Smoky the Bear

There goes the Southern Poverty Law Center.

American capitalism

Definitely. Lets stop a process where everyone gets perfect healthcare, has access to medications, has access to quality education, and is able to afford rent, automobile, clothing, food, and internet all from a 40hr to 50 hr per week job.
Yes, those are definitely bad things and should be stopped.

Instead we should be fighting for American Capitalism where Alice Walton can spend her $8 Billion "trickle down" "tax" refund check on stock buybacks the same week she laid off 20,000 Sam's Club employees.
Make sure we support United Airlines that got their $8 Billion freebie and spent it ALL on stock buybacks and then 3 years later threatened that if they didn't get BILLIONS in Covid bailout money, they would have "massive layoffs"
Yeah...definitely a much better system.

Did you know that if Jeff Bezos gave every Amazon employee $100,000, he would still be richer than he was before the pandemic started.
So how's that $1200 check doing for you?

PSSSST...just an FYI....that $1200 check was Socialism.
Thanks for posting.

So, you think Bezos has 100 billion in liquid assets?

Perfect? That’s a stretch. Who is the Walton family backing this election? How about the other billionaires? Gates, Beezos, Zuckerberg, the Google guy? They are all voting Republican right?

I didn’t get a $1200 check.
Coveting what other people have will never get you anywhere. Improve yourself and you will improve your lot in life.

Anybody can buy stock in publicly traded companies, thereby becoming a capitalist. Anybody who has the 401(k) through work is capitalist. Anybody with 50 bucks a month can invest in mutual funds.

Keep in mind that there can be no charity without prosperity! Socialism kills prosperity.

Socialist don't covet what others have. Capitalists do. That's why they fight and struggle to gain more than the next guy. I can't believe you need to be told that. It appears that your OP and your response are all based on your emotions because you subscribe to the word "Socialism" as a "scare word" That is evident by the fact that you use an expression like "Improve yourself" which I am sure you have heard and used multiple times as it has become part of the right wing vernacular.

All socialists want is to get what they earn. if someone is making $10 per hour at 25 hours and has to work 2 to 3 jobs just to scrape by...maybe they have kids. They are going to "improve themselves." SHould they open a business to compete with Amazon or Wal Mart. Maybe they can attend a prestigious college. Hopefully WalMart will give them the time they need.

No...the abuses of Capitalism are so severe, and then you have Rupert Murdoch who uses his Fox News to drill it into your head that Capitalism is good and Socialism is evil so that he and his buddies can continue to own 99% of the wealth in this country.

I am sick of it and I am sick of those who support the billionaires.

But, besides the generic expressions that you threw at me, you have not been able to respond to any of the specifics of my post?

So typical.

You just want to argue and listen to your own hate. Find something that you are good at (it isn’t making memes) and offer it to the world. Then you will know your worth.

Still using generic propaganda induced phrases to support your outdated and alarmist views? Your parents must be so proud. You are an idiot. And why have you not contested any of my observations from my OP? Scared?

I know what I am worth, but you clearly do not. Have fun being the billionaire's lapdog. How are your insurance premiums by the way. Going up? Well the insurance companies are making BILLIONS if bottom line profit. But thats all that matters to drones like you. Right?

Find something I'm good at? Playing piano will get me as rich a Jeff Bezos you idiot? Doesn't work like that you scared little drone.

I don’t have to be convinced by any insurance company, I immigrated from a country with “Medicare for all”. I have lived it and rejected it by choice. Try traveling the world. It will open your eyes.

What a sad little person you are. You envy those who are successful so much, yet you beg for handouts. Find your courage, you don’t have to be a coward.

Definitely. Lets stop a process where everyone gets perfect healthcare, has access to medications, has access to quality education, and is able to afford rent, automobile, clothing, food, and internet all from a 40hr to 50 hr per week job.
Yes, those are definitely bad things and should be stopped.

Instead we should be fighting for American Capitalism where Alice Walton can spend her $8 Billion "trickle down" "tax" refund check on stock buybacks the same week she laid off 20,000 Sam's Club employees.
Make sure we support United Airlines that got their $8 Billion freebie and spent it ALL on stock buybacks and then 3 years later threatened that if they didn't get BILLIONS in Covid bailout money, they would have "massive layoffs"
Yeah...definitely a much better system.

Did you know that if Jeff Bezos gave every Amazon employee $100,000, he would still be richer than he was before the pandemic started.
So how's that $1200 check doing for you?

PSSSST...just an FYI....that $1200 check was Socialism.
Thanks for posting.

You could distribute the wealth of America so everybody had the same amount of wealth. Within a few years it would all be back the way it was.

No.. That would be a bad idea. Even Socialists think that is a bad idea. You must be thinking of Communism which is completely different.

It seemed you missed the point of human nature.

F**K you and your stupid little expressions you brainless automaton.
Chicken shit afraid to answer any of my facts.
Respond to them.

THIS is the end result of American Capitalism

Right...because everyone has investments.
Ignorance.

Plus under Socialism you can still have investments and you can still be rich. You can even be a multi-millionaire.
This is part of the problem where people do not know what Socialism is because its been used as a scare word for the past 50 years.

Then why do so many people from South of the border (and all over the world for that matter) risk so much to come here to work????

USA has more freedom and capitalism than any other country in the world. People flock here for it!

Do you think Hondurans are trying to get in so they can open a business that will compete with Amazon or Wal-Mart. No, they just want to work hard and have access to food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, and education for their children. Socialism provides these things without taking away people's ability to earn a living or earn as much as possible.

We don't need 100% Socialism. We already have a lot of it. Social Security, Paved roads, labor unions, public school, medicare, etc.... All Democratic Socials are saying is that there need to be some tweaks that improve our lives while at the same time prevent ultra wealthy companies and individuals from taking advantage of the masses. people will still want to flock to the US.

Look at some of the memes or posts in this thread. The abuses by the ultra wealthy are enormous.

From Wiki:

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (Local Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlasaɾo ˈkaɾðenas] (About this soundlisten); May 21, 1895 – October 19, 1970) was a general in the Constitutionalist Army during the Mexican Revolution and a statesman who served as President of Mexico between 1934 and 1940. He is best known for nationalization of the oil industry in 1938 and the creation of Pemex, the government oil company. He also revived agrarian reform in Mexico, expropriating large landed estates and distributing land to small holders in collective holdings (ejidos).

And how has that worked out for Mexico, considering how many of their citizens have immigrated to the USA for “a better financial life “

Though there is much dispute over the origins of porcelain, traces of ceramic ware have been found that date back to 17,000 or 18,000 years ago in Southern China, an age that makes it among some of oldest ceramic vestiges found in the world. These old traces display evidence of pottery being created in the crudest and most basic of fashions, so that the finished product can be used as some archaic form. Porcelain as an art-form and skill, however, has some evidence which can be traced back to 7th century AD (Tang Dynasty), the 3rd century AD (the ‘Six Dynasties’ era), and even the 2nd century AD (the eastern Han Period), though academics often disagree over the validity of these sources.

How's that working out for them.

Oh I am sorry. I thought we were bringing up irrelevant carp. My bad.

Have you ever been to China? I have. Hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens have lifted themselves out of poverty since they embraced capitalism 30 years ago. It’s miraculous. Capitalism achieved what communism could never achieve.
Have you ever been to North or South Korea? I have. The North starves while the South enjoys prosperity.
Ever been to Vietnam? The communists there abandoned socialism because it doesn’t work!