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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:09 AM Original message |
Question: Is claiming to be "anti-capitalist" while posting on a PC produced by a corporation |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Capitalism is when the private people own the means of production |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. So who owns the means of production in the production of your computer? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I wasn't involved in the production of my computer |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. "I wasn't involved in the production" |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. And you don't sound very familiar with what capitalism actually is |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. You're complacent in the capitalist production of your property |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Well now... |
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okie (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
96. Marx was not at all interested in the 'morality'... |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. What if you're posting on a refurbished PC that you bought used? |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Your money may not directly be going to the corporation, but you're still benefiting from technology |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:17 AM Original message |
you mean the technology originally hatched in the public sector... |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
93. What's your point? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
98. Using technology created by capitalism doesn't obligate a person to support capitalism |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
111. so, what do you think you are using? |
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ThomThom (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-01-10 08:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
123. so I have to give up my pencil, paper, pens, and paints |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Your purchase helped someone buy a new one. |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. uh, no. I bought it from a repair place. |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And where do you think that money will go? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. You are getting absurdly ridiculous |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. Exactly. The apologists hate it that some people actually minimize |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
79. all money goes to Wall Street |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. What did they use the money on? |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Is the repair place incorporated? n/t |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. I am |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
5. No more so than complaining about oil consumption while your PC runs on electricity |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
11. Does the person know or not know that bit of information about their PC? |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
14. I post on a used computer that -- |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
15. I make my slaves post for me n/t |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
17. What's your point? Just to start an argument? nt |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. The point is to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance of some people. n/t |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Do please expose the 'hypocrisy' of capitalists driving on socialist road systems |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:36 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. Please see this post if you wish to know MY view on what our economic model ought to look like |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Interesting, but I prefer the response below it |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Oh, you mean fairy, paper capitalism |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. You're right, we do live in the real world. Which is why your economic vision will never become |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:44 AM Response to Reply #40 |
45. Why would the investor class want to cede ownership to the laborers? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #40 |
94. It would be one thing for you to say that you favor your particular economic model |
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BakedAtAMileHigh (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. and you have failed at exposing anything |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Well good for you! |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Original message |
Yeah, I feel the same way about Gulf Oil Gush protesters |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #21 |
88. Well since this is a corporatist system |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #88 |
92. No, its not fairy paper capitalism |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
97. It's not hypocritical to use your computer to work for socialism. |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
22. I'm cleansed of the system, man |
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BakedAtAMileHigh (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
23. you certainly seem to be misrepresenting anti-corporate thought |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. +1 |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Are you really so ignorant of anti-corporate thought that you believe activists are happy they must |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #34 |
74. So you admit that the very premise of your question is flawed. Interesting. NT. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #34 |
99. It is irrelevant. |
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BakedAtAMileHigh (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
29. just like people who lived in the South and helped slaves escape were "hypocrites", I guess |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Let me know when you go to china to help the factory slaves who produced your computer escape |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
30. My machine is built from E-waste parts |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
31. I wardrive on my bicycle which powers my BSD laptop which was made in "communist China". |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
36. I don't see the inherent contradiction, frankly-- and I'm a socialist.... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
38. I only buy my coffee at anarchist collective corporations...nt |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:41 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Hahaha! |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
41. Not at all. my puter was made in Communist China along with my iphone. |
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NoGOPZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
43. No more so than claiming to be against government programs |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:43 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. I would agree. Only supporting "pure" economic systems = hypocritical and narrow minded |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
46. i don't know anyone who is anti-capitalist |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Im anti-capitalist |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Hi there! |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:13 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. No, private enterprise definitely has value, and can result in much innovation and positive growth |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:53 PM Response to Reply #55 |
91. I very much like those ideas |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #48 |
104. I am |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:50 PM Response to Reply #46 |
106. And now you know two |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-01-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #106 |
119. Is your view like Oregone's? |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
47. Yes I am a hypocrite... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #47 |
49. +1 |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #47 |
50. I live in Canada. n/t |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Canadian? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:55 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. Yeah, they don't sell products there made by slaves |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #50 |
53. And what the fuck does that have to do with anything |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. Flaherty personally purifies every imported crate with a prayer to remove exploitation stank |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #53 |
58. Was my smarmy reply to your "if you've lived in America all your life" comment |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Well, oh my, aren't you a purist? |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:35 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. I never said every component and chip in my computer is Canadian made |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:41 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. For fuck's sake. |
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Clintonista2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #61 |
66. Your deliberately misrepresenting what I said |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Down to the chip level, made in the USA? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #61 |
95. I just got it...Clintonista is a former Trotskyite turned neoconservative |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #95 |
109. HEY! Watch that "Trotskyite" stuff................. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:59 PM Response to Reply #109 |
115. Yeah. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:04 PM Response to Reply #115 |
117. I thought I was the People's Front of Jedea |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #117 |
118. No, that's the Popular people's Front...splitters! |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #58 |
87. I happen to build my own systems as well... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
56. It is like Lenin said: |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:55 PM Response to Reply #56 |
110. HA! My first thought EXACTLY! |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
62. I see it less as hypocrisy... as hypocrisy is chosen rather than forced. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
63. Let's see, could we please have a list of the things we need to do to remain pure? |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:48 PM Response to Reply #63 |
85. beyond that |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #85 |
86. I really feel that the OPs that challenge us to be "pure" are very much like the |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
64. yes, but they won't get it. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
65. Should we use smoke signals? Tom-toms? Secret handshakes? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:06 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. I think they would be happiest if you didn't communicate or advocate at all |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:09 PM Response to Reply #68 |
70. Very well put. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #68 |
75. It's kinda like saying that playing the "Internationale" on a capitalist piano is hypocrisy. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-01-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #75 |
120. And compromises your position on animal rights as well, given what they used to make the keys out of |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
69. Yes, we should be using stone tablets and then flinging them out the back window to |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
71. The reality: anyone can claim anything on an anomymous public forum. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
72. Can Socialist build computers? |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
73. Another question. Is claiming to be an environmentalist while breathing polluted air hypocrisy? |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
76. Who is claiming to be "anti-capitalism"? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #76 |
78. I am |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #78 |
81. That's fine. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:34 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. Depends on the context |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #76 |
103. I am |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:44 PM Response to Reply #76 |
105. Really? |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:59 PM Response to Reply #76 |
114. As am I................. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-01-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #114 |
121. I don't think it's so black and white, personally. |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
77. of course not |
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izzybeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
80. They build the tools that will put them under. |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
82. Unless you know of a brand of computer made only by socialists, then no. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
84. Was shooting a Nazi with a slave labor made Luger hypocritical for a member of |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #84 |
101. Quantum physics and moral relativity or Meta-ethical relativism, |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
89. no n/t |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
90. No |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #90 |
100. A big problem around these parts |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
102. yes. all critics of capitalism should live in handmade mud huts & gather berries. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:57 PM Response to Reply #102 |
113. you know, by gathering berries you're really just attacking the American worker |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 11:03 PM Response to Reply #102 |
116. Good one. "red herring" I LIKE that |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
107. No. The point is not personal purity. The point is social change. n/t |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
108. Stupid question. |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-30-10 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
112. Was Karl Marx a hypocrite for using the printing press? |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-01-10 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
122. Are you wearing clothes made by capitalist "slave labor"? |
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