90% Germans were opposed to capitalism

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Genx87

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It's funny that your interpreter translated Nazism with a capital letter, and capitalism and communism - with a small letter. Your company Google likes Nazism?

If google were my company. I wouldnt be wasting my time on this msgboard sweet cheeks.
 

piasabird

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I think maybe it might be possible to curb back on things like the cost of housing and property value. There could be some ceilings on the price of houses based on square feet. When you can buy a house in Arkansas for $150,000 and that same house in a large city is $800,000 then it just comes to a point where the average guy just can not buy a house or even a 1 room apartment.

It might be possible to come to some kind of a common sense approach. If we can live with a limit on how much a football player can be paid in the NFL then it must be possible for some similar limits for housing.
 

BoberFett

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I think maybe it might be possible to curb back on things like the cost of housing and property value. There could be some ceilings on the price of houses based on square feet. When you can buy a house in Arkansas for $150,000 and that same house in a large city is $800,000 then it just comes to a point where the average guy just can not buy a house or even a 1 room apartment.

It might be possible to come to some kind of a common sense approach. If we can live with a limit on how much a football player can be paid in the NFL then it must be possible for some similar limits for housing.

LOL, because price ceilings have NEVER caused problems.
 

highland145

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also, your english improved quickly in this post. Try harder on your next post.
Черт русский самозванец
 

highland145

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impossible. Wasn't the soviet union perfect? You can't destroy perfection, that's a paradox.
ненавистников будет ненавидеть

edit: Haters going to hate.:sneaky:
 

StageLeft

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Eagle1969 is the result of a special Soviet troll program started in 1955. He was in incubation until this month and now has been unleashed! His handlers are ecstatic.
 

Eagle1969

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Impossible. Wasn't the Soviet Union perfect? You can't destroy perfection, that's a paradox.

We are not throwing all their forces to counter capitalism. At a time when the capitalist countries were spending all their money to destroy the Soviet Union, in our country spending money on people and their spiritual development. We preferred to buy books for children and build attractions, and you buy tanks and missiles.

The Soviet Union was a rich country, but he could not work on two fronts simultaneously. He tried to play fair, respecting morals, but if you use dope, then you win. It's like in politics: good people there do not fall, because they play fair.

Moreover, harsh climatic conditions, growing food can only be 3 months of the year and in the U.S. - 6-8 months. Much more harvest. United States has sold the crop to the poor people in Africa take their last money to build more tanks and submarines, together with European allies. This was done as a charity aid, and actually going to sell for money and diamonds. These African diamonds are then used in cutting machines for the production of armor and weapons.
 
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BoberFett

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Steeplerot

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So, how is the German economy doing? Better than the U.S. economy?

Considering that they are currently the second biggest exporter of manufactured good in the world next to China. With a reputation of having high quality products, I would say yes. Germany is doing fine.
 

BoberFett

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Considering that they are currently the second biggest exporter of manufactured good in the world next to China. With a reputation of having high quality products, I would say yes. Germany is doing fine.

That's mostly the former West Germany. The former East Germany is still in an economic shambles.
 

Steeplerot

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I think you are above the libertarian twits heads here. They get in a tizzy when you use big words not in a Rand book.
 

StageLeft

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I'm starting to believe that he believes this. That means he is a superior troll breaking down my anti-troll defense wall.
 

Steeplerot

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Old news, Germany is one country now, and takes care of it's people well, and is the forefront of Democracy and wealth while keeping up it's Democratic-Socialist traditions since the 1850s. Quit being such college aged ideological tools. Libertarianism has never had successes. Unless you count crashing economies to enrich the wealthiest.
 

BoberFett

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Old news, Germany is one country now, and takes care of it's people well, and is the forefront of Democracy and wealth while keeping up it's Democratic-Socialist traditions since the 1850s. Quit being such college aged ideological tools. Libertarianism has never had successes. Unless you count crashing economies to enrich the wealthiest.

That's why I said former.

You don't read very well, do you comrade?

And unemployment in former East Germany is extremely high.
 

Steeplerot

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I see Germany as being a much better model for the 21st century then the USA which is in decline and it's population is not adapting and growing more reactionary in the face of change.

Maybe it's the young empire complex dooming itself with arrogance? Americans sure are arrogant in here, about what I have no idea, the USA has had it's moment, the sun will not set, but we cannot keep raping the world for labor/resources to support such a lifestyle. Germany is leading the way in sustainability, American culture is full of brain dead tv/mass media wage slaves, working more hours, for less money who will sell themselves short for a buck -becauase it is the American way.
 

Steeplerot

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That's why I said former.

You don't read very well, do you comrade?

And unemployment in former East Germany is extremely high.

Of course it is, it is a welfare state, they actually count their unemployed, instead of letting them drop off the face of the earth.
 

BoberFett

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Believe it or not, we're not entirely in disagreement there. Libertarians are staunchly against empire building, and think that we'd be in far better shape if we hadn't spent tens of trillions of dollars on the military of the past decades. And I can't speak for libertarians as a whole on this issue, but I personally believe that while free trade is a good thing, offshoring with a trade deficit is very short sighted.

But if you want to keep confusing libertarians with neocons, that's certainly your prerogative.
 

BoberFett

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Of course it is, it is a welfare state, they actually count their unemployed, instead of letting them drop off the face of the earth.

Are you saying that former East and former West count their unemployment differently? Former West has unemployment roughly on par with the rest of the western world while former East has double that.
 

bfdd

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Considering that they are currently the second biggest exporter of manufactured good in the world next to China. With a reputation of having high quality products, I would say yes. Germany is doing fine.

Some German stuff is high quality, some of it they skate by on the fact they're German and people think quality. Hell look at German cars, they're as bad or worse than American cars on average. Good luck not running into thousands of dollars worth of maintenance once you hit 100k miles on a German car. A Japanese car? lol @ thousands of dollars worth of work, same for American cars. I've also used German precision tools and they're ok, I like American and Japanese tools better. That said, they do make some awesome cars even if they only last a short time.
 

Genx87

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Some German stuff is high quality, some of it they skate by on the fact they're German and people think quality. Hell look at German cars, they're as bad or worse than American cars on average. Good luck not running into thousands of dollars worth of maintenance once you hit 100k miles on a German car. A Japanese car? lol @ thousands of dollars worth of work, same for American cars. I've also used German precision tools and they're ok, I like American and Japanese tools better. That said, they do make some awesome cars even if they only last a short time.

German cars work fine if you replace the broken German part with a NAPA part :D