Socialism: The New American Dream

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Just as long as the drivers are also bankrupted by fines.  Responsibility should be symmetrical.
What dodge? I'm simply asking you for an explanation why drivers do not go bankrupt.
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What dodge? I'm simply asking you for an explanation why drivers do not go bankrupt.
When a driver hits a pedestrian, often the biggest question is: Whose fault was the accident? Generally, fault is determined by the law of negligence. A person who fails to exercise a reasonable standard of care under the circumstances may be considered "negligent."

However, both the driver and the pedestrian can be at fault by being negligent. For example, the pedestrian may be crossing the street illegally while the driver is traveling in excess of the posted speed limit. This scenario is treated differently in different states.

Some states, such as Maryland and Virginia, follow what's called a "pure contributory negligence" rule. This means that if the pedestrian contributed in the slightest bit to the accident, then he and his auto insurance company cannot recover damages from the driver and his auto insurance company.

Other states follow a "comparative fault" rule. This means that a pedestrian can recover some damages even if he was partly at fault. [LINK]
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Irrelevant.
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Irrelevant.
Please explain.
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It's very relevant. The idea that corporations reward competence with advancement is so absurd that it could only be held by someone who's never worked for one.
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Cleary I graduated far before you did, otherwise, you wouldn't be making childish personal attacks.
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It all boils down to an ad hominem attack.

He's insinuating that I should be discredited because I've never worked for a corporation.
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There are many people who work for corporations and are pro-capitalist. Your argument is invalid.

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Apropos of what?
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Very true
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@Mharman
There are many people who work for corporations and are pro-capitalist. Your argument is invalid.

Yes there are. They are the people who are materially rewarded far beyond their productive capacity or moral worth by corporate capitalism.


Or they're just spectacularly dumb or wrapped up in motivated reasoning. But there's a reason that people tend to 'grow out' of libertarianism: exposure to reality tarnishes the appeal of illusions. Which is why you didn't answer the question: you're still in the stage of your life where you can entertain the idea that capitalism is meritocratic without too much cognitive dissonance. My favorite stage is the next one, if nothing else then for the pure delicious irony of it: 'real capitalism has never been tried!'

This is also, incidentally, why you meet a lot of libertarians who work for the government: they think that the problems of scale and managerialism are unique to government, when they are a natural result of the capital accumulation which originally gave capitalism its name.



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Socialism is the reason why China was far behind. Once the economy was capitalist, they were booming. Once they fix their government to democracy and capitalist, they will overtake US once they increase their foreign influence
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Education TODAY...with online resources, trade options, entrepreneur options...all are searchable online and
many options for learning from online degrees +++

The internet is FREE....mostly for now....information about anything can be searched...this is unprecedented
in human history to have this vast amount of information....

Why then is EDUCATION an ISSUE ?  especially when several of the leading innovative minds and organizations
are drop outs of the HORRIFICALLY OBSOLETE education system here in AMERICA...

So who is on TOP and WHY ?   

SURPRISE !   =  South KOREA...from impoverished to world class tech and business leader ...

University costs about 4-7000 a year and rents are cheap !   try that in the US without a Community college transfer !

Education should be FREE to very affordable and truly WORLD CLASS...especially in these fast TECH INNOVATING
TIMES...

The STEM approach is a start but making access and physical environments (schools) AWESOME ...not some shitty 
run down ugly building with equally shitty interior design...

Health care ?  Many Americans are FAT LAZY BLOATED SLOBS.....they could care less about their health...screw all of them

Once again EDUCATION about nutrition and wellness is available online ....so much of it .....so no excuse AMERICA

to many of you are just BLOATED BOZOS...your body and mind are as worthless as the way you treat them....

SOCIALISM...no...not to the point where everything is like a shitty school building...just plain functional..that = RUSSIA

people today want COOL...great design...great ambience...color..texture...sound...light...acoustics...all COOL !
Many schools can be rehabbed by the students...this will inspire them to become familiar with design thinking
cost of materials and process to create and install...and over time update with a new look !

Getting people INSPIRED and EXCITED about HEALTH-EDUCATION-ENVIRONMENT-GOVERNMENT +++
will enable creative solutions that are also COST EFFECTIVE...

So a balance of minimal costs for HEALTH CARE ...EDUCATION..and basic comfortable living conditions is essential....

From the comfortable basics a society can create competition for innovation in every sector of products and services
with a GREEN ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE PRIORITY....

China has several empty CITIES that can accomodate 2 to 5 million people !  40 years ago Chinese were still walking
and using bikes to get around...

The Chinese do not BULL SHIT like AMERICA does...just look online at the remarkable growth across the country
they are not afraid to spend for the future...AMERICA is a JOKE...filled with OBSOLETE infrastructure and truly
idiotic POLITICS...

There are many solutions to elevating AMERICAN SOCIETY...the greatest threat to AMERICA are the retarded AMERICANS
themselves for hiring total FOOLS to run the Country into the abyss of going backwards or nowhere infrastructure...education...
health care...

WAKE UP AMERICA.....get and demand positive results for LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS from the clowns of CONGRESS
or GET RID OF ALL OF THEM and get people that DELIVER.....

21 trillion debt ...what a JOKE...really...how fckg idiotic...the worlds bank and toilet paper....
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Socialism is the reason why China was far behind.
China never pr4acticed socialism, gee yanks know nothing.

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Ok ok sure sure
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Yah, China never had government control of the economy...ever...
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@Kasmic
36% of the population ought to take a vacation to Venezuela to see what happens when your country goes socialist.
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Right wing fascist fools need to get an education.
SCANDINAVIA.
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What about Scandinavia? They have more free markets and less diversity than the USA and more taxes on the poor. Is that going to make America great?
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They operate a socialist system of government, remember 3 days ago when you claimed they were evil socialists? What a joke.
I can't think of anything making America great unless it's an actual education system.
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They are less socialist than the USA. Free markets are the opposite of socialism.
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If Scandinavia is perceived as good, the left will cite socialism and the right will cite capitalism.

If Scandinavia is perceived as bad, the left will cite capitalism and the right will cite socialism.

Lets use examples that are non disputingly good/bad and non disputingly capitalist/socialist.

Some examples I can think of are:

-USSR(Bad and Socialist)
-Venezuela(Bad and Socialist)
-Cuba(Bad and Socialist)
-China(Bad and Socialist)
-Vietnam(Bad and Socialist)

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@Greyparrot
As usual you display your gross ignorance of words, in this case Socialism, the tripe you are indoctrinated with about socialism is capitalist fearmongering get an education.
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Is it some mental disorder that forces you to display your unassailable ignorance so often?
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@disgusted
get an education.
Lead by example.  Please keep your education non biased and objective while your at it.
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Like I had said before. If we could be more like the Nordic countries with a more free market, taxes on the poor, and a hegemony of culture, then I am all for it.

Sadly America can't do any of those 3 things at this point, and there are exactly zero American politicians advocating for any of those 3 things.
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@Greyparrot
Your willful ignorance knows no bounds. The poor who get taxed get much, much more back in benefits. Your inability to think will be supported.
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I have an education, you're a yank you don't get educated you get indoctrinated.
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And I support that. However, there are currently zero American politicians supporting that idea.
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Well you support socialism.