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King Louis XIV (Sun King) | IN THE 17TH CENTURY, LOUIS XIV HAD 40+ DIFFERENT FOODS PREPARED FOR HIM  TO CHOOSE FROM EVERY DAY...A LUXURY ONLY MONARCHS COULD AFFORD. TODAY, THE HUMBLEST APPRENTICE OR SECRETARY CAN DO THE EXACT SAME THING. WHY? THE MAGIC OF CAPITALISM. | image tagged in king louis xiv sun king | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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7 ups, 5y,
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WHAT (&()#)@IN PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON SON? | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
4 ups, 5y
hahaha
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3 ups, 5y,
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3 ups, 5y,
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Tech probs caused me to rush last night's tidbit and thus no wrap up, plus I didn't get round to this part of the equation:

One BIG difference between King Loius XIV's gluttonous girth and yours is that then, poorer folks paid the most taxes, and it went to the King & Co (hence the fatness), whereas you get to whine about the reverse because serfdom appeals to you righties.

Not TOO coincidentally after our glorious American Revolution, le French had one of their own a decade later. The cause of both? The minions paying high taxes in exchange for watching a King get ever plumper. Coupled with being on the brink of starvation themselves and short on bread to go with that tea, the masses rose up. We got a Republic, they got a Republic. Bill of Rights, Declaration des droits, and like us, they are no longer essentially chattel.

Since then, the spectre of ending up listed as Roasted Royale on the night's dinner menu has given many a ruler cause to appease basic citizens with something in return for their buck. If you think Dumbmericans are going to be all giddy for Dear Leader Drumpf's $2.6 million p/day golf excursion on their dime after the Great Recession (Depression?) of 2020 goes into full gear, you ain' been paying attention, son.

Sooooooo....... Subsidized agriculture sold at significantly reduced prices peppered with various other subsidies along the way from production to market coupled with mandated wages sufficient enough to turn the pauper class into a consumer one plus the notion that revolt can do much damage to the pockets and lives of true conservative (not these namby pamby "I wanna live with Ozzie & Harriet in the 1950s again, weeee!" fluffbag fakers) would-be Divinity annointed Kings (remember when Royal Lineage was the ONLY inalienable God given right?) has allowed for this amazing magic you attribute soley to Captialsm even tho that is merely the engine to exploit commodities with for maximum profit while Socialist styled goverment policies utilize tax revenue in a manner tailored to suit citizenry at all levels from corporate to goverment to private.

Any questions? Go read a book, you trigger happy (see what I did there?) flatulating myopic bucket of ignorant obtuse piss. Maybe you can find a retort you can copypaste, you big crybaby.

See any typos? You can suck on that too.
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2 ups, 5y
. | TRIGGERED INTO SILENCE YET AGAIN HUH,                SMUGGO? | image tagged in g-man from half-life | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Sucker.
6 ups, 5y,
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Ooooh, bad example.

Agricultural subsidies (as well as subsidies every step of the way from there to the store) serve to artificially reduce the price of food far below what they'd cost in the free market otherwise.
(THAT'S the cause of the 'obesity epidemic' that mystifies today's entitled consumer as well as why the masses are so gleefully apathetic - revolution generally being the sport of the hungry 'n all.)

Add to that minimum wage set by goverment, as well as wages affected by other laws, strikes, union bargaining, Henry Ford's concept of higher pay to stimulate consumerism, as well as that which is supplemented again by additional goverment subsidies for corporations, and you got something in effect LESS Capitalistic than even the USSR's Communism, which didn't do as much in the infusing capital into supplementing production costs arena.

Did I mention the difference between 4 inches of tired rock strewn topsoil in a cooler climate not as suitable for all types of farming (including large scale) in a puny little island vs a warmer temperate interior continent's worth of 20 feet deep of loess soil utilizing plenty of water (again, subsidized), fertilizer (subsidized), modern farming machinery (subsidized), and all that razzmatazz? Even the aluminum tray and the plastic lid your takeout came in are heavily subsidized.

You didn't build it, but you do eat it, and that requires a lot less sweat on your part.
Enjoy.
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3 ups, 5y,
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6 ups, 5y,
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Shutting you up with facts doesn't take much, does it?
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3 ups, 5y,
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6 ups, 5y
I'm not having a debate, you silly twit, so your fake deflection replacement for the rebuttal you can't come up with for yet another of your stupid hypocritical memes based on your inane rambling ignorance devoid of any understanding of the words you quote windup circus monkey toy style from a Tom Paine book can be tucked back in your super absorbant tampon for safekeeping.

Any typos in there for you to launch a fake tirade out of?

"Greed is not greed, greed is envy"
- priceless
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5 ups, 5y,
2 replies
Shame. You might have actually learned something if you'd read it.
5 ups, 5y,
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He did the same thing the last time he was about, in the winter.
Started pestering me after avoiding me for a few weeks, so I returned in kind.
Then one day I posted a wall of facts and he couldn't find a typo to harp on or go off on a semantics rant or how dare I insult his Gods, Trump or Paine, so he shut up, ducking out the same way like here.
From then on, he only replied with "Hi stalker!" and ran off to harrass newbs, the more seasoned flippers proving too much for his trite limp verbage to handle.

Unfortunately for him, one of them was Sasamu, a high school kid in Europe who rubbed Dimby's face in his own excrement. Dimbs kept at it - this was just some kid after all - focusing on him for a couple of weeks, getting his frail ego whipped like porridge in a blender set on high inside a micrwave oven.
Sasamu had some schooling to get back to, so went gone, but after a week of respite for Dimb stepped in imgflip vet, 1Redshoe, and the combo explosion/implosion Dimb was dealt made him go MIA after a couple of days of that hell.

I even refrained from poking him that last week, it really was that sad, him limping on all fours, his tail dragging on the ground.
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5 ups, 5y,
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3 ups, 5y
heh heh
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3 ups, 5y,
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Go***amn. That is awesome. I know it's great to get under his skin but that is just so much more.
3 ups, 5y,
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That kid self deleted just a week before Dimber went on 'sabbatical'
Shame, because it went from Dimby trying to bully him to him getting increasingly razzled because the kid turned the tables on him. Dimbs thought he'd bust him on Chinese: Cantonese & Mandarin and failed on that.

Then 1Redshoe commented on Timber's last meme then and throttled the uric acid out of what remained of his ego. Two days, and he was TKO'd back to the hole from whence he came.
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2 ups, 5y
No, I don't know.

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And neither do you.

Got you triggered now, wimp.

Hey, I gotta go, be back later to see another 14 notifications about your continual heart attack, botboi
3 ups, 5y
I posted another opus way up above...
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4 ups, 5y
Cat spit out your tongue now, wimp?

Kuick, git yer gunn.
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4 ups, 5y,
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If that were the criterion, you'd have been kicked off the debate circles long ago.
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4 ups, 5y
"Derp-a-derp you weftitht huwt muh feelz picketing a gun thow onthe, sob sob"

Fella, you have no problem silencing yourself when your spiel backfires into the slobbering pile of tear steeped gelatin that's your sad putz of a face.

Your wussiness is a delight.
Go back to your safe space under your bed and wait for mommy to tell you the monster isn't in the closet anymore.

Wimp.
3 ups, 5y
tl;dr*
0 ups, 4y
This man knows his facts
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IN THE 17TH CENTURY, LOUIS XIV HAD 40+ DIFFERENT FOODS PREPARED FOR HIM TO CHOOSE FROM EVERY DAY...A LUXURY ONLY MONARCHS COULD AFFORD. TODAY, THE HUMBLEST APPRENTICE OR SECRETARY CAN DO THE EXACT SAME THING. WHY? THE MAGIC OF CAPITALISM.