Liberal Forum

tharock220 » 23 Jul 2014 12:07 am » wrote:
Sounds to me like a privately owned company accountable to its shareholders like you see elsewhere in the world. The shareholders happen to be government here.

It's not what Cannon wants it to be: a pdvsa or gazprom which are wards of the state or personal piggy banks for foolish dictators. One of those foolish dictators allowed his pride to get the better of him, and instead of seeking cancer treatment in Houston at the best cancer hospital in the world he went to Cuba. He paid a heavy price for the stupidity, and his sooc isn't at their 1999 levels of oil production.

You said "shareholders," which of course you know to be a lie. There is only one "shareholder:" the government of Singapore. Government ownership of the means of production WAS socialism, before you came out, son.

And you don't get to say what I want - unless you agree that I get to say what you want (which will be anonymous bathroom cock, of course).

What have we learned? We have learned that your definition of socialism is a crowd-sourced, partisan, go-along-get-along definition. A conjob definition. A definition handed to you at the memory hole, where you made a burnt offering of your PREVIOUS definition of that word to your one true god - repuke ideology.

What must it be like, I wonder, to come on this board and feel a need to pretend that government ownership of the means of production is not socialism, so long as it is formatted in a manner pleasing to Heritage (whose pleasure would be to call Singapore socialist, but for its economic success)?

What IS that like, for you? It's not as if we do not BOTH know that Obama investing in GM equaled socialism, NOTWITHSTANDING NO DAY TO DAY OVERSIGHT - SIMPLY SHAREHOLDER STATUS (and not even the only shareholder). We BOTH know that you call it socialism when it suits youHeritage, and capitalism when it suits you Heritage. That's zero integrity, bub. That's a wiggling, niggling little fellow, is what that is.