American contradictions

[frigidweirdo]

Here are some of the contradictions.

The US loves Capitalism. It goes around the world spreading Capitalism.

It forced Bolivia to privatize its water industry. Foreign companies bought up the water industry, took all profits out of the country and left 1/4 of La Paz without clean water. Capitalism, it's great because America gets rich from it.

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

What a contradiction.

Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.

What a contradiction.

Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that

The MSL, like other American sports leagues, has no relegation or promotion.

Manchester City who are top of the Premier League in England, were, 20 years ago, in the third division. Things change, they do better, they struggle and finally they get to the top (with a lot of oil money to help them). Bradford City were once in the top division then went down to the bottom division (and you can go lower than that too).

But in the US, failure is REWARDED, and success is penalized. It's very weird and goes against the concept of capitalism. It's protectionism again. The rich don't want to have to fight fair, they want their money to come in easily. So the US sets it up for them to have an easy ride.

Just like multi-nationals get massive, MASSIVE tax breaks to make them super competitive and make smaller companies not competitive at all. It benefits the top 0.1% again.

Just like Georgia wants to take tax breaks away from companies who don't support their politics, they diss the NRA, they lose their tax breaks. What the fuck. Capitalism it is not.

The US is going away from Capitalism and more towards a Chinese style system. When Trump jokes about being like Xi, the joke has a massive bitter aftertaste because you know the US is headed that way.

 

[Anathema]

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

But totally in alignment wjth Nationalism and Patriotism, which supersede Capitalism. There is no need for foreign companies to even be allowed to do business in the USA.

[QUOTE="frigidweirdo, post: 19439496, member: 47831"Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.[/quote]

Most of us aren't pro-life. We're actually anti-abortion. Major difference.

[QUOTE="frigidweirdo, post: 19439496, member: 47831"Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that[/QUOTE]

American sports fans are very different than Europe and other areas. If the New England Revolution or Patriots, Boston Red Sox Celtics, or Bruins aren't in the "First Division" , nobody around here is paying the exorbitant prices they charge to see games. They'd be out of business within a handful of years
Just look at the early constant movement of AHL, AAA Baseball, Arena football league, and other "second division" teams in the USA. People are not going to pay $150 per seat to sit on the glass and watch the Boston Bruins play some AHL caliber team from Iowa. An open sports system means the Death of pro sports in the USA.

 

[PredFan]

Here are some of the contradictions.

The US loves Capitalism. It goes around the world spreading Capitalism.

It forced Bolivia to privatize its water industry. Foreign companies bought up the water industry, took all profits out of the country and left 1/4 of La Paz without clean water. Capitalism, it's great because America gets rich from it.

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

What a contradiction.

Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.

What a contradiction.

Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that

The MSL, like other American sports leagues, has no relegation or promotion.

Manchester City who are top of the Premier League in England, were, 20 years ago, in the third division. Things change, they do better, they struggle and finally they get to the top (with a lot of oil money to help them). Bradford City were once in the top division then went down to the bottom division (and you can go lower than that too).

But in the US, failure is REWARDED, and success is penalized. It's very weird and goes against the concept of capitalism. It's protectionism again. The rich don't want to have to fight fair, they want their money to come in easily. So the US sets it up for them to have an easy ride.

Just like multi-nationals get massive, MASSIVE tax breaks to make them super competitive and make smaller companies not competitive at all. It benefits the top 0.1% again.

Just like Georgia wants to take tax breaks away from companies who don't support their politics, they diss the NRA, they lose their tax breaks. What the fuck. Capitalism it is not.

The US is going away from Capitalism and more towards a Chinese style system. When Trump jokes about being like Xi, the joke has a massive bitter aftertaste because you know the US is headed that way.

What? Politicians say one thing and then do another? Imagine that? Like the left wing politicians who claim they are for blacks and minorities but have kept them in poverty for decades, or the left that claims they are for women but only democrat women, don’t pay women who work for them the same, and hide sex offenders and rapists, or the democrats who claim to be for the LGBT crowd but support a religion that persecutes and kills gay people, oh and the same religion that treats women like 2nd class citizens forcing them to wear clothes that cover them up?

Yeah politicians are hypocrites, that isn’t new, dumbass.

 

[MisterBeale]

Here are some of the contradictions.

The US loves Capitalism. It goes around the world spreading Capitalism.

It forced Bolivia to privatize its water industry. Foreign companies bought up the water industry, took all profits out of the country and left 1/4 of La Paz without clean water. Capitalism, it's great because America gets rich from it.

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

What a contradiction.

Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.

What a contradiction.

Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that

The MSL, like other American sports leagues, has no relegation or promotion.

Manchester City who are top of the Premier League in England, were, 20 years ago, in the third division. Things change, they do better, they struggle and finally they get to the top (with a lot of oil money to help them). Bradford City were once in the top division then went down to the bottom division (and you can go lower than that too).

But in the US, failure is REWARDED, and success is penalized. It's very weird and goes against the concept of capitalism. It's protectionism again. The rich don't want to have to fight fair, they want their money to come in easily. So the US sets it up for them to have an easy ride.

Just like multi-nationals get massive, MASSIVE tax breaks to make them super competitive and make smaller companies not competitive at all. It benefits the top 0.1% again.

Just like Georgia wants to take tax breaks away from companies who don't support their politics, they diss the NRA, they lose their tax breaks. What the fuck. Capitalism it is not.

The US is going away from Capitalism and more towards a Chinese style system. When Trump jokes about being like Xi, the joke has a massive bitter aftertaste because you know the US is headed that way.

Folks that really understand the free market understand that our government is in bed with huge corporations.

If you take away the "trappings," the political decorations of fascism, and get right down to the political definition of what fascism is, Government favoring and prioritizing some businesses over others, it started with the Federal Reserve, and became institutionalized with FDR during WWII.

It's a disgraceful corrupted mess that IKE warned us about. The corporations now have more power than the voters do.

Hitler would be jealous of our fascism. (In the economic sense, as both parties are guilty of it.)

We must strive to free the market in this nation first, and then in the world. Leave the social programs and social engineering to the local communities, volunteer organizations and to the states if that is the will of the people.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Here are some of the contradictions.

The US loves Capitalism. It goes around the world spreading Capitalism.

It forced Bolivia to privatize its water industry. Foreign companies bought up the water industry, took all profits out of the country and left 1/4 of La Paz without clean water. Capitalism, it's great because America gets rich from it.

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

What a contradiction.

Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.

What a contradiction.

Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that

The MSL, like other American sports leagues, has no relegation or promotion.

Manchester City who are top of the Premier League in England, were, 20 years ago, in the third division. Things change, they do better, they struggle and finally they get to the top (with a lot of oil money to help them). Bradford City were once in the top division then went down to the bottom division (and you can go lower than that too).

But in the US, failure is REWARDED, and success is penalized. It's very weird and goes against the concept of capitalism. It's protectionism again. The rich don't want to have to fight fair, they want their money to come in easily. So the US sets it up for them to have an easy ride.

Just like multi-nationals get massive, MASSIVE tax breaks to make them super competitive and make smaller companies not competitive at all. It benefits the top 0.1% again.

Just like Georgia wants to take tax breaks away from companies who don't support their politics, they diss the NRA, they lose their tax breaks. What the fuck. Capitalism it is not.

The US is going away from Capitalism and more towards a Chinese style system. When Trump jokes about being like Xi, the joke has a massive bitter aftertaste because you know the US is headed that way.

And who for the last 8 years before Donald Trump got in office was the president of the US? Yeah, he sure loved capitalism didn't he? You are a stupid hypocrite.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Steel tariffs so the US doesn't have to try and compete with other countries. Completely against Capitalism.

But totally in alignment wjth Nationalism and Patriotism, which supersede Capitalism. There is no need for foreign companies to even be allowed to do business in the USA.

[QUOTE="frigidweirdo, post: 19439496, member: 47831"Pro-lifers who support wars and executions.

Most of us aren't pro-life. We're actually anti-abortion. Major difference.

[QUOTE="frigidweirdo, post: 19439496, member: 47831"Well here's one that is similar to the first one. NFL, NBA, MSL

MLS stands alone as a closed shop in the world of football. Meet the two men trying to change that[/QUOTE]

American sports fans are very different than Europe and other areas. If the New England Revolution or Patriots, Boston Red Sox Celtics, or Bruins aren't in the "First Division" , nobody around here is paying the exorbitant prices they charge to see games. They'd be out of business within a handful of years
Just look at the early constant movement of AHL, AAA Baseball, Arena football league, and other "second division" teams in the USA. People are not going to pay $150 per seat to sit on the glass and watch the Boston Bruins play some AHL caliber team from Iowa. An open sports system means the Death of pro sports in the USA.[/QUOTE]

But if they do, then state that fact, instead of going around the world telling everyone to get with the capitalism program.

So, you agree it's a contradiction?

 

[Anathema]

But if they do, then state that fact, instead of going around the world telling everyone to get with the capitalism program.

So, you agree it's a contradiction?

I agree that the USA should not have any contact with the rest of the world that doesn't involve military hardware. This shoild be a closed society.

 

[frigidweirdo]

But if they do, then state that fact, instead of going around the world telling everyone to get with the capitalism program.

So, you agree it's a contradiction?

I agree that the USA should not have any contact with the rest of the world that doesn't involve military hardware. This shoild be a closed society.

Yes, well, we know your views are rather "special".

So I guess you hate America then, seeing as it goes completely against what you want.

 

[Anathema]

So I guess you hate America then, seeing as it goes completely against what you want.

I hate the America of today. I have great respect and deference for what I believe This nation was and was intended to be prior to 1861.

 

[McFury]

Capitalism is not the best way of government or of how to run an economy.
But It's the only system that works.
The Chinese system will collapse just like the old communist regime of the USSR.
By mixing capitalism with a communist ideology, China will end up a welfare country and bigger shit-hole than it already is.
Capitalism works just don't bring socialism onto it.
That's when we dig ourselves a shit-hole .

 

[frigidweirdo]

So I guess you hate America then, seeing as it goes completely against what you want.

I hate the America of today. I have great respect and deference for what I believe This nation was and was intended to be prior to 1861.

You're that old?

 

[basquebromance]

"Trump is Hitler or a facist....give him all your guns."

"We don't need guns, we have law enforcement...I can't believe law enforcement keeps missing all these warnings/red flags. Oh, and cops are racists."

Same people.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Capitalism is not the best way of government or of how to run an economy.
But It's the only system that works.
The Chinese system will collapse just like the old communist regime of the USSR.
By mixing capitalism with a communist ideology, China will end up a welfare country and bigger shit-hole than it already is.
Capitalism works just don't bring socialism onto it.
That's when we dig ourselves a shit-hole .

I'm not sure about China. It could go a lot of ways. Certainly what Xi is doing, destroying the collective running of the country, is something that could destroy China.

 

[basquebromance]

folks turn from conservative to liberal just because they hate Trump!

 

[Anathema]

You're that old?

My family is. We go back to before there was a United States of America. Back to places like the Massachusetts Bay Colony and groups like Sons of Liberty. We pass our history and values down in this family, from generation to generation, even when they don't agree with the versions taught in public schools.

 

[Anathema]

folks turn from conservative to liberal just because they hate Trump!

Interesting since Trump isn't actually a Conserative to begin with.

 

[Jarlaxle]

But if they do, then state that fact, instead of going around the world telling everyone to get with the capitalism program.

So, you agree it's a contradiction?

I agree that the USA should not have any contact with the rest of the world that doesn't involve military hardware. This shoild be a closed society.

As you drive your Mexican-built car to work...

 

[Anathema]

As you drive your Mexican-built car to work...

Nope. Replaced the HHR last May.

 

[Jarlaxle]

As you drive your Mexican-built car to work...

Nope. Replaced the HHR last May.

Damn, I forgot. What now...Toyota Highlander?

 

[Anathema]

Damn, I forgot. What now...Toyota Highlander?

Nope. You know better than thst.

2017 Ford Escape Titanium manufactured in Louisville, KY.