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Stargazer99

(3,563 posts) Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:58 AM Aug 2025

Newspapers are owned by the wealthy and powerful and you think they will allow an opposing view of capitalism? [View all]

Capitalism leaves of pattern of recessions in cycles. Why does the average working person not question this? I guess it is because the wealthy and powerful do not want you to know that fact as it might knowing the pattern just might lead to another healthier system and destroy excessive wealth and power

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Newspapers are owned by the wealthy and powerful and you think they will allow an opposing view of capitalism? [View all] Stargazer99 Aug 2025 OP

What other syste do you propose? brush Aug 2025 #1

You can criticize a system without having an answer leftstreet Aug 2025 #2

Well that's no help at all. I'll wait to see what the OP poster has to say. brush Aug 2025 #3

Oh, okay n/t leftstreet Aug 2025 #10

Democratic Socialism, as in some European countries. yardwork Aug 2025 #5

Wrong. Those natons you speack of are socal democracies... brush Aug 2025 #11

You are describing democratic socialism. yardwork Aug 2025 #15

You're equatng social democracies with democratic sociallsm. brush Aug 2025 #18

+1000 Celerity Aug 2025 #20

You are rude, and you are wrong. yardwork Aug 2025 #34

Inform yourself. The two terms are not the same. brush Aug 2025 #36

And what kind of taxes do they pay? Gimpyknee Aug 2025 #24

Higher taxes to pay for the great social network support... brush Aug 2025 #26

Thank you and Brush for the discussion vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #30

The distinction is far less black and white. yardwork Aug 2025 #35

Lot of "poodle trimming" in this thread. I'm not making any judgements...just saying...:) Smokster Aug 2025 #39

Good summation, V. brush Aug 2025 #54

Repeal the Telecom Act of 1996, snot Aug 2025 #9

Good suggestions. Regulated capitalism that doesn't favor the mega rich. brush Aug 2025 #12

Anyone remember when their was just one company that did telephone calls, long distance, military communications LiberalArkie Aug 2025 #23

Yep. snot Aug 2025 #40

"What system do you propose?" Cirsium Aug 2025 #28

I think we can come up to the 20th and 21th century examples. brush Aug 2025 #29

Not a good model Cirsium Aug 2025 #33

Explain please. Don't just make blanket statements without explanation. brush Aug 2025 #43

response Cirsium Aug 2025 #44

As I thought, nothing but grievance for the Nordic model but nothing preferred. brush Aug 2025 #45

What? Cirsium Aug 2025 #48

Get to the point, if the Nordic countries are not a good model, what is? brush Aug 2025 #49

Not the point Cirsium Aug 2025 #50

Nothing again? brush Aug 2025 #52

A reminder Cirsium Aug 2025 #56

Ridicuous. You're free to express your opinions on DU. What do think this site is here for. brush Aug 2025 #57

Huh? Cirsium Aug 2025 #58

Capitalism is a economic system, not a political system nt EX500rider Aug 2025 #37

It is more than that Cirsium Aug 2025 #41

When Ben Bagdikian wrote The Media Monopoly Torchlight Aug 2025 #4

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire Ping Tung Aug 2025 #6

Even MAGA agrees mega rich aren't pulling a progressive share. They might even... uponit7771 Aug 2025 #7

The average American "working person" is busy working, maxsolomon Aug 2025 #8

True. More education needed. brush Aug 2025 #14

America will get right on that! maxsolomon Aug 2025 #31

Heehee. Ironic isn't it that the the Ed. Sec'y appontedd to shut t down is from... brush Aug 2025 #32

It would require myth busting Keepthesoulalive Aug 2025 #51

American billionaires cause so much death and destruction in this world. Initech Aug 2025 #13

I have to continuously ask other Canadians where they get their "opinions" and news because Bev54 Aug 2025 #16

Not all newspapers are owned by the wealthy or the powerful.. . reACTIONary Aug 2025 #17

You sound like you want, well, deported. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #19

Catch this discussion between Thom Hartmann and Malcolm Nance erronis Aug 2025 #21

Whatever this is it isn't capitalism Blue Full Moon Aug 2025 #22

The Press gfarber Aug 2025 #25

The primary holders of said wealth are Republicans. live love laugh Aug 2025 #27

Nope. Even people here are so propagandized against everything else that you can barely have a dialogue about it. BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2025 #38

You know what capitalism is? JoseBalow Aug 2025 #42

Can't even TALK about sharing wealth. Kid Berwyn Aug 2025 #46

Basically, yeah. OldBaldy1701E Aug 2025 #47

The cores of capitalism and socialism are both inevitable. gulliver Aug 2025 #53

I will bet you get your income from a capitalist system-you sound scared to death of reasonable splitting of profits Stargazer99 Aug 2025 #55