tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post7007754091849714269..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Why Leftists are Doomed to Poverty and MiseryCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-62626565104101145382020-10-05T17:20:31.927-07:002020-10-05T17:20:31.927-07:00What's funny is that modern leftists are more ...What's funny is that modern leftists are more selfish than fucking Renaissance Popes and clergy. Reading about that time period, I get tales of Cardinals paying to equip men for a crusade against Muslim-held lands out of their own pocket, Renaissance Popes who splurge just as much on charity as they do on that fancy new Basilica they have in Rome, they want to buy their way to heaven by doing good deeds with their own cash. Leftists want to do good......using other people's money, while they hoard their own cash for their Hollywood studios, tech companies, their own mansions, etc.. If the Left was merely charitable with their own money, there wouldn't be a problem, but they usually keep their own money to themselves while they come up with 50 billion ways to spend other people's money on problems that may or may not even exist. <br /><br />This is why every Leftist society turns into a shithole: everyone gets taxed to the bone while the Leftists at the top continue to buy capitalist goods and get the most recent doohickey out of Silicon Valley. They don't want to spend their own money to help people, they want to spend the people's money to sate their egos. Which is what makes them different from the corrupt cardinals and popes who were running the Catholic Church into the ground during the Renaissance era: those guys are actually willing to buy their way to heaven by helping the poor and building nice houses for God with their own wealth and power (and at worst, the indulgences they sell to the public are completely optional) whereas the Left FORCES people to aid in misguided charity while the Leftists themselves keep all the money.<br /><br />Just look at Bernie Sanders. Dude tells his donors to give him money so he can win the war against the establishment Democrats so he can be nominated as the Dems' candidate for President, then when push comes to shove, he chickens out, bows down to the establishment candidate, and he takes all the money given to him and runs. He got rich off the backs of other people, and he couldn't care less about his supporters who were fleeced for nothing. He doesn't even have the stones to give back the money he took from people to feed his own failed campaign.Vader999https://www.blogger.com/profile/02857041959814062818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-47867915843888627222020-09-28T16:21:55.932-07:002020-09-28T16:21:55.932-07:00I really enjoyed your artical the day it posted he...I really enjoyed your artical the day it posted here. I literally said to myself that this was worth reading multiple times, and sharing with my daughters. I had decided some years ago that I was never going to lie to my children again, and this was just the type of truth they needed to hear. But when I went back to get it, it was gone. I felt bad that nobody would get to read it. But like you have stated many times, freebies are not apreciated. So I understood why you put this article behind your patreon. Generally not a problem, but after reading Poor Richards Retirement in Jaunary of 2019, I had vowed to cancel any and all subscription services I had, and eliminated all dicretionary spending. I develped a crazy plan to save and invest an obscene amount of money by years end, and was on this plan till the covid hit. Crazy I know... so anyway, I didn't spend the dollar per month to reread it. But I think I will buy this essay and share with my daughters. It was very well reasoned and written, and I believe the information conveyed there is invaluable. <br /><br />Thanks for all you do, you filthy captialist 8-) sassed1 2manyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604038139445561191noreply@blogger.com