Recent content by Niccolò Rossi
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1 billion go hungry in 2010
The USSR like ever other country at that time was capitalist. On topic capitalism certainly is the cause of world hunger. The fact that people are starving when there is enough food to go around shows that there is definite, concrete evidence that the price system is an inefficiant method of...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #19
- Forum: The Social Lounge
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Health Care passes. Teabaggers FREAK DA F**K OUT
After thinking over the situation, I consider this result to hurt all parties involved. The passage will give a short-term defeat to the Teabaggers (whose rhetoric has turned downright fascistic over the past few weeks) and the Republicans. Moreover, I think the right-wing of the Republicans are...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #69
- Forum: The Social Lounge
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Why does America hate Socialism?
To be honest I don't care if the the PRC calls itself socialist. Socialism isn't just some word you can attach to anything you want, it has a definition and china doesn't fit it, no country does. It's an obvious fact that the working class faces the same problems in China as they do everywhere...- Niccolò Rossi
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Why does America hate Socialism?
The view that China was once a "socialist" country stems from the mistaken assumption that capitalism relies on private ownership. The fact of the matter is that the changes which took place in 1949 never had anything to do with the working class seizing control of the means of production and...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #30
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Why does America hate Socialism?
I think the main point here is that China has never been socialist.- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #28
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Why does America hate Socialism?
Successful for who though? It sure as hell isn't successful for workers. Under capitalism there is often little choice in the type of work avaliable, and the work itself is mostly boring, alienating, montonous, and exhausting. We are are essentially wage slaves. Under Socialism work would...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #26
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Racially Motivated Threads of the Social Lounge...
Of course institutional racism exists, it is rife in our society. As a white person you will never be turned away from a rental property because of your colour. You won't look at the TV and wonder why there aren't more people like you on, or when there are why they're stereotypes. The cops won't...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #102
- Forum: R & R (Religion and Race)
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Cruel And Unusual Punishment
Punishment should always be based on rehabilitation of the prisoner and when necessary protection of the public. Trying to use harsh punishments as a deterrent rarely works. Things like Capital and Corporal punishment should be absolutely banned.- Niccolò Rossi
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Obesity Epidemic
Obesity is a problem. But compared to the struggle against hunger put up by humanity throughout human history, it's a small problem - one solved pretty straightforwardly through individual initiave: exercising a bit more and eating a bit less (indeed, in this sense, the fact that some of us can...- Niccolò Rossi
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Why does America hate Socialism?
Well it is a cult, all they are is a cute little 'fuck the poor' movement. It's never been taken very seriously as a school of thought. You won't find many articles from an Austrian perspective in economic journals for instance. It's a load of crap quite simply. They believe you avoid all...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #24
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Why does America hate Socialism?
That Mises has no credibility and is a cult figure should be taken into consideration before anyone starts reading this mythical nonsense. Austrian 'economics' is a cult masquarading as science, in the style of creationism or scientology.- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #19
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Why does America hate Socialism?
I think the main reason is that people think socialism is for the poor, instead of for the working class, and even when you point that out, virtually nobody in the US thinks of themselves as working class. In the US class has come to be defined as how much you make/the car you have/if you own a...- Niccolò Rossi
- Post #18
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Pregnant woman arrested for thinking about Abortion. Yes, THINKING.
Jus gonna ignore my post..... :(- Niccolò Rossi
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Pregnant woman arrested for thinking about Abortion. Yes, THINKING.
So if something falls under the category of a living 'human being' it's entitled to use another human's body against their wishes. Or, is this not a general philosophy of yours but something you only apply to women's bodies. So yea, you say a fetus is a person? Ok, tell me, can you divide into...- Niccolò Rossi
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Pregnant woman arrested for thinking about Abortion. Yes, THINKING.
Your arguments are based on emotion, and for some strange possibly chauvinistic reason you feel for a FOETUS or EMBRYO (not a child) more than for the millions of women who you would deprive of control over their bodies. Lets get it straight, I do not call several pounds of dough a cake. I do...- Niccolò Rossi
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