Wheylous, ready for another debate?
I thought Wheylous was a 'progressive liberal'.
I thought he was ancap.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
And the difference is...?
Just kidding. But yeah, I changed it, just to make Wheylous sound off hardcore-style. Practicing against a Marxist is a good way to go about things, because they are the hardest to debate.
EDIT
@ Daniel Muffinburg
In reality, yes, of course he is. But we held a fake debate once for me to practice in, where he posed as a progressive.
You ready to debate again, son?
(spits out sprig of grass)
Bring it, you capitalist pig.
What topic?
Capital centralization in a capitalist economy and the dire consequences it produces!
If y'all do it I suggest I no-outsider debate with a sidelines thread for the other users to make comments.
Let's not do comments until we're some amount into the debate please. This is supposed to be a test AND a learning experience. It can't be an honest test if we have a whole forum ganging up on a Wheylous who is obviously poorly-read on leftist thought.
So I'd appreciate holding comments until after.
Anyway, SM, I await a topic.
Sorry for the wait, I was just watching a few episodes of Season 4 of Rescue Me. *clears throat* Okay then, let's see...let's simply discuss whatever Marxist system of governance you advocate (whether it be Trotskyism, Stalinism, Juche, Maoism, DeLeonism, or whatever the heck) vs. my grand Anarcho-Capitalist society.
I'll leave it up to you to state which "variant" of Marxism you stand for.
Wheylous is playing devil's advocate, I hope?
Well that's why I'd suggest a seperate thread JUST for the comments, because it won't intervene in the actual debate thread that's only between the two people posting. (Example: debate Daniel Sanchez had with some other guy, had a sideline's thread, I don't feel like searching for it.)
To be clear - I have very little knowledge of specific Marxist systems, so I cannot give them a fair run. I can only be a social democrat.
As to the sideline thread - the point is that I don't want him getting help.
Social democrat? Eh, come on, that's no fun. It's easy being a Marxist, just make your case for why you think that we should have a dictatorship of the proletariat, and call me a dirty capitalist over and over again by saying that I should die by the hand of the working class in the revolution, shouting endless profanities at me.
Yeah, that's not what I'm trying to do with my time :P
If you want that, then go talk to MissySocialist
Ah, fine. Social democRAT it is. You start off.
"If you want that, then go talk to MissySocialist"
Worst suggestion ever for the worst debate ever.
Excuse me Neodoxy?
Well 13 comments in no shots have been fired and then he tells you to go and debate a king troll.
SM - once again, we need a topic.
I already stated the topic. Your left-wing form of government based on social equality vs. my form of society based off of natural law/the NAP.
I think that's a bit too broad, no?
Let's just try it. I honestly don't care for circumscribing to just one particular theme.
Who starts? I'll make this hell for you.
Scary.
But you start.
Geez, Neodoxy was right. We've already used up one page of the thread and the debate hasn't even begun.
DOUBLE EDIT
I mean seriously, if there's going to be a sideliner thread, this should be it. I suppose I'll change the title.
Yeah, I'm starting a new thread.
Also, NO HELPING OF SM UNTIL IT'S OVER. YOU COULD JUST COMMENT ON PERFORMACE IN PERFORMANCE IN GENERAL, BUT NO HELP.
Pwease.
Before I respond to your post in the other thread, I would like to ask if I directly respond to your remarks, or rather, state my position as you did as some kind of opening statement?
Your choice. I'd do both.
Okay, just posted my rebuttle. Now watch me bomb.
Yourself?
Son, I've gotten straight As in a school only 40 miles away from Washington DC - I know my liberal stuff.
You misunderstood me, I meant I probably did bad.
You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why, Socialists are coming to town!
Oh, yeah. I mean, Social Democrat Wheylous thinks so :P
So what does sane Wheylous think?
I technically agree with your arguments, I just think they could have been presented better and with more citations. (I will do a review of your argument at the end)
Also, remember that in a debate you could always have false information thrown at you. Make sure to check your opponent's facts!
Debates always seem so fun-sounding and easy-peasy...until you're in them.
By the way, I thought we were supposed to be debating the forms of government/society themselves. Not these little issues that I detest talking about.
I made my opening statement. It's your jobs to steer the debate where you want it. I made my case for the government "I" wanted - essentially this but with smarter regulations and some more help for the poor.
Seems like you should join the rank of Social Democrats, then ;)
I'm writing an analysis
Wheylous I think you're being a bit dodgy with the slavery topic. He asked you to distinguish your system with slavery. Why won't you?
Why should I? Why in the world would it have any relation to slavery? Do I waltz into the Large Hadron Collider and ask them how their models are any difference from slavery? I have no reason to expect my system to have any relation from slavery. It's like saying "please distininguish your dog from the color red." Um, what?