>Actor Dean Norris criticized people who are complaining about soaring gas prices across the United States.
>The "Breaking Bad" star said current gas prices are "fair market" and urged anyone who "love[s] Capitalism" to "stfu," an acronym for shut the f--- up.
>"You're not getting 'robbed' at the pump," Norris wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. "You’re paying fair market price for a commodity. If you love Capitalism so much then stfu."
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Hank is based, Dean Norris is cringe
This. A character can be based while the actual actor is a fricking moron.
Kek, it's like Hank is the exact opposite of this homosexual.
>isaac
hmmm
I'm not taking the opinions of a coomer who sought sex gifs on twitter seriously
Why do you post on Cinemaphile? I guarantee 90% of this board jerk off at least twice a day
you guys are only doing it twice?
Based coomer
>government interference in the oil and gas industry is free market capitalism
Why are lefties so fricking stupid?
half the time they arent, they just know people arent gonna stop an argument to check. even if they check they'll criticize the source or something, anything to dodge contradictions. they would burn down an orphanage if it meant winning an argument, all that matters to these people is successfully parroting ideology in a way that makes them look smart.
>half the time they arent
Go back.
a very well thought out, not low quality or off topic post you made there, buck
>lefties feign ignorance to gain leverage in arguments
>go back
ironic
>"i-it's not r-real capitalism!!!"
have a nice day.
Are you moronic Black person? Well you are a Black person so that is self explanatory. As soon as the government intervenes it is no longer free market. Its what you want communism or what i want fascism. If it was fascism youd be put against a wall. God damn i have a stiffy imagining you fat Black person getting armer robberied
pathetic larp
describe real communism
CHAZ
they did it at last
proletarian ownership of the means of production
well when the government has been shutting down every attempt to pump, move and refine more gas yeah it's not real capitalism
>The U.S. was producing 11.185 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2021, compared with an average of 11.283 million barrels per day in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Hmmmm.....
>hey pal, wanna X for Y?
>sure, why not
>leftoid: gibs me dats for free, dis real captitlismism
C-Communism is when prices increase LEFTOID!
This, completely unironically.
Shut up, Black person monkey.
Capitalism is essentially what we describe economic systems with no/little government interference. The state has banned new drilling, new pipelines, raised taxes on current fossil fuel sources and then printed trillions of dollars during a shortage. It's not capitalism, it's moronism.
Not sure if the situation translates to oil in the US, but here in Aus our natural gases prices are sky high at the moment, and a big part of it is due to skyrocketing demand overseas. It is more profitable for the gas companies to export than sell locally so we have to pay more as a result. In this case regulation could keep prices down by forcing companies to set aside gas for locals, which is in the national interest.
In a globalised economy more capitalism is definitely not always good.
That would just lead to your government rising your debt to sustain the same level of production, leading to more economic inflation, abd probrably higher taxe. Nothing is free fren, its just better to wait for new projects bring the prices down to meet demand and stop your central bank from expanding the monetary base than trying to control prices and enventually destroying your population purcashing power.
definitely do not listen to this guy
Yeah you're right global crude price shot up 50% because Keystone XL was scrapped.
What do you understand when people say "capitalism"? He is not wrong. We are at a historical junction, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Decide, realise. Either you are with workers or with the bosses.
>direct leftoid action
>actual leftoid campaign promise to frick with fossil fuel
>muh capitalism
Take your Venezuela.
Thanks for your opinion you senile old frick that got to live the golden years while speeding down highways in a mustang that costs a couple bucks to fill up
yeah those gays had it all then pulled up the ladder
oh boy another entitled lefty stooge shames the working class and defends billionaire pedos episode
He's right. Also stop buying gas, morons.
No. Eat shit, melon.
Yeah but government action made gas a lot less plentiful than it should have been.
Yeah that's thanks to fracking which Democrats have put a ton roadblocks in front of.
He literally campaigned on fricking them over probably felt confident since prices were at mega lows due to covid lockdowns. Now that prices are up he's begging to produce more.
These are decade long investment outlooks. It's an insane gamble to invest billions for it to be just shut off next time Saudi Arabia starts pumping more and Democrats can afford to frick over domestic production for green points with their base.
Yeah... so your point about Biden not allowing oil companies to drill was pure bullshit, huh?
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2022/06/video-biden-pledges-to-shutdown-the-oil-and-gas-industry/
>"uspresidentialelectionnews.com"
>whole article based around an out of context soundbite
the right can't meme
no it wasn't bullshit, let them drill and stay the frick out of the way. leave them alone.
>oil companies are sitting on thousands and thousands of approved permits and are doing nothing with them
>better cry and shriek about "leftists"
aaand we've come full circle.
you don't seem to understand why they aren't drilling, that's the real issue.
I understand quite well that you have absolutely no idea what the frick you're talking about and are just desperately scrambling to make an incredibly complex globally interconnected issue into "Biden's fault".
It is Biden's fault you fricking moron, and other Democrats.
>incredibly complex globally interconnected issue
not really
>Biden put sanctions on Russia for oil, creating artificial scarcity in the global oil market
>OPEC takes advantage of that and keeps production low and prices high.
>Biden begs Saudis to increase production, they tell him to frick off
>Biden begs dictator in South America for Oil
>Biden tells you deal with it and buy an electric car for their stupid proxy war in Ukraine
If the stupid fricking Democrats weren't around, then America would have enough oil that punishing Russia wouldn't effect oil prices in the US. Why? Because America has enough fricking oil it doesn't need to buy from anyone.
But in order to take advantage of our own energy we need the be friendly with energy producers, not shut their investments and scare the shit out of them because we like to virtue signal about muh environment. Enjoy paying for $10 gas this year you stupid homosexual.
>ongoing supply chain crisis for years now
>massive inflation after Trump and the Republicans printed $8 trillion in four short years
>Putin invades Ukraine
>oil companies price gouging using inflation as an excuse to recoup lost profits during the pandemic
>"It is Biden's fault"
Why are right-wingers so fricking moronic, bros?
you have no "bros" here homosexual
dial 8
You have no argument as usual, /misc/schizo.
>incoming Democrat President declares he will shutdown oil and gas industry in the US.
>Biden shuts down Keystone pipeline by revoking permit, costing investors to lose Billions.
>perpetuates proxy war with Russia
>PUTS SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN ENERGY EXPORTS THAT HURT HIS OWN NATION
>liberal moron: hehe, it's price gouging bro!
frick you're stupid.
If the US were allowed to unleash its energy without stupid Democrats around then guess what? The inflation, the war, none of that would have meant a damn thing to the price of oil. Because in that alternate universe the US producers could increase production easily and flood the market. That would hurt Russia even more than the stupid sanctions that was basically the US shooting themselves in the foot.
>oil companies are sitting on thousands and thousands of approved permits and are doing nothing with them
>better cry and shriek about "leftists"
Can any of you morons fricking read?
>The inflation, the war, none of that would have meant a damn thing to the price of oil.
Oh, you're a moron.
>Oh, you're a moron.
you're the moron that doesn't understand supply and demand or how a basic market works or even geopolitics. If the US energy industry were allowed to thrive without moronic leftists trying to destroy it, then the US would largely dictate the price of Oil on the global market. Anyone with a brain would know this because when US Shale came online it sent the price of oil to record lows. If the US had a thriving energy sector right now they'd be using it in the proxy war against Russia, colluding with US oil producers to send price of oil to rock bottom and punish Russia, everyone would be swimming in cheap gas prices right now. But because we are ran by idiotic Democrats who destroy US energy, they couldn't do that, and they went with sanctions that hurt them more than they hurt Russia, just moronic...you fricking people are so stupid.
tldr.. you Democrats are fricking idiots.
We have spent more on Ukraine in the last 3 months than the average yearly spending on the Iraq War (150 billion vs. ~125 billion). Ukraine's war is our war, you can't just say "Putin invades Ukraine" as if US policy has nothing to do with the prolonged war that is still being fought
Russia is going to win this war. The smartest thing any global leaders can do is to get out of the way and hope that it happens sooner rather than later, because Russia is holding all the cards. Biden's plan was to destroy the Russian economy and it worked for about a month but now the ruble is higher than it was prior to the invasion. So now we're in a position where our politicians are adamantly supporting the prolonging of a conflict that is already largely decided, even as the global economy suffers due to this prolonged engagement.
Obviously inflation is global at this point, it was a reaction to the pandemic spending of all major nations, but the skyrocketing oil prices can be fixed pretty easily by just not throwing more money into Ukraine
dude. biden literally said he was going to do this, and its happening. how fricking dumb are you, he LITERALLY SAID IT.
He was taken out of context by the MSM.
Here's your (you), keep up with the pretend moron
No one here is your bro, election tourist rat.
ok why are petrol prices so high in America? what's your reasoning?
Biden resumed allowing permits on federal lands months ago. Guess what effect it had on gas prices?
No he didn't, leftist low IQ moron.
Yes he did, dipshit /misc/tard.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-resumes-oil-leases-on-federal-land-11650053812
>dude he resumed giving out the worthless permits that he can revoke whenever he feels like it and nobody is drilling! Why don't people want to waste money to help out politicians?
>"biden isn't letting oil companies drill!!!!"
>"uh, yes he is"
>"why the frick would oil companies drill oil?!?!"
Christ, you people are fricking dense.
>"dude we're letting you drill"
>"but we will shut you down and ruin your business"
>"why aren't you drilling yet? we are letting you drill!"
kek, pay for $10 gas moron.
Will somebody please think of the poor oil executives and their jobs?
You should S their Ds in gratitude. Every possession and experience you have comes from petroleum products in one way or another.
They may indeed be evil and they do, like many corporations, frick the environment, but you'd curl up in a ball and cry w/o their product.
lmao frick you, petroshill
Refutation when? Didn't think so. Enjoy your oil-provided life. You know I'm right.
>heh frick those oil executives, hope they lose their investments and get shutdown by the state.
>hmm? why is the price of gas so high???
kek you're the one that will be paying the price, you already are, not them.
>get BTFO for your childlike naivety
>point finger at greed of rich man
You already consneeded anon, you're just sperging at this point
Go back to /leftypol/ already you fricking bug.
their "permits" aren't worth the paper they are written on. Keystone investors had "permits" too and were shut down, costing them billions. You think anyone has billions more to waste fricking around with moronic Democrats? no. Drilling and oil exploration is time consuming and expensive, so here we are.
>"biden isn't letting oil companies drill!!!!"
>"uh, yes he is"
>"why the frick would oil companies drill oil?!?!"
>Just drill the Oil so we can shut you down like Keystone and lose you billions! Just do it! Why aren't you drilling now!? It makes no sense!
lib logic.
>Yeah that's thanks to fracking which Democrats have put a ton roadblocks in front of.
>I WANT my tap water to be ignitable!
Fracking is fricking moronic, irreversible damage to the local environment while being so expensive it's basically only viable at the very peak of price hikes.
>energy independence is bad
Did it? All we've been hearing for the last 10 years is that fracking has made the US self-sufficient in oil. So it did or it didn't? Because if the people who own/control that fracked oil/gas can turn around and sell it to Japan or Poland or whoever the israelites feel they have an 'in' with at the moment, then we aren't actually self-sufficient, are we?
>fracking has made the US self-sufficient in oil. So it did or it didn't?
fracking makes the US able to tap into enough energy to be self-sufficient, yes. The problem is Democrats want to ban fracking and work towards that, making it difficult to take advantage of the opportunity.
they want to ban it or they already did? very big difference. if it already made us self-sufficient and they haven't banned it [they just want to!] then why is that not reflected in stable prices? it's obviously exiting the domestic market somewhere along the line.
Rising prices are direct result of economic inflation done by governments of this world
Market production is not able to follow governments economic inflation instantaneously, it takes time for offer and demand to stabilize after governments do shit like these, sometimes it never stabilizes in a way to favor population purcashing power and most of time capital concentrates on the hands of banks and government.
And this time governments printed money like never before
>they want to ban it or they already did?
They want to ban it and they're being openly hostile towards it.
>if it already made us self-sufficient and they haven't banned it [they just want to!] then why is that not reflected in stable prices?
Because of risks from the Democrats all of US energy is not being tapped. You have to put yourself in the shoes of a businessman. Would you invest your money into a business in which the ruling government says openly they want to shut down and ban your business? You could run the risk of losing all your investment or ruining yourself, why would you do that? If the Democrat government wans intermittent energy production then they need to drill for their own energy. But they wouldn't do that since they have to politically posture about the environment to their stupid voters.
Thats not why prices are rising
Prices are rising because governments expanded their monetary base, aka printed trillions, everywhere at the same time during the pandemic
Governments inflated their economies and as a consequence we are living trough hellish inflation
Now nations are rising interest rates to curb that, that will lead the world to a global recession
All because homosexuals cant understand how politicians, State official and metacapitalist elites manipulate the economy because central banks have monopoly on money guaranted by the State.
Printing money should have no impact on goods produced under national control -- which we are constantly propagandized that oil is. It would be under our law [money].
It took way too long for the inflation to kick in after the printing, anon. There's no way to convince anyone of a direct causation rather than causation of shipping crisis, lack of workers due to huge retirement numbers in response to the pandemic, and the sanctions against Russia which increased gas prices to insane levels
yes inflation raises prices, but what impacts the price of specifically oil the most are market forces driven by production of Oil producing nations. Just like with governments expanding their monetary base if say the Saudis increase production and flood the market then the price of oil will go down significantly, regardless of inflation. The price of oil historically has been decided by OPEC. Right now the situation is fricked up because Biden put sanctions on Russian oil exports, so it's like he created artificial scarcity in the global oil market.
>Right now the situation is fricked up because Biden put sanctions on Russian oil exports, so it's like he created artificial scarcity in the global oil market.
And it's especially pointless because Russia is posting record profits despite reduced production because Europe and the countries who don't give a shit about US sanctions are still buying fossil fuels from them anyway. Way to go Biden, you moronic dusty old bones.
spot on, it makes me facepalm even thinking about the outright idiocy. All the sanctions did is help raise the price of energy in the global market thus offsetting whatever financial punishment they thought they could put on Russia and at the same time shooting themselves in the foot by hurting American and European citizens who have to now pay more more for energy. But they don't actually care about their citizens anyway so.
>Buy a Sweater
>Buy and Electric Car
>Pay the higher prices for Ukraine
right.. but why is a country that is supposedly "self-sufficient in oil" like the United States subject to global market forces in oil pricing?
Because US oil companies can sell oil outside of the US and that fact drives up prices within the US
so we are not self-sufficient in oil
The US could be self sufficient, if certain political prostitutes would get out of the way. The US energy sector is under attack by Democrats.
>The U.S. was producing 11.185 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2021, compared with an average of 11.283 million barrels per day in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
wild stuff
We make enough for ourselves, but evil rich fricks sell it to other countries, so...
fracking is producing enough oil to keep up with demand better, the real issue is that their aren't enough oil refineries to turn it into gas cause dems scream bloddy murder and block all attempts at building more in the us
>Hate capitalism since it's just a cycle of exploitation of one man onto another in some way to make a profit.
>Almost every instance of government interference in the economy always creates problems for everyone else in every other way
I HATE THE CYCLE. I HATE THE CYCLE. I HATE THE CYCLE!!!!!
You've been indoctrinated into thinking that those two are the only systems
he should get shot to death by nazis in real life
Old bald homosexual
this was a snapchat filter btw, congratulations on being a dumb homosexual who can't tell a filter from real expression lol
Dean pls.
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lmao what a fricking douchebag
>rich person tells poors to go frick themselves
>feels smugly enlightened
My favorite bit by the libshits. Although, this guy was still upstaged by Colbert laughing that poor people couldn't buy Teslas like him.
Yep. And a lot of people just lap it up. Same with the riots, politicians were all for for them until it reached them, then it was "traitors and insurrectionists".
>>rich person tells poors to go frick themselves
I thought billionaires were based?
>Is he right?
no, because if we had capitalism then the government would get out of the fricking away and let people drill. Oil should be cheap, America has enough for it to be very cheap, it's expensive because of fricking moronic leftist politicians and their environmental BS.
curious to see what the one leftypol refugee itt is gonna say on this one
>oil companies are sitting on thousands and thousands of approved permits and are doing nothing with them
>better cry and shriek about "leftists"
why the frick would oil companies drill just to help the government out then be shut down later? you think they're stupid or something?
>"biden isn't letting oil companies drill!!!!"
>"uh, yes he is"
>"why the frick would oil companies drill oil?!?!"
moron.
>just drill the oil for us guys when we need you to help us out politically. never mind that we are going to shut down your investment like Keystone as soon as we don't need you anymore and cause you to lose money! Just be our stupid morons please, waste your money for us!
moron. learn how business works.
>and cause you to lose money!
Right, oil companies are soooooo hurting for money.
>Leftists in quotations
homosexual.
The problem is lack of refineries not more drilling.
moron, if the there would be no goverment intervetion you would be just a slave to your company
You know work is entirely voluntary, right?
Yeah it's also voluntary to live with a roof over your head and a nice bed to sleep in.. Choose wisely
No oil drums are the cheapest they have ever been. They just want more profits.
sussy baka
>"Yes, my point about Biden not allowing oil companies to drill was pure bullshit, you are correct"
Got it!
is this poster a bot or something?
>biden cancels all pipelines and says he wont let any get built ever
>biden cancels all oil and gas drilling on federal lands
>biden cancels all offshore oil drilling
Hmmm, I wonder why gas is so expensive?? Must be the oil companies!
you forgot
>republicans with huge stakes in oil and car companies campaign against renewable energy at every turn
must suck to suck
renewable energy can produce enough power to charge your cell phone each day, not power the entire grid
Alright, what about Europe that is even more dependent on foreign gas than the US. Yet they did frick all and now are getting double dicked by Russia.
American oil and gas kept OPEC in fricking check. The threat of US production screwing over their cartel was a very possible threat.
>American oil and gas kept OPEC in fricking check
Are you legitimately fricking moronic? OPEC has served US interests since 1971, there's a reason the US dollar is called the petrodollar. Why are amerimutts so moronic and lack education on fundamental turning points in their history?
Just go back already you pathetic weasel.
>bring the gasoline back
lol
ahh yes, "free market capitalism" where government steps in to artificially significantly reduce the supply of a product
just wage a war with russia dude
Big beautiful ladies is not a proper unit of measurement
Pigmericans should just stfu and pay $100 gas. If you want a globohomosexual demon world, then you must suffer for it.
There are gas stations everywhere in my city, yet I have never seen a single one lower their prices to compete with another.
That's not how capitalism works
>super rich guy yelling about pricing not mattering on anything
Go frick yourself buddy
>d-did you just insult my political sportsball team?!
>you must support [INSERT OPPOSING POLITICAL SPORTSBALL TEAM]!!
>my globalist billionaires are better than your globalist billionaires!!
>john jackson would have given us all cookies, juice and ponies if jack johnson hadn't vetoed the bill!!
>federal regulated and controlled industry
>capitalism
Does this moron not know what capitalism is?
Frick me, i sometimes forget how fricking stupid and uneducated actors are.
>change all the posts to the republican version
>it's literally the exact same whining as leftists
Comical
What's the republican version? We need to bomb more sandBlack folk and steal their more of their oil?
>unironically pushing the "war for oil" meme
smells like gefilte fish
>meme
It's just a coincidence you bomb any country that makes moves to turn away from the petrodollar?
that's not the same thing
>Obama bombed more than most presidents
Okay there bud
Indeed he did, both parties are shit stains on humanity
That was my point. it's all so tiresome
Is it ok if I complain about gas prices if I hate capitalism?
who cares that gas prices have more than doubled just use the millions of dollars you have from your acting career
If Dean Norris thinks that of us, and it’s true. Then maybe he’d better TREAD LIGHTLY
I have chosen not to watch BB so I can honestly say this frickhead never entertained me. Guy probably has millions and DGAF about middle, lower middle and lower class ppl.
He's 100% correct. Those "muh free market Capitalism" gays don't seem to understand that this IS the free market at work, or at least, it's the closest they will ever get to such a ridiculous concept. "Free market" as a (Lord forgive me for uttering this word) L*bertarian would want it is as utterly impossible to establish as peaceful anarcho-Communism.
Based. Libertarians don’t get enough flak for their bullshit when they are communist-tier morons.
Thank you. I'm glad somebody said it.
>this IS the free market at work
no this is the Democrat market at work.
>barter systems are utterly impossible
Nice, most of human history never happened I guess.
explain how nuclear power plants work in a barter system moron
Not him, but wouldn't a nuclear plant trade kilowatt hours or something?
how do you locate the labor and resources to build, maintain and disperse product of a nuclear power plant on a barter system
nuclear power doesn't lend itself to speculation or interconnected international economies.
>Millionaire tells normal people how to spend their money
Lol
incredibly based
Don't blame me, I hate capitalism and also high gas prices.
Commies absolutely fricking btfo
>government inflates the economy
>prices rise up
>muh gabitalism, muh market
moronness is what drives the world, central banking would have colapsed otherwise
>hank is a homosexual commie
wow
>dude capitalism is evil
seriously???
>it's capitalism when the government directly interferes in the global oil market in order to directly shame Russia, one of the largest oil & gas producers in the world, into ending its Ukraine campaign but it rakes in profits hand over fist anyway
>it's capitalism when the government directly interferes in the global oil market by drastically reducing domestic production and shifting the balance of supply vs demand back towards Arab markets vs flooding the market with cheap oil in order to drive down prices like during the Trump administration
>it's capitalism when the government actively works towards the goal of shifting American energy consumption away from fossil fuels regardless of whether it impacts the lives of the average American or the overall economy (Biden literally said this during a debate)
it's so frustrating...
>it's capitalism when wall of text.
Yes. Contrary to what mouthbreathers here believe, capitalism doesn't mean that government doesn't exist and never does a thing.
>it's capitalism when governments directly interfere in, and influence, the free market
Just go back to leftypol.
Scientists need to stop causing alarm about global warming, just let it happen. We must sacrifice the future for the present, because the future does not exist--only the present does.
shame he turned out to be a fricking homosexual irl
>hates capitalism
>has multiple homes like Bernie
Why are socialists like this
Because to be human is greed. One can recognize greed as evil, but one cannot stop it. It corrupts all minds. Only the machines can guide us to safety from this evil system of Mammon.
>socialism is when 1 house
Socialism definitely isn't "more than 1 house".
you are wrong and dumb
Great rebuttal, leftypol troony.
you are the one who LITERALLY thinks an overarching economic policy has a rule that says only 1 house and you think I'm stupid.
Ok socialism lets you own a million houses then, you're right. Now go back to leftypol and frick off okay?
come on man lets just chill out and then kill all the billionaires later
no, no, no. In socialism the party members get to have more than one house (mansion), the proles get a hovel or tenement.
>Socialism is when I can do things, but you're not allowed because you're a chud
There we go
so everyone gets two houses? socialism is about equality right?
Isn't Bernie's net worth like just over a million dollars and it's because he wrote a book a lot of people bought? Yeah sick burn bro lol
what a fricking useless moron
the gas prices are high because of goverment interventions
>oligopoly
>"real" capitalism
There can be no such thing as true socialism, true capitalism, or true anything. Ideas do not translate to reality 100%. Stop pushing ideologies, push solutions to problems.
How does a man look like dean Norris and vote blue. It just doesn't seem possible
actors are empty shells, not very smart people, just parrots
What makes these millionaire wienersuckers think that when the great peoples socialist rebellion(tm) wins they wont bite the fricking curb like they deserve?
chiklisbros just cant stop winning
t. famous millionaire
lmao
>israelite controlled crony capitalism is free market thats why our gas prices are so high
dean norris has been an outspoken moron for a while.
Sex Gifs.
We don't really live in a free market society, especially when it comes to oil which is essentially held in monopolies. It's Syndicatalism and corporatism. It's artificially inflated prices due to a lack of development into self sufficiency. We've known that a conflict with oil rich powers would come, and rather than developing our own energy capabilities, even those outside of oil and natural gas, we didn't. The public spoke against oil production and shut down a lot of our capabilities in a 'not in my neighborhood' mentality shit show. If we had developed our oil fields, pushed forward with nuclear power, or did any number of things that broke away from bullshit lobbying, public hysteria, and shortsighted optimistism (here's looking at you Germany) we'd be fine. This is the result of a failed planned economy and the subsidizing of ineffective garbage that hasn't produced for 4 decades.
>muh "not real capitalism"
Same cope as "not real communism." Accept the fact that there will never be a purely meritocratic system, but all systems rely on nepotism and swindling.
No shit, every system is some level of combination of free market and controlled economy. Capitalism in itself is a meaningless word at this point that is either a filler for free market or, in the Marxist terminology, the hoarding of goods. I'm not even defending capitalism here and if you actually read you'd understand. What I'm trying to state is that this low IQ infighting over falsehoods kills us.
And to clarify my point further, that it's not capatalism or socialism or communism or any other combination of buzzwords killing us, but shortsighted bullshittery and a broken system
Make it legal for gas to not have any ethanol blend requirement and I'd agree
>Actor has an opinion about anything else then acting
Cringe. His character is instantly much less badass as a result of him spouting this midwit bullshit. I wonder which of the two kinds of anti capitalist moron he is? The kind that supports some fictional utopia that has never worked and never can work, or the kind that thinks Sweden is some kind of paradise with a complexly different economic system to the US, while in reality it’s exactly the same, just with higher taxes.
>Burgers seething over gas prices that have been normal in Europe for more than 10 years while they drive around in their big and thirsty vans and pickup trucks
would like to see his opinion change by getting rid of actor unions so he can see real capitalism at work
This guy is moronic, it's exactly because of simili-monopolies like the OPEC that gas price are so high, if gas producers were truly competing in an open market, we wouldn't see those prices.
don't want to pay foe petrol? walk, cycle, bus, train, tram, ferry
god i fricking hate car c**ts
Kek, I always see leftists advocate for those modes of transportation, truth is, if the average american was to take those modes of transportation every day, the very far right would be in the Whitehouse in 2024.
Modern individualist comfort acts as a veil that prevents people from seeing the decay of their own country.
no it's not right, oil is heavily subsidized in the US. Fair market price would be 2-3 times what they are paying
>boomer has a cringe lukewarm political opinion
stop caring what actors say
i look at an old painting i don't go look up what his politics were or if he believed in flat earth i don't give a shit, all artists are partially moronic as they basically spend a billion hours practicing their craft and sniffing their own farts they are an eternal kindergartener playing make-believe
Ok boomer
in before a republican shows up to spout more lies about how Biden stopped a pipeline somewhere or shut down shale and caused all of it.
Lying should be a crime, it should be possible to sue any person or business for a lie, with a minimum 5 year prison sentence and $10K fine on top of court costs.
/misc/ would be a ghost town overnight.
I agree anon, we should reinstate Bible law
He literally shut down tons of domestic oil production, this is verifiable fact. We were energy independent under Trump, doofus.
Right, so back in around 2015 tons of oil drilling companies went out of business because oil became too cheap and they couldn’t make money. See, the new oil drilling tech allows for so much oil to be drilled in the US that there was too much supply and prices dropped too much to sustain the drillers. Then along comes Biden and doesn’t allow these drillers to start back up again. The supply constraint is due to government interference, there is more than enough cheap oil in this country for decades. You see Yellen declare the on,y way out of this dilemma is green energ? That’s utter bs but that’s the reason the democrats insist on shutting down US drilling, they need to cause stress to push their agenda
>the democrats insist on shutting down US drilling
pretty strange that us drilling hasn't come anywhere close to being shut down
>The U.S. was producing 11.185 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2021, compared with an average of 11.283 million barrels per day in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
>/misc/ would be a ghost town overnight.
everyone forced to tell the truth all the time? Forget /misc/, society would collapse
Not necessarily, in antiquity trust-based societies were common where oath-breakers were heavily punished or ostracized and slander was considered as bad as attempted murder. We've been slowly weaned off the honor system so it may seem farfetched now but a collapse of current society would just bring forth a trust-based society again, because that is our natural inclination.
And who tells the truth at this current moment in time?
Those not proven to be lying.
I want names.
If you're looking for career politicians, I'd say basically none, but there are a handful that I believe to be significantly more honest than others. Romney is one of them. Many of the Republicans who a certain conman in Florida is calling "Rinos" are actually people of integrity and character. I don't always agree with their beliefs and opinions, but I *do* respect them, and I do believe that they want the best for us as a nation.
>Romney
>honest
lmfao
Show me a lie. While you're at it, let me point some things out to you - basically thst he's every inch the businessman that Trump only claims to be. Unlike him, who's essentially been barred from holding anything but a ceremonial position at any company he's ever been involved with, Romney has been begged to come back and rescue companies that got into trouble after he left.
Mitt Romney is as corrupt as every other establishment politician in Washington. If you honestly believe him to be an honest person, then I genuinely feel sorry for you. Every politician in Washington is the enemy of the American people and they all should have been hanged a long time ago for what they've done to this country and that includes R Money.
I respect your opinion, but I'd still like for you to point out a blarant lie. I can do so numerous times for many others.
I seem to remember him accusing Tulsi Gabbard of parroting Russian propaganda(with no evidence) and calling her treasonous. This is a woman who was a sitting member of Congress and has served in the Army for 2 decades while Mittins got 4 deferments to dodge the Vietnam draft.
I'll look it up and draw my conclusions.
Tulsi got blacklisted for repeating the ‘rumor’ of Ukraine virus labs. She’s usually not that stupid.
What rumor? Our state department confirmed they were real.
Insofar as western disseminated israelite media goes, Ukraine’s bio labs are a heckin’ hoax, gosh darn it, fellow redditor. Um have you heard of snopes dot com le loser?
There's a big difference between research to combat a disease and research to weaponize it for combat. In both cases, a lab breach could be very, very bad, but mischaracterizing one for the other is where the propaganda comes in.
Tulsi is a conservative now. Goes to Sean Hannity regularly and like a robot agreeably nods and agrees with every line Fox feeds her.
Nah she just wants to appeal to conservatives you ask me.
>le ebil Fox News
I hate zoomers millenials and genXers
I hate jobless morons like you.
I absolutely have a job, homosexual. A low effort work from home deal for 60k/yr.
Romney is a mormon. He should not be trusted as the unspoken goal of mormonism is to take over the United States.
The same is true of practically *any* religion that seeks to proselytize.
everyone who says "trump lost".
Well, I do and I assume you would as well, granted there is a difference between white lies and breaking an oath. A problem is we are too forgiving with major lies (such as cheating and oath-breaking) as a society. The idea of defamation laws was supposed to counter-act communal justice by passing the torch to a more objective arbitrator (the courts) but all this did was make it extremely difficult and costly, which contributes to the problem. All in all, it isn't hard to regain trust in a society, it requires being socially gregarious, being punishing or socially distant towards those who commit major lies and conducting yourself honorably. The Chinese, of course, could not achieve these things naturally so they inclined towards a Social Credit System to eliminate mistrust in modernity. We'll see how that pans out as a system which is enforced rather than naturally formed out of morality and an honor system.
It should.
Not before every Democrat weasel kills themselves out of frustration of not being able to do what they do best.
Sussy baka!
Has any right-wing dipshit trying to blame Biden for being single-handedly responsible for high gas prices ever said what they think the amount of oil not being produced as a direct result of his policies actually is, and how if it was being produced it would somehow completely alleviate the problem?
Americans are getting exactly what they deserve. You voted for a senile corrupt thief and a government that smiles and lies to you about what you actively experience out in the streets, at the pumps, and in stores. And the little gremlins who voted for this are aiding in the gaslighting, just look in this thread. I blame conservatives equally cause your weakness allowed these monkeys to run the show.
>haha it’s your fault democrats employ dirty tricks to win
gtfo Black person
Yeah, after 4 years of Trump doing frick all, a conspiracy is really the only explanation for his loss.
We were energy independent under Trump, that’s no conspiracy. I’m no qtard but shutting down domestic oil production to virtue signal is demonstrably gay.
>hurr go green
>let’s give a bunch of money to corrupt Ukraine for weapons
>Chinese lithium mines worked by child laborers is totally viable
No. If anything, these price hikes show that the West made a big mistake in not capitalizing on their hegemony and investing faster into Renewables, Electric and Nuclear technology.
This is why China will lead well into the future, they did not make this mistake.
This is pretty pathetic NGL, imagine being the richest country in the world and still burning oil/gas/coal for the vast majority of your energy.
Could have built out nuclear and hydro, along with solar in the southern states and had perpetual energy independence while exporting all those natural resources for cash instead.
The US in the modern era is a country run by powerful lobbies which exist to support companies that are more preoccupied with short-term gain than long-term investment due to needing immediate returns for investors. 'Pathetic' is the fact they allowed the country to get to this point by being extremely divested in education and politics.
Nailed it.
Renewables are a meme, nuclear is not. China also has next to no industrial regulation.
I personally think it was very cool of the Democrats to rig an election so that they had a powerless 50-50 "majority" that would prevent them from getting literally anything done.
Both US parties are shit and heavily ZOGified, shut the frick up you thirdiebrown brainlet. There is no hope for America's future except serving Israel.
>You voted for a senile corrupt thief
We voted Trump out though.
>MUST...DEFEND..... SENILE OLD PRESIDENT
Leftists are cultist freaks, look at you. How more pathetic can a human being get than you? The fact that you even exist is a testament to humanity's failings.
Why is he a leftist? Why don't you call him a dnc shil? WHY?
how much was hank shredder paid on cameo to say this
which one of you did it
>Is he right?
Yes actually. Gas prices are based on supply and demand, you're getting fricked because of inflation, because the current administration enacted numerous policies that hampered the growth of the US oil industry and because there's a stupid war going on in Ukraine that should have been resolved diplomatically that's keeping Russian and Ukrainian oil out of the market.
Its not like Texaco just woke up and decided to frick you, oil companies like any company try to maximize their profits and they set their prices based on supply and demand when they set their price at $2 a gallon they're making about the same profit margin as at $5 a gallon the difference is in the market factors that set the price for a barrel of oil.
Why the frick does anyone listen to a manprostitute who sold his butthole out to tv producers?
based takes. Who really cares what a TV celeb has to say about le current topic.
Isaac Schraeder can sok me.
For sure Hank fricking Shrader is my go-to specialist on financial and economical matters
It's funny how shit that would've been a big deal a couple years ago with the wrong guy in office is now a part of life that you should just put up with to protect the reputation of the right guy in office. As an aside, crony capitalism is just socialism for corporations and the elite and no, I don't like it, and no, it isn't a "fair market" for industries to get tax-funded handouts from the government to keep them afloat while they're perfectly free to price gauge for profit.
In a sane country, things deemed as necessities, such as food, water, and energy(in whatever form) would be run by the state as for-profit businesses subsidized by taxes. Farmers, for example, would be government employees being paid to produce as much food as possible instead of being subsidized for *not* producing, with the excess being sold as export or even given out as foreign aid, and the same would hold true for water and energy.
Innovation would still be in the hands of the private sector, with those companies making deals with the government to set aside a portion of farmland, as well as power and water purification facilities, for the purposes of research and development. Patent holders would be rewarded by having their patents bought by the government at an assessment of those patents' fair-market prices. That way, you're paying people to think and improve the world instead of simply maintain a status quo and crush competition for a company's shareholders.
>'Breaking Bad' actor
needs his skull bashed in with a hammer.
>Unelected bureaucrats at the (non government) Federal Reserve print 80% of all USD in the past 2 years
>inflation on everything goes out of control
>blame Putin and capitalism
>Biden cancels US pipeline that Trump had approved
>Biden removes Trump's sanction on Russia, letting them build a pipeline
>Biden caves on Ukraine invasion, global energy crisis occurs
>gas prices skyrocket
>moron on Cinemaphile tries to grift everyone away from Democrats ruining economy
You've got a lot of growing up to do. The israelites that control this country ruined the economy on purpose.
For what purpose?
>Biden caves on Ukraine invasion
???????????
Yup, comrade Biden already started to argue with Zelenski about his pledged help, claiming the situation is Zelenski's fault. We are month away from him completely burrying it, like a good russian stooge that he and his fifth column party are.
Yes, you mutts still have cheaper gas then yuros. If you guys want change, vote for frickers who will do good for the poor.
>Everything is fine, anything that's wrong is Trump and Putin's fault, pay no mind and vote Democrat in midte— ACK!
MITCH MCCONNEL DID THIS, AAAHHHHHH HELP ME OBAMA!
>the sitting president has no control over its traded price
>homeboy's first task as president was shutting down a local oil pipeline that would have supplied the country with much more affordable gas prices
>"no control"
The left can't maymay once again
>forgetting that oil pipeline cut onto an Indian Reservations water supply
Uhhh.. chud bros?
Keystone would have been used to transport oil that was then going to be shipped abroad, fricking idiot.
Based.
It’s really not worth it. Frick Ukraine. It’s nothing more than a destination to launder money for the capitalists you hate so much
These people couldn't have identified the Ukrainian flag or pointed out where it is on a map 6 months ago.
ok but that's how all americans are so what are you even saying
>awards
what?
Redditors literally pay real money to super upvote posts with glorified emojis.
sex gifs
Yes but /misc/cels are delusional about capitalism
Shit like what we're currently experiencing is what happens when the rich get nervous. It happened after Nixon. It's happening again after Trump.
>We export most of our shit but don't actually produce domestically (anymore)
>We are low on supply, so prices must go up, because these are all public companies with obligations to the shareholders to get the most value
>Shareholders are literally anybody, most joe shmucks have stocks in energy companies, usually through the companies they work at
>Oil companies straight up say they don't have enough drill permits, and the leases are too expensive to actually start on
>They straight up say they cannot produce enough oil at this point even if they were allowed to, due to the EPA and other regulatory bodies crushing their balls and holding things up
I hate corpos as much as the next guy, and oil companies are gay as frick, but the reality of the situation is this, it is eye wateringly expensive to start new drilling operations on land that has no guarantee of actually producing oil.
if the government literally nationalized the oil industry via executive orders or price controls, the only thing that would change is the amount of time you'd wait at the pump (See Nixon and the 70's)
A lot of our momentum in terms of domestic energy production was fricked by Biden due to him literally reverse everything trump did.
This equivalency is also weird because under a socialist system nothing would change, there would still be big dick supply issues.
>and the leases are too expensive to actually start on
So oil companies that make record profits all the time think it’s too expensive to drill more from the existing leases they already have but aren’t currently using, but at the same time they desperately need more leases to not use?
>They straight up say they cannot produce enough oil at this point even if they were allowed to, due to the EPA and other regulatory bodies crushing their balls and holding things up
Right, and we really should trust the word of oil companies that for decades have lied and tried to obfuscate how much they pollute and wreck the environment, because mean old regulations are stopping them from doing anything
Do you at least get paid by oil lobby, anon?
haha yes
>old man bad
listen to yourselves
More like
>old leftist bad
Young ones too, cope harder.
it’s a mineral
>fair market price
So ARE the pipelines running or not? You homosexuals have spent hundreds of posts saying yes no yes no yes no.
For the last goddamned time. YES OR NO?