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RE: Venezuelan Presidential Address: "Grass Is Good"
Hahah! Now that is a rich one. I must eat a glorious burger tonight in honour of your enlightenment and to save the environment. Can’t see any flaws in that logic!
Hahah so good.
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@zekepickleman,
Logic ... that's the key. If people would just reason from First Principles, we could solve all the world's problems overnight. Clearly some of these left wing luminaries have mastered the craft. :-)
Green New Deal: Cost ... more money than exists on planet Earth. So what, don't be defeatist!
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But not doing something radical, like the green new deal, will cost us far more. I hope you are not one of those anti-science climate change deniers. As a scientist, when I listen to @AOC what I hear is a person who is in tune with the issues and is at least proposing solutions. Many are threatened by her, because she threatens their extractive, exploitative way of life. Of course, she is also a woman. That alone threatens many in the establishment. So logic, yes, that is the key. Our present system of capitalism is broken and we need major changes to fix it. @AOC is proposing those changes.
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@toddrjohnson,
We'll have to agree to disagree respecting AOC.
Anyone can claim to be able to solve any problem ... if they invoke the use of magic. AOC's proposals are ridiculously unrealistic. As you know, I too am a science guy ... but science requires me to distinguish between the "possible" (anything one can conceive) and the "plausible" (something one can reasonably achieve). It's the difference between theory and reality.
Respecting being threatened by AOC because she's a woman ... I think this is the very definition of a Leftist Red Herring argument, trotted out every time someone points out that a woman's argument lacks evidence for it's assertion. Explain to me how to PAY for any of these dream schemes and I'll happily apologize for being sarcastic and sign myself up for a re-education class.
"Marxism/Socialism" (which is what AOC is advocating under the guise of Post-Modern Progressivism) has been tried on countless occasions and has never resulted in anything other than systemic impoverishment, authoritarian regimes and dead bodies too numerous to count.
At what point do logical people say, "Enough ... clearly Utopian systems don't work? We'll have to make the best of political/cultural systems (democracy/capitalism) that take into account how human beings ACTUALLY behave."
Name an economic system that comes within a mile of capitalism's record of lifting people out of poverty. Adam Smith (the Wealth of Nations and the Father of Capitalism) was not an economist ... he was a sociologist, concerned with alleviate the greatest amount of poverty (neither term existed at the time so I'm characterizing).
There isn't one.
Yes, capitalism creates excesses and, left to it's own devises, devolves into cannibalism. But notice that Western capitalism is regulated so as to ensure honest competition and the rule of law. It may not be perfect, but it's a lot better than any of the alternatives. And the science of statistics is most assuredly on my side.
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