blue wang.
Fucking Democrats with their "democracy." They're why we can't have nice things.
Fucking Democrats with their "democracy." They're why we can't have nice things.
I want to see the Michael Bay directed version of that.
I'm sure on your homeworld of Mars the Democrat's Trickie Dickblocking a Nixonian dictatorship, preventing launching genocidal total war against civilian populaces, and not advocating imprisoning millions of Muslim-Americans in internment camps might seem unreasonable and even treasonous, but here on modern day Earth, that kind of archaic warfare and authoritarian government goes by the technical term we in the know like to call "Batshit Crazy."
If that's the kind of thing you're going to advocate for on a regular basis, please take your BA degree in "Horrifying Things No One Should Ever Want" elsewhere. Otherwise you will continue to rack up more infractions for trolling. Comments to PM.
I know of, well,.... very few people who even slightly support the Japanese internment camps during WWII.
Democrats have their favorite dictators too, mostly foreigners like Hugo Chavez and Castro. I wasn't a fan of the Watchmen, it was obviously a left wing propaganda piece in comic book form.
FDR did, that is one person, Americans were more racist in those days and to them with the stories they heard about their behavior towards out troops and the natives they conquered, they seemed as monsters, and then someone tells them that those "monsters" live amongst them, it was hard to reconcile their brutal behavior with them being human, but I guess Asian standards are different from American ones, and acts that were incomprehensible to American GIs and their families were quite comprehensible in Asia, the continent where Genghis Khan was born.
Oh yeah, JFK and Castro were BFFs.
Sell crazy someplace else. We're all full up here.
Here's my favorite dictator:
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No but JFK's brother Teddy had a more cozy relationship with him. JFK was pre-New Democrat, be believed in patriotism and country, not in "ostrich politics" which is currently the fashion in left wing circles.
I wish Groucho was the only Marx there was, don't like that bearded German bastard or his associate Engles.
I know of no main-stream Democrats who support the likes of Castro, Chavez, or even going to extremes Stalin or other severe Communists. That's the difference between the Democrats and Republicans, we avoid our lunatic, fringe, crazies. Republicans embrace them. (See: The Tea Party.)
The timeline for the advent of these fictional New Democrats keeps getting moved up. Johnson escalated our involvement in Vietnam, so is it up to Carter now? Clinton?
That's a bold stance you've taken against Marx, by the way. I imagine in the bizarre alternate United States you live in you probably think that's unique and interesting.
That's a bold stance you've taken against Marx, by the way. I imagine in the bizarre alternate United States you live in you probably think that's unique and interesting.
I don't know anybody who is oblivious of the economic malaise of the Castro regime and a friend of it.
Chavez gave millions of citizens access to political participation. Sure, there are some authoritarian tendencies and he might even become second Castro but it is not like Venezuela was democratic before him. Let's also not forget that the guy has been democratically elected whereas the reactionary forces tried to illegally oust him from office ten years ago.
Sure, this is not stuff the average John De who merely consumes corporate American media which has a pretty severe bias when it comes to Chavez knows but reading or watching crap is no excuse. There is never an excuse for ignorance or having been fooled.
In general the history of the right in South America which has been intertwined with North American imperialism is one of authoritarianism, not one of democracy. You showed some posts ago that you belong to the same "fuck democracy as long as me and my buddies can do whatever the hell we want" school. On this side of the big pond we had a name for big business working together with the state: fascism.
One key problem in South America is the extreme form of land inequality. Joe Stiglitz has shown over 30 years ago (Incentives and Risk Sharing in Sharecropping) that land inequality can have a negative influence upon efficiency.
So the bit of land redistribution that some of the left governments in South America have achieved does not merely distribute the cake more equally but also makes it grow faster.
But whom am I talking to, if you call Marx who has been one of the most important thinkers of the late 19th century a bastard you merely reveal your right-wing anti-intellectualism. And no, reading Marx doesn't imply that you become a Marxist, it implies that you become educated, that you know what you actually speak about.
RiiiiightLying about the Democrats isn't helping you.
I have not seen anything that shows you understand either of those last two, and your strange hatred of Harpo, and Zeppo is quite baffling.
By the way, why is Nixon disliked so much? Sure, he was a crook but so were Kennedy and Johnson and it is not like he implemented such horrible politics. Not because he wanted them but because of public pressure but this is irrelevant IMO as I think that one should measure leaders always by their output and not by their words, ideas or their character.
Google something called Watergate.
I hope to God that you don't believe that and you're just playing us as fools with wild views. But I doubt it.
You know he didn't just say elect Nixon, right? He said we should have installed Nixon as a dictator so he could wage unlimited warfare on the Vietnamese (over and above the existing bombings campaigns). The objection was to the dictatorship and total warfare part more than to Nixon himself.
Wikipedia: Watergate.
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