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He's a troll Acolyte, specifically an attention seeking one.

If I was allowed I would pay Kemp to stop replying, then the troll would die of inattention.

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
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Yeah, I should stop.

It's obvious that my replies upset him, though. If I can discourage him from posting this retarded bullshit more by posting, I'm not sure which is better.

A bunch of idiots, including naive moderators, do encourage him by responding. Ignoring him only works if enough people do it. Replying on the facts and making him rage works either way. I'm open to discussion, though. Maybe I should stop. tongue

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54 (edited by xeno syndicated 08-Jul-2012 17:35:23)

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> Justinian I wrote:

> Xeno,

You are assuming that wealth is limited.

This is a good point.  You are suggesting that 1% of total world's wealth may be enough to sustain humanity's basic needs.   An ethical, sustainable, equitable civilization with a benevolent dictator owning 99% and the rest of humanity the remaining 1% might, then be possible.  But would it be plausible?  As it is, perhaps 35% of the world's wealth is held by the poor and middle class, and their endeavor to fulfill basic human needs is highly frustrated.  Based on this, I think it would be more likely that their endeavor to fulfill basic human needs would be even more frustrated in a world where they control only 1% of the world's wealth.

Besides, wealth IS limmited.  See below regarding your next point:

"Capitalism creates wealth."

Capitalism is simply a means of distributing wealth.  Wealth is not created by it.  Consider wealth as something intrinsic and finite like the resources in a mountain.  There is only so much metal in this given region to be mined.  After it is mined, its 'wealth' has been diminished by the amount mined.  The metals, have gone into products elsewhere, adding wealth to those products.  Some of these metals were used to construct, in part, your monitor (be it your computer's screen, phone's screen, TV's screen, or screen of whatever device by which you are reading this sentence).  The mountain's wealth, and the wealth of all places from which other natural resources were used to construct the other parts of your monitor, has been depleted by this process.  What we are talking about isn't really the mountain's wealth, of course, but, rather the wealth of future generations who might have otherwise used those metals in the future.  Also, the wealth of all those whose labor was involved in the process of harvesting the resources, manufacturing, and distributing the product to you has also been depleted.   By the capitalistic process involved with the production and distribution of your monitor, then, wealth has simply been redistributed to you by the amount of the intrinsic wealth inherent in your monitor.  How much wealth, then did you provide them in exchange?  It must necessarily have been MORE than the intrinsic wealth inherent of the TV monitor, for the process of producing and distributing the product to you they would only have done for profit.  Thus by your purchase, you diminished your wealth: they profited by the amount your labor you exchanged which is in addition to the intrinsic wealth inherent of your monitor.  Ultimately, the environment, or rather, the wealth of future generations makes up the deficit in this process: at one point in the future, while your monitor is buried in some landfill site, the mountain or regions from which the resources were originally extracted for the production and distribution of your monitor will have been depleted, and that future generation will not be able to use those resources.  The capitalistic process, then, does not create wealth, but merely transfers it to our time from future generations.

"Sure, the majority of created wealth goes to the entrepreneurs, but at the same time everyone becomes wealthier."

If we are talking, then, about redistributed wealth, wealth which is redistributed from future generations to ours, wealth which is redistributed to ours without the consent of those future generations, is it really relevant who gets it?  That anyone does is unethical, and do so without regard for those future generations is a crime; worse yet is how our system distributes this wealth to those in our time who need it the LEAST, when we should be redistributing this wealth to those who need it the most: to those who are frustrated in fulfilling their basic human needs.

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"This is a good point.  You are suggesting that 1% of total world's wealth may be enough to sustain humanity's basic needs.   An ethical, sustainable, equitable civilization with a benevolent dictator owning 99% and the rest of humanity the remaining 1% might, then be possible.  But would it be plausible? "

What isn't plausible is your incoherent examples using completely non-representative numbers. If you don't know you're wrong--if you aren't trolling--why use such nonsense numbers?

"As it is, perhaps 35% of the world's wealth is held by the poor and middle class, and their endeavor to fulfill basic human needs is highly frustrated."

It's not that frustrated in America today. And how frustrated it is is a result of government overspending and ballooned cost-of-living. Your communist wealth-redistribution argument has been ripped apart ad-nauseum.

"If we are talking, then, about redistributed wealth, wealth which is redistributed from future generations to ours, wealth which is redistributed to ours without the consent of those future generations, is it really relevant who gets it?  That anyone does is unethical, and do so without regard for those future generations is a crime; worse yet is how our system distributes this wealth to those in our time who need it the LEAST, when we should be redistributing this wealth to those who need it the most: to those who are frustrated in fulfilling their basic human needs."

Good job completely missing his point that wealth creation benefits everyone in society, especially the poor. The most basic facts about free markets are over your head. It's adorable.

"Capitalism is simply a means of distributing wealth.  Wealth is not created by it."

Hahahhahha troll. Basic economic facts escape you.

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56 (edited by xeno syndicated 10-Jul-2012 16:14:16)

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"Is he serious about this lawsuit thing? What a joke."

Well, I believe I could sue Kemp and Einstein if I wanted to.  They've called me a communist, a criminal, twisted and misrepresented my positions, and have done so disingenuously for the purpose of promoting their ideas over mine. If we were to liken my ideas to a product and kemps and Einstein's ideas to a competing product, anyone who would ridicule distort the facts, mis-represent the facts about a competing product of a competing business and slander the competing brand-name, business-owner, etc., would get sued for sure.  If it would not be tolerated in business, it shouldn't be tolerated here.  They should not be able to distort, mis-represent the points of views of other posters, and certainly should be held accountable for slander / libel.

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Except ideas are NOT products in an open market, and the act of posting here is NOT akin to the operation of a business. No one is being defrauded here, and you'd have a hard time to convince any court -- anywhere in the world -- that your reputation has been undeniably, irreparably harmed by Einstein or V.Kemp. You don't even have a case for emotional distress. If strangers on the Internet can make you this upset, then I think your problem may run much deeper than mere libel. Perhaps you should try posting elsewhere, or, here's an idea, unplug the idiot box for a while and find healthier hobbies to occupy your time.

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+1 Acolyte




Btw your ideas were used by Stalin, he had to kill a few million here, a few million there, to get people to comply with those ideas.

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
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xeno syndicated,

"Well, I believe I could sue Kemp and Einstein if I wanted to.  They've called me a communist,"

First, you couldn't sue me if I held the opinion that you're a communist, even if you weren't. Second, in this very thread you state the fact that you're a communist; so, even if you could prove malicious intent (and figure out that it's not slander lol), it's not a lie. You can't sue for someone telling the truth just because the truth is that you're a liar.

You're not even responding to 90% of what I've said. Much of it has been legitimate questions I'd love to hear your answers to. They'd clarify your positions and what you advocate. I would be eager to clear up any confusion anybody had as to what I believe and what position I am making here. Given repeated choices, you just ignore legitimate questions and refuse to clarify your position. If that's not the behavior of a troll, it's the behavior of a moron suffering from serious psychological disorders.

"They should not be able to distort, mis-represent the points of views of other posters, and certainly should be held accountable for slander / libel."

Do I need to explain the difference again?

How can I distort or misrepresent your views? I ask you legitimate questions based very directly on what you post and you refuse to reply. You've been relatively clear in what you have posted, which is 100% communist ideology. I've explained exactly what you've posted is communist, how, and why. I've asked you repeatedly to correct me if I'm wrong. You never have.

Stop being a baby. This crying is stupid. If you disagree with what someone's said, say so. If someone "misrepresents" your views, say so immediately. Reply to their earnest questions. Correct them. Clear things up. Stupid shit like this is just trolling.

Nobody has lied about your views. I've asked repeatedly for clarification in places where you seemed to be advocating communist views. I didn't "call" you a communist, I said hey, this idea sounds communist for X Y Z reasons with A B C results, did I get something wrong? And, as it turns out, I got nothing wrong. You never corrected me.

QQ

You're trolling.

Grow up.

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>>You're trolling.
>> Grow up.

Troll calling the troll childish.... so entertaining

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am Jesus"
"Nothing is worse than a fully prepared fool"

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"Troll calling the troll childish.... so entertaining"

The question is, does the big fish troll the fisherman in the small boat, or vice versa?

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I asked him legitimate questions about the content of his posts. I genuinely wanted to know his answers. I asked him to clear up anything I got wrong.

He answered no questions. He corrected nothing. He just cried.

If you think I'm the troll, you're a big baby. Intellectual limitations implied.

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Kemp, you are an idiotic troll. Oh look that shoe fitted you perfectly!

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am Jesus"
"Nothing is worse than a fully prepared fool"

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You're just debasing this forum.

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I am actually proud of this achievement, given that this forum includes you, flint and Xeno it takes a very exceptional performance to take this forum to a new low... of course my low is littered with too much intelligence to be more than a sarcastic mirroring of your own incompetence...

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i am Jesus"
"Nothing is worse than a fully prepared fool"

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You're just embarrassing yourself.

You're no worse than them, but you're being just as bad.

"of course my low is littered with too much intelligence to be more than a sarcastic mirroring of your own incompetence.." BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH what a mouthful of retarded nonsense.

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67 (edited by xeno syndicated 12-Jul-2012 08:10:40)

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Interesting concept I came across today: that the elite who hold the claims on debt would rather see the discontinuance of human civilization before forgiving the debt owed to them and allowing civilization, and thus our species, to survive.

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Sometimes I check out the retard crack head forums too. Good stuff. Not very educational, though.

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> Acolyte wrote:

> Except ideas are NOT products in an open market, and the act of posting here is NOT akin to the operation of a business. No one is being defrauded here, and you'd have a hard time to convince any court -- anywhere in the world -- that your reputation has been undeniably, irreparably harmed by Einstein or V.Kemp. You don't even have a case for emotional distress. If strangers on the Internet can make you this upset, then I think your problem may run much deeper than mere libel. Perhaps you should try posting elsewhere, or, here's an idea, unplug the idiot box for a while and find healthier hobbies to occupy your time.

The above is just another example of how the law is designed to protect the interests of corporations, investors, shareholders, etc. - in short the rich - and not individuals, nor society as a whole.  Humanity itself is being defrauded by how we conduct civilization / how civilization is conducted.

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> V.Kemp wrote:

> Sometimes I check out the retard crack head forums too. Good stuff. Not very educational, though.

Actually, it was a BBC documentary called "Surviving Progress".  Most of what they were saying I knew years ago.   The notion that the elites have historically been willing to extract said repayments on debts owed to them by force, and thus spread desolation, destruction, war, mayhem, famine, and even collapse of their own civilization itself before agreeing to forgive said debts - debts which have typically grown to such an extent that it is literally impossible for them to be repaid - this notion I hadn't come across before.  The example they used was the Roman Empire.

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"Most of what they were saying I knew years ago."

You mean baseless communist conjecture.

"The notion that the elites have historically been willing to extract said repayments on debts owed to them by force, and thus spread desolation, destruction, war, mayhem, famine, and even collapse of their own civilization itself before agreeing to forgive said debts - debts which have typically grown to such an extent that it is literally impossible for them to be repaid"

That doesn't make any sense. We GIVE our poor massive amounts of money. Most welfare recipients have cable tv, cell phones, and air conditioning. Nobody's forcing anybody to go into debt. On top of this, we have bankruptcy laws; Nobody is forcing mayhem and famine on anybody on account of debts.

The debts that are our problem today are public debts.

Nothing you're saying makes any sense. This is only fitting, seeing as my simple questions baffled you previously and we've yet to see you answer a single one of them. You obviously know that you're ranting incoherently.

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72 (edited by Acolyte 12-Jul-2012 19:36:12)

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xeno syndicated: "The above is just another example of how the law is designed to protect the interests of corporations, investors, shareholders, etc. - in short the rich - and not individuals, nor society as a whole.  Humanity itself is being defrauded by how we conduct civilization / how civilization is conducted."

I don't disagree with you that justice has been perverted to protect those in power, but you have no legitimate claim here under /any/ permutation of legal code. What sort of relief would you seek from pursuing whatever case you have in mind? What standard do you expect a court to use in evaluating each element of your claim? How would you even identify who V.Kemp and Einstein are in real life, much less obtain their residential addresses, and then manage the logistics of filing separate claims in each jurisdiction (since I'm reasonably certain they are probably not next door neighbors, nor reside within the same legal district). Would you even know how to begin choosing a venue with which to file your petition?

Nevermind. Assuming it was even possible for you to answer any one of those questions intelligently, the essence of your complaint can be summarily dismissed on the grounds that Einstein and V.Kemp have not, at any time, violated your rights by voicing their own opinions. Especially not in a setting such as this, where there is little ambiguity as to the nature and context of thread discussions.

You can not forcefully suppress the speech of others just because they dispute the contents of your own speech.

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But he wants to. It's necessary for his desired communist state.

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74 (edited by xeno syndicated 13-Jul-2012 16:19:37)

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"You can not forcefully suppress the speech of others just because they dispute the contents of your own speech."

This is unreasonable.  They slander my reputation with lies, false accusations, which effectually suppresses my free speech.  They do so with the intent of stifling dialogue on issues at hand, with the intent of sabotaging healthy debate on issues they would rather not see debated, and do so with speech which verges on hate-speech.  And you, acolyte, are making it seem that I am the bully, here.... 

Why does Kemp keep responding?  I have asked him not to respond in my threads; his participation stops the process of sincere debate (as evidenced by this very discussion).  It is not only a slander / libel suit against Kemp, a harassment suite, and perhaps hate crime suit as well.

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He's cross the line on more than one occasion, if this were a Speaker's Corner session in Hyde Park,  he'd have been arrested, or if a comedy club, escorted off premises by security.