Thread: Are you a Leftie or a Capitalist?

^ A bit far fetched there, BF. IMHO of course. Please lend an example.

Wanted to contribute to this thread but couldn't find the words to respond to phrases about lazy faries and liberals having that nice fussy feeling about giving lower less deserving people a job..
ps: what's wrong with MRs wacking off at 9.00am is that too late or early in LOS??

Are you a Leftie or a Capitalist?

Lefties ARE capitalists.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ A bit far fetched there, BF

not really, under most modern "socialist" (liberal for US) system, small businesses are favored over big businesses as they are the driving force behind employment, while big corporation are usually regarded as poor employers,

Big corporations need to be heavily taxed and regulated, and unionized, and subsidize basically our society, while individuals, and small corporations should enjoy complete freedom,

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

well I dress to the left, what does that make me?

Right handed. When it come to a piss you hold your dick in your right hand or haven't you noticed ?

I don't know which of them I am and I have absolutely no interest in politics.

Thats why I avoid Issues and it's always disappointing to find something like this in the Lounge.

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

Thats why I avoid Issues and it's always disappointing to find something like this in the Lounge.

Look again.

oh yeah. cool

^ Right said, Fred... err Bob.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I try to be a decent human being, I have no idea where left and right wing come into that but I do know that the majority of people who need to assign labels to themselves and others before they can see what's right and what's wrong are not decent human beings.

a bit of an easy response here from you DrB, a bit disappointing. I am sure Polpot and Mao thought they were doing the right thing and were decent human beings,

the definition of right and wrong is exactly the heart of the problem,

Originally Posted by DrB0b

but I do know that the majority of people who need to assign labels to themselves and others before they can see what's right and what's wrong are not decent human beings.

I feel the need to respond but something tells me I'd be wasting my time.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I try to be a decent human being, I have no idea where left and right wing come into that but I do know that the majority of people who need to assign labels to themselves and others before they can see what's right and what's wrong are not decent human beings.

a bit of an easy response here from you DrB, a bit disappointing. I am sure Polpot and Mao thought they were doing the right thing and were decent human beings,

the definition of right and wrong is exactly the heart of the problem,

Where did I have to say it had anything to do with with you THOUGHT you were? Your response bears absolutely no relation to what I wrote, are you drunk again? So you tell us, what has moral or ethical behaviour got to do with labels? I understand that you're Belgian, a label synonomous with being a [at][at][at][at], I however don't believe you're a [at][at][at][at] and prefer to judge you on your own merits. Are you telling me that I'm wrong and that regardless of the complexities of human nature I should judge you by that label and nothing else?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Where did I have to say it had anything to do with with you THOUGHT you were?

English please ? on the sauce again ?

Originally Posted by Ivor Biggun

Originally Posted by DrB0b

but I do know that the majority of people who need to assign labels to themselves and others before they can see what's right and what's wrong are not decent human beings.

I feel the need to respond but something tells me I'd be wasting my time.

Glad to see you've finally realised you have nothing to contribute. Peace out.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Where did I have to say it had anything to do with with you THOUGHT you were?

English please ? on the sauce again ?

Hmm. I see some problems there but nothing particularly difficult for anybody who can read English. Obviously I overestimated your capacities. I would have preferred, as I was responding to you, to have written in Flemish but unfortunately all the Belgian people I could have contacted to help me in preparing a sentence you could understand appear to be doing time for keeping children as sex slaves in their dungeons.

Here's a version of that question edited so as to be slightly more suitable for foreigners, feel free to attempt an answer or slime your way out of it again with another cheap and ineffectual attempt at "humour".

"Where did I say it had anything to do what with you THOUGHT you were?"

btw "on the sauce" is pretty much an exact analogue for "are you drunk?". Have some respect for the punters and at least try to be original.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

prefer to judge you on your own merits. Are you telling me that I'm wrong and that regardless of the complexities of human nature I should judge you by that label and nothing else?

ok, I see what you are saying now, I agree mostly. Nice re-edit. That said, you are being a bit "naive" in your response, unfortunately we need label to "describe" behaviors and see what's wrong and what's right on a larger level. Human beings are little monkeys, they think in group and bow to peer pressure when it comes to expression and actions. Think like a right winger, and you will act like one. At the end, your actions are more important than your thinking or intentions.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by DrB0b

prefer to judge you on your own merits. Are you telling me that I'm wrong and that regardless of the complexities of human nature I should judge you by that label and nothing else?

ok, I see what you are saying now, I agree mostly. Nice re-edit. That said, you are being a bit "naive" in your response, unfortunately we need label to "describe" behaviors and see what's wrong and what's right on a larger level. Human beings are little monkeys, they think in group and bow to peer pressure when it comes to expression and actions. Think like a right winger, and you will act like one. At the end, your actions are more important than your thinking or intentions.

What re-edit and why did you feel the need to red me for that?

Yes, we need and demand labels but left and right as labels are dumb because their meanings change according to who's assigning or accepting those labels. These are not truthful labels, they are far too broad, I know you like things to be simplistic but real life isn't like that. Left-wing, right-wing, capitalist, and so on change depending on where you stand at the moment, they are not innately truthful labels like black and white or sweet and sour, they have no innate meaning and are thus worthless as labels.

Example from this forum. Jet Gorgon and Texpat are both right wing, self described. TP believes that all of us can claw our way from the mud to the top, opportunities for all but, in the end, it's ability that counts, JG believes that all poor people should remain in the mud to help provide a good life for people like herself. One of those people (TP, for the slow-of-thinking) is right-wing and decent, the other is an animal. If you too were able to see beyond a simplistic labelling system then perhaps you too would see that life isn't black and white and can't be defined by a few simplistic terms devised to control debate and keep the "useful idiots" in their places.

^ ok, you completely missed my point, and yes what you are saying above is absolutely correct, I am not arguing that point.

There is no such thing as a left or a right, but when you are in an ideological war like we have now, with a polarized group making the call, you need to choose a camp and call them for what they are: scum right wing loonies. Technically they are not right wing, they are just loonies, but the polarizing touch is necessary for them to understand that they are on the wrong side of the fence.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ ok, you completely missed my point, and yes what you are saying above is absolutely correct, I am not arguing that point.

So if I am absolutely correct why did you red me for what I said?

^ because you didn't explain yourself, just made a silly comment, only after you re-edit, did your post made sense. Too late I redded you for it

Think of it as a red for laziness, you have have been staying too long in Thailand DrB

Lovely red btw,

Do some of them... 22-06-2008 08:16 PM DrB0b You would be a disgrace to your culture if you had one.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ because you didn't explain yourself, just made a silly comment, only after you re-edit, did your post made sense. Too late I redded you for it

Bubububut, I made no re-edit, do you mean my response? If you do you really should be ashamed for criticising MY English. Shame, Butterfly, SHAME!

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Think of it as a red for laziness, you have have been staying too long in Thailand DrB

Lovely red btw,

Do some of them... 22-06-2008 08:16 PM DrB0b You would be a disgrace to your culture if you had one.

Thanks, not too bad considering, I thought, sadly my first comment was way too long for the repo box, that really needs to be fixed.

Simple-minded redneck
Couldn't be further from the truth.

Another absent-minded pigeon-holing characterization by a know-nothing fuckwit who figures he's got the planet sussed.

Dead wrong, Einstein. Strike three, go to bed.