The Great Depression No One Talks About

Everything Phat says is idiotic to you, to the point where you feel the need to publicly belittle and humiliate him. Its more than obvious. I've been quietly watching it for years. The question is, why? He's been very cordial to you over the years but you perpetually brow-beat him and berate him. Like a disapproving father... nothing is ever good enough. Tsk, tsk, tsk... sad. Explain. That's right, cuz the root cause of shoplifting is shitty ethics... don't feed me some bullshit about "hunger" or "inequality." This is America. Nobody goes hungry. 1/3 of the entire population is on some form of government assistance. If you took a tally of all the things stolen, the majority would be cosmetics, video games, beer, etc not diapers and baby formula. I know, its so heart-warming to think shoplifters are doing it to survive, but they do it because they think they can get away with it and don't give a shit about other people. It opportunism, Jar. Or do you really think looters are out there stealing powdered milk for their children? Then if less is necessarily better then get rid of police altogether. Everything will just kind of fall in place. Just because CHOP/CHAZ immediately devolved into Mogadishu doesn't mean it would happen everywhere. Lets experiment and see which society flourishes and which society devolves into tribal warfare run by the single ethic of 'might = right.'

Jar, it's not hard to pull up every reply you've ever made to Phat, and usually only Phat in the absence of Faith, but it's more than an opinion. What do you have against the guy? He's a pretty nice guy, I don't understand why you are so hard on him. I doubt that is what you meant since Phat specifically referenced shoplifting... That's hardly relatable to anything you outline, but for the sake of a good argument lets tackle it. The War on Drugs is a failure that I won't dispute. Legalize drugs and it will bleed cartels dry. The militarization was in wake of the LA bank robbery where two men were able to kill and critically injure hundreds of officers because they were out-gunned. The reality is that Bear Cats and M4's make sense for police officers to have. I think the whole 'militarization' is really overblown. Tanks? Landmines? Claymores? Bazookas? Okay, a bridge too far. You know it turns me on when you talk dirty to me

Its a farce. If socialism worked the way people like Ringo thinks it works, it would be flat out communism. And if its communism then be prepared for a North Korea. History doesn't have a single example of anything besides that repressive system. People love to cite Sweden or Norway as examples of socialism, but the reality is that they are far more capitalistic than they are collectivists. Volvo and Ikea make money because they operate on a capitalist system. If you think socialists all make the same amount of money, I would to sell you some beach front property in New Mexico

Since that time, I should say... It was a watershed moment where everything has changed when it comes to how police do things. I suppose one could argue that the Miami FBI shooting in 1986 was more or as much of a watershed moment, but definitely since the North Hollywood shootout have so many people been killed and maimed by being outgunned. It was the time when long guns were part of regular inventory whereas they had to stop at local gun stores just to get that equipment during that event.

I've been reading your words for nearly 15 years, I think I have a pretty good idea. Communism, please stop trying to soften it. I grew up in Miami around thousands of Cubans who all shared the same sentiments and personal stories about the horrors of the Castro regime. My brother-in-law is Cuban. Cuban culture and politics is deeply entrenched into who I am. This is aside from the Cubans that I personally plucked out of the sea who risked life and limb to escape, what, Ringo? Imagine how bad it must be to crudely thatch together oil drums and cross the sea hoping that the currents will take you 90 miles to freedom before you die or starvation, sun exposure, dehydration or dysentary. Look at all the Olympic defectors.... competing for their country and then fleeing to another country. Interesting how it isn't the other way around, well, EVER. The only time an American defects to Cuba is to escape prosecution for murderWhat fucking planet do you live on that even in 2020 you would have the balls to try and defend an indisputable failure? You must be so isolated that you actually believe this nonsense. Let it go. Marxism is a sham. It always has been and always will be. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

How might that have happened? Ringo, we aren't talking about a handful of defectors.... We are talking about tens of thousands of people over the span of multiple decades so terrified of Fidel and his government that they risked death just to arrive at their own political enemy's doorstep for salvation. And, wow, look at that... They're flourishing. Wow, people fleeing war zones.... Insane. I'm talking about Americans getting on rafts to flee the US in search of a better way of life in Cuba. How often does that happen because of the awful, repressive American hegemony? You have no argument. Expound, please. You didn't have to.... It doesn't take a meteorologist to know which direction the wind is blowing from. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

Batista was a dictator who was supplanted by a dictator. What does any of it have to do with what I said, that you see Cubans coming to America not the other way around? Yeah, like all the celebrities who vowed to move to Canada after Trump won the election but never went anywhere. No take backs!!!! Not sure what that has to do with Cuba but, okay... Who are you referring to? Phat doesn't want his hard earned money going to people who contributed nothing to the pot. I suppose that is Marxist, since Stalin threw those who did the same in Gulags!

Yeah, Castro clung to power until he died and handed over power exclusively to his bloodline and didn't ever open it up to free or democratic voting process because he was "out for the people." Yeah, just a selfless man of the people. The hundreds of thousands of people [political dissidents/enemies] who either fled, were imprisoned or executed knew he was a "man of the people." We were specifically talking about Cuba in relation to America. Americans don't go live in Cuba, Cubans go live in America. What does that tell you about the reality of the situation versus the one you desperately want to believe? Are you comparing Canada with Cuba??? Canada is a functioning society on par with Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, etc. And Canadians move to America too, what's your point? Take Seth Rogan back, we don't want him

I agree with lifting the embargo. I don't see why making Cuba even shittier should have ever been the goal. The goal is to introduce the taste of freedom so that they will demand it for themselves/