/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4982593
will there be republicans in office forever?

>>3490161
really? that old chesnut

since the 50s (while US financial power has been increasing a hell of allot) the US has slipped behind all western european countries in terms of social equality and opportunity except for one, the UK. They have a monarchy for fucks sake, i dont want a country where people have to be born privileged in order to succeed.

i'll just leave this here...

>>2881543

>wait until the wealth trickles down

>>2597326

>mfw the best way to troll marxists is to compare them to monetarists

>>2129807
>>know next to nothing about running a business.

then shut the fuck up. idiot.

We’d been discussing taxes on the air and the fact that Denmark has an average 52 percent income-tax rate. I asked him why people didn’t revolt at such high taxes, and he smiled and pointed out to me that the average Dane is very well paid, with a minimum wage that equals roughly $18 per hour. Moreover, what Danes get for their taxes (that we don’t) is a free college education and free health care, not to mention four weeks of paid vacation each year and notoriety as the happiest nation on earth, according to a major study done by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.2

But it was once we were off the air that he made the comment that I found so enlightening.

“You Americans are such suckers,” he said. “You think that the rules for taxes that apply to rich people also apply to working people, but they don’t. When working peoples’ taxes go up, their pay goes up. When their taxes go down, their pay goes down. It may take a year or two or three to all even out, but it always works this way—look at any country in Europe. And that rule on taxes is the opposite of how it works for rich people!”

ITT: How has the american working class been brainwashed into destroying all the rights their predecessors won for them?

A bunch of rich corporate types stir up right-wing populism around social issues. Rednecks HURRDURR about immigrants taking their jerbs, and vote the proto-fascists into power. Aforementioned rich corporate types take the opportunity to fuck the poor, then blame 'liberals' and socialists and the fast-diminishing government aid for the problems of the working class.

tl;dr come to australia, financial crash didnt touch us.

I fucking hate American ideology. I hate the way they don't even see what a fucking nest of snakes their country supports. I really, REALLY hate it.

U mad Americans? I would be.

>>1997776

Reaganomics

State communism has proven to be a failure. Market socialism looks like a good option (where corporations are replaced by co-operatives in a market economy), and so does anarcho-syndicalism.

Unfortunately, the number of right-wing twats in the world has gone up since thatcher and reagan started preaching.

Socialism could have been so much more if the anarchists of Kronstadt had taken over instead of Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Mark my words, that man did more to harm the cause of socialism than anyone else in history.

Reaganocracy.

>>1911703

Stop the privacy-invading piece of bullshit that is ACTA, lest you be partyvanned for whatever fetish porn you're currently using.

http://www.stopp-acta.info/english/get+involved/petition/petition.html

You have a duty to the future you.

http://www.youtube.com/user/IFMove?feature=mhum

If ACTA passes, we are so fucking fucked.

They first tried it in China and succeeded. They tried it in Australia and it stalled. Now they're trying to hit the entire western world at once.

>>1802545