Media Double Standards

Lol, no one ever said you aren’t allowed to criticize a shitty product under capitalism.

If I say: “Candy should taste good. If you eat Almond Joys you’re insane” even though I’m criticizing a product, even though I’m saying it doesn’t meet the standard of “candy” in my opinion I’m still just saying it tastes bad, i’m not saying it should be illegal for there to be bad tasting candy.

If you think a free market denotes lack of freedom to criticize certain marketing gimmicks, I’m sorry, but you’re mistaken.

Baby Ruth is always stale. amirite.

Pssst . . . it's now mass media controlled by one political party -- the Dem Party -- and so its not strictly open market capitalism . . . the mainstream media is actually just the Left's artificially maintained political propaganda machinery; i.e. . . . what the Marxist Soviets did and what the Marxist Chinese ARE . . . doing.

Btw, this is a Bill Hicks quote, and he died 30 years ago....

Pssst just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean it’s “leftist” “liberal” “Marxist” etc.

Opensecrets.org

Yeah . . . nowadays it pretty much does . . . depending on the points of disagreement.

Wow! What are leftists taught in school nowadays? Socialism instead of history?

Ok, so you think if a parent gives a child a toy and the child hits their sibling with the toy, the parents are out of line to scold the child for perverting the toy into a weapon just because the parents gave them the toy? For that matter your logic could easily be used to justify any crime. Mother gave birth to child, child commits murder = mother’s fault for giving birth to a child even though there’s the possibility that the child could grow up to be murderer out of the child’s own free will.
Personally, I think the child should still be criticized even if the mother was the cause of the child’s capacity to murder because that doesn’t necessarily mean that the child had to murder and it sure as heck isn’t evident in any way that the mother wanted the child to be murderer.

Furthermore as CharlesHobby stated when a leftist political party is paying off and coercing media into bending to their post-modernist religion that isn’t really an accurate judge of capitalism.

If you’re gonna get lynch mobbed for saying that girls are girls and boys are boys, it’s wrong to kill, being morbidly obese is unhealthy, etc. by a bunch of communists and socialists that has much more to do with how evil leftists are than how evil capitalism is.

You are correct . . . and thanks.

Your logic is that if we believe in something that doesn't have a direct causation to something which is wrong, but holds rough correlation to that which is wrong we have to support that which is wrong.
So with the birthing of a child and the child becoming a murderer, the birth holds correlation, but not necessarily causation it only opens a chance for the freedom to kill, but doesn't cause the child to become a murderer.
So with a free market it opens the opportunity to do something wrong, but that isn't the fault of the freedom but rather the fault of the marketer taking advantage of that freedom in order to do something wrong.

Maybe it holds some blame, but when a lot of periphery countries like Cuba, Czech, Bulgaria, etc. are either Communist or recovering from Communism couldn't you also say Communism is at a level of blame for allowing Capitalism to utilize their workers?

Cuba outperforms the U.S. in a lot of factors, including life expectancy. And the countries you mentioned that are “recovering” from communism aren’t as bad as the media makes it out to be. So no, not really.

They put perform the US in lifespan by less 3 months, lol. Our happiness index rating is almost 7 and Cuba's is less than 1. Which one would you rather have a miserable life that's 3 months longer or a happy life 3 months shorter?

Yeah, because I’m very sure that you got “good country number high bad country number low” from a reliable, scientific source

"Yeah, because I’m very sure that you got “good country number high bad country number low” from a reliable, scientific source" I could have easily said the same about you, lol. But that's just how narcissists like yourself think "I think therefore I'm right."

https://www.statista.com/outlook/co/benchmarking/cuba#:~:text=In%202019%20in%20Cuba%2C%20the,10).

(That was the only data I could find on Cuba's happiness index, so either that's trust worthy or Cuba is trying to hide something)

Deep diving into sources besides immediate Google results (like some weird communist sites) they might exceed the US by 2 years. Either way living long just worsens over population. It's not really a good indicator of which is a better country and definitely not when the average life span is over 75 at that point it has much more to do with genome and diet than health care.

"Luckily for me, that’s not what I was saying. I’m saying it’s stupid to advocate for capitalism and then get mad at the consequences of a profit-guided economy"

The free market is driven by the consumers NOT the CEO's, Boards of Directors or company presidents. The price they charge is based entirely on consumer demand. If the price is too much the consumer buy a less expensive product.

The problem is we don't live in a free market economy. YOUR Progressives in the early 20th century begin to create private/public partnerships. That way if a business can't sell enough merchandise to keep the business running, or to increase profits, they run to the government and eager leftist politicians give them taxpayer dollars to keep their businesses operational.

When this started this was corporatism, not capitalism (aka the free market). As time went on the government (and this time both parties got in on this) more businesses kept running to the government.

The government has grown to be so powerful that now they are getting involved in telling the businesses what to do.

What we have become is the beginnings of a fascist nation. And, surprise!!!, It's the Democrats and other assorted leftists who have done this. Not the conservatives. Many in the Republican party leadership are helping but there is a minority who still believes in the Constitution and in freedom.

Biden is leading the charge much faster than Obama and up until Obama, no Democrat pushed is into fascism as much as Obama. Biden is Obama on steroids and he's doing it under the control of the World Economic Forum. The WEF is in the process of building a global fascist government.

That makes YOU part of the problem as long as you keep voting for Democrats. This isn't right or left any more, this is right and wrong. Fascism is wrong. Freedom is right.

"Say it with me: Market competition, just like any other competition, has a winner. And does the winner let the loser keep its prize? Of course not."

That's not how it works. The only one who awards a prize is the consumer (in a free market) and/or the government (in a corporatist, fascist, socialist, communist, nazi, Marxist market). The prize is keeping the doors to the business open.

Corporatism was called Mercantilism by the founding fathers. It is business and government collusion. The government gets to pick the winners and losers. In a truly free market the consumer picks the winners and losers.

Monopolies cannot exist in a free market. You have to have government intervention to help a business gain complete control. In a truly free market there will always be someone who starts up a competitive business and there is nothing the big wannabe monopoly can do about it. They cannot force the new guy to do anything. The only thing they can do is make a better product at a lower price. They can also try to buy out the new guy but they cannot stop someone else from starting up another business to compete with them.

"Do you think it just got up one day and decided that 'Hey, you know what would be funny? It’s if we decided to favor one company and crush every other lol.'”

That is exactly what happens.

You do not have to be a large corporation to send lobbiests to Washington. I've mostly worked for small companies and a few of them sent lobbists. The idea of petitioning the government is part of the 1st amendment. Private citizens can "lobby" congress.

It's the businesses who have special arrangements with the government who will use the government to crush their opposition. Many times it is through laws that will also adversely affect their own business but they are passed because they can afford some losses while their competitors get shut out.

Side note. I know what socialism and communism is, the real question is do you? Most socialists, communists, fascists and nazis have no clue what kind of devastation, pain, death and suffering those regimes have caused. They comfort themselves by saying they were doing it right or that wasn't real socialism. All socialists and communists will deny up one side and down the other that fascism and nazism are both socialist based regimes but they are.

The problem with socialism and all of its spin-offs is the foundation is corrupt at the fundamental level. It starts with taking all political power away from the individual and giving it to the collective. The collective is controlled by the government, not the people. Socialist will tell you it is by the people but that is never how it turns out. Neither the government nor the collective can even come close to supplying the wants and needs of each individual. So they begin to impose draconian laws to force the people to comply with what the collective (i.e. the government) wants.

The one whithout double standars would be ok

You're saying, "This go***mned apple doesn't taste anything like an orange."

Those 2 topics are completely distinct from ane another, clump.

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It is not a gun issue. It is a people issue. Guns don't shoot themselves.

Why make it easy for bad people to get guns then?

Bad people will always get guns. When you limit good people from getting guns, it is a true disservice to lawful citizens and not to people who break rules/regulations. Study history and see what happens when you remove guns from the GOOD GUYS...

But why give bad people guns?

Bad people are not 'given' guns. Bad people get guns as they are bad people and don't follow societal rules. It is historical fact.

The attached perp in my meme was a felon yet had possession of a gun to harm others and did just that...soft on crime liberal policies harm good people. Fact.

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Buford, your perception is real and very insightful.

Why make it easy to let them get guns?

But people are being shot by guns?

No they’re being shot by people with a gun. “By” denotes the agent that caused a specific occurrence, but the gun did not cause it self to fire it was the person holding the gun.

Just run over by leftist whackos when they are peacefully congregating, or chased down with a machete -- by a leftist whacko, or getting a bomb or a Molotov cocktail tossed through their window by a leftist whacko. What's the common denominator there? Murderous leftist whackos. They will always find a way.

Id rather be 50 feet away from a machete than a AR.

Every encounter with a leftist brandishing a knife, bat, brick, sword or machete begins at a distance and inevitably the future victim is too stunned by the encounter to run away in time to avoid that first swing. You have to be TRAINED to defend yourself or at least be a recent athlete to survive such an encounter -- fifty feet notwithstanding.

Rolling the dice is a safer bet with anything but a gun. Hard to kill 10+ people in a minute with a knife.

Oh . . . and currently Great Britain is now considering outlawing ownership of knives in general because the murder rate in G.B. using knives have skyrocketed. Murderers will always find a way. Leftists will always seek to ban the next thing. I believe that they also have the banning of 'assault' rocks on their 'to-do' list.

Weird. Knives have many uses including cutting food. I doubt they will outlaw them.

Tell me: how May “knife murders” per capita do they have vs gun deaths per capita here?

So, other than an emotional response, you're not providing sources either?

Oh, im capable, here's a taste of the brainwashed Right and how it's propaganda networks affects Americans everyday.

Keep on correcting grammar, sport

Sure thing, Sport

Laughing so hard now... Thanks for the comedy, Sport

Little white girl shot by her black neighbor, because her ball rolled in his yard.

Don't want you think I'm making up some bullshit....
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-year-old-girl-two-adults-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-north-carolina-neighbors-yard-robert-louis-singletary/

Should we start euthanizing all American Pit Bull Terriers since they’re the top breed used for dog fighting?

Well, your take is that if guns are the top tools used for a specific crime they’re bad. American Pit Bull Terriers are the top tool used for a specific crime and therefore they’re bad. Unless of course that’s not how it works and it’s the human who uses the tool?

I do too and I also love guns.