Are you dense? The Chinese are living better than they have in all of history. Capitalism isn’t at their expense. It is to their benefit, unless you think subsistence farming where millions died on a regular basis is some sort of upgrade.  

What the fuck are you on about? Socialism is specifically about the shared (or government) ownership of the means of production. Public roads, public schools, public courts, and democracies are all pre-socialist inventions of which the socialists like to claim, but have literally nothing to do with socialism.

“No, extreme poverty has be halved and that’s only in the past 15 years, after nearly doubling during the hey-day of capitalism.”

Almost nobody dies of starvation compared to history. The major examples now are almost solely located in conflict areas where food is withheld, natural disasters where assistance can’t reach people, and child or elder abuse situations.

“I prefer to at least give a philosophy a try on that that puts the worker into its centre and not the money he can make.”

They should follow this up with a graphic novel of the Gulag Archipelago, the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge, and the Holodomor.

All of us is absolutely correct. The poorest people in America today have access to the goods that the richest people of yesteryear had access to. Hell, they even have access to shit that wasn’t invented.

Explain how the labor theory of value will work in a mostly automated society? Also, please explain how you value that labor given that there is a qualitative difference in what some people do in a specific block of time? Also, please explain how democratically allocated resources will know what to produce and for…

Biology and genetics are bourgeois sciences that will get you purged comrade. Ask Comrade Lysenko. His ideas on soy and wheat having solidarity with the proletariat only killed millions.

I do like how the city council ring fenced this tax so it didn’t affect any of the businesses they owned. This money is realistically going to go to something stupid like the $800K per mile bike lanes that ended up costing $12 million per mile. Any government wasting that much money shouldn’t be trusted to take…

Yes.

Forget climate change. Just talk about the need for energy independence as a strategic national security goal, that is how we can pretty much have convergence on this topic. Not only do we know some portion of oil revenue ends up in the coffers of terrorists and dictators, but we also know that we can help continue…

Trans-phobic and Fat-phobic in one plan. Gross.

This seems like a great idea until you get to customs and you have to explain that you didn’t pack your own bags.

And Japan continues whaling, Syria uses chemical weapons, other countries don’t honor the Geneva Convention. That’s my point. Unless you piss off someone with guns who wants to enforce international laws, they a functionally meaningless because they don’t have an enforcement agency. If you are a country, you could…

Not if your end goal is to squeal like a pig...

Why? International law is consent based meaning that it only works if you agree to follow it. If you don’t, there aren’t international ramifications unless you piss off a country that is willing to go to war over it or if they have economic leverage to damage you. There is not enforcement body.

Was one of his charges destroying the police’s evidence cameras?

The irony is that they legally answer these questions as put out in quarterly reports by an approved public accounting firm.

I think you are going to find the biggest split between John songs vs Paul songs. I fall on the Paul side, but some people are super boned up about John. Although my favorite song is While My Guitar Gently Weeps and that is a George song. Ringo could have been any drummer off the street.