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		<title>By: lucklucky</title>
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		<dc:creator>lucklucky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The socialist have a fanboy...]]></description>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam the Unassailable leaves Kirk wordless, drives the breath from his body, snuffs out the light in his soul, leaves him in psychic torment, battered, beaten, broken, alone.]]></description>
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		<title>By: Sam J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirk,&quot;...It’s amazing how supposedly smart people can hold two mutually opposing viewpoints at the same time, and not develop brainlock from the sheer cognitive dissonance involved...&quot;

More gas-lighting. This is a technique the Jews use frequently. They prop up two opposing systems or ideas but ONLY compare the extremes of any of these ideas while totally ignoring all other ideas that are anywhere in between. So everything that is Socialist is &quot;USSR&quot;, must all be controlled. Every damn thing but we know that many Socialist systems control business so that they will invest in the population of the country and that taxes are used to moderate wealth extremes and THEY&#039;RE DOING JUST FINE. Of course that&#039;s not what you will hear from the Jews. It&#039;s only their warped systems like full commie or full oligarchical capitalism that we get to compare. Nothing in between. I pointed this out about Moldbug who in my opinion is just anther verbally florid gas-lighting Jew and of course I&#039;m told I&#039;m too stupid to understand him but is this true? If you strip away all his verbiage that the autistic are so fond of the basic message is democracy is dumb and monarchy is good because the monarch will have more reason to look after his investment. But they left out the most successful political system  ever, the limited voting Republic with broad participation of the public where those with a stake in the system make the decisions. So his whole message is just another lying Jew gas-lighting so they can get a monarch the Jews can bribe to ruin us. It&#039;s all lies.

Listening to Jews for any information on how to run anything is like listening to industrial noise music and expecting Mozart. It does not compute and is pointless. They lie so much your better off ignoring all advice they give or even better getting rid of them and throwing them out of the country.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kirk,&#8221;&#8230;It’s amazing how supposedly smart people can hold two mutually opposing viewpoints at the same time, and not develop brainlock from the sheer cognitive dissonance involved&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>More gas-lighting. This is a technique the Jews use frequently. They prop up two opposing systems or ideas but ONLY compare the extremes of any of these ideas while totally ignoring all other ideas that are anywhere in between. So everything that is Socialist is &#8220;USSR&#8221;, must all be controlled. Every damn thing but we know that many Socialist systems control business so that they will invest in the population of the country and that taxes are used to moderate wealth extremes and THEY&#8217;RE DOING JUST FINE. Of course that&#8217;s not what you will hear from the Jews. It&#8217;s only their warped systems like full commie or full oligarchical capitalism that we get to compare. Nothing in between. I pointed this out about Moldbug who in my opinion is just anther verbally florid gas-lighting Jew and of course I&#8217;m told I&#8217;m too stupid to understand him but is this true? If you strip away all his verbiage that the autistic are so fond of the basic message is democracy is dumb and monarchy is good because the monarch will have more reason to look after his investment. But they left out the most successful political system  ever, the limited voting Republic with broad participation of the public where those with a stake in the system make the decisions. So his whole message is just another lying Jew gas-lighting so they can get a monarch the Jews can bribe to ruin us. It&#8217;s all lies.</p>
<p>Listening to Jews for any information on how to run anything is like listening to industrial noise music and expecting Mozart. It does not compute and is pointless. They lie so much your better off ignoring all advice they give or even better getting rid of them and throwing them out of the country.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for Hitler&#039;s billions. They say that his wealth came from his books, image rights and not paying taxes. They also say he gave a lot of money to young married Germans.

Hmmm...foundation??? Do Jews pay taxes on their foundations?

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/uncovered-hitler-s-secret-5b-fortune-1.5252852

Anyways you know it&#039;s bullshit because...

&quot;...Details about Hitler&#039;s hidden fortune were contained in a will drawn up by the dictator just before his death and discovered by Herman Rothman, a German Jew who worked with British intelligence during World War II...&quot;

&quot;...If the money were ever found, one participant in the documentary says, relatives of Hitler could conceivably claim a portion – or earn a continuing wage from the Nazi&#039;s image rights.

The documentary also reveals that Hitler levied a royalty on German stamps that used his image and hid the money away in secret bank accounts...&quot;

So a Jew finds a &quot;secret will&quot; that is the key to billions of &quot;secret wealth&quot;, that I&#039;m sure the Jew wants out of the goodness of his heart to pay off the blameless Jews and we are supposed t believe him???

Are you all fools? Imbeciles? Nincompoops? Have you not learned anything from thousands of years of Jews lying to you and ripping you off? If you believe this Jew your mind is full of mush or sawdust whichever is the most turgid.

It&#039;s all lies and gas-lighting. If you believe anything the Jews say at this point you are severely handicapping your brain of reality. You&#039;d be better off gluing a virtual reality helmet to your head and getting all your information from Anime.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for Hitler&#8217;s billions. They say that his wealth came from his books, image rights and not paying taxes. They also say he gave a lot of money to young married Germans.</p>
<p>Hmmm&#8230;foundation??? Do Jews pay taxes on their foundations?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/uncovered-hitler-s-secret-5b-fortune-1.5252852" >https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/uncovered-hitler-s-secret-5b-fortune-1.5252852</a></p>
<p>Anyways you know it&#8217;s bullshit because&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;Details about Hitler&#8217;s hidden fortune were contained in a will drawn up by the dictator just before his death and discovered by Herman Rothman, a German Jew who worked with British intelligence during World War II&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;If the money were ever found, one participant in the documentary says, relatives of Hitler could conceivably claim a portion – or earn a continuing wage from the Nazi&#8217;s image rights.</p>
<p>The documentary also reveals that Hitler levied a royalty on German stamps that used his image and hid the money away in secret bank accounts&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>So a Jew finds a &#8220;secret will&#8221; that is the key to billions of &#8220;secret wealth&#8221;, that I&#8217;m sure the Jew wants out of the goodness of his heart to pay off the blameless Jews and we are supposed t believe him???</p>
<p>Are you all fools? Imbeciles? Nincompoops? Have you not learned anything from thousands of years of Jews lying to you and ripping you off? If you believe this Jew your mind is full of mush or sawdust whichever is the most turgid.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all lies and gas-lighting. If you believe anything the Jews say at this point you are severely handicapping your brain of reality. You&#8217;d be better off gluing a virtual reality helmet to your head and getting all your information from Anime.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for Hitler being rich well I can find easily another site that says he was worth $150 Million and it&#039;s most likely another Jew site so you could probably cut that by an order of magnitude. No one who is a serious person claims Hitler did what he did just to make money. 

Kirk,&quot;...Happened in Russia, as well–A huge part of why they collapsed in the nineties was due to the oil industry running on fumes, ...&quot;

No this was because oil prices crashed. Supposedly this was a planned event in concert with Saudi Arabia to crash oil prices. The idea that no improvement into oil services had been done since the Tsar...that&#039;s the dumbest thing ever. Complete farcical nonsense. One thing you have to keep in mind that if a Jew has his mouth open and is agitating the air he&#039;s most likely lying. Same goes for his fingers on a keyboard. It&#039;s just one big gas-light after another.

Kirk,&quot;...Soviet Union chose not to invest in Baku or any of the other existing oil fields, and that was back when they had access....&quot;

1920 &quot;...November 14, the Baku Polytechnic Institute was established, becoming the first institute in Europe and Asia to train engineers in all fields of the oil industry...&quot;

Ok so no development by commies. Wrong. (I&#039;m not a commie or a hard core Socialist. Mostly I&#039;m pointing out the very, very frequent use of of completely made up stories by Kirk to gas-light. Most of the time I don&#039;t even comment on them but randomly every so often I will spend a few minutes looking and documenting how he just makes shit up and claims to be an &quot;authority&quot;. I would be very wary of any of his war stories as he seems to have been everywhere, done everything and figured out any and all things military. I&#039;m skeptical especially since I frequently catch him making stuff up from whole cloth, having no basis in reality.)

Jim,&quot;...Socialism is how value is destroyed, as opposed to capitalism, which is how value is created...&quot;

Nonsense. Reasonable insurance type Socialism where the wealth of the society is spread around more equitably makes for a better country and a wealthier country over all. Jews taking over industries with FED debt and then looting the pension funds, charging massive consulting fees and moving the production to China is hardly a recipe for production for the citizens involved.

Capitalism always devolves into Oligarchy as we have right now. The reason is profits always shrink due to competition so the capitalist(Oligarchs) always end up monopolizing everything to keep from being overthrown by new entrants.

 One of the reasons Rome fell was the idiot greedy Senators and the rich threw everyone out of work by replacing them with slaves. When it came time to defend Rome all these people cast aside by the wealthy shrugged and ran off. Why should they die for the rich? We are of course doing the same today in WeimAmerika.

How convenient that the Jews get over $40 trillion in low to zero interest loans from their FED buddies which they then use to buy everything productive. WOW isn&#039;t capitalism great, for the Jews and the connected. They then run everything they buy into the fucking ground or move the production to China for wage arbitrage. All the while pretending people lack creditably for noticing. Well I fucking notice. 

This all gas-lighting by the Jews where we argue over Socialism and Capitalism when the real problem is the psychopathic Jews who parasite off of every single country they have ever been to for thousands and thousands of years. Eventually leading to their expulsion.

Exodus 12
    35&quot; And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.&quot;

    Ripping people off from the beginning.

It amazing to me someone has not completely wiped them out. Most Europeans have mostly just wanted them the fuck away from them. This is the only thing that has saved them. They parasite on nice White people. Let&#039;s see how they work their magic in China. So far it&#039;s been a big bust. They hollow out the west moving power to the east then...they are fucked because many, many people are just like me and have started noticing. When they finally smash the west they will have no where to go. And they will have to go soon. Every single trend of dysfunction pushed by the left and the the Oligarchical monopolist is mostly financed, pushed and corrupted by the Jews. They are the main player in dysfunction, blackmail and corruption. To deny this is to be blind, dumb, stupid and ignorant.

I also notice building 7 falling the same speed as if only air held it up for roughly 108&#039;. A feat of complete impossibility without some sort of demo.

How can you tell that this whole argument put up by Kirk and Jim are gas-lighting? Simple. Both Socialism(actually Communism) in it&#039;s extreme in Russia was used to take over Russia and loot it and the extreme of Capitalism in the USA and elsewhere was used by the Jews to take over and ruin everything. It&#039;s all a fucking big gas-lighting lie.

 The real truth is moderate sharing of the wealth, Socialism, is beneficial for a country overall except for a few billionaires. As long as you don&#039;t let the Jews run it. The Jews are the problem.

Let&#039;s see what the Jews do about Russia. Russia has recently paid off every dime of it&#039;s debt and will no longer allow the Jews to run their central banking system. Qaddafi did the same and..it didn&#039;t turn out well for him. I&#039;m not so sure the Jews can do the same to the Russians.

Countries that run their own central banks and are not complete idiots like in Zimbabwe do excellent because they can pour money into productive enterprise. Capitalism with capital for the masses instead of lining the Jews pockets. Examples are Japan and China where they are Socialist but are hardly all living in chicken coops or vans like so many people are forced to to in California.

We keep going on about how the Jews have done this or that but the answer is relatively easy. The Jews as a group appear to be or are at least undeniably the same in function as a tribe of psychopaths. I&#039;m not saying all Jews are psychopaths but it&#039;s undeniable that the effect of a mass of Jews moving into your territory can in no way be distinguished from a tribe of psychopaths moving into your territory. This is fairly impossible to deny with all the cascade of abuses by the Jews and the echos of &quot;every single time&quot;. It is self evident.

That being the case we need to get beyond describing the Jews or categorizing their abuses and get to the what to do. We&#039;ve tried every thing. Conversion, special laws, all sorts of incantations for thousands of years but the only one that has worked 100% of the time is to get rid of them. Deport them and allow them no say so in your finances, lives or society by any means. This not surprisingly is what psychologist say you should do about psychopaths in your lives. Get rid of them. We should get rid of the Jews. Peacefully if we can get it but by any means necessary they must go. We should focus all our efforts on getting rid of the Jews and never let them come back.

If you will keep it in mind that the Jews are a tribe of psychopaths then you will never be surprised at their behavior and many times be able to predict it. 

Getting rid of the Jews has worked like magic many, many, many times in the past. Greatly benefiting the population, raising the welfare of all, making children happy, well fed and content. I believe it would even make clothes cleaner and brighter as living in van precludes cleanliness.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for Hitler being rich well I can find easily another site that says he was worth $150 Million and it&#8217;s most likely another Jew site so you could probably cut that by an order of magnitude. No one who is a serious person claims Hitler did what he did just to make money. </p>
<p>Kirk,&#8221;&#8230;Happened in Russia, as well–A huge part of why they collapsed in the nineties was due to the oil industry running on fumes, &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>No this was because oil prices crashed. Supposedly this was a planned event in concert with Saudi Arabia to crash oil prices. The idea that no improvement into oil services had been done since the Tsar&#8230;that&#8217;s the dumbest thing ever. Complete farcical nonsense. One thing you have to keep in mind that if a Jew has his mouth open and is agitating the air he&#8217;s most likely lying. Same goes for his fingers on a keyboard. It&#8217;s just one big gas-light after another.</p>
<p>Kirk,&#8221;&#8230;Soviet Union chose not to invest in Baku or any of the other existing oil fields, and that was back when they had access&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>1920 &#8220;&#8230;November 14, the Baku Polytechnic Institute was established, becoming the first institute in Europe and Asia to train engineers in all fields of the oil industry&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Ok so no development by commies. Wrong. (I&#8217;m not a commie or a hard core Socialist. Mostly I&#8217;m pointing out the very, very frequent use of of completely made up stories by Kirk to gas-light. Most of the time I don&#8217;t even comment on them but randomly every so often I will spend a few minutes looking and documenting how he just makes shit up and claims to be an &#8220;authority&#8221;. I would be very wary of any of his war stories as he seems to have been everywhere, done everything and figured out any and all things military. I&#8217;m skeptical especially since I frequently catch him making stuff up from whole cloth, having no basis in reality.)</p>
<p>Jim,&#8221;&#8230;Socialism is how value is destroyed, as opposed to capitalism, which is how value is created&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Nonsense. Reasonable insurance type Socialism where the wealth of the society is spread around more equitably makes for a better country and a wealthier country over all. Jews taking over industries with FED debt and then looting the pension funds, charging massive consulting fees and moving the production to China is hardly a recipe for production for the citizens involved.</p>
<p>Capitalism always devolves into Oligarchy as we have right now. The reason is profits always shrink due to competition so the capitalist(Oligarchs) always end up monopolizing everything to keep from being overthrown by new entrants.</p>
<p> One of the reasons Rome fell was the idiot greedy Senators and the rich threw everyone out of work by replacing them with slaves. When it came time to defend Rome all these people cast aside by the wealthy shrugged and ran off. Why should they die for the rich? We are of course doing the same today in WeimAmerika.</p>
<p>How convenient that the Jews get over $40 trillion in low to zero interest loans from their FED buddies which they then use to buy everything productive. WOW isn&#8217;t capitalism great, for the Jews and the connected. They then run everything they buy into the fucking ground or move the production to China for wage arbitrage. All the while pretending people lack creditably for noticing. Well I fucking notice. </p>
<p>This all gas-lighting by the Jews where we argue over Socialism and Capitalism when the real problem is the psychopathic Jews who parasite off of every single country they have ever been to for thousands and thousands of years. Eventually leading to their expulsion.</p>
<p>Exodus 12<br />
    35&#8243; And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.&#8221;</p>
<p>    Ripping people off from the beginning.</p>
<p>It amazing to me someone has not completely wiped them out. Most Europeans have mostly just wanted them the fuck away from them. This is the only thing that has saved them. They parasite on nice White people. Let&#8217;s see how they work their magic in China. So far it&#8217;s been a big bust. They hollow out the west moving power to the east then&#8230;they are fucked because many, many people are just like me and have started noticing. When they finally smash the west they will have no where to go. And they will have to go soon. Every single trend of dysfunction pushed by the left and the the Oligarchical monopolist is mostly financed, pushed and corrupted by the Jews. They are the main player in dysfunction, blackmail and corruption. To deny this is to be blind, dumb, stupid and ignorant.</p>
<p>I also notice building 7 falling the same speed as if only air held it up for roughly 108&#8242;. A feat of complete impossibility without some sort of demo.</p>
<p>How can you tell that this whole argument put up by Kirk and Jim are gas-lighting? Simple. Both Socialism(actually Communism) in it&#8217;s extreme in Russia was used to take over Russia and loot it and the extreme of Capitalism in the USA and elsewhere was used by the Jews to take over and ruin everything. It&#8217;s all a fucking big gas-lighting lie.</p>
<p> The real truth is moderate sharing of the wealth, Socialism, is beneficial for a country overall except for a few billionaires. As long as you don&#8217;t let the Jews run it. The Jews are the problem.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see what the Jews do about Russia. Russia has recently paid off every dime of it&#8217;s debt and will no longer allow the Jews to run their central banking system. Qaddafi did the same and..it didn&#8217;t turn out well for him. I&#8217;m not so sure the Jews can do the same to the Russians.</p>
<p>Countries that run their own central banks and are not complete idiots like in Zimbabwe do excellent because they can pour money into productive enterprise. Capitalism with capital for the masses instead of lining the Jews pockets. Examples are Japan and China where they are Socialist but are hardly all living in chicken coops or vans like so many people are forced to to in California.</p>
<p>We keep going on about how the Jews have done this or that but the answer is relatively easy. The Jews as a group appear to be or are at least undeniably the same in function as a tribe of psychopaths. I&#8217;m not saying all Jews are psychopaths but it&#8217;s undeniable that the effect of a mass of Jews moving into your territory can in no way be distinguished from a tribe of psychopaths moving into your territory. This is fairly impossible to deny with all the cascade of abuses by the Jews and the echos of &#8220;every single time&#8221;. It is self evident.</p>
<p>That being the case we need to get beyond describing the Jews or categorizing their abuses and get to the what to do. We&#8217;ve tried every thing. Conversion, special laws, all sorts of incantations for thousands of years but the only one that has worked 100% of the time is to get rid of them. Deport them and allow them no say so in your finances, lives or society by any means. This not surprisingly is what psychologist say you should do about psychopaths in your lives. Get rid of them. We should get rid of the Jews. Peacefully if we can get it but by any means necessary they must go. We should focus all our efforts on getting rid of the Jews and never let them come back.</p>
<p>If you will keep it in mind that the Jews are a tribe of psychopaths then you will never be surprised at their behavior and many times be able to predict it. </p>
<p>Getting rid of the Jews has worked like magic many, many, many times in the past. Greatly benefiting the population, raising the welfare of all, making children happy, well fed and content. I believe it would even make clothes cleaner and brighter as living in van precludes cleanliness.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 03:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The deranged socialist blowhard is Kirk.)]]></description>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 03:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism is an abstract system, but capital is concrete, and capitalists more particular still. Dummies, dupes, and propagandists argue ad ideologia, but “it is as it does” is the reserve of the learned man. Capitalism is as capital does; capital is as capitalists do; capitalists do as capitalism is. Such is the endless wheel, the perfect trinity, the tripartite engine of value creation. Larry Summers, the third horseman, sweeps silently through the night, sitting atop the gray, speckled steed, his long, blond beard, piercing, blue, white-devil eyes, and delicate, ghostly sickle flashing faintly in the dark, the age’s emissary of capitalism, that purveyor of Levi’s jeans and nylon socks, that reaper of milk and honey.

A system in which individuals — specifically, individuals who are not capitalists — have “surplus” consumptive power is an inefficiently capitalistic system, a system possessing residual socialistic elements, a system in need of purification. Capitalism is when capitalists are maximally rich, and capitalists are non-maximally rich when there yet persists a delta between the “earned” income of the mean individual and “the cost to live”. This delta, possible only in a non-free market, must trend to zero as fulfillment of the iron law of the tendency of the rate of savings to fall. Only when investments are performing as well as the market will bear has the system sealed its last trickle. Non-capitalists, a.k.a. untermenschen, will no longer be able to achieve the possibility, let alone the choice, of “deferring consumption”: every “earned” dollar earmarked, every “earned” dollar spent. From earth to earth, from ashes to ashes, from equity to equity.

Gavin refers to material production, mistakenly, as though general material abundance creates value. In fact, general material abundance destroys value. The value of capital is in its scarcity: any gold-bug or crypto-fag will tell you this. That which is abundant cannot be precious, no matter its intrinsic utility. The deranged socialist blowhard, thinking himself a capitalist, moans pitifully into the electronic æther, &lt;i&gt;Why don’t socialists &lt;b&gt;produce&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;/i&gt; just as, on the other side of the railroad tracks, the capitalist realist, knowing the wei of the world, conveys his quarterly dividend checks to his friendly financial institution and thereby to his bountiful depository accounts.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Capitalism is an abstract system, but capital is concrete, and capitalists more particular still. Dummies, dupes, and propagandists argue ad ideologia, but “it is as it does” is the reserve of the learned man. Capitalism is as capital does; capital is as capitalists do; capitalists do as capitalism is. Such is the endless wheel, the perfect trinity, the tripartite engine of value creation. Larry Summers, the third horseman, sweeps silently through the night, sitting atop the gray, speckled steed, his long, blond beard, piercing, blue, white-devil eyes, and delicate, ghostly sickle flashing faintly in the dark, the age’s emissary of capitalism, that purveyor of Levi’s jeans and nylon socks, that reaper of milk and honey.</p>
<p>A system in which individuals — specifically, individuals who are not capitalists — have “surplus” consumptive power is an inefficiently capitalistic system, a system possessing residual socialistic elements, a system in need of purification. Capitalism is when capitalists are maximally rich, and capitalists are non-maximally rich when there yet persists a delta between the “earned” income of the mean individual and “the cost to live”. This delta, possible only in a non-free market, must trend to zero as fulfillment of the iron law of the tendency of the rate of savings to fall. Only when investments are performing as well as the market will bear has the system sealed its last trickle. Non-capitalists, a.k.a. untermenschen, will no longer be able to achieve the possibility, let alone the choice, of “deferring consumption”: every “earned” dollar earmarked, every “earned” dollar spent. From earth to earth, from ashes to ashes, from equity to equity.</p>
<p>Gavin refers to material production, mistakenly, as though general material abundance creates value. In fact, general material abundance destroys value. The value of capital is in its scarcity: any gold-bug or crypto-fag will tell you this. That which is abundant cannot be precious, no matter its intrinsic utility. The deranged socialist blowhard, thinking himself a capitalist, moans pitifully into the electronic æther, <i>Why don’t socialists <b>produce</b>?</i> just as, on the other side of the railroad tracks, the capitalist realist, knowing the wei of the world, conveys his quarterly dividend checks to his friendly financial institution and thereby to his bountiful depository accounts.</p>
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		<title>By: Gavin Longmuir</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/02/venezuela-has-the-worlds-largest-proven-oil-reserves-and-yet-the-country-has-run-out-of-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-3361567</link>
		<dc:creator>Gavin Longmuir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim -- Let&#039;s get the language right.  Of course the socialists are capitalists.  Socialists take the excess production from the people and invest it in whatever those socialist bureaucrats want to invest in -- be it a steel mill or a bird-whacker.  Any economy depends on deferring consumption and investing that deferred consumption in something that will help generate more production in the future -- aka &quot;capitalism&quot;.

Think of the huge investments Stalin&#039;s USSR made in manufacturing plants.  That was pure capitalism -- even if Stalin called the system &quot;communism&quot;.

When we say &quot;capitalism&quot;, what we usually mean is a system where individuals have personal choices about how much of their own consumption they can defer and about what they can invest that deferred consumption in.  In &quot;socialism&quot; or &quot;communism&quot;, the individual has very little choice about those things.  A handful of bureaucrats make the choices for everyone.   Not so good for the individual, but it provides much better opportunities for graft for the socialist bureaucrat.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim &#8212; Let&#8217;s get the language right.  Of course the socialists are capitalists.  Socialists take the excess production from the people and invest it in whatever those socialist bureaucrats want to invest in &#8212; be it a steel mill or a bird-whacker.  Any economy depends on deferring consumption and investing that deferred consumption in something that will help generate more production in the future &#8212; aka &#8220;capitalism&#8221;.</p>
<p>Think of the huge investments Stalin&#8217;s USSR made in manufacturing plants.  That was pure capitalism &#8212; even if Stalin called the system &#8220;communism&#8221;.</p>
<p>When we say &#8220;capitalism&#8221;, what we usually mean is a system where individuals have personal choices about how much of their own consumption they can defer and about what they can invest that deferred consumption in.  In &#8220;socialism&#8221; or &#8220;communism&#8221;, the individual has very little choice about those things.  A handful of bureaucrats make the choices for everyone.   Not so good for the individual, but it provides much better opportunities for graft for the socialist bureaucrat.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/02/venezuela-has-the-worlds-largest-proven-oil-reserves-and-yet-the-country-has-run-out-of-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-3361544</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There it is again, Kirk advocating socialism draped in the robes of capitalism. “Capitalism is when capitalists are poor,” says Kirk, without apparent irony. Yet if, in Kirk’s fantasy world, the capitalists are really socialists, then are the socialists likewise capitalists?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There it is again, Kirk advocating socialism draped in the robes of capitalism. “Capitalism is when capitalists are poor,” says Kirk, without apparent irony. Yet if, in Kirk’s fantasy world, the capitalists are really socialists, then are the socialists likewise capitalists?</p>
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		<title>By: Kirk</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2021/02/venezuela-has-the-worlds-largest-proven-oil-reserves-and-yet-the-country-has-run-out-of-gasoline/comment-page-1/#comment-3361531</link>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awww... Lookit the poor little apologists, blaming the almighty Jew and the United States for their pet fantasy not working out.

Choices were made by all those resource-extraction funded regimes. Soviet Union chose not to invest in Baku or any of the other existing oil fields, and that was back when they had access. All they wanted to do was loot, which is the key economic activity in any socialist regime--Loot your neighbors, and every legacy left from preceding generations, while getting wealthy.

Conservative estimates of Hitler&#039;s net worth at the end of WWII place it near 6 billion dollars. Cris Whetton documents it well in &lt;i&gt;Hitler&#039;s Fortune&lt;/i&gt;.

Socialism is weaponized grift, pure and simple. Every socialist economy eventually turns into a bust-out, with the only result being that the average person gets poorer. Note that Venezuela is currently engaged in a Chinese Communist-style &quot;return to free enterprise&quot;. Wonder why.

Oh, that&#039;s right--The Evul Jooos (tm), and their patsies in the United States. If the shit worked, then sanctions from the US shouldn&#039;t create any issues for the wonderful socialist economies, &#039;cos they&#039;re so much more bettah, and they shouldn&#039;t need to trade with the nasty, nasty capitalists.

It&#039;s amazing how supposedly smart people can hold two mutually opposing viewpoints at the same time, and not develop brainlock from the sheer cognitive dissonance involved.

But, then, anyone espousing socialism isn&#039;t that smart to begin with, so what we have are morons falling for the con, certain that &lt;i&gt;this time&lt;/i&gt;, they know which shell the pea is under, or which card is the lady. It&#039;s always interesting to watch the con play out, but not in your own country while you&#039;re living there.

Ah, well... More proof, I guess, that Cyril Kornbluth was right--The &quot;Marching Morons&quot; thesis was correct.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awww&#8230; Lookit the poor little apologists, blaming the almighty Jew and the United States for their pet fantasy not working out.</p>
<p>Choices were made by all those resource-extraction funded regimes. Soviet Union chose not to invest in Baku or any of the other existing oil fields, and that was back when they had access. All they wanted to do was loot, which is the key economic activity in any socialist regime&#8211;Loot your neighbors, and every legacy left from preceding generations, while getting wealthy.</p>
<p>Conservative estimates of Hitler&#8217;s net worth at the end of WWII place it near 6 billion dollars. Cris Whetton documents it well in <i>Hitler&#8217;s Fortune</i>.</p>
<p>Socialism is weaponized grift, pure and simple. Every socialist economy eventually turns into a bust-out, with the only result being that the average person gets poorer. Note that Venezuela is currently engaged in a Chinese Communist-style &#8220;return to free enterprise&#8221;. Wonder why.</p>
<p>Oh, that&#8217;s right&#8211;The Evul Jooos &#8482;, and their patsies in the United States. If the shit worked, then sanctions from the US shouldn&#8217;t create any issues for the wonderful socialist economies, &#8216;cos they&#8217;re so much more bettah, and they shouldn&#8217;t need to trade with the nasty, nasty capitalists.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing how supposedly smart people can hold two mutually opposing viewpoints at the same time, and not develop brainlock from the sheer cognitive dissonance involved.</p>
<p>But, then, anyone espousing socialism isn&#8217;t that smart to begin with, so what we have are morons falling for the con, certain that <i>this time</i>, they know which shell the pea is under, or which card is the lady. It&#8217;s always interesting to watch the con play out, but not in your own country while you&#8217;re living there.</p>
<p>Ah, well&#8230; More proof, I guess, that Cyril Kornbluth was right&#8211;The &#8220;Marching Morons&#8221; thesis was correct.</p>
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