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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Another criminal cyclist
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On 2/12/2025 7:21 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:15:02 -0500, Catrike Ryder
> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:06:16 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:46:35 -0500, Catrike Ryder
>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:45:58 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/11/2025 3:44 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue Feb 11 08:49:50 2025 John B.  wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:15:35 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon Feb 10 07:28:25 2025 John B.  wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:51:22 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun Feb 9 10:46:23 2025 AMuzi  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>    From today's paper:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/opinion/even-gun-shy-sweden-has-to-deal-with-mass-shootings/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Many of the failures we share (miserably lousy education
>>>>>>>>>>> system, homicides and assaults, abject abuse of mentally
>>>>>>>>>>> ill) defy simple analysis as noted well in the above.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We all have our preferred political environment. And each
>>>>>>>>>>> one of us is regularly disappointed. But in those specific
>>>>>>>>>>> issues results cross all political lines.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The Russians discovered that communism simply cannot work and ended their system. They supposedly dropped to plain socialism but their country is not rich enough to afford real socialism.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But the fact that communism has NEVER worked anywhere in the world does not stop believers in communism from tauting its "advantages" or complaining about the weaknessses of the free enterprise system that made more people richer, faster than any other system, as being a weak system because it isn't perfect.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You mean China - who sell more stuff to the U.S. then any other
>>>>>>>>> country doesn't work?  Or Vietnam doesn't work?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> They are both classified as communist.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Everyone got this now, the CCP is selling carbon fiber seatposts to America.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And some  $562.9 billion worth of other stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John, China is in such a bad economic position that the CCP is forced to look the other way while free enterprise is feeding a substancial portion of their population. I said that communism doesn't work and this plus North Korea renting out troops to Russia so that they can eat is just more proof. Your pretend knowledge of economics is like everytthing else about you - unadulterated bullshit. Stop talking about things you don't understand.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, nothing has changed.
>>>>> Now it's called 'capitalism with chinese characteristics'.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.cgtn.com/how-china-works/feature/What-does-path-of-socialism-with-Chinese-characteristics-mean.html
>>>>>
>>>>> same thing after all.
>>>>
>>>> All forms of collectivism require a rich powerful ruler at the top
>>>> pulling strings and making sure all of the "people" obey the
>>>> regulations and don't go around thinking that they might know what's
>>>> in their own best interest.
>>>
>>> Well, "free" money has a great allure and in the U.S. there seems to
>>> be a considerable amount of it. The U.S. is still claiming to be a
>>> democratic government, is it not?
>>
>>
>> Sadly, we have career politicians who get rich off their political
>> decisions and we have morons who keep re-electing them.

yup, last november is a classic example of morons re-electing a grifter.


> Ever stop to think the ones that get elected may be the best of the
> bunch?

The smart ones don't run for office.

> 


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