Comments on: Saved http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved Muckraking. Media. Music. Menace. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:37:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Eric http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17218 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:27:57 +0000 http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17218 "...but we don’t even live under capitalism in this country. We live in some sort of crazy, rigged, old boys’ plutocracy, where the hyper-rich are guaranteed diamond-studded bandaids for their tiniest papercuts, the middle class are dangling over their threadbare safety net, and the poor can fuck off and die. " In other words...capitalism.<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> “…but we don’t even live under capitalism in this country. We live in some sort of crazy, rigged, old boys’ plutocracy, where the hyper-rich are guaranteed diamond-studded bandaids for their tiniest papercuts, the middle class are dangling over their threadbare safety net, and the poor can fuck off and die. ”

In other words…capitalism.

]]> by: Endrju http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17129 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:30:07 +0000 http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17129 Well met. I wish I got out more. I'd find a free marketer and make them uneasy.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> Well met. I wish I got out more. I’d find a free marketer and make them uneasy.

]]> by: cemmcs http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17128 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:27:19 +0000 http://www.lyingmediabastards.com/2008/09/saved#comment-17128 <em>No, the market is working exactly as it should. “Free enterprise” doesn’t mean “things always go great”. Under free market capitalism, sometimes the economy tanks. Which is brutal, but we don’t even live under capitalism in this country. We live in some sort of crazy, rigged, old boys’ plutocracy, where the hyper-rich are guaranteed diamond-studded bandaids for their tiniest papercuts, the middle class are dangling over their threadbare safety net, and the poor can fuck off and die.</em> That's so true.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> No, the market is working exactly as it should. “Free enterprise” doesn’t mean “things always go great”. Under free market capitalism, sometimes the economy tanks. Which is brutal, but we don’t even live under capitalism in this country. We live in some sort of crazy, rigged, old boys’ plutocracy, where the hyper-rich are guaranteed diamond-studded bandaids for their tiniest papercuts, the middle class are dangling over their threadbare safety net, and the poor can fuck off and die.

That’s so true.

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