The Glade 4.0

Maybe if all of you worthless sons of ***** would stop sniping at each other over political blogs and news website comment boxes, and embrace the common ideas that you all profess to have (i.e. pissed off about bailouts), you could actually get something done!

It was okay when Bush did it, but it's evil when Obama does it? **** conservatives!

It was evil when Bush did it, but it's okay when Obama does it? **** liberals!

This is why I want to round all of you up in a giant sack and use it as a pinata.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Socialism is the long and painful transition between capitalism and capitalism.

http://www.lacan.com/zizpopulism.htm

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Not going to read that and try to guess your point. If you have a point.

Of course you're not going to read it; you haven't read it any of the 35 other times I've linked it ...

It was an interesting read, though difficult, that follows the point you were attempting to make. By difficult, not in concept of understanding, but in being able to actually read it. I'm not sure if it was originally written in other than English (my guess) and poorly translated, or just written by someone without an editor. The extra words in sentences and the changes in tense and object had me re-reading sentences frequently rather than flowing with the thoughts being presented.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Why is the obsession with income?

Why not a flat sales tax?

Why is it we need to take our cut out of "success," and not "lifestyle"?

Taxing spending means that if you budget well and live frugally, you're not penalized for saving and retiring early if you're successful. Taxing income means that even if you're successful, it's harder to save. And then, if people have their way and you made wise investments with your savings, we'll tax you again after you retire, too!

It's a delusion, Kaffis. The individuals obsessed with taxing income and wealth have this delusional notion that because I'm rich, they aren't. It's completely unfathomable to Xequecal or Monty or TheRiov that I got where I am through my own efforts. I must have, somehow, disproportionately benefited from some ephemeral and amorphous social contract to save the money and acquire the things I have. They've been telling me this for close to a decade now.

Ladas:

I'm fairly certain Žižek wrote it in English; he writes most things in English.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I don't have an ideological problem with a sales tax, I just see it having to be set incredibly high to deal with all the people that will dodge it. (resort to barter, buy foreign where the tax doesn't exist, under-the-table sales) Also every time I see a sales/consumption tax proposal the proponents are always coming out with an incredibly low number compared to current income tax rates and claiming that it's revenue neutral when it really can't be, which makes me very suspicious about the goals of the people advocating it. Not to mention the cataclysm that will come out of forcing a tax system that encourages saving onto an economy that runs on debt.

it effectively IS part of the strategy of the capital to held in check the workers' demands

One should be attentive here to how even those elements which appear as pure Rightist racism are effectively a displaced version of workers' protests: of course there is racism in demanding the end of immigration of foreign workers which pose a threat to our employment; however, one should bear in mind the simple fact that the influx of immigrant workers from the post-Communist countries is not the consequence of some multiculturalist tolerance - it effectively IS part of the strategy of the Capitol to hold in check the workers' demands - this is why, in the US, Bush did more for the legalization of the status of Mexican illegal emigrants than the Democrats caught in the trade union pressures.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Most things of that nature which end up on public websites are transcriptions of something that got published somewhere in a journal. That said, Žižek is a crazy Slovenian communist, and even he thinks the factionalism in contemporary American and European politics is pointless; indeed, factionalism has replaced politics and politicians as the de facto political theatre of the day. <-- Dime version of that article.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Michael Moore tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that capitalism as we know it is over. Moore say capitalism is where "the problem" is. Moore was broadcasting from "Occupy Oakland."

"So, let's not use the old definition where we think -- when we say capitalism, we're talking about 2011. 2011 capitalism is an evil system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. That's what happened, and that's what people are tired of. Which is too bad for the capitalists because I think a lot of people, perhaps in this crowd, probably used to support the 'old-style' of capitalism," Moore said on CNN.

"So, what system do you want?" Anderson Cooper asked Moore.

"Well there's no system right now that exists. We're going to create that system. This movement, this movement in the next year, or two, or few years is going to create a democratic economic system. That's the most important thing. Whatever we come up with it has to have at its core -- the American people are going to be the one's controlling this economy. We're going to have a say, a big say, the say in how this economy is run," Moore said.

Moore says the Occupy group and himself have "declared" the current economic system as over. "It's just a matter of time until we make that happen," Moore said.

It was an interesting read, though difficult, that follows the point you were attempting to make. By difficult, not in concept of understanding, but in being able to actually read it. I'm not sure if it was originally written in other than English (my guess) and poorly translated, or just written by someone without an editor. The extra words in sentences and the changes in tense and object had me re-reading sentences frequently rather than flowing with the thoughts being presented.