Fogbuster

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What do you call a man calling for the destruction of capitalism, when he lives and thrives and becomes a mega-millionaire in a capitalist system????

HYPOCRITE??? Yeah, HYPOCRITE is accurate, very very accurate


"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film

By Mike Collett-White

VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.


Capitalism is evil, says new Michael Moore film | Lifestyle | Reuters


Moore's elitist message: "Money is good when people like me have it, but it is terrible for others (who differ from me) to have it." ...

Sigh...... elitists...... what do you do with 'em??? Let 'em start their own "socialist utopia" in ..... Africa or Siberia. How 'bout China.

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Harry Boy

A friggin Tub Of ***** who makes millions bashing his own country and all the loons keep slobbering over him and making him richer, they despise America but they never leave...............

Why do people pay good money to watch his demented garbage.............

Moore is an Obama Groupie and Moore Hates Capitalism does that mean something?

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Fogbuster

Tell you what: I'll donate a dollar of my money for every ten dollars Tubby Michael donates for a worthy cause. He controls at least ten times the amount that I do, so it's fair.


Whattya say, Blubber Belly, Moore?? Can you man-up on this???

(Pressy or some other leftie on speaking terms with Donut Man can pass this on, I'm sure.)



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IcyPatriot

These people are so full of crap. John Travolta with his green crap all the while he has an airport on his property. But you have to give it up to these people ... they support the left even though they know they will get a tax pooning.

Fogbuster

Yeah, it's like none of them has ever read any history. A hudred years ago they were saying the same thing in Europe: how "corrupt" and "evil" the old order was.... all the bad dukes and duchesses ..... the corrupt Czar and Czarina (of Russia, not Obama's play-mates ).... they said they all wanted a nice, fair, equalized system, without all the 'old-boy' politics, etc. ....... So, who'd they get???? V.I. Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

The draft was REALLY bad that year.


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sdaniels7114

Does giving your money to con man from North Korea count?

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Patters

Must you show bigotry against obese people, too, Fog? Tthe way you titled the thread was rude and probably offensive to some people.

Capitalism is a bad economic system, but it's the best one so far. Let's face it, the reason the west can take the moral highground was because is raped and pillaged Africa, blacks, Native Americans, and others. In the 1900s there were tens of thousands of child prostitutes in New York City and capitalists employed children for as long as 72 hours/week making them into virtual slaves. In the past, we sent out National Guardsmen to shoot striking workers, we allowed capitalists to kill tens of thousands through pollution, dangerous working conditions, and market driven wars (such as the Spanish American War). In other countries, the crimes of capitalism were far worse. King Leopold of Belgium basically made the Belgian Congo into his private company where he murdered 5,000,000 people, and neither his country nor his family ever faced any consquences. In addition, capitalism provides for totally illogical wages -- some here have pointed out that Michael Moore must be worth a lot of money. But, is it logical that someone who does good works should earn vastly less than someone who does bad things? That's how capitalism is. It does not drive an economy with a set of values (except as imposed by limited government regs); it simply creates a form of anarchy where base needs, be it sex, violence, hoarding, gluttony, or whatever are often what generate the most demand and thus the most wealth.

Nonetheless, as awful as capitalism is, it still semms to be the best system. By appealing to humankind's selfishness, it creates the sort of wealth that allows many people to become teachers, doctors, preachers, artists, scholar, and others who are motivated by the more profound side of humanity.

Fogbuster

Well, Patters, there's always China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, or -- you're favorite, probably -- Iran , if you don't like the U.S.

Anyway, the issue isn't that capitalism is "the best"; it's that this fatso -- and yes, he clearly EARNS that title by the way he lets himself go while flaunting his wealth unbelievably even as he decries the system that ALLOWS HIM to earn it!!! -- is being 100% hypocritical. Surely, even you can acknowledge that.

For the record, I believe in a form of socialism but it sure isn't one where the limousine, caviar and champagne set are telling the rest of us to "go green and take less while paying more taxes" set. Uh-uh. It's where the ones who lead are the ones who lead by EXAMPLE, *not* by "do as I say, not as I do" vacuous celebrity.

Peace.


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Patters

I live in this country unlike you, so clearly my affection for this country runs deep.

I have no idea about Michael Moore's wealth. How does he flaunt it? If we compare the avarice of Moore to that of Moon, at least Moore didn't rip off Japanese widows. I suyspect Moon lives in far more luxury than Moore.

At any rate, I think you're wrong for insulting people for their weight. Frankly, I think Moon is a pretty strange looking guy, too:



How do you know how Michael Moore lives? From one of those unsourced websites that makes undocumented claims? I'm sure Moore lives well, but I certainly don't think he lives decadently well compared to Wall Street tycoons and others whose only purpose in this world is wealth. At least Moore has something to say, whether you agree with him or not.

PatsFanInVa

Blah blah blah.

The OP's accusation is that Moore says it is bad for others to be rich but not for him to be rich; that is what "hypocrisy" means, indeed.

A similar example: all the theocrats boinking the church secretary or running off to nail argentinian journalists, and inveighing against the sexual behavior of others.

I think Michael Moore understands, however, that if capitalism did not exist, then he would no longer be rich. He is rather inveighing against the system that does in fact permit him to be wealthy as well.

The difference seems to be that Moore acknowledges openly that he makes a ship pot of money. He does not crawl around in the shadows like the theocrats, shouting about others' evil behavior. He says yep I'm rich too. Take down the system, and I'm not rich anymore.

I don't much care whether the local theocrats manages to convince one another that child molesters, closeted gay "defenders of marriage," and polyamorous champions of monogamous sexual morality are better than a rich guy who thinks capitalism has to go.

But in terms of the olympics of hypocrisy, one would think one real telling factor for the judges would be whether the behavior somehow invalidates the ideology. In Moore's case the behavior is film making within a capitalist system, which - if he got his way - would simply become film making within a "better" system (I have not seen the movie so I do not know if he believe there is such a better system, or merely points out that the current one is evil.)

In terms of the straying theocrats, the excuse is always that when the better system comes, nobody will sin (by definition.) However, the task of policing the sexual morality of others always seems to be justified by the principle of "what God wants." Often they call for America to become ruled by "what God wants," cast in terms of sexual morality. All of us are expected to live according to their pronouncements that some sexual behavior is immoral, when they do not in fact live by said pronouncements themselves.

Michael Moore never has called for all of his followers to leave behind their earthly possessions because we would then all be perfect. That was another guy, who of course you may also call a hypocrite if you like, given the wealth he bequethed to his organizational heirs.

The theocrats in question do, daily, call for all of us to behave in ways that they themselves refuse to behave.

That seems much more like hypocrisy to me.

Oh as to the post's titular charge that Michael Moore is very fat, that is true. I am not certain what it has to do with anything. Moore did not make "Supersize Me."

PFnV