To what extent do you agree with any of the following three statements?

[Andullero]

I wonder what our ultra-rightist SilverKnight would have to say about that? He claims to adore Trujillo, but would he like such a socialist policy like that?

I have the feeling that he has yet to achieve a thorough understanding of the regime. And that when he does he might pull a 180 depending on which feeling dominates the most, greed or ethnocentrism.

What do you mean?

That all his larping about wanting to advance the lot of the common man was just that, larping. In the end he only wanted for the elites to accept him and his family on the table, not the rest of his noir brethen. He achieved his purpose not only by marrying a mulatta (albeit not of means), but also by inserting his son and daughters on said circles, into which they would marry as well in their turn.

[Westbrook]

1) Stupid
2) Stupid
3) Stupid

(1) Agreed.

How does a billionaire and his mega yacht make anyone else's life worse

[Tooting Carmen]

I have the feeling that he has yet to achieve a thorough understanding of the regime. And that when he does he might pull a 180 depending on which feeling dominates the most, greed or ethnocentrism.

In other words, he wrongly thinks Trujillo was a free-marketeer in the Pinochet/Suharto sense?

That all his larping about wanting to advance the lot of the common man was just that, larping. In the end he only wanted for the elites to accept him and his family on the table, not the rest of his noir brethen. He achieved his purpose not only by marrying a mulatta (albeit not of means), but also by inserting his son and daughters on said circles, into which they would marry as well in their turn.

Well yes, he was a corrupt opportunist. But what I meant was: I thought the original Haitian Revolution was to abolish slavery full stop?

[Adrianv2]

I agree with statements to the extent of zero.

[Tooting Carmen]

1) Stupid
2) Stupid
3) Stupid


How does a billionaire and his mega yacht make anyone else's life worse

How did the billionaire become one in the first place? Did Richard Branson actually pay his staff at Virgin Airlines and Virgin Megastores anything like a decent salary? Do the Mittals pay anything like decent wages to steelworkers, be they in India or elsewhere?

[Celestia]

1. Agree to an extent. Those like Bezos and Musk shouldn't be able to find loopholes when it comes to taxes. Those need to be regulated more.
2. This one is a bit tricky for me. Racial profiling exists in the U.S, I've witnessed it myself while dating my bf. Minorities get treated poorly on one hand, yet get the race card on another. I think the U.S focuses way too much on race (which is the root of all this segregation crap) when they should be focusing on nationalism instead.
3. I'm a bit old school but I'm completely against promiscuity and hypersexuality amongst women. I think it's a sellout and rather it "empowering" us, it's effect is quite the opposite and only objectifies us even more. As far as men goes, I think rape cases should be taken way more seriously instead of these affluent assholes getting a tap on the hand.

[Adrianv2]

How did the billionaire become one in the first place? Did Richard Branson actually pay his staff at Virgin Airlines and Virgin Megastores anything like a decent salary? Do the Mittals pay anything like decent wages to steelworkers, be they in India or elsewhere?

They pay a market salary.

[Andullero]

But what I meant was: I thought the original Haitian Revolution was to abolish slavery full stop?

Nope. It began first as a mulatto movement against the discriminations that whites (both local and in the metropolis) foisted upon them, and later on free blacks joined the fray to demand the same, but neither one or the other wanted to overturn the system upon which the lifeblood of the colony depended. If they were moved to abolition (partially, I must say, since it continues in the form of serfdom to this day) and political independence was because the intransigence of both the black masses and the French metrópolis gave them no other choice.

[JamesBond007]

How does a billionaire and his mega yacht make anyone else's life worse

By weakening democracy but then again you seem to be a fascist or crypto-fascist and the point is not that he should not be rich and own a yacht the point is at which point is it excessive and at which point does it stifle the political input of non-millionaires or non-billionaires ?

Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy

Researchers from Princeton University and Northwestern University have concluded, after extensive analysis of 1,779 policy issues, that the U.S. is in fact an oligarchy and not a democracy. What this means is that, although 'Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance,' 'majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts.' Their study , to be published in Perspectives on Politics, found that 'When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.'"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...D4893B382B992B

The UN has declared Democracy a human right :

Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: 30 Articles on 30 Articles - Article 21


Article 21: A Short Course in Democracy

In three concise paragraphs, Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) outlines some of the fundamental principles of democracy: the will of the people should be the basis of government authority, and everyone has the right to take part in the government “directly or through freely chosen representatives.” It calls for periodic, genuine elections with universal suffrage and secret ballot, and also establishes that “everyone has the right to equal access to public service.”

It does not actually include the word “democracy” – which does not appear anywhere in the UDHR, apart from one reference, in Article 29, to “democratic society.” Just three years after the end of World War II, the term “democracy” was already snared up in the rapidly developing Cold War ideological disputes, with the Soviet bloc and Western countries interpreting the term quite differently.

“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.”
–– Amartya Sen, Indian winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics

This Article, in making core elements of democracy a fundamental human right, reflects the resounding statement in the Preamble to the UDHR that “it is essential” that human rights must be protected by rule of law “if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression." ...

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/...23957&LangID=E

[Sebastianus Rex]

1) Bill Gates is right, we need population control, the poor are too poor because of lack of planning, too many mouths to feed and they breed like cockroaches. Wonder why those Georgia Guide stones are still standing.

2) If blacks don't fell well in predominantly white societies they can always go back to Africa and be treated like royalty for sure, instead of being little cry bitches.