Ghost of a Rider
Gold Member
I’m not letting anyone get one over on me as long as I have the means to prevent it or do something about it. The difference between you and me is that I don’t think prima facie that every successful or rich person is going to try.
The whole system is set up to allow them to do that. Some poor lady gets 5 years for lying about her address to get her daughter out of a public school where people are shooting each other, some rich bitch in Hollywood gets 11 Days at Club Fed for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get her slacker kids into Stanford.
What does any of that have to do with capitalism?
Um, yeah. You’re quoting someone that was largely responsible for creating what eventually became a failed state.
The USSR failed because it was an Empire, not because of any economic system. But off topic.
I didn’t say anything about their economic system, I just said it was a failed state.
But even so, everyone knows their economy collapsed. It collapsed because of their own incompetence and their blind obsession with trying to keep up with the U.S. which resulted in negligence and massive oversights.
Gorbachev himself said that probably the one main factor that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union was the Chernobyl accident.
That accident was a culmination of years of looking the other way when problems arose and the abject fear of questioning authority they engendered in the population.
Your breast-beating righteous indignation at rich people rings hollow when juxtaposed with your willful ignorance of the facts and your malicious slandering of a minor who did nothing more than smile.
Again, we know Smirky is your man-crush, but off topic. He was a little Cathoic Douchebag and everyone saw it.
Yeah, okay. You hate a teenager for being white, Catholic and pro-life. If that means I have a man-crush, so be it. It also means you’re a prejudiced prick with violent tendencies.
Translation - I had some bad experiences with rich people so that means they’re all bad.
I know as well as anyone that some rich people do awful things. I’m just not so short sighted as to think all of them do.
When someone fucks me over, I USUALLY don't give them a second chance.
Bully for you. I don’t know how that follows from what I said but, kudos, man.
Why do you have a problem with the idea of undocumented immigrants paying taxes?
1) They do. They are paying taxes on their income,
The fuck they are. Even if some are, by no means are all or most of them paying taxes.
they are paying taxes on the goods and services they buy.
2) Again, your racism is hilarious,
Who said anything about race?
you are a perfect tool for the One Percent. They get you mad at someone who is worse off than you are.
Worse off? They’re well enough off to send billions of dollars a year to their home countries. Don’t give me that shit.