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Originally posted by jazkiljok
the Hollywood annual self adminstered BJ otherwise known as the Oscars
They do it for the exact same reasons that dogs lick themselves...
...because they can.
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Originally posted by jazkiljok
the Hollywood annual self adminstered BJ otherwise known as the Oscars
Originally posted by Cliarlaoch
Actually, he's not a Leninist or a racist.
Originally posted by GouRonin
The Pope also said making love outside of marriage is now ok as long as it's with someone you love.
I guess I can jerk off to my heart's content now and not be worried I'm going to hell.
Originally posted by Don Roley
Does one have to be a racist to be a facist? Because he seems to fit everything else in that description.
A few years ago, just after he had finished writing "Downsize This!" I caught an interview with him on American television. I normally watch Jerry Springer on my trips back to the US to reming me why I want to stay in Japan, but in this case- he really fit the bill.
In this program, he reminded the audience that factory owners only had one vote, and that everyone else in the community had one vote each. He then proposed that the community pass laws saying tha factory owners could not downsize their work force while they were showing profit- which got a round of applause from the good volk attending the meeting.
This seems to fit the meaning of fascism as I understand it. They allow the fiction of private ownership as long as the owners of the means of production follow the micromanagement of the goverment. In the case of a democracy, this means that as long as a majority approve it, then the person who has responsibility for a factory can not run it as he pleases.
So as I see it, Mike Moore is a fascist.
Any disagreement?
Originally posted by Cliarlaoch
Sounds more like leftist social democracy to me, man. Or Keynesianism, if you prefer, where you maintain jobs in order to make sure that people have money to BUY YOUR STUFF.
Originally posted by Don Roley
This seems to fit the meaning of fascism as I understand it. They allow the fiction of private ownership as long as the owners of the means of production follow the micromanagement of the goverment. In the case of a democracy, this means that as long as a majority approve it, then the person who has responsibility for a factory can not run it as he pleases.
So as I see it, Mike Moore is a fascist.
Any disagreement?
Originally posted by brianhunter
Thats the problem with democracy, our country is supposed to be a republic, Democracy at its finest is ruled by the angry masses, at its worse utter chaos. (cant remember who said that).
If you think its not a republic say your pledge...with or without God, it still says "and to the republic".
On a serious note, however, Machiavelli once wrote that the greatest strenght of Rome was its conflict between the Senators, the Patricians (the elites/nobles of Rome), and the Plebians (the commoners). This was because they would each fight to advance their own goals; the Senators fought for order, the nobles for power, and the plebes for freedom. The conflict between the groups was what Machiavelli believed drove Roman society to greatness. Its dynamism caused it to become one of the greatest powers on the earth. Its fall occurred when that dynamism and the conflict that caused it stopped.
Why do I say this? Because America is almost exactly like Rome. The conflict is now between polticians, economic elites, and proletariats, instead of senators, patricians and plebes.
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
Let me see if I'm understanding correctly. You have the poor, picked-upon factory owner (snip)who gets the largest share of the profits made by others. He gets to choose who works and who doesn't, and who gets the benefits. He has much the greater power in negotiations, law, etc...and he gets to leave his kids a big head start in life.
And the guy who points this out--Michael Moore, in this case--is the fascist?
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
Let me see if I'm understanding correctly. You have the poor, picked-upon factory owner--and just incidentally, the days of the individual owner are pretty much gone; by the time you get to own a whole factory, you're a wholly-owned subsidiary of...--who gets the largest share of the profits made by others. He gets to choose who works and who doesn't, and who gets the benefits. He has much the greater power in negotiations, law, etc...and he gets to leave his kids a big head start in life.
And the guy who points this out--Michael Moore, in this case--is the fascist?
Just as a point of historical reference, it wasn't the Bauhaus school, or the leftist social critics, who benefited from the German fascism they supported. It was I.G. Farbenindustrie, Volkswagen, Von Braun, and apparently IBM, etc. etc. etc...
Unless I missed it, Moore isn't up in Idaho with the First Church of Christ, Fascist. He doesn't own a factory. He isn't Chancellor of Flint, Michigan...
Originally posted by Rich Parsons
Put what ever label you want on him, I think he is Jerk!
Originally posted by Kirk
That's what it boils down to. Great post, Rich.
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
I think you've turned the whole thing on its head. You have a group--composed the rich, and the upper middle class, and the wannabes--who have seized control of the means of production from everybody--that's you and me. They make damn sure that their kids start out with an unfair advantage--or does anybody actually think that Bush, Jr. earned his way into Yale as his father actually did? Or think that Bush Jr. didn't have a hell of a lot of help in making a profit out of various failed oil bidnesses and a job with the Texas Rangers?
Then, we demand our share of the pie and we're the greedy ones?
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
Or was Moore wrong about his facts?
Originally posted by rmcrobertson
Did I fall asleep and Enron disappeared? The massive energy company ripoffs of the last couple years? the....well, add your own list.