Socialism on chess.com

Just stop trolling. You have clearly shown that you are an unintelligent person, who is also bigoted and dishonest. There is zero chance you could recognise anything remotely clever.

Stop trolling.

Only in left-handedness. I think the origins of left/right in politics is from where some seating was in a council chamber.

im the troll

UR MOM

My thing about the race thing, is that I don't buy into that fantasy, I just don't. It's a fantasy that people buy into or get manipulated into. To me that's just something I don't comprehend. Although I do realize that anyone who is obsessed with race is often a racist. The left often focus on race and the right buys into it.

Sinister comes from Latin, and means simply "left". How did it become a word that meant "evil"? Because ignorant people who believe in things like witchcraft gave the word that connotation during the Dark Ages. They were superstitious, believed conspiracy theories, and took common words and phrases and contorted them into something negative, because they were bitter and afraid of the world around them...sound familiar? It describes a number of people on this thread.

The notion that "right" actually meant "correct" is laughable.

im the troll

UR MOM

Perhaps this is because in Argentina more than 97% of the population is of European ancestry (with a small admixture of Native American DNA) and less than 1/2 of 1% has any African ancestry. In the US Africans were imported by the thousands (and bred) to be slaves--not actually people, but chattel like horses or wagons. In the Southeastern quarter of the US this situation lasted for centuries, and even after slavery was abolished the European-American population maintained the same attitudes, using government power to keep the "inferiors" in their place. (A condition NOT confined to the South.)

Once national laws were passed prohibiting segregation, years of lawsuits followed, muddying attempts at amelioration, and only twenty years later the Reagan administration decided that everything was now hunky-dory and cut back on enforcement. There is still an outcry any time measures are taken to improve the lot of African-American citizens.

Compounding the problem, the many generations of discrimination has left the bulk of the African-American population on the lower rungs of the economic system. Amazingly enough, impoverished poorly-educated "outcastes" of society are more likely to engage in criminal activities and outbursts of social discontent, drawing down more police enforcement on them.

When members of the oppressed groups (and their sympathizers) voice their discontent and demand justice, too many people have the "we already solved this problem, just shut up" attitude and blame those who have less wealth, fewer job opportunities and less respect for all their own problems, as the privileged types don't want to feel any discomfort.

No, no--you are confused. The sun isn't "coming up", the horizon is moving down.

So why did you need to tell us that it's laughable? What's happening in your mind? Or to your mind?

Diogenes is going for the throat!

This may be something to ponder on .... five years or so ago, I was taking a long walk and I remember walking along the canal at Haigh, working out a possible plan for the manipulation of gold and silver. The plan was that big players would use gold and silver prices, which normally correlate positively with one-another. If there's a financial panic, these players sell off assets; typically gold; to pay their short term bills and the silver price, which normally correlates positively, also drops. Obviously gold drops when it's being sold. The silver price is far more volatile than gold, so the % changes tend to be vastly more and typically, when the next income comes in, they will buy silver, for a short-term speculation to recoup some lot funds. The silver price shoots up and they sell off some of it to replace the lost funds. My idea was that someone is going to get the idea of manipulating the prices of gold and silver so that they are peaking and diving conversely. It would be possible for a big operator to significantly influence the markets in this way, just as that guy around 1981 attempted to corner the entire World's stock of silver. Gold is a speculative commodity only and has no significant industrial use, compared with silver.

I think I've noticed, although I haven't been paying all that much attention, that this converse relationship I predicted five years ago, between gold and silver, is starting to happen. The idea is that a big enough player can manipulate the prices in a way that looks natural and wrongfoot the opposition into selling when they should be buying. If someone does manage to corner a large proportion of the World's silver, which when I last looked isn't being mined as fast as it's being used, then they have no need to take a quick profit and sell. The price will remain high ... maybe three times as high as it is at present, at a guess. They merely sell just a little less than enough to satisfy demand.

As a historian, do you know where the terms left and right came from? Not French or Russian, but American left and right?

I heard the term left originally meant "opposite of right". Other origins have it as "weak, foolish, crooked, twisted, and considered suspicious" . Doesn't the word sinister have it's root in the word left?

Two Wall Street big-wigs, James Fisk and Jay Gould, had a clever plan to manipulate gold prices in the US in the late 1860s, they almost cornered the gold market but on 9/24/1869 (Black Friday) their plan backfired, the price of gold collapsed to near-zero, the stock market lost 20% of its value in one day and many banks failed, leading to a severe nationwide depression.

Probably such a scheme is unworkable, but go ahead and try. Fisk and Gould had enough $$ left in their railroad holdings to buy the best lawyers, bribe some judges, and influence enough Congressmen to sail through scot free.

name a country where socialsim worked

Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands

Didn't work in Germany at all. The French have never been socialist. Around 1972 the UK was probably the most socialist country in the world.

Yes, the French definition of right/left. I was wondering about the American origins.

Germany has done all right over the past 70 years. The French Constitution of the Fifth Republic declares the nation to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic and SOCIAL republic", not to mention the many times socialist parties have governed the country.

The UK is pretty socialist too.