gdp's Comments

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:55:32 +0000

Tico, since you are so cool and clever that you don't need cash to get through life, I know someone who needs a few thousand dollars and a good heart surgeon ASAP. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is, wise guy?

Listverse : Top 10 Most Evil Humans

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:52:30 +0000

I would be remiss if I didn't comment on this list somewhere. I believe that if someone wants to play around with could haves and would haves, he or she could say that the Soviet Union would have suffered huge casualties in some way, shape or form between the end of WWI and WWII. The political climate within and the fact that it was a huge, defenseless piece of fruit dangling in front of Germany at the time makes me think that it would have been inevitable. That being said and using a bit of twisted logic, you could argue that at least Stalin spared the USSR the indignity of being slaughtered at the hands of Hitler.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:32:21 +0000

Sometimes it feels good to be an arrogant American. This is one of those times. All these losers whining just proves that our capitalistic system works.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:14:50 +0000

That was a great comment. I regret that I could only give you one thumb up.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:11:22 +0000

People with little always hate those with a lot. It's not so much hatred as jealousy. Our lower middle class is wealthier than 90% of the world. Capitalism works.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:04:25 +0000

No, asswipe. People need to appreciate the quality of care that we do have here before they start screwing around saying ridiculous things about how great they have it in some craphole like Cuba. Thinking like that will eventually turn this country into, well, a craphole like Cuba. And yes, if you don't like living in the richest, most successful country in the world, I do welcome you to try living somewhere else for a while to see what you think of the US then. "You'll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day" ---if you want to make clever pop culture references.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:06:50 +0000

A lazy individual will starve to death in a purely capitalistic society. In capitalism, you have to earn your fat, so to speak.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:04:40 +0000

I don't see many people in the world worshipping your country and dreaming that someday they will make it big in Belgium. Let me know when your country matters for anything. You are like France's annoying little brother. Suck on that, Belgium.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:59:49 +0000

Homeless to Harvard you jerkoff. Think about that for a second. You think that was luck??? No, she busted her ass in noisy, dangerous shelters. To sit there and call her lucky is damn insult to what she accomplished. If she were middle or low class, she would have been in an infinitely better situation. I am a middle/low class person myself and you know what? I busted my butt, paid for community college out of my own pocket, got great grades and now I have a chance to attend an Ivy League school. So screw you if you want to sit there and call what she or I have done luck. The only thing I consider lucky is that I was born in a capitalist society where this kind of upward mobiliy is possible. You can take luck and shove it, you piece of crap.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:04:55 +0000

If you want to hate our health care system, move to Mexico you idiot. You'll be begging to break your wrist here. Whatever you do, please don't ever vote. BTW, I also broke my wrist without health insurance and I still got amazing care and was able to pay for it later as I was able.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:59:42 +0000

I read an article a few months ago about a girl who grew up in a homeless shelter that is now attending Harvard. It isn't magically handed to you. You have to want it and you have work for it. So, yes, everyone does have an opportunity to make it big.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:52:57 +0000

Thank you Richard for having a brain. Forced equality is a far bigger sin than inequality could ever be.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:49:19 +0000

10 Didn't bother to click your link 9 Financial crisis is often caused by interfering with the competitive market or trying to cheat or manipulate the market, not by the idea of a free market. 8 Who cares? Not everybody is going to live like a king. Socialism isn't exempt from its list of dead laborers either 7 Cartel agreements are the opposite of competition 6 It's my/your/their money. Nobody should be forced to be altruistic 5 I may not be living the life I want, but I am living the life I earned 4 I subscribe more to voting with your dollar than your ballot. It makes more of a difference 3 Who in the hell is stupid enough to hate money? 2 Not going to scroll up to see what you are talking about here 1 Pretty much, yes. I feel good when I buy nice stuff. Anyone who says money can't buy happiness is wrong, to an extent. So crc, if this is how you feel, please try living in Cuba for a few years before actually trying to impement your economic beliefs in whatever country you may reside.

Listverse : Top 10 Greatest Benefits of Capitalism

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:38:39 +0000

Wow!!! I had to scroll this far down the list to find the first intelligent reply. I hate to tell you this Psyche, but as you can probably see from all the capitalism-bashing, America's capitalist golden age is slowly being replaced by the same brand of Socialism that finally fell 20 years ago because it is a system that is doomed to fail. We rejoiced at its falling then and are clamoring for it now. How soon these idiots forget.

Listverse : 10 More Rock Songs Longer Than 10 Minutes

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:21:17 +0000

In honor of this list, particularly number 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1lpr5Ypvw

Listverse : 10 Greatest Killers of Man

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:23:52 +0000

It's information like this that draws me to listverse. Great little piece of trivia, lalabhaiya.

Listverse : 10 Greatest Killers of Man

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:10:34 +0000

Stalin cannot be blamed for the deaths of civilians in Nazi occupied territories. Blame the Nazis for those. Blame Stalin all you want for the famine, but nobody wants to give him credit for seeing the writing on the wall perhaps better than many others at that time in Europe. He never gets credit for the tens to hundreds of millions of lives that he saved with his rapid industrialization of the USSR. This was, perhaps the reason why the Allies were able to win the war. Nobody outside Russia likes to admit that it was the USSR that won that war, not the late-to-the-party US and certainly not France or England. The Soviet military was tossed into battle because they were invaded. That's one of the unfortunate side effects of war. They did very well considering the short amount of time they had to transform the Soviet Union from a country that had seemingly stepped out of the Dark Ages into a country that could repel an invasion by a highly skilled, highly advanced German army.

Listverse : Top 10 Bizarre Weapons of World War II

Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:54:08 +0000

This list is seriously lacking without mention of Stalin's apeman army. http://creation.com/stalins-ape-man-superwarriors

Listverse : Top 10 Alternative Albums You Should Own

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:18:58 +0000

At least punk rock had a small window of true legitimacy. It is only by chance that punk rock splintered became increasingly watered down and eventually fell under the catch-all label of "alternative". If you want to come here and challenge me and write a personal attack, you better come with something better, than "Nuh-uh, you are". You want to start by pointing out where anything I said was wrong? What did I say that was hypocritical you jerkoff? I'll bet a twenty that you were still on your mama's tit when alternative music was coming around.

Listverse : Top 10 Alternative Albums You Should Own

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:30:04 +0000

Oh jesus, it just keeps getting more and more lame. You realize that Alternative was for those who wanted a funny haircut but didn't have the cajones to play or listen to punk rock in the early and mid 80s. It was a softer, more digestible sound for those who liked to consider themselves a freak, but not too big of a freak. It completely jumped the shark in the early 90s with the explosion of REM, grunge and alternative radio stations. Now it is a wretchedly tired cliche spawned from a music form that was, by nature, safe and boring in the first place.