24 September 2011

Let's get our Fisk on

By way of The Other McCain, I present more Leftist insanity to vivisect.

Under the rubric of dialogue and debate between the “Left” and Right about amending the U.S. constitution, this conference will further legitimate the reactionary Tea Party movement.
The U.S. is waging unjust imperial wars. The ecosystems of the planet are endangered. The know-how and technology exist to produce enough food for everyone on the planet; meanwhile some one billion go hungry. Capitalism is a horror and a failure.
I put this challenge to progressive people seeking change and attending this conference. Rather than reaching out to the proto-fascists and Tea Party-ers with their anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, and racist-encoded “states rights” agenda, rather than looking to repair a system that has only meant misery and more misery for humanity—why not reach forward to a viable and emancipatory alternative? This is what the Constitution of the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S. is about.
OK, here we go.  First, I shall present the comments debunking this buckethead's first paragraph:

I hate to disillusion Mr. Lotta's beliefs here, but the reality is that for the vast amount of human history, most people have lived very miserable existences.  The average age at time of death stubbornly held around 40 for centuries.  Proper hygiene practices were unknown.

But more importantly, most people had little or no money to obtain the foods necessary for a proper diet.

That's all changed with the advent of capitalism.  Thanks to capitalism and the drive to invent, running water and flush toilets are common in even the poorest communities on earth.  Thanks to capitalism, everyone on the planet enjoys a higher standard of living than nearly all people who lived before the 17th Century -- including the wealthiest of the time.  Thanks to capitalism, people are able to market and sell their goods to others around the world.

It's idiotic to claim that capitalism causes more and more misery, when the historical fact is that it has vastly improved the lives of everyone on the planet.

...

Ugh.

Just taking the most obvious...   we have the technology to feed everyone but someone (and I'm not naming names) vilifies the companies and processes that produce higher yield crops, in particular spending great time and effort convincing hungry people in developing countries that higher yield crops are a conspiracy against them.   These same people (and I'm not naming names) also do their best to retard and restrict the other most important thing related to hunger, and that is transportation of food from one place to another because it is fueled by fossil fuels.

And somehow this all becomes the failure of capitalism?

Truly?


OK, now on to the second paragraph.  Hang on to your asses, Leftists; it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

I put this challenge to progressive people seeking change and attending this conference. Rather than reaching out to the proto-fascists
Let's get it out in the open.  You do not seek any sort of positive 'change.'  You do, in fact, seek fascism, ie; "anti-anarchist, anti-communist, anti-conservative, anti-democratic, anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-parliamentary, anti-bourgeois and anti-proletarian.[15] It entails a distinctive type of anti-capitalism and is typically, with a few exceptions, anti-clerical.[16][17] It rejects egalitarianism, materialism, and rationalism in favour of action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit and will.[18]"  This is what you desire, and don't try to pretend that you want anything different.  Reality calls you out.

and Tea Party-ers with their anti-immigrant,
We are not anti-immigrant.  Three of my four parents came here from other countries--LEGALLY.  We oppose invaders, not immigrants.

Islamophobic,
"Islamophobic" connotates an irrational fear.  When you're facing a bunch of maniacs who wish to institute a  global theocracy which promotes the murder of queer folks, the subjugation of women and the annihilation of free will,--no matter what they have to do or who they have to kill--the fear of this is not irrational.

and racist-encoded “states rights” agenda,
 Please enlighten me as to how enforcing the Constitution is 'racist.'  Oh, are you referring to the excuse your fellow Democrats used to keep people down because of their skin color?  Hey, pal--the racist scum on your side are the ones that perverted the concept of "states rights" to further your own evil agenda.  Sorry if the truth hurts.  Take an ibuprofen and deal with it.

rather than looking to repair a system that has only meant misery and more misery for humanity—why not reach forward to a viable and emancipatory alternative? This is what the Constitution of the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S. is about.
I got your 'misery' right here, sucker.  Communism/Socialism is responsible for the murder of well over one hundred million people in one century.  Your precious 'alternative' leads to nothing but death, destruction, loss, suffering, misery and despair.  Every single time it's been tried.  Every one.  Without fail.

Anyone who--in this day and age, with the example of history to learn from--still advocates Communism, or its embryo, Socialism, is either historically ignorant, insane, or evil.  Which are you, sir?

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