Liberal Forum

That's something we share in common, Clem. But the ugliness of a dissection is rarely as extreme or poignant as the ugliness of being dissected - so don't be too sure people will see what you see. I believe they'll see a partisan spewbot brought down and righteously read - right down to his count...

Not any more, no. We provided them with our tool and die technology and trained them to use it. Individual human beings can learn things that they are shown, regardless who sits in government or what system they preside over, dummy. I have a clue at whose expense they thrive and innovate, kid. I...

You think that the only quality goods coming out of China are in US-made factories? You have no freaking clue what's going on in China, obviously or the size of its thriving, innovative private sector. Go do a few years homework and get back to me. And few factories in China are slave lab...

I would argue that the profit motive is as present and ubiquitous under socialism as it is under capitalism. It might suffer perfunctory camouflage here and there, but it never goes away - it's attached to the getting ****** bone, which is attached to the actual bone bone. And I would argue that th...

Did we build them factories? Provide them a fleet to ship their goods? Welcome their slave made goods into our market without taxes and with no regard for the advantage of slave labor and zero environmental standards or workplace safety regulations? I don't think we did - or they would still be a ...

Not that reality ever gets in the way of a psychotic, I did business for almost 20 years in 3rd World countries and at least once traveled on a bus with their kids, chickens and goats. And I sat across from struggling business people of modest income and drove a moderately hard but fair bargain. I ...

The ugliness of your character are in black and white for everyone to see. Cheap rhetoric and bulls*** won't cover it up....

Whatever gets you off the hook, kid....

Technically Germany was still capitalist when those guys were doing their best work. Inventions can arise from socialist economies. The Soviets were the first into space. Still, you get more when you have the profit motive. The US blew the Soviets away because research was directed by necessity ...

Well gosh, let's put it to a simple test. Did the Soviets have a thriving economy? Goods including those reasonably difficult to manufacture that could compete with ours? No, they made junk that even Soviets didn't want, but bought only because there was nothing else. Have you told the Premier of...