Endless Corporate Bailouts, None For The People

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[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 7 insightful - 7 fun7 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 7 fun -  (5 children)

Who is held accountable for the significant failures that required bailing out
Wasn't the free market supposed to allow failing business to go extinct
Nothing makes sense
This world is run by idiots

[–]Chipit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

It's not a free market. That's the problem.

Free markets aren't the issue. On the other hand, socialism has killed millions with starvation and the oppression necessary to make socialism work.

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In this case, isn't it corporate welfare that is destroying the free market? And as for socialism in countries, don't the world banks and the CIA have a hand in many of their failings? Hard to create a socialist state, when the world banks shut you out and your leaders are getting drone striked.

[–]flugegeheimen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And as for socialism in countries, don't the world banks and the CIA have a hand in many of their failings?

While the secretive nature of most intelligence agencies naturally lends itself to their omnipresence-omnipotence myths, with CIA you are giving too much credit for an organization which not only failed to assassinate Fidel Castro many times, they even failed to kill his beard. Imagine these clowns toppling down entire countries.

Hard to create a socialist state, when the world banks shut you out and your leaders are getting drone striked.

Well, if it's hard to create a socialist state being treated exactly as capitalist states treat each other then maybe socialism is just handicapped, ineffective form of social organization? It's not like socialists have some moral weak spots preventing them from international dog-eat-dog politics: late USSR was as inhumane and militaristic as it could get, they were just bad at economy and getting shit done in general.

[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In this case, isn't it corporate welfare that is destroying the free market? And as for socialism in countries, don't the world banks and the CIA have a hand in many of their failings?

Yes and yes. Or, at least in my opinion (not the same person you replied to, but I agreed with them).

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You don't know the meaning of the word socialism, that's YOUR problem.

You're confusing it with COMMUNISM.