I just responded to a right winger with something I want on my tombstone.

[LuckyTheDog]

There is a rule in chess that also applies to life: Always look at the whole board. Societies are a lot more than just the inputs and outputs of economics textbook equations. Societies are full of flesh-and-blood people who bleed when you prick them, laugh when you tickle them and put the aristocrats in front of firing squads when they don't have any bread. We kinda want to keep that last thing from happening.

That was in response to a comment on my blog.

I am kind of proud of that line I highlighted in bold. I might want that carved on my tombstone. Oh, but wait, I plan to be cremated. Well, we'll inscribe it on the urn then.

[The Magistrate]

1. Well Put, Sir

[xfundy]

2. This should go viral.

Even T-pigs would love it, theoretically, unless they were slaves to corporats.

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[Lugal Zaggesi]

4. They really DO

laugh when you tickle them.

[MsPithy]

5. Actually, aristocrats go to guillotine.

I'm sure we can find the DIY plans, to build one in our backyards, online.

[jtuck004]

6. Wrong country. In this country the aristocrats precipitate the crisis to increase their wealth,

contrary to the idealistic vision of the rabble.

The wealthy here actually celebrate things falling apart, because they see it as opportunity.

For example, this guy:

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." -John D. Rockefeller

People who have not so much, and no real plan to figure out how to get it make themselves happier by thinking this is what will happen, by repeating this fairy tale amongst themselves. But it most likely never will.

Back during the days of the Wobblies, the "Starvation Army" would sing to people on street corners, and encourage them to work hard for their employer, tell them it was ok that they had no food, because their reward awaited them in the sky.

As in "pie in the sky". Also known as smoke and mirrors.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. We kinda want to keep that last thing from happening.

are we sure about that?

[truebluegreen]

10. I'm not.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. I thought we sent in the army to carry them out...

[Cha]

9. Inscribe it on the Urn, Lucky!

Brilliant, kid!

"Always look at the whole board"!

[Motown_Johnny]

11. Referencing The Bard is going to go over most Conservative's heads.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

William Shakespeare