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At 11/1/09 09:36 AM, Drakim wrote: So cute.

never mind the fact that you are notoriously (and stupidly) critical of capitalism and that this thread was clearly designed to attack capitalists, and even though it's "not about capitalism LOL" you conveniently managed to sneak in a moronic criticism of capitalism in said body paragraph.

At 11/1/09 04:09 PM, SadisticMonkey wrote:

At 11/1/09 09:36 AM, Drakim wrote: So cute.

never mind the fact that you are notoriously (and stupidly) critical of capitalism and that this thread was clearly designed to attack capitalists, and even though it's "not about capitalism LOL" you conveniently managed to sneak in a moronic criticism of capitalism in said body paragraph.

Wuut

SadisticMonkey, I think you are mixing me up with somebody else. I'm notoriously critical of capitalism? I regret to inform you that I am in favor of capitalism. What are you smoking and can I get some?

At 11/1/09 04:19 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:15 PM, Drakim wrote: I regret to inform you that I am in favor of capitalism.

then why make a thread that just says "capitalism sucks"?

It's a joke thread. Please read the entire first post, not just the topic title.

This is a freaking parody thread aimed at people who only read the title of the topic and not the body text. The fact that you do still not realize this is making me laugh so hard my internal parts are hurting. Then again, I guess I shouldn't expect more from some of our slightly challenged members here on newgrounds.

At 11/1/09 05:51 PM, Victory wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:19 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:15 PM, Drakim wrote: I regret to inform you that I am in favor of capitalism.

then why make a thread that just says "capitalism sucks"?

Jesus Christ.

Exactly. You can't make stuff like this up. I mean, to say that this thread is a success has defintly become an understatement, heh.

Oh well, I think it's all fun and danny, and the mods haven't locked it, so I think they are laughing with me.

Gaaah, it got bumped again! >=[

At 10/30/09 05:08 PM, puddinN64 wrote: Well, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all basically dead. What else is there to use besides Capitalism?

I guess socialism oh wait it's dead too I guess oligarchy?

I must say this thread is frikkin epic.

Drakim, I love you a little more for every day. The extreme success of the thread just makes it even greater.

People who would be banned right now if I carried through: (I did ban 3 of you, but I'm not on conisantly enough to follow through on the rest of you)

X-Gary-Gigax-X
RightWingGamer
OddlyPoetic
CapatainChip
puddinN64
MultiCanimefan
ReiperX
Stelyu
Korriken
Shadow181
pr0ded
SadisticMonkey
Rasta2009
RocketFromtheCrypt
Warforger
Victory
daves234
Sajberhippien

At 10/26/09 10:19 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: The thing about capitalism is that it'll always exist on some level so long as you have an exchange of goods.

You are confusing capitalism with an economy.

At 11/2/09 10:23 AM, drDAK wrote:

At 10/26/09 10:19 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: The thing about capitalism is that it'll always exist on some level so long as you have an exchange of goods.

You are confusing capitalism with an economy.

You are ignoring the practical exchange of goods & services that must occur in any economy and that are intrinsically capitalistic, but you are similarly missing ketchup on your sandwich, and so your name must be added to the above list.

At 11/2/09 10:34 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: You are ignoring the practical exchange of goods & services that must occur in any economy and that are intrinsically capitalistic, but you are similarly missing ketchup on your sandwich, and so your name must be added to the above list.

Points can be made without frivolous words.

And although you had all those words, none of them said anything different.

An economy is the exchange of goods. Capitalism would be the use of a monetary value to barter for goods. Even without the use of a monetary value it is similarly defined as "bartering". In many economic forms there is no bartering among people as they all receive equal resources.

At 11/2/09 10:40 AM, drDAK wrote:

At 11/2/09 10:34 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: You are ignoring the practical exchange of goods & services that must occur in any economy and that are intrinsically capitalistic, but you are similarly missing ketchup on your sandwich, and so your name must be added to the above list.

Points can be made without frivolous words.

however, this topic is not about capitalism. I'm actually doing an experiment to test my theory that a large number of posters simply reads the subject title of the topic and never the body message. It won't matter if you post about this being a ploy further down, because I think that people who only read the subject of the topic also don't read any replies to see if their argument has already been made. It shall be interesting to see exactly who does these kinds of things.

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However, if you want to know why you are banned, its probably because you didn't read the topic all the way. After all, I'm just now informing you that if you didn't post "ketchup" in your post in this topic, I would ban you for three days. If you want to know how to get out of it, a simple pm will suffice. Just ask for extra relish and give me all the secret passwords that have been hidden in the following posts:

I find this thread hilarious, it just needs a little more fuel for the fire....

The problem with capitalism is that it allows the richest 1% to own 80% of the worlds resources. There needs to be a "cap" to the amount of money a single individual can earn, and corporate CEO should be subject to all laws and punishments that the entity the govern may incur.

You say that communism sucks...but where in the world this communism is (or was)? Russia-socialism, China - they only try to rule 1 200 000 000 people so it is not capitalism, nor socialism, nor communism, Cuba - socialism (or "real" socialism) -it is not perfect but they are trying...so communism is "the best way" how to rule this world, socialism is good in some countries, communism-utopia

At 11/2/09 02:01 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 11/1/09 05:11 PM, Drakim wrote: This is a freaking parody thread

Does anyone else realise that parody threads are strictly prohibited by NGBBS rules?

oh, ketchup. :)

Everybody does them, and I'm pretty sure more than one mod has seen this thread and not locked it yet.

I could argue that it's semi relevant because it actually addresses a problem we face here in the newgrounds politics board, namely that people simply don't read the posts before replying.

At 11/2/09 02:37 PM, Drakim wrote: Everybody does them, and I'm pretty sure more than one mod has seen this thread and not locked it yet.

I did decide to humor you and I am fairly disappointed in the responses in this topic in general, but I don't consider myself a poli mod, and try not to mod here either as I'm more of a poli noob myself, so don't take my posting here as a blessing. If the other more regular mods wanted to lock this they could and we probably should before the end of the week, as pox said earlier...

At 10/26/09 09:46 AM, Drakim wrote: Capitalism has a major flaw in that it produces nothing but problems, however, this topic is not about capitalism. I'm actually doing an experiment to test my theory that a large number of posters simply reads the subject title of the topic and never the body message. It won't matter if you post about this being a ploy further down, because I think that people who only read the subject of the topic also don't read any replies to see if their argument has already been made. It shall be interesting to see exactly who does these kinds of things.

First off, I have read the entirety of your post, but let's start with the first sentence. Capitalism produces nothing but problems? America gained its independence from the British empire in around 1776 or something like that. In the 200 or so years of this countries existence, it has accomplished tremendous things. The first viable flying machine (kitty hawk), the depth charge, the first TV, the first radio, a transcontinental railroad, the first computer, moon landing, nuclear power, superpower, major force in both world wars, etc... In short, the United States is and always has been a major scientific and technological giant. To this day we still possess some of the most impressive technology (most notably aircraft) and the modern world as the world knew it was redefined because of our ancestors.

Countries like France have been around for like...700 years and have contributed french onion soup.

The fact is, capitalism breeds an atmosphere of COMPETITION. Those who thrive will be on top and those that don't...fuck you. Why do you think the SOviet Union fell? It wasn't because of any brillant military strike on our part or our allies...

At 10/30/09 05:08 PM, puddinN64 wrote: Well, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all basically dead. What else is there to use besides Capitalism?

Collectivism , Command Economic democracy , councilate democracy . all sorts of other things that could be used in place of capitalism

At 11/4/09 06:07 PM, Major-n0ob wrote:

At 10/26/09 09:46 AM, Drakim wrote:

In the 200 or so years of this countries existence, it has accomplished tremendous things. The first viable flying machine (kitty hawk), the depth charge, the first TV, the first radio, a transcontinental railroad, the first computer, moon landing, nuclear power,

While this is all true, it was Europe that laid the groundwork for most of it. Essentially, the United States perfected what our allies began. The point is that both have been instrumental in the creation of all we have.

superpower, major force in both world wars, etc...

Indisputable.

At 10/30/09 05:32 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote:

At 10/30/09 05:08 PM, puddinN64 wrote: Well, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all basically dead. What else is there to use besides Capitalism?

A moneyless society. Contrary to popular belief, personal freedom isn't obliterated with an absence of currency.

It is if one supposes that such a feat can only be achieved by forcing people to accept some sort of 'non' currency. But i doubt you hold that position so i would rather not be accused of straw manning you.

Currency emerged because it's more convenient to trade in uniform quantities of a particular good that everyone in the general area regards as having value, rather, it is more convenient then bartering.

I have no problem with people NOT trading in some sort of coin or the realm, or even trading in some other means that you wouldn't classify as money. (Beanie babies perhaps)

Funny though. Poxpower doesn't make posts addressed specifically to you about the absurdity of a society that doesn't perform transactions in money.

And it's still going! This is why I don't post on newgrounds anymore. You're all idiots!

Also ketchup I guess.

Your test has been done before.

Anyway, Capitalism does have problems, but it has more benefits. Especially compare to many other practices outside of theory.

At 11/1/09 04:19 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:15 PM, Drakim wrote: I regret to inform you that I am in favor of capitalism.

then why make a thread that just says "capitalism sucks"?

to see how people would react. i've read this thread and apparently im one of the few who did. which is really what the first post was about if yall would read. and while capitalism aint the best system in the world, its better than any other system we've thought of so far.

At 11/10/09 02:17 AM, genius21 wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:19 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 11/1/09 04:15 PM, Drakim wrote: I regret to inform you that I am in favor of capitalism.

then why make a thread that just says "capitalism sucks"?

to see how people would react. i've read this thread and apparently im one of the few who did. which is really what the first post was about if yall would read. and while capitalism aint the best system in the world, its better than any other system we've thought of so far.

No, clearly you didn't read this thread and I should ban you for 3 days.

Also, this thing has run its course. As many of you read lock messages read this:

ANYONE WHO FAILED TO SAY KETCHUP IS THE SON OF A INBREAD MENSTROUS BACK WATER BEAST.