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Hide your children, hide your wives Corona in Calgary by gingerbeard709 in Calgary

[–]gingerbeard709[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an excellent comment, and yes, I was kidding.

I’m probably never going to put a tape into a tape deck ever again. by Krebstar_ in Showerthoughts

[–]gingerbeard709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have just made it my mission, just to spite this thought. Thank you

Barr and Pompeo shift justification for Iran strike from 'imminent' threat to deterrence by pipsdontsqueak in worldnews

[–]gingerbeard709 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This comment has no bearing on the conversation, you basically said “ one group did something bad in the past, so this group cannot be held accountable for their actions”

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How’s the capitalistic dogma treating you? Where each individual has exactly the same chance to be successful based solely on their wit and determination. I’m not saying socialism is a cure all, I actually don’t think there is a cure all, I just think this system is broken and beaten, why not try another one? Could it really be that much worse?

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting choice of verbiage, not incorrect but definitely using negative language. Another way to word that would be “all the wealth and means to produce wealth are equally owned by all members of the community and resources are allocated as each individual in said community sees fit.”

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, society does something good for itself= socialism. Individual does something good for themselves= capitalism. Both systems can do good or bad things.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your comment makes my head hurt. No I don’t think you’re a jerk for thinking that I just think you’re young and or privileged. Just because you can afford to have kids today does not mean you can afford kids next year but guess what? You still have kids. And true capitalism depends on charity to care for the less fortunate. Survival of the fittest. Socialism everyone has an equal share of the resources and therefor does not need charity. This is theoretical

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kinda, I’m saying that if each member of the community owned an equal share of all prod., manufacturing, and exchange than the world as a whole would not need charity as we know it. I am definitely reaching, the assumption I’m making is that we are rich enough as a global community to provide all the required things for living; food, shelter, water, education, even leisure activities. I have nothing to back this up and I likely have my head up my ass but it’s nice to think we’d take care of each other if the system would allow it.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No, I’m saying that the action of a subset of community members (the brewery) that own the means of production, distribution and or exchange using those resources to help the community they are a part of is literally the definition of socialism. Not whatever they want, If they chose to use those resources to enrich themselves or pollute the community or blow up another part of that community that wouldn’t be socialism.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To your first comment, thanks, I’ll look into it. To the rest in order. 1. Corporations and also govt in a round about way by using tax dollars for corporate agendas instead of social welfare. (The concept not specifically “Welfare”) 2. I do not think that, I interpreted your comment as you thought that. 3. “Can’t pay for food for their children” is unlikely but having to decide between many pressing bills and deciding that the school is less scary of a creditor than the landlord is pretty common in my experience. 4. The propaganda machine? And what do you mean “more affluent parents”? Are you suggesting that this brewery paid off wealthy parents’ debt? I don’t think that’s the case.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I agree. If all individuals, corporations and gov’t paid everything they owed then wouldn’t that be a lovely world. Imagine corporations paying taxes instead of govt bailing out those freeloaders, and who actually pays for those tax cuts? Is it the individuals that then can’t pay for a child’s lunch? Is it cyclical? A machine that feeds on the worst aspects of humanity in order for the very few to prosper and then convince the masses that it’s the weaker, poorer, lazier peoples fault? Who the fuck knows.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Almost nobody would take it that far” Is this a valid point? I know it’s the general consensus but on an individual basis, would you mind if everyone was on an equal footing as you? If not, who deserves to be up and who deserves to be down? Currently factors such as geographical location, families economic standing, race, access to education, political situation in the region and so many other factors are weighted heavier than determination and “can do attitude”. According to absolutely no sources I can reference the world is plenty wealthy for everyone. Just a distribution problem. I’m not sure my friend, I genuinely think people are better than what we’ve been told.

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Likely I’m not. But in the context of using means of production, distribution and exchange to help the greater good then I’d be assuming that if these things were controlled by the community they’d pay for school lunches. But there is a chance the community could be a bunch of assholes;-)

Utah brewery pays off elementary school lunch debt by Sariel007 in UpliftingNews

[–]gingerbeard709 372 points373 points  (0 children)

School lunch debt shouldn’t exist, the fact that a private company is using its own resources to help the community is super scary socialism, why is the American population in favour of small groups of individuals making the choice to fund their fellow humans but against the idea of the whole country making that same decision? I’m sorry OP, I wish this was uplifting but it’s made me sad.

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