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by jahaja 6y ago
Right-wing parties abolishing wealth taxes is not the same as "Sweden realized". It's fascinating how often I hear these kind of arguments. It's as if there have never been right-wing parties in power in Sweden that have
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> Like I said, the Scandinavian countries attained the highest standard of living ranking in the 1960s, when they were still very free market oriented and had moderate tax rates, and had just had a century of the best economic growth rat
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What a waste of time.
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> how are you going to convince or force people to build these houses that you (Supreme Decider of America) In Sweden we had a government agency that both identified the need (not rocket science) and government building corporations that
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You are very careful about which parts of each message you like to answer aren't you? I haven't argued that healthcare resources aren't finite. But what kind of pointless argument is that? "Housing is finite", &quot
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> Not every person under a universal healthcare system gets the treatment they want when they want it. Are you disputing that? It's an irrelevant distraction. What's important is not to deprive people of care to such an extent
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Sorry, but if you ignore existing facts and reality around the western world just too parrot some libertarian free market bullshit you're clearly far too deep into dogma.
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> This sentiment is at the core of America. It's not a secret at all. It's not a secret no, but it's certainly not part of the propaganda. > Pure democracy is necessarily predicated on a rejection of human rights. Why i
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> This is a bad thing. It's refreshing to see that this anti-democratic sentiment is said so bluntly, usually it's covered up in weasel words. > And yes it's always democratic in the beginning Please let me know which o
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Sigh. 99% of socialist want to expand democracy, not establish another dictatorship. Yet, people like yourself dogmatically focus on that other 1% that are authoritarian and paint every socialist as such. 71k people die every year in the US
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You're clearly ignorant of left-wing theory. You actually think that the huge sympathy that socialism had and still have is based on people not understanding that it's actually slavery? A no compensation society? Come on.
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"Philip Alston, the former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, upon the release of his final report, which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council tomorrow by his successor, Olivier De Schutter." An
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Of course it is. Assuming that the only other option to Capitalism is slavery is dogma.
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> he United States is full to the brim of people who claim the title and act remarkably unlike Jesus Christ Yeah, indeed. Even though I see myself as both a socialist and atheist I have absolutely zero problem with religious people or re
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> By "indirectly coerced" you mean that they need food and shelter Yes, and more. > and they don't have slaves to grow their food and build their house for them? Is this the level you sink to as soon as Capitalist dogma
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> but it's unwise to trust people who consistently advise one behavior but do another themselves. Well, clergymen haven't been strangers to that kind of inconsistency throughout history. Luckily it's been relegated to goss
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> But these are voluntary structures? They're not. No free person would voluntary accept all kinds of shit jobs that's out there unless indirectly coerced.
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> VP and CTO are actual titles that confer authority. Those are considered illegitimate since they are undemocratic. A top-down vanguard too. > but what would he say about parent-child relationships? The same competence argument appli
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There seem to be some mixing of hierarchies and authority here, but even anarchists aren't as dogmatically opposed to all kinds of authority that you seem to imply? "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought.
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Because his "religious points"-score is unrelated to his universal message and the moral panic of it is thoroughly outdated.
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I quoted the poster, not Sowell.
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> it's also entirely inconsistent with natural law You're equating your subjective ideas with natural law? Seem a bit over-confident to say the least. > There are righteous forms of hierarchy Yes, a parent towards a their ch
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Having "affairs" doesn't make someone a creep, and certainly doesn't deserve even the slightest mention when assessing the man.
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I'm aware of that, just wanted the poster to explain himself.
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He was?
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MLK was non-conformist. Aligning oneself with the hegemonic theories of the wealthy and powerful however, is not.
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Not sure what you mean by that.
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So for a for-profit corporation to produce a vaccine it needs to be completely risk free? This is not the first time market forces are suspended as soon as something needs to be reliably done.
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> That's true for an awful lot of people. Even if their purpose is simply to take care of their families. And for an awful lot of people it's not. It will also be significant portion that finds purpose due to no other options a
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This is very narrow minded. Firstly, you imply that people find purpose in their jobs. Secondly, you seem to ignore that this purpose can come from other aspects in life than wage labour? It blows my mind that people that are so prone to sp

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