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not strictly speaking.... there is heterosexual ass eating after all

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yeah!<br /><br />well, 1984 also has its connections to "Suzanne". Prince used to have a lover named Susannah (similar enough to be the SAME NAME), and he was an ECU Pirate because of the Purple Rain movie and soundtrack, released in 1984. Also, when it comes to Apple, Steve Wozniak married somebody named Suzanne, same year that the DNA remix of the Suzanne Vega song Tom's Diner was released, and the a cappella version of the song would be the "testbed" for developing the MP3 file format, which dubbed Vega as "mother of the MP3".<br /><br />and well, Apple's famous iPod product used the MP3 file format for its music, and well, Suzanne Vega was from New York City, which is dubbed "the big apple".<br /><br />Suzanne isn't just a common female name, its also synonymous with CONVENIENCE, seeing as Vega was born on July 11, which is 7-11, a name of a convenience store!<br /><br />MP3 players are the most convenient way to hear our favorite music!<br /><br />theres more to it than you think.<br /><br />without all these fun facts, YTMND would just be a "tin box that lights up", quote from Pirates Of Silicon Valley, a movie about the founding of Apple. Therefore Suzanne is also slang for FEMALE PIRATE!

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... whoa, settle down Beavis.<br /><br />The only thing I said is that there are some people archiving site assets, while others (such as you) are doing the Youtube thing. Planet is plenty big enough for both formats, no reason to turn this into some strange war.<br /><br />No one is "not showing respect" to the "ex-youtube users," some just prefer one format while others like the more original YTMND style.<br /><br />I can't help you with Youtube problems, you want to battle copywrite claims on a MULTI-BILLION dollar company? Go for it, hire yourself boatloads of lawyers and go after Google/Alphabet then. I'm sorry you got hit with copywrite problems, but don't take it out on people here.<br /><br />I'm not here to fight anybody, especially you or anyone else. (I'm assuming it's you) obviously got angered by something and proceeded to mass downvote my comments. I've never directed any hostile comment at your or anyone else on here for that matter and I am just browsing the website like I always have, back in 2007.<br /><br />Just take a breath and settle down, we're all YTMNDers here. There's too far few of us left to be attacking each other.

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Super Mario 64 is a strange game. I remeber the game when I was young. I think it was back in Christmas of 1996 or 7. Unlce Mike bought us a Nintendo 64. The game that came with it was Super Mario 64. I remember the day, Mom told Dad to install the N64 into the giant brown TV. It was in the basement. I was just staring at Dad as he played with the wires . The N64 was on. It was a matter of finding the right TV channel. Luckily, he pressed video, and the game was on the menu select screen. Obviously, Kevin must of press the start button the controller, passing the intro screen. I just remeber the TV screen pass to the side, and things were all around the place. All his chaos just to install an easy video game system. Mom probley told him to do it. We patch his pain. This probaley was after Christmas, somewhere in Janauary.<br /><br />I don't have much memory Super Mario 64 after that moment. Just Don playing the game anyway. The next mememory would be in 1st grade. Maybe 1998. I was getting off the bus. I think Kevin was there, not sure. Colin and some other kid was there too. I was a cartoon characther back then. I really thought I was something like an animated comedian. I said "I have some good news and some bad news. Good news is, I know where the 7th star in Bomb-omb battlefield is. Bad news, It's guarded by a big black Chain Comp!" This would sound funny to 7 year old kid. I remember having a similar joke. "What do you call dinosaurs ontop of someone's head? Dino-head!" The pun was logical, not funny.

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There is such a thing as free will, and theoretically we all have it.<br /><br />So, back to original question: should we -- or I, at least -- be more patient with those who have Aspergers Syndrome? I'd probably have more sympathy if advocates for Aspergers would at least admit that part of the syndrome is an intrinsic unreasonableness and rigidity which almost always lead to various forms of what most of us would call selfishness. But advocates instead constantly point out famous and successful people who have the syndrome, and talk about how Aspies are "differently abled" or some such nonsense. <br /><br />If Aspergers spokespeople would only say, we can't help the fact that even though we're very critical and judgmental ourselves we melt down if given criticism, and we can't help the fact that we can't take jokes and and that we're extremely rigid and very literal....Well, then I suspect I'd be more patient and sympathetic. But Aspergers advocates never admit to these things.

If this really is the end, I just want to thank Max for creating this place. I had some really good times on this site. Its Golden Age was a thing of beauty- there was so much creativity, and so much craziness. And thanks to all the users who made so many awesome YTMNDs over the years. The internet won't see another place like this again.<br /><br />Truly, we were the men now, dogs.

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i have no alts <br /><br />LOL you are hilarious dude. What does a screenshot of my my ytmnd activity not only not prove, but not even possibly allude to?<br /><br />all this says is that I viewed max's, gs's, and umfuld's profile. how does this indicate that I use alts?<br /><br /><br />[b]BUT, the bigger question is, what is your issue with me, personally?[/b] <br /><br />i've been nothing but nice to everybody. I'm a nice person IRL, accepting of everyone for who they are, as long as they're respectful or at least not an asshole.<br /><br />If you are suzanne, the only person i can think of who could have a resentment against me, all I have to say is, dude, I asked very nicely time after time, in pms and on site comments, to reduce your spamming on this website and was even there for you, despite how annoyed i was with you, to warn you that if you don't stop spamming, other users might take measures to get you to stop, outside of this website, based on what i heard back then.<br /><br />if this is someone else, I'm sorry for whatever it is (e.g. voting 1 minus 1'ing comments). You and this Chinatown user seem to be on some vendetta to "expose" me. I've been holding back from saying anything b/c i've been waiting to see what you're/his intentions were but now that i see that the intention is to "out" me, will you at least PM me on here about what's going on please?

There might be a spike, but this is not going to last. I also get the feeling that site sponsorships are a "drop in the bucket" for costs, even today for hosting costs and general maintenance work.<br /><br />Best thing we can hope for is for Max to breakdown the costs of ownership of the website in a fairly transparent manner so we can see just how realistic keeping it up actually is. I'd be willing to bet all of these sites take up terabytes of just storage space...<br /><br />An updated news posting would be nice as well, if just to say "hi." Not all of us are fully "mentally ill," just nostalgic at seeing a piece of our lives (and online history) discussed again and to not totally fall into obscurity.

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Was there some sort of news recently about the website being killed off? I just assumed it would be up for all eternity.<br /><br />The code base (complete with revisions) arguably should be open sourced though so it could live on. That, and the site content (aside from users/passwords, for obvious reasons.)<br /><br />I've been wanting to implement a version of the 2007 YTMND with HTML5 support for a long time. This place is just one of those things that needs to be preserved (and upgraded) like 'ole Ventrilo.

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I don't care about your first 2 points except to say that I wish all browsers still allowed you to pause an animated gif. I have no control over that. Did I realize this when I made this site? Yes. Did it stop me? No. <br /><br />I also value your opinion and also the colllaberations, discussions and alliances we have had. But it seems like your 3rd point is coming across as more of a demand than an opinion. I don't really take orders from others unless they are handing me a paycheck. I also disagree with a lot of what you said.<br /><br />- I actually do try to make funny sites. Since I am me and not you, I am going with what I consider funny, rather than what you or someone else thinks is funny. Do I have to tailor my sites to please you?<br /><br />- there is something called political humor. Many people enjoy it, actually. Whether you think this particular site is funny is irrelevant. <br /><br />- you accuse me of being like whetstone and woman, but their sites take themselves seriously. Mine are fun, short and silly.<br /><br />- I haven't actually talked about economics in any of my sites. And they aren't rants.<br /><br />- your idea of what politicdal satire sites on ytmnd should be seem more acid trips than actual political humor. Not my cup of tea.

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You act like you know so much about libertarian philosophy or politics, but it doesn't seem like you actually do. That's the kindest way for me to put it. Libertarians prefer personal and economic liberty first over the structural style of government or how the leader gets power.<br /><br />Many even correctly point out that the USA was set up as a limited republic where representatives would serve as a buffer against the excessses of majoritarianism. In other words, things like religious fanatics not massing up at a vote to turn people of rival religions into criminals. Or perhaps most people in that country hate gays, jews, gypsies, etc. and would like to persecute them. This is a fairly mainstream libertarian view on things from Jefferson to Ayn Rand and even many libertarians and republicans today.<br /><br />Anarcho-capitalists like myself, on the other hand, have practically no concern for democracy, at least political democracy at all because we believe in no government at all, at least not the kind that is set up in a completely consensual manner, like an apartment rental agreement, or security contract. I suggest you read writings of Rothbard for more info or read 'Practical Anarchy' by Stefan Molyneux.<br /><br />Finally, there is even a well known libertarian professor who makes the case that monarchy is better for personal liberty than democracy with his book "Democracy: The God that Failed".

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your a piece of shit before you asked the JDL to remove all your information i looked you up on the intenret from some comment someone left on you. and there where shit loads of crap of you with all your information on the intenret. I didnt think fucking good piece of shit jew. i thought what the fuck did he do? then i looked, didnt think nothing about it, but there where tons of posts of people saying this about you ALL you do is fuck up sites spam them and get gang members to ruin sites. And all your information after that posted on the web. i didnt think nothing about it, but they where right you fucker.

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I think I can answer that.<br /><br />max is probably getting drunk on more Grey Goose, and touring the bahamas or something. I also believe that max is there to ban more innocent YTMND users just because he hates racist or shocking jokes. My previous Suzanne account got deleted last month because of all sorts of comment spam about Leonard Cohen's Goatse addiction, and other similar nonsense.<br /><br />I'm not sure if max will ban me again just because other users are abusing alts.<br /><br />I've been clean from alt abuse for 14 days so far!

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what do you care for anyway you godamn nigger. just do what max tells you destroy every, free speech or as your gay fuck buddy up there tells you hate speech site. im going to kill yu you fucking niggers you hear that? fuck you. fuck maxs bullshit site and his fake faggots YOU FAGGOTS he lies with stuff with. pretending these votes mean anything on a site. hes just destroyign it. its why the front of the page the TOP is nothing but VOTE ORIENTED. just like the jew wanted. take LOTS of content and destroy it. all you jews are interested in that. boring shit. no communiaction thats why your destroying this site. fuck you. you little shit. dont spew shit at me asshole nigger

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Locke, I think it's time for you to get a little education on things.<br /><br />1. Umfuld dragged politics into this conversation, not me. He almost always drags politics into almost everything on YTMND, not me. He even blabbers about Chomsky for some reason when someone makes an unrelated joke about him.<br />2. No one I know of has the right to call libertarians insane, except other libertarians. Why:<br /><br />- a. Everyone else has led the USA and other countries in the west into ever growing piles of debt. This includes liberals, conservatives, social democrats, socialists, greens, labor party, communists, etc. Many of these countries tax way more than the USA, yet still manage to have large debts, any way you do it mathematically, per capita, percentage of GDP, etc..<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt<br /><br />The nations in Europe which are the most libertarian, which include Switzerland and Liechtenstein have extremely low taxes but have either no net debt or they are profiting from the debt. So is Norway, but they have their own oil fields. You also pay more than twice the income tax AND THEN there is the whopping 25% of VAT tax. You end up going home with a paycheck comparable to USA poverty line.<br /><br />- b. Libertarians are not the ones who lead countries into war. They almost always are against them. The nations which listen have lower debts, and obviously no veterans with missing eyes, arms, legs, wives or sanity.<br />- c. Also have been saying for decades that drug wars are bad. The nations which listen least suffer most.<br /><br />3. If your'e a statist, I really don't need you as a friend. Especially if all I am doing in regards to politics is defending what I stand for in this place. I'm not going to be told by a millennial whose hands are probably glued to some iphone or video game controller and has maybe studied economics only in high school about how bad my views are.

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THANKS MAX OH MAN YOU CAN JACK ME OF MY SITE BUT CANT DO SHIT. THATS GREAT. BY THE WAY ANY EXCUSE YOU HAVE OF ANYTHIGN YOU THINK YOUR BETTER ON. A URL AND A PICTURE AND SOME AUDIO SUCKS. THATS WHAT YOURTHEMANNOWDOG.COM IS. IT WASN'T, ONE OF THEM SITES. IT WAS ONE OF THEM JEW SITES SOME IDIOTS STARTED MAKING THAT SUCKED. BUT THERES AT LEAST HAD SOME THING ABOUT THEM THAT WORKED. THIS ONE DIDNT. AND IVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS SITE SINCE THEN, WHEN YOU OR WHOEVER WOULD BRAG ABOUT IT ON SITES AND SAID YOU WHERE OPENING UP USER ACCOUNTS. I REMEMBER WHENTHEY DONE IT. IVE CAME HERE EVER SINCE ALL THAT BUT NEVER STARTED AN ACCOUNT BECUASE OF THESE FAGGOTS THAT FLOCK TO THIS TYPE OF SHIT AND NEVER SHUTUP. NICE.

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Hi there, [b]i’m pilleater[/b], princess of ytmnd.<br />This is my hubby [b]SantabotAi[/b], the most awesome ytmnd user in the universe.<br />[b]Fabulous upvote powers[/b] reveal to me the day I held and lost my virginity <br />and sang…<br /><br />Twenty-five years and my life is still
<br />Trying to get up that great big hill of hope<br />
For a destination<br /><br />I realized quickly when I knew I should<br />
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man<br />
For whatever that means<br />...<br /><br />And so I cry sometimes
<br />When I'm lying in bed just to get it all out
<br />What's in my head
<br />And I, <br />I am feeling a little peculiar<br /><br />And so I wake in the morning
<br />And I step outside<br />
And I take a deep breath and I get real high<br />
And I scream from the top of my lungs
<br />What's going on?<br /><br />And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
<br />I said hey, what's going on?<br /><br />And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?<br /><br />[b](pichu)[/b]And I try, <br /><br />oh my god do I try
<br /><br />I try all the time, in this institution<br /><br />[b](superdreamkilla):[/b] And I pray, oh my god do I pray<br />
I pray every single day<br />YEAH<br />
For a revolution.<br /><br />And I say, hey hey hey hey<br />hey hey hey hey<br />
I said hey, what's going on?<br />And I say, <br /><br />DON'T<br />JUST KEEP IT INSIDE<br />LEARN HOW TO HIDE YOUR FEELINGS.<br /><br />(Max in bed ignoring ytmnd party)hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?Oh, oh oh oh----Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

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why are you taking up for pigs? why do you wish this on ytmnd? we don't do nothing bad, they take down sites with teh ability for people to communicate. theyre trying to shut down communication on the web, nothing else. everytime one of these thigns come up, thats all it is. and its a bunch of people that like the site. like p2p, same there. all pigs are by nature facists. they cry you do somehting bad and pretend they do something whatever else. who cares

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Lets go over your claim that [i]"that whole point of creating the Federal Reserve System was that "free market" instability was killing people and ruining their lives,"[/i]<br /><br />This was the public statement written by the bankers themselves or an equivalent statement. One thing I will agree with is that yes, in freer markets, there is much more instability of certain kinds. But that is mostly instability for producers. Meaning that one individual producer, as time goes on, has to face more and more new competitors who likely have better understandings of new technology and production methods. The older producer (especially if a large corporation) often has a lot of years of accumulated dead weight and bureaucracies which make it harder for it to adjust itself to be competitive with newer and more agile companies.<br /><br />Is there instability for the consumers as well? Yes, the consumers have the ability to buy ever increasingly affordable products and services at a better quality from newer firms. Nowadays, we see this quite frequently with software, video games, televisions, computers, cameras, mobile phones. There are also other occurances, like with Uber and Lyft vs the old taxi companies. Today, some mobile phones have more computing power than a lot of desktops from even just 5 to 10 years ago.<br /><br />Even if we set aside this logic and modern day examples, all the related economic charts actually seem to show (between 1865 or end of US Civil War and 1914) that the alleged instability in banking you speak of was actually a good thing. Prices were falling for consumer goods. More and more people were able to afford some basic things we take for granted today. Exports from the USA were on the rise compared to imports. The industrial index grew. Technology improved. People joyously immigrated to the United States by the millions and sometimes made even enough money to send back to their home countries.

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Obviously, any sane person would not count slavery as being among freedom, which ended in the USA and most other countries around the world before even 1900, most of those that did, decades earlier. I also never said that the USA or England were perfect examples of minarchism or anarchism. I simply have been saying that they were a lot closer than now and had much better and more consistent upward economic growth, technological growth, social improvement, etc. They also had a currency which increased in value and was able to buy more goods for the same dollar prior to the federal reserve.<br /><br />Were there poor people in those days, say around 1890 who had a hard time getting good healthcare in the USA or UK? Sure. But what country in that time would have done better? Something tells me (without looking it up) that I would have rather been a poor person trying to get it in the USA or UK in 1890 rather than in Russia, India, Mexico, Africa, etc.<br /><br />[i]"And, hey fuckwad, that whole point of creating the Federal Reserve System was that "free market" instability was killing people and ruining their lives, you shit-for-brains-on-a-stick. Get it?: IT WASN'T WORKING!! "[/i]<br /><br />Thanks, but I am already aware of the official government line. Which was co-written by great guys like JP Morgan, Nelson Aldrich and other bankers. Just thought I would inform you, governments lie sometimes, usually in their own favor.<br /><br />What I find so tragic and ironic about the left is that they are mostly smart enough to know better and are skeptical or outright angry when governments start illegal wars or when they increase police powers, reduce civil liberties, work with big corporations to form monopolies, abuse the homeless, have judicial misconduct, have unjust drug or alcohol laws or working with religious fanatics like Rick Santorum. However, they believe all the government lines about banking.

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Has he lost his nachos?<br />Can Beavis pee or is he blind?<br />Can he walk at all,<br />Or if he moves will he turn into the Great Cornholio?<br />Is he alive or just a fartknocker?<br />Has he thoughts within his head? (you said head heh heh)<br />We'll just make prnak calls there<br />why should we even care? heh Heh heh Heh...

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Put me down for #2.<br />I have no idea how disgusting or related to pedophilia these Stephanie sites were in the past and if they were, that's awful, but they haven't been in a long time. All I can tell you is this one is not and it's also far better than anything in up and coming right now. I have no idea why you would rally people to down vote a site that's actually creative and took hard work to create based on an old grudge that is no longer relevant while for months ytmnd has been flooded by spam and then up voted by a voting block of spammers. This is how ytmnd will die. Not just "Ha ha, ytmnd is dead", but actually die. When there's no one left on ytmnd but spammers to watch your little gif on top of unrelated gif sites, maybe then you'll understand, but it'll be too late.

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Umfuld, there is a difference between people forcing a fad every now and then on the front page for kicks and the MoonCrew or JohnnyLurg cult of alts. I remember back in the day, we would come up with something (like CRISPINTMND or something like that) and work together to get it all in the front page. You have issues with that, fine. But that is a lot different than Moon Man, where instead of forcing a fad for a night, you just keep going and going and going forever with an insanely racist fad that wasn't really funny in the first place, and they won't led die. That scared tons of people off of this website. And a

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Is it easier or more comforting to believe that there are at least half a dozen totally fucking pathetic losers living every single day in their sad sack non-lives to shit up the front page of this dead website with OCD retarded aspie moron content or to believe that it's all the work of one or two SUPER FUCKING RETARDED OCD ASPIE MORON LOSERS pretending to be different "characters" or "personae" or even pretending to be the accounts of other people pretending to be different "characters" or "personae"?! <br /> <br />No, it is not. Like believing in God or Ron Paul, true or totally the illusion of safety and security, it is like believing in something larger than you that can save at least a sliver of the goodness and wholeness of life, despite the overwhelming odds that this theory, practice, religion, belief, philosophy, tenet, or moral somehow makes the world a slightly better place. I have chosen to live, even if delusionally, naively, and 100% wrong, in a world where the pathos of the worst of ytmnd's total fucking shit-stained usership is limited to only one or two total wastelands of human garbage. And I make that choice knowing that, right or wrong, whatever, who gives a shit?!

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Has it ever occurred to [i]YOU[/i] that your most sincerest behavior helped embarrass the more talented ytmnd users from ever showing their faces on this website again?<br /> <br />And, even though I know your answer to this question will cause me to spittake my Ensure, are you seriously suggesting IN ANY WAY, upon scrolling through all six pages of Recently Created, that there is NOT A SEVERE LACK OF CREATIVITY IN THIS PLACE (I ask rhetorically as I note that you gave this screenshot of a PM posted by a troll who once spent a long weekend helping to spam YTMND, while it was still a little tiny bit less pathetic than it is now, with automated troll sites, a three-star rating).<br /> <br />Also, have I called you a fucking retarded fucktard of a fucking moron yet today? I feel like I should remember to do so at every opportunity, in case you are [b]sooo[/b] fucktarded a fucking moron that you forget how fucktarded a fucking moron you are.

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heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy this is buffalo (madDog) souljaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh <br /><br /><br />i just wanted to make this because there seems to be some confusion here. there seems to be thisthing where i'm like a jewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwbasher but i wanna makes things clear. number one..... number one im totally against racismmmmmmmmmm antisemtismmmmmmmm, classism which is like if you were born poor, well that shouldn't be how your judged all your lifeeeeee

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-Forget the fact that wars existed LONG before anything like modern capitalism existed. Please pick up a history book and read up on the assyrians, the romans, Alexander the Great, the persians, Ghengis Khan, constant wars of Medieval times, constant wars of primitive peoples in Africa, pre-columbian Americas, etc.<br /><br />-keep spreading the lie that capitalism CAUSES poverty when in fact the entire world has accelerated its wealth in a J-Curve during the time modern capitalism came into being.<br /><br />-Just fucking ignore that the countries who remained and continue to remain in poverty the longest are those who fought the hardest to avoid capitalism and industrialism.<br /><br />-just ignore the fact that the human lifespan increased by DECADES in the short time of modern capitalism when implemented.<br /><br />-just keep spreading the idiotic lie that life became worse in china due to capitalism, when in fact china has enjoyed accelerated wealth, prosperity and increased human rights since 1978 when Deng Xiaoping ignored the communist thugs and then brought in increased economic liberalization to china.<br /><br />-bigger middle class = better!<br />-increased wealth for all = better!<br />-increase of industry = more jobs, more goods and more prosperity<br /><br />There is not a single fact in your comment.

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Also, I do really appreciate attacks on average american ignorance. I join on that bandwagon on a regular basis. What I blame for that would go too far off in a tangent for now. I may have come across to you like a typical freerepublic.com type person because I went straight after marxism. I repeat that should not have been my approach.<br /><br />[i]"THE EVERY SINGLE DAY EVILS OF GLOBAL DOMINATING, RESOURCE EXHAUSTING, CHILD MURDERING CAPITALISM ARE NOT PARALLEL TO A LIST OF LITERALLY THE WORST OFFENSES BY PSYCHOTIC ZEALOTS WHO HAPPENED TO INCORRECTLY, OUT OF CONTEXT, AND SELF-JUSTIFYINGLY CITE MARXIST LITERATURE AS INFLUENCES"[/i]<br /><br />I also appreciate most of the concerns brought up here. All I will add is that there are indeed countries that do have capitalism AND also needlessly destroy resources. I am familiar with this sort of objection. But I do want to say that I think there are also some countries which have varying degrees of capitalism present, but to my limited knowledge, are not known for being exploitative or wasteful of resources. For example, I am unaware that Denmark or Switzerland are known for exploiting people or invading countries for oil.<br /><br />My point is that I am skeptical that capitalism will always lead to bad things every time. But maybe I am working with a different definition of capitalism than you.

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While I agree with his general premise, we are witnessing an age where capital is entirely capable of absorbing, even co-opting, its own critique. In the US, hegemony smugly praises itself as "welcoming" dissent and diversity of opinion, all while subsuming any radical gesture into the spectacle. Just ask any dedicated radical (from any political ideology) who's ever worked "behind the scenes" to organize anything, from SDS to OWS to the Tea Party movement: there's a reason the people in the stupid hats and face makeup, at whatever rally, sit-in, or protest we're talking about, are the first to be approached, interviewed, featured, etc.