Atheists becoming less unpopular?

[vorlon13]

might be a good time to buy futures on the CBoT . . .

[Jehanne]

Do you want a private police force? 

Nope, and I don't have one, but what's the relevance?  

Or, are some public services necessary for the common good?

That service being necessary for the common good is both why I don;t have a private police force -and- why they lean on capitalism to pay for it.

What I'm asking you...is -how- the socialist system you have in mind will aqcuire goods, services, and labor?  How will it arrange for that police force?  I'm simply assuming that, like our current system, it will recognize police forces as both necessary, and not appropriate for privatization.

If the -how- is exactly like our current how...then it's a socialist system leveraging capitalism.

Well, fully communist countries, such as China, North Korea and Vietnam have police forces, and they are not capitalistic, per se.  Again, it comes down to how one defines terms, such as "capitalism," or, for that matter, "police force".

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The same way that your local government provides you with police and fire services.

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Capitalism is worse:


As more and more people decide that they want the "good life," more and more countries will turn to Western capitalism (in particular, the United States), which will render our World unable to support human life.  Everyone will be dead soon after; I do not see how anyone could call such an economic system "good".  Donald Trump is a capitalist, albeit, a somewhat unsuccessful one, but a capitalist nonetheless.

So this is universally peer reviewed link accepted by major media as well, or is this a right wing think tank website cooking the numbers to support burning oil?
Exactly how could Canada produce more CO2 than either America or China considering they have a smaller population, especially smaller than China which is at 1 billion? And why would it matter if friend or foe do that, the world needs to get off of burning fossil fuels? So are you saying oppressive states like China or North Korea are more humane when it comes to human rights than Canada? I call bullshit on this link.
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It's per capita CO2 emissions.

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, fully communist countries, such as China, North Korea and Vietnam have police forces, and they are not capitalistic, per se.  Again, it comes down to how one defines terms, such as "capitalism," or, for that matter, "police force".

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What on earth are you talking about?  China and Vietnam -both- make use of capitalism to great effect.  If those two are examples, they are a social democracy and a social republic both ruled by the historic communist party...but they are in no way communist, or even remotely fully communist countries.  In context, they just employ more central planning than we do, which I think is a good thing.  We could employ more central planning as well - or they could loosen their own..and none of us will imperil our socialist, democratic, republic, or capitalist cred.

  N. Korea...frankly, doesn't have shit worth emulating.  What you call police I call an army of occupation.  

[Jehanne]