06-19-2011, 09:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-19-2011, 10:40 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Poor deluded fool? Son? Believe me, I am far from being your son, jackass. As I said before, I will not waste time arguing about anything with you (politics or otherwise) because its a waste of my time, because you will never get it. I dont care how many people you know went from rags to riches, your meaningless and cherry picked anecdotal evidence is far from enough to disprove the Horatio Alger Myth which implies that ANYONE, with simple hard work, can become successful or even wealthy in this country despite inheritance and staggered starts, racial and social/economic inequality, segregation etc. Take the goddamn rose colored glasses off and snap out of that little fairytale world you live in (which seems to rest somewhere between "The Prince & The Pauper" and "Ragged Dick"). I can use anecdotal evidence too and say my mom has worked hard for the last 25 years (an average of 10-12 hour days in a highly multi-tasking job that pays well above the national average) but is struggling to stay above water. The difference between your anecdotal evidence and mine though, is that a far larger percentage of the population is applicable to mine, that is fact. Yet somehow Im the deluded fool. I think you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, son. Im done with you. Using anecdotal evidence in these debates is pointless for obvious reasons, but two can play that game. Now, you can join that other old fart on his high horse on my ignore list. Enjoy. And if you want to ban me cause of this post, be my friggin guest, heh. Owned.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)