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How to Be an Anticapitalist. Progressive policy makers won’t learn that parasites should never kill their host.
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 18, 2021 | Andy Kessler

Posted on 07/20/2021 6:33:09 AM PDT by karpov

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1 posted on 07/20/2021 6:33:09 AM PDT by karpov
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The purpose of Cloward-Piven is to kill the host, Dummy.


2 posted on 07/20/2021 6:34:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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You know, those poor socialists in Cuba are just falling apart — and it’s all because the rich and successful capitalists in the USA won’t trade with them and prop up their failing system. We are such meanies!


3 posted on 07/20/2021 6:35:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WSJ hated MAGA.

Embrace the suck, WSJ!


4 posted on 07/20/2021 6:36:28 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: karpov

“parasites should never kill their host”

I don’t think that’s necessarily true if the parasite has no interest in the survival of its offspring. Such a parasite can keep switching to new hosts, as long as the supply does not run out.


5 posted on 07/20/2021 6:43:38 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: karpov
Winston Churchill put it best (as he so often did):

"Capitalism is the uneven sharing of bounty...socialism is the equal sharing of misery".

Thatcher put it pretty well herself:

"Socialism works until you run out of other people's money."

I've visited several Communist/socialist countries in my day...China,in particular,caught my attention. During my most recent visit I stopped in Guangzhou,(aka: "Canton") which is a couple of hours north of Hong Kong. The city center has some new gleaming buildings but when you're 5 miles outside the city you're in the year 1544.

6 posted on 07/20/2021 6:44:43 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: karpov
Seems to be the MO of Communists:

Progressive policy makers won’t learn that parasites should never kill their host.

Operation Mockingbird adherents won’t learn that parasites should never kill their host.

Mockingbird started in the mid-1950's by the CIA to insert a few of their operatives in the media. Today it's the MSM/Enemedia.

7 posted on 07/20/2021 6:45:08 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: karpov

The successful parasites don’t kill their hosts. They weaken them but don’t kill.


8 posted on 07/20/2021 6:45:40 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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Everyone should have known that Biden’s intentions were no good when he killed the Keystone Pipeline on day one of his administration. Why would you kill something that provide immediate employment to 11,000 workers? Follow the money: Warren Buffet is a large contributor to Joe and owns the only rail line that runs between the ND oil fields and the refineries in the Mississippi Delta.

The even bigger question: How come Hunter, Hillary, Comey, Sharpton, et al, aren’t in jail?


9 posted on 07/20/2021 6:48:02 AM PDT by econjack
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“raising the top capital-gains rate from 23.8% to a punitive 43.4%”

I believe my father paid a 50% tax rate on his earned income during the peanut guy administration.

One has a choice to make a higher income or hit the golf course.

With capital gains the choice is to sell or not sell the shares. People might not sell the shares of a winner and pay a 43.4% tax merely to get to jump on the back of another corporate horse.

Jeff Bezos might set up an online bank and borrow on his shares for what the banks pay on CDs. Jeff would be considerably richer if he borrowed on his shares rather than selling some.


10 posted on 07/20/2021 6:49:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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the LEFT does not care if the country is a pile of rubble as long as they are in control


11 posted on 07/20/2021 6:52:33 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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“killed the Keystone Pipeline”

Alberta could ship its oil out via Canada’s northern rivers and sell it to China.


12 posted on 07/20/2021 6:52:38 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: C210N

Mockingbird started in the mid-1950’s by the CIA to insert a few of their operatives in the media. Today it’s the MSM/Enemedia.


When did the CIA go from anti-Communist to pro-Maxist, Jihadi? While I think the Obama Administration gave it a big push (especially with Brennan in charge), I think the ball got rolling under Clinton, and maybe even Bush I.


13 posted on 07/20/2021 6:56:12 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: joshua c

the LEFT does not care if the country is a pile of rubble as long as they are in control


Yup. Even in the worst Commie xxx-holes, those at the very top live quite well (unless they get purged). It’s good to be the King.


14 posted on 07/20/2021 6:58:00 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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15 posted on 07/20/2021 7:05:39 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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What rivers would it use? The Rockies block the Alberta Oil Fields and the Pacific and the major rivers flow south.


16 posted on 07/20/2021 7:12:56 AM PDT by econjack
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The whole point of the anticapitalists’ plan is to destroy the system. They want the host dead, so that they can replace it with communism. That’s the way they think.


17 posted on 07/20/2021 7:16:35 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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When did the CIA go from anti-Communist to pro-Maxist, Jihadi?

Turn your clock back AT LEAST back to 1960.

JFK's intentions turned out to be deadly.

18 posted on 07/20/2021 7:23:16 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: C210N

Leftists: “That’s OUR CIA now!”


19 posted on 07/20/2021 7:23:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

Without the common assumptions underlying radical ideologies, inclusive from fascism to communism, the 20th century would have likely been far more peaceful and prosperous time, if only because WW1 would not have had been set off by some lowlifes of that mindset.


20 posted on 07/20/2021 7:26:02 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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