Cancel culture—-ON TOPIC

[FedUPSer9816]

well its true why do they have it on the car and what does it symbolize or mean?

I thought it was a tv show about two good ol' boys. It's from the late 70s and early 80s, storied out of the south, so yes, the confederate flag was a thing back then. I still like the show, so I guess by your logic I hate black people and I'm racist.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

Well, anyway… Back to the topic of cancel culture… I saw that Ben Shapiro tweeted that Fauci should be fired. It made me so happy to see that tweet and I agree with it, but then I realized oh no I am part of cancel culture too.

I think it's all related. Ricky cancels points of view in his own thinking by not even hearing them out. Then, when you disagree with his point of view through intelligent argument he claims you are cancelling him or his views.

Fauci has admitted to changing his recommendations based on polling data, not scientific data. His position should always be to support the real science, not what he thinks the public wants or needs to hear. He has broken the public trust, and for that, he should be fired. Aside from being a job performance issue, this isn't cancelling, because no one is threatening to dox him or prevent him from ever getting a job again. He's so old he should just keep what's left of his dignity and retire.

 

[rickyb]

I thought it was a tv show about two good ol' boys. It's from the late 70s and early 80s, storied out of the south, so yes, the confederate flag was a thing back then. I still like the show, so I guess by your logic I hate black people and I'm racist.

i wanted it on my car but i didnt know that was the flag of pro slavery

 

[rickyb]

So you are basically saying that the work is it's own reward, that that is adequate, while saying capitalists compensate inadequately. Ok.

I don't need to look up my old posts to remember. The good thing about being honest is not having to keep track of what you said. I said I've listened to Sowell and Friedman, you, apparently, thought that meant I listen to them on a regular basis, and I use their thoughts as my own. You probably assumed that because that is how you form thoughts, by letting certain people tell you what to think. It was your job to prove your claim that I said something I didn't say, but you wanted to make it my job. The party is proud of you, little brother.

no i asked you who are hte most important guys you listen to and those are the 2 names you blurted out like a llama

 

[rickyb]

I'm not afraid of the ideas supporting communism, that's why I understand them so well and can speak intelligently about them, and understand why communism doesn't work. You would probably understand those things too, if you didn't assassinate the character of people who express ideas you don't like.

capitalism doesnt work. giving govt too much power is a bad idea.

 

[rickyb]

Exploitive is a point of view. Are the business owners exploiting labor? Or are workers exploiting business owners for an easier way to provide a living for themselves. I think it's a mutually beneficial system, and the envious people want to make it a moral issue of "fairness" because some business owners become quite wealthy. They don't pay attention to the ones who fail and end up with nothing. They are too afraid to try themselves, but have no problem judging those who do and succeed.

exploitive is defined by marx and its the first post in my anti capitalist thread. its common in any system where the surplus of labour is given to someone other than who is doing hte work.

who owns the stock market in america? who owns most of hte wealth? this should be a major clue that this system is not mutually beneficial but largely benefits a very small minority.

 

[rickyb]

It really depends on the company. When a company makes promises but doesn't deliver, and over the years you see them making the same promises to newhires then yes, it's exploitive. The dirty little secret of business today with so many good jobs shipped abroad is in order for their business model to work they have to have people willing to work for minimal pay with limited advancement and raises. We've gone from the world's largest middle class to about half the population just trying to stay afloat while the other half does ok all the way up to extremely well. This is a breeding ground for discontent and working towards some socialist utopia. People don't seem to get that as flawed as it may be the alternatives are worse and at least we still have opportunities to better ourselves here. But a guy making X at Office Depot might listen to someone saying that there's plenty of money to go 'round and all that's keeping you from having a great life is the greedy 1%. People want to believe that and when it reaches critical mass, which seems close, we'll have some serious problems.

some of what you said is right. well done.

whats wrong iwth copying germany's codetermination or italy's cooperatives?

 

[rickyb]

So you are basically saying that the work is it's own reward, that that is adequate, while saying capitalists compensate inadequately. Ok.

I don't need to look up my old posts to remember. The good thing about being honest is not having to keep track of what you said. I said I've listened to Sowell and Friedman, you, apparently, thought that meant I listen to them on a regular basis, and I use their thoughts as my own. You probably assumed that because that is how you form thoughts, by letting certain people tell you what to think. It was your job to prove your claim that I said something I didn't say, but you wanted to make it my job. The party is proud of you, little brother.

no im saying you recalling your post is its own reward.

 

[tadpole]

I guess a lot of people/companies want to distance themselves from ideologies that are becoming more and more taboo (All of these seem to lean right).
If someone were to be fired over their pro choice abortion views, then that would be cancel culture striking in the opposite direction. How about Colin Kaepernick?

 

[tadpole]

@rickyb can you please just start a capitalism is bad thread and post there instead?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

i wanted it on my car but i didnt know that was the flag of pro slavery

It's not!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

@rickyb can you please just start a capitalism is bad thread and post there instead?

He's a virus ... spreads virulently.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

no i asked you who are hte most important guys you listen to and those are the 2 names you blurted out like a llama

Prove it. More personal attacks. Sad and desperate.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

no im saying you recalling your post is its own reward.

I do recall. You misremeber.

 

[tadpole]

I think the capitalism/Socialism debate is interesting and worth talking about but I just get so tired of seeing it injected into every post, especially on topic posts.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

So........YOU started the cancel culture!?

Cancel Culture? Nope! ......... I started the IGNORE culture!

I also started the Oblivious Culture and Disinterested Culture.

 

[FedUPSer9816]

Jeep pushed to retire Cherokee name from SUVs

The chief of the Cherokee Nation says 'it's time' for corporations to stop using native American names.

www.bbc.com

Next up for cancellation, Jeep is being urged to drop the Cherokee nameplate.

 

[tonyexpress]

ON TOPIC OR YOUR POST(S) GET CANCELLED.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

ON TOPIC OR YOUR POST(S) GET CANCELLED.

Seriously ... I think it's a bit ludicrous to have an "ON TOPIC" thread in Current Events.
I remember when we implemented that 'feature', we excluded Current Events and the Fed Ex forums.

 

[rickyb]

Seriously ... I think it's a bit ludicrous to have an "ON TOPIC" thread in Current Events.
I remember when we implemented that 'feature', we excluded Current Events and the Fed Ex forums.

topics evolve.