LurchAddams
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Not even in the top 10. But please - "keep fucking that chicken"!
AOC welcomes socialist Mamdani to nation's capital as Dem leaders withhold endorsements
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LurchAddams
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"US policymakers may wish to consider policies that would reduce rates of firearm ownership, given that that about 26% of US suicide fatalities might be averted if the US had the same suicide rates as in Canada, a country with drastically lower firearm ownership rates."
Looks like the only reason the US is even close to Canada in suicides is due to their strict gun laws. The U.S. should take a look at that!
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LurchAddams
There Can be Only One!
Check this out:
Canada back in '21 had highter suice rates per 100k people v. the US, except for 65 and higher. What's killing Canada's young men? That sucks!
Also: It looks like I'm in the high suicide age-group in the US. Poor @Matt Dillon and @Uncensored2008 are excitedly rubbing their hands together over that, I'm sure
Canada back in '21 had highter suice rates per 100k people v. the US, except for 65 and higher. What's killing Canada's young men? That sucks!
Also: It looks like I'm in the high suicide age-group in the US. Poor @Matt Dillon and @Uncensored2008 are excitedly rubbing their hands together over that, I'm sure
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Answer question #1...or are you going to duck it like almost every American conservative does?
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
You mean this one:
I did. I stated that's far more likely to occur in a highly socialized nation than in on with free market capitalism. It is the constrictions on capitalism, as you put it, that would cause the concentration of wealth at the top. Sure, socialists claim the opposite, but in practice it's not true. Socialist economies concentrate wealth in the hands of a few and block entry into the market by anyone else. The government owns everything, and a relative handful of government leaders make all the decisions and can keep the wealth generated.
While a completely free market is undesirable, one with the least restrictions on entry work best. Heavy handed government regulation, unions, and allowing monopolies all work to concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer people because the cost of entry into the market is too high for most people to afford.
If you want to get more people sharing the wealth, reduce socialism, reduce government interference in the market, eliminate mandatory unions, and disallow monopolies.
As for some number to your question, I really don't care what the top 1% or 10% are making because in a healthy economy the amount of wealth available isn't fixed. The pot can grow and the more it's allowed to the more likely even those who aren't at the top will benefit.
Bullshit.
In any case, you did dodge the question. You still have not named the disparity that would finally wake you up to the fact that something has to be done to stop what is going on. People like Musk and Trump want to be trillionaires. We could easily get to the point where a relatively tiny number of individuals could own the vast majority of the nation's wealth...AND YOU AND YOUR ILK STILL WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT.
How about the wealthiest 100 people owning 99% of the nation's wealth? Wouldn't that finally wake you up?
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
I don't give a flying fuck about the disparity. Here's another way to put my version:
If everyone in the US were a millionaire and 98% of the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the top 10% would that be bad?
If everyone in America had adequate...I would not give a shit about the kinds of concentration of wealth at all. No need for everyone to be a millionaire. Fine with me if they were all thousandaires or hundredaires...as long as EVERYONE has adequate. (Adequate being defined as sufficient food, clothing, medical care, shelter, educational opportunities, communication and transportation adequacy, and a modicum of entertainment.)
But the goal of everyone having adequate is essential.
However, since under Capitalism...our economy is a zero sum game being played...that does not seem possible.
If we strove for that...it would be something borrowed from socialism.
I would join you, happily, in saying "fuck it" to whatever disparity exists after that.
Tobytone
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I agree, he’ll boost Republicans in the midterms and 2028, but he’s a glaring warning sign.AOC welcomes socialist Mamdani to nation's capital as Dem leaders withhold endorsements
The political earthquake that shook the Democratic Party when Zohran Mamdani won New York City's primary last month has rattled its way down to Washington, D.C., as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., hosts a "Communication and Organizing Skillshare Breakfast" on Wednesday morning.
Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive champion and youngest woman elected to Congress, was an early endorser of Mamdani, the 33-year-old so-called democratic socialist who has yet to land key endorsements from New York Democratic leaders.
The Bronx and Queens representative campaigned with Mamdani in New York City ahead of his primary win last month, and on Wednesday, the "Squad" member is welcoming Mamdani to the nation's capital.
According to a flier obtained by The Washington Post, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani are hosting breakfast at 8 a.m. on Wednesday at the National Democratic Club. While the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is located right next door to where Wednesday's breakfast is being held, the DNC did not organize the event. ...
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I think Mandani will be a disaster for the Democrats so I will be happy to step back and watch them implodeI'm not surprised the little Socialist AOC Supports the little Communist Mandani.
Democrats have been planting seeds for years, now they're sprouting like toxic weeds, peddling communism under whatever label they slap on it. Biden's economy set it up, and the message sounds great to Gen Z and Millenials that can't afford shit anymore, meanwhile the schools and the universities have been turning students into weak little complainers that expect everything for nothing, while they chant enemy slogans that there communist professors encourage them too, along with a little Soros cash to sweeten the deal. Unfortunately, I don't think this will be a one and done, the libtards have been, still are, and always will be hellbent on destroying America once and for all and they're good at incrementalism, as they've demonstrated through the decades.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
The US poverty level income is $15,000 and change for an individual and $32,000 for a family of four. The average global income per year is $9,700 per person and $12,200 per family (I rounded all those for ease).
By world standards, even poor people in the US are pretty well off and gets sufficient 'stuff.'
No economy is truly a "zero sum game." The size of the pie varies and the total amount of wealth in a nation or the world isn't fixed.
How Americans compare with the global middle class
On a global scale, the vast majority of Americans are either upper-middle income or high income. And many Americans who are classified as “poor” by the U.S. government would be middle income globally.
www.pewresearch.org
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations
The US is so economically exceptional that the poorest 20 percent of Americans are richer than many of the world’s most affluent nations.
fee.org
By Global Standards There Are No American Poor; All In The US Are Middle Class Or Better
A fascinating little paper from the Brookings Institution looking at different ways of measuring poverty and then using these different methods to compare US to the accepted global standards used to describe poverty. The end result of all of this is that if we measure poverty in the US the [...]
www.forbes.com
By global standards, maybe 5% of Americans are really hurting. The other 95% have it pretty good. Now, if you are only comparing Americans to Americans, that's pretty bigoted and elitist of you.
Horse shit.
There are people in the US who are working three jobs...and living in conditions you would not leave a pet pig.
You and your ilk just cannot understand this...or, more likely, just do not give a shit.
You should be ashamed of yourself, but you apparently do not have the ethical wherewithal for that.
An economy under capitalism IS a zero sum game...mostly because the haves want it to be that way.
The nonsense that we are not in a zero sum situation is just bullshit the American right uses in an attempt to ameliorate its repulsiveness.
You would not understand. The Kool Aid sees to that.How Americans compare with the global middle class
On a global scale, the vast majority of Americans are either upper-middle income or high income. And many Americans who are classified as “poor” by the U.S. government would be middle income globally.
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations
The US is so economically exceptional that the poorest 20 percent of Americans are richer than many of the world’s most affluent nations.
By Global Standards There Are No American Poor; All In The US Are Middle Class Or Better
A fascinating little paper from the Brookings Institution looking at different ways of measuring poverty and then using these different methods to compare US to the accepted global standards used to describe poverty. The end result of all of this is that if we measure poverty in the US the [...]
By global standards, maybe 5% of Americans are really hurting. The other 95% have it pretty good. Now, if you are only comparing Americans to Americans, that's pretty bigoted and elitist of you.
Fuck you...all of you.
Libhater
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A job? He says he's living off his parents.
Guno צְבִי
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Diesel
Well-known member
He's a member of the New York State Assembly.
LurchAddams
There Can be Only One!
Yeah, he does do that!
Tobytone
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This is what a brain dead libtard moron wrote. It's the best debate point I've seen from a libtard on this site. It shows the depth of their arguments perfectly, lol. Dumbass.
anonymoose
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