tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post4215809432852424157..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: Abolishing Freedom for the 99%Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-81133778667137994172012-03-07T11:39:44.079-06:002012-03-07T11:39:44.079-06:00This is your thugocrat speaking. Hand over your m...This is your thugocrat speaking. Hand over your money.<br /><br />Chop chopThugocratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-78250161470553369222012-03-06T08:31:42.080-06:002012-03-06T08:31:42.080-06:00Mushroom said "I don't want to make it so...Mushroom said "I don't want to make it sound like a conspiracy."<br /><br />Yep. No conspiracy need apply, it's simply how false ideas must work out in practice, rewarding power (with a living death) and punishing virtue.<br /><br />Way it is.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-67661598171019525732012-03-06T08:28:06.891-06:002012-03-06T08:28:06.891-06:00globspit spat "You've worked and struggle...globspit spat "You've worked and struggled all of your life..."<br /><br />Struggled? <i>Struggled?!</i> Going to work is not a <i>struggle</i>, putting one foot in front of the other is not a <i>struggle</i>, and making an effort to improve yourself, while not easy, is in no way a <i>struggle</i>.<br /><br />Moving to a fronteir populated with no one but savages who'd like nothing better than to take your scalp, building a 'house' out of sod cut from the ground, battling the elements to build a farm out of nothing, in the middle of nowhere, with no technology or means of communication or a doctor within a hundred miles... <i>that's a struggle</i>.<br /><br />The idea that making calls and knocking on doors to get a job to work in any modern workplace, or picking up a book and wrapping your head around new ideas in order to raise your income, the idea that that is in any serious way a <i>struggle</i>, is <i>pathetic.</i>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-54804300354470522652012-03-06T07:53:16.431-06:002012-03-06T07:53:16.431-06:00There won't really be mob-rule for very long. ...There won't really be mob-rule for very long. There never is. Like Obama, people like Slim, Buffett, and Soros are "hindered" by the Constitutional Republican form of government. <br /><br />In Argentina, before the economic collapse in 2001, there was a reasonable amount of mobility between classes, with a sizable middle class. After the collapse, they ended up with a very large group in poverty. The middle and working classes were drastically reduced. But, strangely enough, the elites stayed about the same, though upward mobility ceased. The only movement was down from middle class to poor. <br /><br />If you had it, you kept it. If you didn't, you lost what you had. Almost biblical.<br /><br />The powerful who back socialism understand that you need somebody to run the system, and they know it is going to be them, for the most part. Any centrally planned economic system naturally tends toward economic fascism. <br /><br />I don't want to make it sound like a conspiracy. You just end up with a sort of ad hoc aristocracy of people who live in the right places and know the right people and go to the right schools. <br /><br />When you couple that with the desire and the power to "fix" things then add in the increasing intrusiveness of a burgeoning police state -- well, I don't even have to say word. <br /><br />Old Joe Kennedy saw the way things were headed under Roosevelt, which is why he pushed the boys into politics rather than business.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-45309153274667293112012-03-05T17:01:29.840-06:002012-03-05T17:01:29.840-06:00You've worked and struggled all of your life, ...You've worked and struggled all of your life, which is fine for those who like that sort of thing. It is very inspiring and I'm certain you deserve all you have recieved from your hard work. You have what it takes.<br /><br />I would rather be supplied with what I need without all the foo-fooraw. It's just so complicated to figure out how to make a buck; some of us just can't muster it. People like me want people like you to understand; we aren't lazy or foolish. We just don't have "it", which is drive or vision. We need to be taken care of; there's no way we can make it without help and lots of it.<br /><br />So, there it is. This is why we need communism. Otherwise people like me, and there are many, suffer from want. No cars, no cell phones, seldom any new clothes, and meals out only once a week or so. No good.<br /><br />One thing I am good at is brawling and so ironically your comment at the end touches on the only ability I actually possess. Which pays nothing.<br /><br />So. There you have it. I need Government cheese.Gobsmacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-89561853689065965822012-03-05T14:17:11.948-06:002012-03-05T14:17:11.948-06:00globspat said "...I like the pugnacious spiri...globspat said "...I like the pugnacious spirit of it. The word "scum" is always a good sign."<br /><br />Seeing as how aninnymouse swiped the word "scum" from me, I accept your compliment.<br /><br />"if you like capitalists so much, why don't you work for some fat-cat for minimum wage and see how you likey?"<br /><br />Lessee... I'm guessing you were either raised on the govt tit, or that of your parents... either way it's likely you never worked a day in your life? I've worked for minimum wage... which unfortunately the govt was forcing that business, Ahern Rental Center, Las Vegas, Nv, to pay me. Had they been able to hire youts like me for a wage that made sense to them for the work I was likely (or unlikely) to be able to produce (I know it's a tough concept for aninnies such as yourself to grasp, but you aren't paid because you are a swell fellow, but because you can perform or produce something which makes paying you for it, worthwhile to do), I probably would have had more co-workers and not had to do so much of the work myself, but that's just another one of those unintended consequences (aka: 'Common Sense' to those of the non leftist persuasion) that outbreaks of leftist madness commonly produce.<br /><br />Little by little over the years I gained other skills, and general practical sense, that made it possible to demand, and be paid, more from other employers - Checker Auto, Cardinal Tool & Die, etc. At that point I went to see what sense and value the university system could offer me, quickly discovered that the answer to that was zero, and left it to join a band for a decade.<br /><br />Because it was the 1980's, and it was the Rock scene, we were able to fly under the radar of the various Thugocratic Musician unions, and perform, or get fired (happened a couple times), as the venue owners decided. I have panhandled for food, performed for room and board, etc.<br /><br />Eventually after quitting the band life, getting married and getting a life, and drudging through some other low paying jobs which thankfully some Fat Cat Corporations thought I could handle for them, I moved on to some better paying sales jobs. Eventually, after spending every moment of my spare time hitting the books (including standing in line at theaters), I learned enough about computers and programming to produce work that was significantly more valuable to other Fat Cat Corporations, and produce enough for them for me to earn enough to have a nice house for my family, a few cars, and a library full of books. <br /><br />Amazingly, I'm still able to do that... however much the govt has tripped up the economy, there are still some jobs available.<br /><br />"The fat cat takes, the Government hands out."<br /><br />I'm sure from the point of view of a thugocrat who has no deeper economic understanding than that of the typical holdup man, that must be how it appears, however, sorry, I can't be bothered to worry all that much about your self imposed idiocy.<br /><br />Unless of course you'd care to attempt to practice what you preach in my vicinity... then we might be able to have a nice demonstration of how the right to self defense can trump another person's right to life.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-76836725713436900812012-03-05T11:55:44.585-06:002012-03-05T11:55:44.585-06:00I didn't quite catch what Anon was saying, but...I didn't quite catch what Anon was saying, but I like the pugnacious spirit of it. The word "scum" is always a good sign.<br /><br />So Van, if you like capitalists so much, why don't you work for some fat-cat for minimum wage and see how you likey?<br /><br />Or, instead, get some Government cheese and other freebies and eat well for cheap.<br /><br />That's the difference between capitalism and communism. The fat cat takes, the Government hands out. <br /><br />It all depends on what side of the fence your on.Gobsmacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-72258932192899991482012-03-05T11:08:16.490-06:002012-03-05T11:08:16.490-06:00Dear aninnymouse:
I, Van, am the one reading your...Dear aninnymouse:<br /><br />I, Van, am the one reading your cowardly anonymous comment, and I am happy to be called scum by someone defending those who wish to strip away the Individual Rights of everyone living in our Republic, in order to impose their Mobocracy upon us all.<br /><br />As the she-scum said in the opening of the video "We could make more representation I think, but democracy and capitalism don't work together."<br /><br />What she means by that, and what you are defending, is the idea that 'Representation', meaning that individual citizens having inherent and Natural Rights, who live under a representative government and the rule of law, are fully compatible with, and capable of, working in freedom and liberty with the Free Market; and the reason why, is because the Property Rights of all are protected under law.<br /><br />Democracy, on the other hand, which starts and ends its concerns only for the collective 'good', as voiced by its leaders, demogogues, who are concerned only with fanning the passions of the mob in order to swing majority opinion in their favor - IOW Power - can impose whatever they want, upon whoever they want, under whatever pretext serves their purpose, sacrificing whatever victim - the rich, etc - it selects in order to serve their purpose.<br /><br />The distinction between that and Stalinism or Fascism, is a distinction without a difference worth noting.<br /><br />If that is who you choose to stand with, I'm proud to be thought of as scum by the likes of you. As Sam Adams said of a far more respectible group of scum than yourself: "may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-48587807126051404512012-03-05T10:04:18.186-06:002012-03-05T10:04:18.186-06:00I don't care whether I'm unsung or sung, a...I don't care whether I'm unsung or sung, and don't expect to be posted. But someone will be reading this before it's deleted, and to that ignorant individual, YOU are the scum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com