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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #740 on: December 12, 2012, 06:52:14 AM »

I'm glad my bat wielding, steel working, union organizing grandfather isn't alive to see this. He beat the shit out of union breakers so that he could work a hard as balls job and earn enough money to build a house for his family on Grosse Ile, which the family still owns. Of all the fucking states in the union, Michigan goes right to work? How is that ever going to fucking function? Every industry there is dominated by the unions.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #741 on: December 12, 2012, 08:10:34 AM »

Hasn't Michigan been treading water ever since Roger & Me?
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #742 on: December 12, 2012, 09:44:17 AM »

I'm glad my bat wielding, steel working, union organizing grandfather isn't alive to see this. He beat the shit out of union breakers [...]

Well, at least his spirit was carried on by someone punching a [minor] FOX "news" contributor in the face.

Hasn't Michigan been treading water ever since Roger & Me?

Conservative backlash to the Moore film, or the film's contents (Flint abruptly shifting from moderately prosperous town into one giant meth-lab the only place in Michigan scarier than Detroit*)?

*In Detroit, you don't have to be afraid of buildings, which in Flint may as well be renamed prize boxes; the prize being a sudden explosion and free wooden and glass shrapnel in your soft tissues.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #743 on: December 12, 2012, 10:28:01 AM »

What I meant was that ever since Detroit was gutted of its primary industry, the whole state's been on life support. Apologies for my improper use of metaphor.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #744 on: December 12, 2012, 10:40:10 AM »

Let Detroit go bankrupt.  Failing that, make it go bankrupt.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #745 on: December 12, 2012, 10:54:02 AM »

I can hope for a repeal but it's never going to fucking happen. Once that cat's let out of the bag, it's out forever. Goodbye, blue collar America. The middle class will miss you dearly.

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« Reply #746 on: December 12, 2012, 11:04:31 AM »

I really am upset by that, actually. Like I said, my Grandfather worked in a steel mill for like forty years, but because of the union that gave him a living that made him a provider and a home owner for a wife and two kids. Not to say that times weren't still tough now and again, my grandmother also entered the workplace multiple times, but it's still a real loss.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #747 on: January 09, 2013, 05:47:04 PM »

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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #748 on: January 09, 2013, 07:20:16 PM »

Jesus Christ, that article is brutal.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #749 on: January 09, 2013, 10:01:57 PM »

http://capitalismis.com

AHAHAHAHAHA

THIS SITE

NO REALLY

THIS SITE






Though, for what it's worth, that's one of the more beautifully-designed websites I've ever seen. I mean, it's no Uniqlo, but that's a pretty damn nice design.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #750 on: January 09, 2013, 10:08:15 PM »

Even the color scheme screams Ayn Rand.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #751 on: January 09, 2013, 11:42:07 PM »

I apologize to you liberals for implying that the behavior of conveniently redefining words is unique to you.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #752 on: January 09, 2013, 11:49:31 PM »

At first, I read the URL as being "Capitalismis", and wondered if maybe it was a Christmas alternative.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #753 on: January 10, 2013, 05:34:23 AM »

I love how the quiz repeatedly uses the term "incorrect" when you disagree with it. For all it goes on about individual freedom it sure is keen on telling me I'm not entitled to my own opinions.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #754 on: January 10, 2013, 08:35:15 AM »

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Should every individual have a right to employment?

Yes

Incorrect. Yikes! If there is a right to have employment, it imposes an obligation for someone else to provide a salaried position. Such tyranny is immoral. According to your answer, your preferred social system is fascism.

Ahh ha ha ha ha.

According to every question in that quiz, I prefer socialism.

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Allegory - You’ve studied and worked hard in class, earning a 99   average, and you’re one of only three students with an A grade. The   other students have not studied as hard and have C grades. Is it okay   then that yours and the other A-student averages get reduced and shared   so that everyone gets a B grade on their records?

I was not allowed to answer "What the fuck does this have to do with economics?" as an answer.


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As professionals, we have certain   fundamental obligations to society, to   clients, to the profession, and   to our peers and colleagues. Our professional ethics     are an important basis for our practice and these flow directly from     requisite capitalist values, but capitalism is widely misunderstood.     This little site is meant to shed some light on capitalism and perhaps     spark further investigation by others.

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« Reply #755 on: January 10, 2013, 08:56:57 AM »

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, widespread rioting over Belfast City Council's decision to limit the flying of the British flag from City Hall.

Protestors have started Facebook pages such as this one, including this post glorifying the massacre of thirteen unarmed civilians by the British army during a peaceful protest in 1972.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #756 on: January 10, 2013, 09:00:03 AM »

You know, I was just thinking, I miss The Troubles.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #757 on: January 10, 2013, 10:14:07 AM »

I love how the quiz repeatedly uses the term "incorrect" when you disagree with it. For all it goes on about individual freedom it sure is keen on telling me I'm not entitled to my own opinions.

You expected something else from a philosophy called Objectivism?  A is A.

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Should every individual have a right to employment?

Yes

Incorrect. Yikes! If there is a right to have employment, it imposes an obligation for someone else to provide a salaried position. Such tyranny is immoral. According to your answer, your preferred social system is fascism.

Ahh ha ha ha ha.

And there it is in a nutshell: when Libertarians talk about rights and freedoms, they mean freedom FROM poor people, not freedom FOR poor people.

I'd like to see them all wiped out by a dirty telephone.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #758 on: January 10, 2013, 07:22:42 PM »

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As professionals, we have certain   fundamental obligations to society,[...]

I'm not sure whether  :nyoro~n: or :facepalm: is more appropriate here.
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Re: Culture Wars
« Reply #759 on: January 14, 2013, 01:47:12 AM »

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Should every individual have a right to employment?
Make the case where society benefits from ensuring accommodations to keep someone blind, deaf, and with an IQ of 40, employed.
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