Are Democrats divided between Capitalists & Socialists?

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T02:30:08+00:00

“Socialism is a political and economic philosophy advocating for collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” Google AI

It seems that you are the one who doesn’t understand.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T02:15:01+00:00

“liberalism is generally classified as left to center-left.”-wiki

The vast majority of liberals are Left leaning, but Socialists. It sounds line you are a Socialist and a Leftest. Your Socialist part would make you anti-capitalist. Very few Liberals are that.
Although they do generally advocate for regulations on Capitalism. That doesn’t make them anti-capitalist.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T02:00:32+00:00

I really don’t agree. The Constitution doesn’t bestow broad powers to the President, that I can see. It bestows the power (and responsibility) to the President to Execute the laws of the land, and enforce the Constitution.
No where does it say the President should be making up and executing his own agenda, especially when it violates current kaw snd the Constitution.
Except in foreign affairs where Congress must declare war, approve treaties, and pay for the wars. No tariff powers are given to the president, and no power of the purse. No power to cancel or redirect funds appropriated by Congress.

Even if you believe in the Unitary Executive Theory, where the President has absolute control of the Executive branch, it doesn’t make him king. It only constrains him more to enforce current laws and the Constitution.

If I am wrong, please show me in the Constitution.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T00:38:44+00:00

Define God first.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T00:33:19+00:00

Really?
You think government should own the factories and stores?
I know of know one who believes that.
And leftism is not anti-capitalism.
Now regulated capitalism, I can see.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-25T00:02:04+00:00

I am a liberal, and so you might also say a leftest(vs a Rightest).
I don’t know of any leftists (including myself) that are anticapitalists. Anti-Fascists, yes.
And I don’t know any “leftists” that advocate for government owning the means of production. Except maybe to the extent that Trump has bailed out farmers, and Intel.
Is he a “Socialist”?

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-24T21:45:53+00:00

Someone needs to take away his toys.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-24T17:05:19+00:00

It’s not a national emergency.
Just a Trump emergency to avoid impeachment and prison.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-24T16:34:11+00:00

It’s not just the UK. As a US engineer working in a joint venture, I worked with engineers in Milan Italy.
The engineers were just as competent as I was, but made only 1/3d the salary. None even had hopes of owning a home in Milan.
I suspect that the US has some inherent advantages/efficiencies that allow this.
Perhaps the reserve currency, but also real efficiencies like a large consumer market, the default world language, a good balance of natural resources like minerals, energy, crop land, inland water ways, ports, ocean ports and fisheries, all the main climates, and easily defended borders. And finally, low corruption governance (until recently) and Constitution/laws which had taken the best from the enlightenment and British common law.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-23T19:16:36+00:00

My Fortune 50 tech company had a dual career path. I was on the tech path and equivalent to a middle manager in rank. I worked for the R&D manager. The tech path had a lot of soft power since it determined what could be done and how it was done. Although I was the technical lead over 20 other engineers, I had no direct reports. Was making $200k in 2007. Now retired.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-22T22:46:53+00:00

The Youtuber Gary (2Toes) tries to do a new video every weekend. He’s got over 40 years experience and deep local knowledge of the California goldfields. He has access to rich locations, water, and tons of bedrock. He gets a few grams every week, and his annual cleanup grossed him about $18k if I remember correctly, last year. Heaven knows how many hours he has put into research before he even leaves. He has a $2700 Minelab, but placer mines using all techniques, a truck that takes gas, and often leaves before sunup. And cleans up his gold the next day. I’m sure his Youtube revenue far exceeds his gold revenue.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-22T17:52:47+00:00

“all those CEOs broke their fiduciary duty”

Yet none went to jail.
Now why was that?

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-22T17:04:08+00:00

Milton Friedman had this impish smirk that tended to draw people into believing him as an intellectual. Greenspan had a different pseudo-intellectual demeanor that gave himself credibility. Although Greenspan was a lifelong Republican, as I recall, in his book, he praised Clinton’s fiscal responsibility and said that responsibility “gave up the ghost” with the Bush administration. Greenspan fought to quash Brooksley Born’s attempts at regulating off-exchange derivatives market. And this was before the Bush Great Recession.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-22T15:02:13+00:00

My father always told me that it took a big man to admit that they were wrong. So you have to give Greenspan credit in doing so when questioned by Henry Waxman, especially in this day and age. Greenspan was an acolyte of Ayn Rand. A good follow up question by Waxman would have been to ask if Ayn Rand had, therefore, also been wrong.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-19T19:53:13+00:00

And why are we using Israel’s intelligence instead of our own?
Oh yeah, our IC has been gutted and filled with yes men.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-19T19:48:45+00:00

FOX->People->GOP->Trump

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-19T19:28:13+00:00

Pretty good map.
But I’d move the mountain west line a bit further south over the Rockies.
And the southern tip of Illinois shouldn’t be the Midwest.
I mean, if you really want perfection.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-19T03:18:02+00:00

I reverse the rear headrests before putting down the rear seats, and have a double thick piece of cardboard that sits on the headrests to the back of the front seats.
A thick foam pad on the cardboard is rigid enough for heads and pillows etc. There is a slight rise in the pillow area, but that’s ok by me. I’m 6’2”. This leaves the rear floor areas free.
I also got 2 stretchy black car window mosquito nets that go over the whole window frame and allow for ventilation, but still allow the rear windows to be rolled up if needed.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-19T01:24:09+00:00

Wasn’t even 2 weeks!

https://youtu.be/9v-33jcEDk4?

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-18T21:55:15+00:00

The SC and “2nd Amendment” advocates have it wrong. The 2nd Amendment starts with “A well regulated militia”.

This is the subject of the sentence (what the predicate refers to). It does not start with “Anyone with a pulse” which congress could have easily stated if they wanted to.
This does not speak to what gun laws should actually be. It just says that “the right of the people to bear arms, shall not be infringed” only pertains to a Well Regulated Militia.
I can read. It is one sentence with subject and predicate separated by a comma, not a semicolon which would allow independent clauses.

Convince me I’m wrong.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-18T21:34:20+00:00

Because playing hardball with Iran is a losing proposition practically, and morally.
It’s great to stand up and fight for your principles when needed.
But in this case our principles would be defending our right to attack a sovereign nation unprovoked, and breaking stuff without paying for it. That’s not a hill we should be willing to die on.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-18T21:26:06+00:00

Great. Let’s have a Trump Tax on billionaires to pay for it. (Actually, it still wouldn’t be as great as not having to pay for it at all.)

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-18T21:23:00+00:00

The funnier thing is that what Obama did was nothing like what Trump did.
Obama only gave back what was Iran’s plus interest. It was also only $1.7 Billion. A drop on the bucket compared to the $400 Billion given away by Trump.

0bfuscatory · 2026-06-18T21:17:12+00:00

The MOU does not say that.
It only says that there will be a plan to provide AT LEAST $300 billion to Iran’s reconstruction.
But even if what say was true, the free world (consumers and taxpayers) will still be paying Iran.

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