Forum Post: Pay your fair share, ya little brats! LOLOL
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 6, 2012, 7:16 p.m. EST by clamor
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8aFDosQBQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or8TA6IPE-M
There is a huge difference between crimes against humanity and candy. That's like saying the mofia works hard for their protection racket. What twisted information.
Wait i suppose the guy is talking about the rich paying more taxes than normal. I think it'd be nice if they just payed taxes like normal.
That would be sort of neat though if it discouraged people from getting rich, since getting rich is always a matter of abusing something.
I played a video game like that once. The more powerful you made your character, the more you would loose when you died. A mid level character was still powerful enough to do anything, so the result worked pretty well to make the middle class the best place to have fun.
Of course, I shouldn't be happy for other people's success and want to take it from them! They can't be happy! No one can be sad either!! we all have to have the same things and be like emotionless robot clones!!!
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We should cancel Halloween; we're teaching them to be anti-communist little capitalists. Could it be they're just doing what comes naturally?
Acting like a bunch of self-centered munchkins that are waiting for that piece of the brain to develop that deals with time and consequences? Perhaps.
I did it myself; Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. And I really hate hypocrites.
You know there is another lesson they learn here too - amongst siblings the candy is collected, therefore distributed, equally, yet there is always that one that eats it all immediately and the begs for a greater share - it's just human nature; redistribution cannot work. And people will never achieve a complete equity even when that equality is handed to them in a paper bag.
We have always had a mixed economy. It isn't a new concept. No big surprise. No gotcha!
haha... that's funny. The Puritans themselves were socialists - all societies are. Although their experiment with communism did not go so well.
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The Puritans were NOT socialists.
Yea, they were, in the sense that they provided for the infirm, disabled, and elderly. And shared the commons. No society can exist without some level of socialism.
You missed that whole Winthrop thang. They would deny membership and, yet, expect those outcasts pay to support them.
And you have focused too much on Winthrop. There was far more to Puritanism than this one twenty year era of MA Bay. True there were alcoholics, loiterers, and derelicts who were warned out, forcibly relocated, and even transported but the citizens themselves were all church members whether possessed of the Covenant or not. And the citizens in need were cared for. They were very much socialist.
Oligarch. K?
Huh? Have you read those transcripts? Under the circumstances, given his level of responsibility, Winthrop was right. Had the people felt he was overbearing he would not have been reelected thirteen times. Oligarch, no... if anything he was more along the lines of a slick willy, openly spreading the love.
It was an oligarchy.
That's not true at all; this was a world where community members over time could acquire the status to assume their own place in the polity. And it did not require wealth to achieve that; it required character. I know because my own ancestors did it. But we certainly have an oligarchy now. And from where I sit it's all rather despicable.
haha... you need to understand, in part, that in those days men really were men. And none of these silly words had even been invented yet; this was a survival of the fittest environment, and some survived.
oligarchy
1570s, from M.Fr. oligarchie (14c.), from Gk. oligarkhia "government by the few," from oligoi "few, small, little" (of unknown origin) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
How do you know if the men were really men? WTF is a real man?
They were people who survived in extremely harsh conditions; politics is what men do when they are associating for survival - it's about friends and allies. The power was definitely not in the hands of the few - all attended town meetings, all voted, even the commons was entirely decided by the people and not the ruling polity. You're history is a little twisted.
It was an oligarchy.
haha... you need to understand, in part, that in those days men really were men. And none of these silly words had even been invented yet; this was a survival of the fittest environment, and some survived.
You are still waiting for that piece of the brain to develop?
Surely not.
Yea, I support munchkinism and munchies, definitely. 110%, no doubt about it: Kids rule! This video is so funny. I can remember my own father trying to redistribute - he did it intentionally - he defined communism with one little lesson and immediately taught us to fight for what is ours. Parents were smarter in those days.
What an idiot, or thinks we are.