I agree with you to a certain point but there comes a line when people try to rationalize two opposing viewpoints.

An example being (in American politics) not wanting socialized healthcare but wanting everyone to be insured. Those two views cannot co-exist.

I don't think it's a matter of forcing people to choose a side. I think it's more a matter of people wanting to self-identity with one group but actually having the ideals of the opposite.

Getting back to the American model, I think where the country got really messed up was the ideal of "rugged individualism." That is their true religion and politics takes advantage of it.
- RealityChecker

I find it infuriating that Americans talk about the evils of socialism yet demand a public school system up to college/university. Try and take away their public school system in the name of true capitalism and see how they react. So hypocritical. Their thought process is so distorted because of what they are being fed on a daily basis.

My Father who's a flames fan would love if Calgary traded him away.
- manvanfan

Can the Flames trade your Dad?

I find it infuriating that Americans talk about the evils of socialism yet demand a public school system up to college/university. Try and take away their public school system in the name of true capitalism and see how they react. So hypocritical. Their thought process is so distorted because of what they are being fed on a daily basis.
- bloatedmosquito

Not to mention:
Fire Departments
Police Departments
Hospitals

Not to mention:
Fire Departments
Police Departments
Hospitals
- A_SteamingLombardi

American hospitals are private for the most part.

American hospitals are private for the most part.
- Pres.cup

No they're not.

https://www.aha.org/stati...s/fast-facts-us-hospitals

No they're not.

https://www.aha.org/stati...s/fast-facts-us-hospitals
- A_SteamingLombardi

American hospitals are private for the most part.
- Pres.cup

I thought one of the covid-denier’s talking points is that American hospitals get government cash for each patient so they are artificially inflating the numbers to help their bottom line.

Lordy?

Doesn’t sound very ‘private’ to me. Winky face.

No they're not.

https://www.aha.org/stati...s/fast-facts-us-hospitals
- A_SteamingLombardi

That shows that just under 50 percent of the 6k hospitals are not for profit, leaving the rest to be called ________ type of hospitals?

I thought one of the covid-denier’s talking points is that American hospitals get government cash for each patient so they are artificially inflating the numbers to help their bottom line.

Lordy?

Doesn’t sound very ‘private’ to me. Winky face.
- bloatedmosquito

30 percent or so of them are for profit, whether owned privately or not.

Further reading contradicted my last post but I'm not a coward so I'll leave it up.

Not to mention:
Fire Departments
Police Departments
Hospitals
- A_SteamingLombardi

Time for OCP

I love this time of year, liverwurst and pickled onion sandwiches.

Can any of you sing O Canada? I hear there may be an opening.

- 1970vintage

You had more hair when we met.

You had more hair when we met.
- Marwood

John Locke

But yes, I did. I can’t read without glasses anymore either.

Libertarianism most definitely did not evolve from anything close to social democracy, socialism or communism...the coerced transfer & redistribution of wealth in those political philosophies is diametrically opposed to the individual freedoms in which libertarianism is based.

Closest would be the small-government conservative free-market private property philosophies.
- SlightlyOffside

lol looks a lot like an NFU paragraph(s)

Hey man, don't push me, I'll cut you!!!

In high school I saw van Halen (5150), motley Crue (girls, girls, girls) and metallica (enter Sandman.)

I feel like those are embarrassing and awesome.

The concerts I can brag about are KRS-one/Boogie Down Productions in the late 80s and Public Enemy early 90s.
- RealityChecker

Interesting. I passed on the 5150 tour and regretted it. Only had a chance to see EVH in the down years and really he is the GOAT of rock guitar.

Saw the Crue On GGG and the Dr Feelgood tour and they sucked both times. Walked off the stage in Calgary on Dr Feelgood after the 7th song and fans started ripping out seats from the top deck and tossing them on the stage. Cops everywhere lol. Was not a good night.

Then again I saw the Crue for free in Red Deer and they were pretty good albeit with a replacement drummer for Tommy Lee...still a good show.

Never had any desire to see Metallica at the Black Album stage but it yielded some great tunes. Most people don't know that 5150 was written mostly while DLR was still in the band. DLR hated the synthesizer and singing 'Jump' all the time...

Oh, but you will!

Libertarian Marxist currents often draw from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' later works, specifically the Grundrisse and The Civil War in France; emphasizing the Marxist belief in the ability of the working class to forge its own destiny without the need for a state or vanguard party to mediate or aid its liberation. Along with anarchism, libertarian Marxism is one of the main currents of libertarian socialism.

BOOM.
- bloatedmosquito

Just ask Bill Maher...he's a Libertarian lol

Interesting. I passed on the 5150 tour and regretted it. Only had a chance to see EVH in the down years and really he is the GOAT of rock guitar.

Saw the Crue On GGG and the Dr Feelgood tour and they sucked both times. Walked off the stage in Calgary on Dr Feelgood after the 7th song and fans started ripping out seats from the top deck and tossing them on the stage. Cops everywhere lol. Was not a good night.

Then again I saw the Crue for free in Red Deer and they were pretty good albeit with a replacement drummer for Tommy Lee...still a good show.

Never had any desire to see Metallica at the Black Album stage but it yielded some great tunes. Most people don't know that 5150 was written mostly while DLR was still in the band. DLR hated the synthesizer and singing 'Jump' all the time...
- LordHumungous

Saw Van Hagar in Van, first album, was that 5150? Alice In Chains was opening and none of the guys I was with knew who they were, so I left them at the strip bar and went by myself. Don’t remember Van Halen at all, AIC was good though - Man In The Box album.

I thought one of the covid-denier’s talking points is that American hospitals get government cash for each patient so they are artificially inflating the numbers to help their bottom line.

Lordy?

Doesn’t sound very ‘private’ to me. Winky face.
- bloatedmosquito

lol wasn't me but sounds about right.

Can any of you sing O Canada? I hear there may be an opening.
- Load Management

Regular singer is gone?

Saw Van Hagar in Van, first album, was that 5150? Alice In Chains was opening and none of the guys I was with knew who they were, so I left them at the strip bar and went by myself. Don’t remember Van Halen at all, AIC was good though - Man In The Box album.
- 1970vintage

5150 was Hagar's first effort with VH and it was a damn good one. It was written for DLR mostly. That's why I regret missing it was Alice In Chains. EVH was one of the first to promote that band as great which is why he had them open for VH. I've followed AIC from day one they are a stellar band...even now.

Regular singer is gone?
- LordHumungous

He’s performing at an anti-mask protest.

5150 was Hagar's first effort with VH and it was a damn good one. It was written for DLR mostly. That's why I regret missing it was Alice In Chains. EVH was one of the first to promote that band as great which is why he had them open for VH. I've followed AIC from day one they are a stellar band...even now.
- LordHumungous

I was an early adapter for Seattle grunge so was stoked to go see AIC.

Can any of you sing O Canada? I hear there may be an opening.
- Load Management

Wonder if the flames will sign him too