We are on the verge of a Great Great Depression

[Rocket Queen]

it was chris rock who said:

“Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense”

Lol... using chris rock's terrible view on women(I'd suggest he try someone with an IQ over a 100) to insult people... not really a star in my book. Is this when you would jump in and go...." ad homimem"?

[mooney]

here you go mooney you can watch the video free here http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.com/  if you care, not sure how it compares to the book.  if you'd like to compare notes feel free

ah! excellent, thanks. I'll watch that if can squeeze a couple free hours in tonight. Endorsement from Noam and MediaLens definitely requires checking out in my view.

[polar]

i'm sitting here signing timesheets and watching the view, and whoopi goldberg and barbara walters just mentioned that "experts are predicting a great great depression" and then they spent a whole 5 mins discussing it.  i guess they're alarmists!  anybody that posts any article about potential economic collapse, based on cold hard facts and evidence, is a conspiracy theorist wearing a tin foil hat or an alarmist! 

when i posted an article that bear stearns was going to collapse and cease to exist back in 06 i was crazy, that moody's was going to downgrade the credit rating for all those insurance companies and european countries again i was an alarmist, and when i said obama was going to extend the patriot act and push for an internet kill switch i was a conspiracy theorist because that was a bush policy and obama just needs time to work, he can't change the world in a year right?...

any way i'm tired of the subject, either you defend the status quo blindly like 2na or you live in reality

[polar]

Lol... using chris rock's terrible view on women(I'd suggest he try someone with an IQ over a 100) to insult people... not really a star in my book. Is this when you would jump in and go...." ad homimem"?

he's a comedian.  he had a funny line and it fit, don't read so much into it, i promise it'll be okay.  now get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich

[polar]

ah! excellent, thanks. I'll watch that if can squeeze a couple free hours in tonight. Endorsement from Noam and MediaLens definitely requires checking out in my view.

i pretty much only watch videos and read books from sources i consider leftist and completely opposite to my view.  if you know a lot about chomsky or marx or trotsky i'd like to discuss those positions, i never see a pov other than mine presented here.  i only have trolls trying to argue semantics and word definitions who never offer their own view or add anything to the conversation.  plus i can only watch the same ron paul speech repackaged and redelivered so many ways. 

[2NaFish]

any way i'm tired of the subject, either you defend the status quo blindly like 2na or you live in reality

How can i blindly defend the status quo if i only ever discuss semantics? Unless the lizard people are controlling us through dictionaries?

as for the rest of your whinge, "Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat". You keep saying, 'i can't be an alarmist because its real'. Not really addressing my point.

[polar]

How can i blindly defend the status quo if i only ever discuss semantics? Unless the lizard people are controlling us through dictionaries?

as for the rest of your whinge, "Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat". You keep saying, 'i can't be an alarmist because its real'. Not really addressing my point.

i posted nothing exaggerated, you said my facts were good.  did i miss the excessive part?

having a normalcy bias and using a fallacious semantical argument to defend the status quo is something like truthiness, which echoes through your trolling posts.  sorry to channel stephen colbert, i hope rocket queen doesn't have a problem with daily show too

[2NaFish]

So my normalcy bias exhibits itself through a discussion of semantics? Bad laizards.

They're tricky.

[polar]

i'll let you go back to watching david icke crying over the africans.  i think that you type something stupid and actually mean it, then i call you on it and you get embarrassed, then the only way out for you to save face (to who i have no idea, i suspect it's your personal insecurity)  you must post enough half way retarded jokes so that anyone half way reading the thread will be too confused to realize what a moron you truly are or if you even meant it in the first place

i suppose it's my fault for indulging you, a troll can't exist without someone feeding it.  i'm just too stupid to find the Ignore button, maybe it was moved

[2NaFish]

you've a lovely habit of claiming victory out of nothing, so much so that your mentioning insecurity is sadly inevitable. Is that another ad hominem I spotted? They're starting to pile up.

[Sean]

sup ...    good thing we arn't discussing the great great great depression, cuzz then we'd really have to throw stones.

[2NaFish]

the possibilities are just too alarming to contemplate, boss.

It'd be like 9/11 times 7,642.

[sunnyp]

I know fuck all about economics. But what I do know is that while some in China, India, Brazil, and to a lesser extent Russia are getting silly rich now, the average Joe has still got massive problems. Anyway, consumer confidence in products from these places isn't good: The reputation which these countries have is poor. China and India have become the workhouses for the west, but I can't think of one decent brand or product which is owned by them.

In the age of globalisation, borders are disappearing, and nations are not powerful. Institutions and companies have the power to shape nations, not the other way round. 

The quality of life in the west is far better than they'll probably ever have. If there's food on the table and you've paid the bills, you're probably in the top 5% of people in the world. The USA might be struggling at the moment, but it is still head and shoulders above China in terms of GDP, and (official) military expenditure.

[polar]

The quality of life in the west is far better than they'll probably ever have. If there's food on the table and you've paid the bills, you're probably in the top 5% of people in the world. The USA might be struggling at the moment, but it is still head and shoulders above China in terms of GDP, and (official) military expenditure.

just because the US is doing better than another country doesn't mean anything.  you can't measure how well you are doing by comparing yourself to someone else.  the US should be holding ourselves to strict standards that we set for ourselves, accepting any less is pathetic.  that's how we got into the mess we're in, people quit paying attention and got lazy and complacent because they thought all the fighting for liberty and freedom had been done before them, but we're finding out you have to stay vigilant for life.  all those other countries need to fend for themselves and do figure out on their own what works.

there are a lot of people who once looked at europe as some kind of social model we need to follow, now they look at spain and greece and all the other chips that are about to fall and they realize we need to go back to our founding principles