Comments on: The disease of “late-stage capitalism” https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mike-SMO https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490602 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:30:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490602 You are all too smart to understand AOC’s wisdom. If anything bad happens in the Western Hemisphere or Europe, it is because of “Capitalism”. If anything bad happens in the Holy Land of China, it is because of “Capitalism”. The happy peasants had no need of such a complex thing.

Once you understand that essential truth, it is just a matter of stringing any bright and shiney, if unrelated, facts together to illustrate that truth. Your “logic” will not save you.

China has been producing novel and wonderful diseases for several millenia. In the last century or two, they have moved to craftsman viruses. It is all the fault of “Capitalism”. If the current version, SARS-Cov-2, “escaped “from a lab, it is the fault of the “Capitalists” who financed that institute.

It is such an easy concept that even a below average bartender could understand. That Amazon thing was just “Capitalism”, so she fought it to preserve the “community” from savage prosperity. Simple!

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490414 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:21:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490414 It will be interesting to see how folks in her district react when she is up for re-election this November. She is much bigger on the “national” stage than anyone would have imagined, but she does this at the expense of working locally. Will her constituents vote her out because of her lack of focus and attention to their district, or will they vote her in because of her celebrity?

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490413 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:20:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490413 She has benefited immensely from a favorable press. I doubt a week has gone by since her election when she hasn’t made a gaffe worse than anything Dan Quayle did in four years.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490404 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:52:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490404 And…he strikes again!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/irony-defined-adam-schiff-blasts-grenell-politicizing-intelligence-community

He’s insatiable: a glutton for punishment!
Incomparable: the leading light of chutzpa in our generation—perhaps of all time!
Incoherent: well, he’s a contender, but Biden has his number. Tries his best, though.
Incontinent (well, morally): let’s just say he’s all over the place.

But what a guy!

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490403 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:21:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490403 Stupidity, bad judgement, foolishness. Arrogance. Idiocy.
OK, OK. She’s not the sharpest arrow in the quiver…. (But, but we do—all of us—have our moments. So shall we cast stones?? Well…in her case, probably yes…)

But how can one possibly explain this?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/16/coronavirus-china-africa-191444
H/T Instapundit

I mean, don’t those Africans KNOW that COVID-19 was CAUSED by the AMERICANS??
(Oh, the unfairness of it all….)

…and if that’s not enough, here’s something that almost had me feeling sorry for Adam Schiff.
(Well, almost…)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/16/charles-hurt-the-terrifying-zealotry-of-adam-schiff-and-his-impeachment-fairies/
H/T/ Powerline blog

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490401 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:52:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490401 Turns out they couldn’t come up with anything more efficient than the market had come up with on its own.

If I’m not mistaken, groceries are the lowest of low margin business. I have a suspicion the professor in question had a satisfactory idea of what the conclusions would be. BTW, that doesn’t sound like an economics class assignment, more a business school assignment or (on the odd campus with a program) a geography class assignment.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490400 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:41:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490400 She’s also arrogant.

Dunning-Kruger. Ordinary life generally causes that to dissipate. The problem with her current situation is that she’s in the odd set of circumstances wherein that natural process will (one can wager) not take place.

]]> By: Mac https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490399 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:24:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490399 Art Deco, you’re describing what I mean by “foolish.” By “stupid” I mean precisely lacking in the sort of native mental capacity that’s measured by IQ tests. I suspect she does reasonably well on those.

She’s also arrogant.

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490396 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:33:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490396 If anything, given the century of the comment, it really designates the resiliency of the economic model over Marxist or fascist (third way) models… China is a fascist state economically not a communist one technically. Capitalism is something they wish to harness for conflict reasons against their enemies, which is everyone given the goal is total control of everything (like all true paranoiacs).

the game has not changed just the belief in the game as played by the pawns has, which is why women who dont have babies think they are the future when their progeny wont exist. While they get their marching orders from other women who happen to have five children and are working to populate the future, while working on family dynasties who each child does not “do their own thing”.

Its right in front of you if you take the time to look at it..

the successful hated winners are dynastic while the poor huddled masses are independent of each other… following the advice of their frenemies to family destruction and soft slavery…

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/04/16/the-disease-of-late-stage-capitalism/#comment-2490395 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:46:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=95179#comment-2490395 AOC (how it annoys me that I know those initials and can expect you all to know them) is definitely not stupid.

I think you mean she is not unintelligent. She actually is stupid. Stupid people manifest poor judgment in applying the intelligence they have. Every major decision she’s made in her life over a period of 15 years is by all appearances off, though I suppose if you had some more granular information, some would make sense. This girl from a supposedly impecunious exurban family (father a professional man who died young) elected to (1) attend college (2) out of state (3) at a private research university. She then followed an academic program wherein she studied…international relations. (IR commonly requires some credits in economics, so she took a couple of extra courses and was permitted to declare a minor in that). Over a period of seven years, she flitted from one employment to another; presumably the bf (who she met in college and who appears to be an IT tech) was paying most of the balances on their bills. She’s never closed the deal with Riley or borne any children for him. The one non-foolish thing she’s done is hold on to him; a great many of her contemporaries would have put him out on the curb for random reasons.

If she knew what to do with that intelligence, she’d have enrolled at one of the practical cheap seats schools on Long Island (LIU, Hofstra, or Adelphi), enrolled at one of the SUNY schools, or enrolled at one of the CUNY schools. She’d have studied something like accounting or pharmacy and taken courses in IR or economics to fulfill distribution requirements if she took them. She’d have married Riley and popped a couple of babies by now. And she’d be living within ready commuting distance of an elderly empty-nester in his family or in hers, because that sort of relative is there to help and generally willing.

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