Dumbass Infowars interviewer gets rekt by giggly socialist cutie

[Michchamp]

But? But? How is this possible?

I thought we lived in a country where the corrupt GOP-the most corrupt political party in the history of time, it isn't even close-Did everything to thwart the poor and middle class in order to protect the rich.

They want to gut those programs and let Payday loan companies - the pinnacle
of capitalism - run them.

What could go wrong, right? The unregulated private sector does a great job of supplying basic utilities... look how popular Comcast is. And cost effective too. they really pass savings along to consumers.

 

[Michchamp]

They probebly took it down cuz it wasn?t very interesting and seemed to have any real point that was going anywhere, first time I?ve ever seen that IW reporter to, must be tryouts or sumpin

probably...

 

[tinselwolverine]

They want to gut those programs and let Payday loan companies - the pinnacle
of capitalism - run them.

I've been hearing this - or stuff like it - for half a century now.

Also that gub'mint was going to take everybody's guns.

 

[Spartanmack]

we already have some socialized programs here in America. people love them.

people love them because they love "free" stuff, not because they're actually great programs.

 

[Spartanmack]

They want to gut those programs and let Payday loan companies - the pinnacle
of capitalism - run them.

What could go wrong, right? The unregulated private sector does a great job of supplying basic utilities... look how popular Comcast is. And cost effective too. they really pass savings along to consumers.

Comcast is unregulated? Cable TV wasn't a virtual monopoly protected by state and local governments? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

We're finally getting some competition and look what's happening to these businesses. Man, it's as if you don't have any idea what you're talking about - you just read the stupid shit Bernie Sanders says and think government good, private industry bad.

 

[Michchamp]

people love them because they love "free" stuff, not because they're actually great programs.

They're not free... everyone pays taxes - even if they're not federal taxes - and we all participate in society.

and they are great. Don't you know your scripture & the beatitudes, about what you do for the poor and the least of your brothers? Geez, you're not very Christian...

 

[Spartanmack]

They're not free... everyone pays taxes - even if they're not federal taxes - and we all participate in society.

and they are great. Don't you know your scripture & the beatitudes, about what you do for the poor and the least of your brothers? Geez, you're not very Christian...

notice the "free" was in quotes. But it was in quotes for a different reason than this nonsense you've posted. They are free to them - a huge number of benefit recipients pay nothing in federal income taxes, so they're paid for by other people. Paying sales tax isn't paying a dime toward entitlements.

And they're not great - they do little more than perpetuate a cycle of poverty. Scripture talks about voluntary charity, not taxation confiscated at the barrel of the government gun. That's the problem with idiots who look at their taxes as charity - they know not what they do. Clearly, you know very little about Christianity.

 

[Michchamp]

perpetuate poverty...?

so if they weren't getting food stamps or unemployment insurance, they'd be working at at a McJob, Walmart, or Amazon welfare gig... where they still had to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

 

[Spartanmack]

perpetuate poverty...?

so if they weren't getting food stamps or unemployment insurance, they'd be working at at a McJob, Walmart, or Amazon welfare gig... where they still had to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

do you mean welfare? unemployment insurance is insurance, you need to have had a job and you have to have paid into it to collect and it's capped and temporary. So people collecting unemployment have some incentive to find a job and go back to work whereas people on welfare find a way to get by on welfare and it becomes a crutch as opposed to the misguided but well intentioned purpose it originally had which was to provide temporary assistance to people who needed a little help getting back on their feet.

See, this is the problem with talking about social welfare programs with people who don't know much, if anything about social welfare programs. You just think "hmmm, being poor is bad and the root cause of being poor is not having money (plus a lot of racism, let's not forget racism). So if we throw money (other peoples' money, especially wealthy white peoples' money because they no doubt got rich from racism) at the problem we can feel good about ourselves even though we don't actually fix the problem. And bonus, we can falsely claim the moral high ground and say people who don't love welfare are evil racists who don't care about poor people. And if they're Christians, double bonus, we get to call them bad Christians because it says right in the bible, I think in the beatitudes that Jesus said the best way to take care of the least of your brothers was to pay more in taxes to a bloated, incompetent and unaccountable bureaucracy! Yeah us!"

 

[Michchamp]

so instead of just pretending the interview didn't happen, Alex Jones apparently dedicated a whole segment of his show to mocking the socialist girl. They are making a big mistake... need to learn from Fox, and the rest of the mainstream media: you can't give the actual leftists a platform... too many people will agree with them.

Gotta keep the focus on "illegals" and "terrorists."

it was the first time I actually heard Alex Jones speak... Jesus H. Christ, he is really stupid and inarticulate.

 

[tinselwolverine]

you can't give the actual leftists a platform... too many people will agree with them.

you can't give the actual leftists a platform...

 

[Spartanmack]

so instead of just pretending the interview didn't happen, Alex Jones apparently dedicated a whole segment of his show to mocking the socialist girl. They are making a big mistake... need to learn from Fox, and the rest of the mainstream media: you can't give the actual leftists a platform... too many people will agree with them.

Gotta keep the focus on "illegals" and "terrorists."

it was the first time I actually heard Alex Jones speak... Jesus H. Christ, he is really stupid and inarticulate.

you mean it could backfire, sort of like this...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30428/jim-acostas-tweet-listing-obamas-policies-trump-james-barrett

 

[turok]

perpetuate poverty...?

so if they weren't getting food stamps or unemployment insurance, they'd be working at at a McJob, Walmart, or Amazon welfare gig... where they still had to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

Not everyone has started or remained on welfare for their child-bearing/rearing years, and it wasn't until Wal*Mart began killing small businesses, especially in flyover country that people would need to make a career out of what should have been a transitional or entry-level job. Same with fast-food joints and national/regional chain-stores like Dollar General, Wallgreens, CVS, Home Depot, ect. I remember when stores weren't all cookie cutters of each other, and some local would carry items that couldn't be gotten elsewhere, like F&M, which was my fav go to in the 70s. or Kresge's with their wooden floors, and lunch-counters. JL Hudson had dining rooms as well and it was a treat to go downtown to their HQ during the holidays as a kid. Mom and Pop stores and sole proprietor retail used to be plentiiful in metro-Detroit, but not anymore. The amount of weedy and abandoned strip-malls and light industrial parks have soared since the 80s.

 

[Spartanmack]

Not everyone has started or remained on welfare for their child-bearing/rearing years, and it wasn't until Wal*Mart began killing small businesses, especially in flyover country that people would need to make a career out of what should have been a transitional or entry-level job. Same with fast-food joints and national/regional chain-stores like Dollar General, Wallgreens, CVS, Home Depot, ect. I remember when stores weren't all cookie cutters of each other, and some local would carry items that couldn't be gotten elsewhere, like F&M, which was my fav go to in the 70s. or Kresge's with their wooden floors, and lunch-counters. JL Hudson had dining rooms as well and it was a treat to go downtown to their HQ during the holidays as a kid. Mom and Pop stores and sole proprietor retail used to be plentiiful in metro-Detroit, but not anymore. The amount of weedy and abandoned strip-malls and light industrial parks have soared since the 80s.

this is wrong - those same entry level jobs would also be transitional or entry level at Wal Mart. what's made being a cashier or stocker a career is the loss of manufacturing jobs, not the loss of the cashier or stocker job at the local mom and pop. And the loss of manufacturing jobs is driven not by WalMart but by unions driving the cost of employing skilled labor too expensive and management misguided efforts to hit the competition by giving in to union demands when times were good for them but tough for competitors. Automation has contributed as well, but that's a more recent and accelerating phenomenon.

Even if this assertion weren't incorrect, your yearning for the by gone days where you had to go to multiple locations because one store carried something another didn't is pure lunacy. I hope you're in very small minority of folks nostalgic about the inefficiency of the good ol' days. Convenience killed the middle class? C'mon, you have to see what nonsense that is.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Back in the olden days, Woolworth's used to have lunch counters; then a person could buy a string of pearls there.

Here's a little tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efy_FLBxbk

 

[TheVictors]

The Woolworth's in Traverse City had a lunch counter into the mid-80s. God awful food, but they had it.

 

[Michchamp]

I am not sure whether Wal-mart coming into a town meant a net loss in cashier and stock jobs for an area, but it sure as hell meant a loss of small-business owner "jobs," and related clerical and white collar jobs that supported those small businesses (local insurance agents, accountants, bookeepers, lawyers, printers, etc.)

these days, small sole-proprietorships are only an option in areas that have been abandoned or neglected by Wal-mart for various reasons, or where high population densities and/or local governments prevent paving over large swaths of area for parking lots...

 

[tomdalton22]

I am not sure whether Wal-mart coming into a town meant a net loss in cashier and stock jobs for an area, but it sure as hell meant a loss of small-business owner "jobs," and related clerical and white collar jobs that supported those small businesses (local insurance agents, accountants, bookeepers, lawyers, printers, etc.)

I really doubt any of this is true

 

[Michchamp]

I really doubt any of this is true

Really? You think a Walmart megastore opening in a small/midsize town didn't crush all the existing local businesses out of existence?

people across the entire country have been lamenting this for decades now.

 

[Michchamp]

well a search for "walmart effects on small towns" turns up dozens of articles and economic studies documenting this, but oh, hey, here's a study from walmart itself that it has positive economic effects on small towns. let's treat that as "one side of the debate," and not discount it as obviously biased and questionable due to the self-interest at stake.

I guess there's just no way to tell! "Both sides" make some good points.