Quiz: What Type Of Democrat or Republican Are You?

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Degrassi: The Next Generation.

I agree with my results though.

[Gaga Monster 13,001]

Just now, Bio said:

I never said communism is better than capitalism. I said capitalism also doesn't work and I'm not lying.

Capitalism works better than Communism, that is a fact. A mix of Capitalism and Socialism programs (Franklin Roosevelt) worked.

[Bio 23,538]

Just now, Gaga Monster said:

Capitalism works better than Communism, that is a fact. A mix of Capitalism and Socialism programs (Franklin Roosevelt) worked.

Capitalism still doesn't work.

 

[Bio 23,538]

2 minutes ago, JustaMonster said:

Really what about the fact that in 2015 asians made $14,000 more in median household income in the US that whites?

lol are you really gonna act like racism isn't a thing? Honey I live in a place where more than half of the population is of mixed race and even so racism is still a huge problem.

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8 minutes ago, Bio said:

lol are you really gonna act like racism isn't a thing? Honey I live in a place where more than half of the population is of mixed race and even so racism is still a huge problem.

No? Where did I say racism isnt a thing? Of course there are some racist people. I'm just pointing out that asains have a higher household median income than whites.

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Solid Liberal

[Bio 23,538]

Just now, JustaMonster said:

No? Where did I say racism isnt a thing? Of course there are some racist people.

And do you think black people and white people have the same opportunities in life?

[Gaga Monster 13,001]

Just now, Bio said:

Capitalism still doesn't work.

 

Capitalism with a mix of Socialism programs and ideas (raising minimum wage, higher taxes, regulation, Medicare, Medicaid, Single Payer, etc) works great like during FDR, JFK, Raegan, Bill Clinton, ect. 

I love all the freedoms I have under Democracy and you should be thankful we don't live in a communist government and have the freedom to be having this debate. 

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Just now, Gaga Monster said:

Capitalism with a mix of Socialism programs and ideas (raising minimum wage, higher taxes, regulation, Medicare, Medicaid, Single Payer, etc) works great like during FDR, JFK, Raegan, Bill Clinton, ect. 

I love all the freedoms I have under Democracy and you should be thankful we don't live in a communist government and have the freedom to be having this debate. 

Where did I say I want to live in a communist government? I've been saying this whole time that capitalism doesn't work but that doesn't mean communism does. Can you point to me where I said that?

[JustaMonster 4,909]

2 minutes ago, Bio said:

And do you think black people and white people have the same opportunities in life?

I'm not going to derail this thread into a topic about racism.

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3 minutes ago, Bio said:

Where did I say I want to live in a communist government? I've been saying this whole time that capitalism doesn't work but that doesn't mean communism does. Can you point to me where I said that?

I apologize if I misinterpreted something you meant

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3 minutes ago, JustaMonster said:

No? Where did I say racism isnt a thing? Of course there are some racist people. I'm just point out that asains have a higher household median income than whites.

I love it when people like you deflect to the disproportionate success of Asian-Americans as a counter example to institutionalized racism, ignoring the fact that the relatively small Asian demographic in this country immigrated here and represent a more socioeconomically well-off demographic within the Asian race. Asian Americans in this country were generally able to afford leaving their homes and a number of them are disproportionately wealthy. I can definitely speak for the Indian community because the wave of Indian immigrants in the 80s and 90s that brought a number of the doctors and engineers in the US today were wealthy when they entered the country. The same can be said for all the young Indians entering the tech businesses in the US. Of course they're going to do better and their progeny will as well!! It's a disproportionate statistic and many people use it incorrectly and fail to see the bigger picture.

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Just now, JustaMonster said:

I'm not going to derail this thread into a topic about racism.

You said capitalism works and I'm pointing out to you why it doesn't. Capitalism believes that if you work hard you will have success in life. But that's not true if some people have more opportunities than others.

For example: I'm white and had the privilege of being born in a family that could pay for a great education for me. If you think the public school system in the US is bad you have no idea of how it is here in Brazil. Now you're gonna tell me that these kids that go to public school are gonna have the same chances of getting into a great university as me that have studied my whole life in private schools?

Most of these kids usually drop out of school because they barely have classes, they usually don't have the support of their parents and they live in favelas (really poor places that are usually controlled by drug lords). They are told their whole lives they're gonna be nothing so they believe it.

And even if these kids work 5 times harder than me and by some miracle can go to the same university as me, if they're black and we run for the same job, guess what? I'm getting that job. 

So you tell me capitalism works?

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15 minutes ago, Bio said:

Capitalism still doesn't work.

 

what an astute observation 

capitalism has one assumption and that is the free market is the most efficient model to allocate limited resources 

it makes no assumption on the payoff of hard work, (equal) opportunity, etc. 

I do not know that you know what capitalism is 

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2 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

what an astute observation 

capitalism has one assumption and that is the free market is the most efficient model to allocate limited resources 

it makes no assumption on the payoff of hard work, (equal) opportunity, etc. 

I do not know that you know what capitalism is 

That is a very simplistic way of looking at it. Meritocracy is a very important consequence of capitalism.