Quote of the week.!!

There's a gun man shooting people in the King Power Stadium.

Brodgers:. I'll stop him.

 

fundamentally you've only described the failure of communism not the supposed ideal of communism.

Plus its not the same to live in bar fear of disappearing.

a) heat, food, light, water all on tap v have to work for your heat/food/light/water

b) collective ownership (meaning nobody owns anything) v you can own things and aspire to own things

 

**** sake....

doesn't the gobshite realise the clubs owner died in a helicopter crash right outside the ground this season.

classless twat.

 

Exactly. I was going to mention it, but I thought it'd be classless

 

The state is the ultimate owner in a fascist society too though. The government decides who owns what, and can take away. They decide which businesses get which contracts, what gets output, etc.

They also decide who can take what jobs, etc. Don't confuse it with a market society. It's very similar to communism in that an individual may own specific items and have them on their possession, but ultimately the state is the real owner and can and will redistribute at will.

Islamic State could be described as a fascist state. There all "citizens" were housed, fed, and clothed at behest of the state. Fasicsm doesn't mean no safety net.

 

Most extreme politics end up looking alike. That's why you need a moderate balance and diverse viewpoint.

The opposite of authoritarianism would be libertarianism or at it's extreme, anarchy.

But the problem with that is, a powerful overclass emerges and tends to rule by force or wealth. If you think about anarchy... The man with the gun rules the man without a gun.

Too much unchecked government involvement in economies and the people in the government end up controlling everything and being the only ones wealthy.

Too little government involvement and monopolies and groups gain too much power and become the only ones wealthy.


At their extremes all government types start to look a lot more alike than they do different.

 

He is like a cat with five .

 

???

 

Tony Benn once wrote that Churchill used Communism to defeat Fascism in WWII.

State ownership of the means of production.
Massive state investment in infrastructure.
A highly trained workforce of women in factories and men in the armed forces learning trades.

It led to 30 years of what Harold Macmillan called "never had it so good" post-war prosperity. Successive centrist moderate governments failed to reinvest, living off the profits. The challenge, Benn wrote, is to find something other than war to invest in. I'd suggest renewable energies are a priority, as climate change data hits what CNN called a "gold standard." The hardline centrists parrot the usual "it's too expensive" excuses and reinforce their love of nuclear. They gauge the expense on today's figures.

In 1993, I got my first PC. It cost me about a grand. It was a 486, 20MHz to 33MHz, powerful enough to run Windows 3.1. It had a 240MB hard drive, 8MB of RAM, a 256-colour 14" monitor and a 14.4K modem. My current laptop cost me £250. It has 2.5TB of storage space, A 3GHz processor and 8GB of RAM. My £50 phone has more power and storage than I had in 1993.

We need power even more than computing and with the same kind of investment parabola, in 20 years we'd have more power and storage than we need. But it takes balls to make that kind of bold step and one thing hardline moderates don't have is balls. This gives me a quiet despair that we're heading for extinction.

 

Its an interesting quandary.

the USA built an empire economically off the back off WWii

their investment in japan built an economic tsunami that then swamps their car and electrical goods industry

Investing in energy or climate action could be a paradigm shift but it feels like it needs to be a calamity for them to all row in and go do it.

 

Thought Klopp was funny when asked to comment on Rodgers going to Leicester. Klopp currently rents Rodgers house in Liverpool and he said

"Good job he never went to Everton, he would have wanted his house back"

 

The desire of their opponents to not only defeat Liverpool but inflict last damage on their title hopes, is an inspiration rather than an object of fear.Virgil van Dijk

 

A CNN sportscaster referred last night to a goal as a "cross-cum-shot."

I suspect Friday nightshift autocue writers taking the mick.

 

"Manuel Neuer once rega
rded as the best keeper in the world,
may not even the best Bayern now"

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'I respect the desire of the people and players and I can be part of this dream but it is not for me at the end, it's for the people'

Jurgen Klopp

 

What a man

 

"Nobody said said it wasn't a penalty ,which makes me think it was"
Jurgen Klopp.

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The Age of Corbyn I: "He is now the most powerful person in the land"
Anthony Barnet

 

"If I had to write a book about Hendo , it would be 500 pages, he's fantastic"
Jurgen Klopp