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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Tightly-Controlled Reins of Power." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 16 Mar 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Gary McCoy - They hate Musk, but how many masked fascist protesters are supplying the rocket ships to get our stranded astronauts back to the planet?
Muhammad Rasheed - The astronauts said they weren't stranded. This narrative is the effort of a billionaire trying to get more money from the US gov.
Gary McCoy - Okay, so AOC look-alike YouTube girl debunked the rescued narrative. Good for her. Meanwhile Elon Musk still runs tesla, spacex, and starlink. And whose companies have benefited mankind way more than she has. Ps. He obviously doesn't need the government's help. In fact the government clearly needs him more. Doge all the way.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "AOC look-alike YouTube girl"
lol This counts as an ad hominem logical fallacy.
Gary wrote: "Meanwhile Elon Musk still runs tesla, spacex, and starlink."
He's also in a position to get YUGE/BIGLY contracts from the federal government and will literally say anything at all to close on that. Case in point.
Gary wrote: "And whose companies have benefited mankind"
??? In what way?
Gary wrote: "way more than she has."
I'm confident this counts as another fallacy. Should I ignore any point you want to make on any topic just because you're a lowly cartoonist? I think you're better than this, bud.
Gary wrote: "Ps. He obviously doesn't need the government's help"
Billionaires are known for their insatiable, bottomless-pit greed. If they can function by having someone else pay their bills while they hoard their wealth untouched, they will. That's literally the position Musk is in:
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "In fact the government clearly needs him more. Doge all the way."
You're reading the situation through a biased lens.
Gary McCoy - @Muhammad... starlink alone has benefited mankind more than YouTube girl ever will. Ad hominem attack? On social media? I've never heard of such a thing.
Gary McCoy - speaking of benefits Elon Musk has provided, say nothing of the thousands of jobs his companies have created. Lots of families fed, educated, and thriving because of companies that guy spearheads. I'd much rather see his companies get a government subsidy than the crackhead son of the pedophile who just left the oval office.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "starlink alone has benefited mankind more than YouTube girl ever will."
Relevancy?
Gary wrote: "Ad hominem attack? On social media? I've never heard of such a thing."
I wouldn't consider it an attack, per se, but you did use it to dismiss the breakdown that debunked the "stranded" political narrative without any consideration. It's an emotional defensive position.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "speaking of benefits Elon Musk has provided, say nothing of the thousands of jobs his companies have created. Lots of families fed, educated, and thriving because of companies that guy spearheads"
Billionaires monopolize industry and create LESS opportunity in order to be in the position they are in. By definition.
Gary wrote: "I'd much rather see his companies get a government subsidy than the crackhead son of the pedophile who just left the oval office."
I'd rather see my own people get our long-neglected Reparatory Justice.
Gary McCoy - M. Rasheed wrote: "Billionaires monopolize industry and create LESS opportunity in order to be in the position they are in. By definition."
By definition? Show me the definition of billionaires where it says that. I'll wait.
Muhammad Rasheed - In order to become a billionaire, one monopolizes industry, which destroys competitors, and bottlenecks industry wealth to a single company, or to a colluding cartel of a few companies. Without that maniacal Über-greed infesting all industry like a virus, there would be many more companies competing and providing worker and entrepreneurial opportunity. Unemployment is low when the open free markets are competitive and healthy. The hurdles that prevent over-ambitious greed from monopolizing the open free markets are anti-trust laws, which can only be bypassed by bribing unscrupulous politicians/officials.
The billionaire class are the criminal class—the real-life bad guys who don't give a sh*t about the people they exploit—they only care about their wealth & power hoarding, mammon-worshipping obsession.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "I was just at a Barnes & Noble a few days ago"
So? Doesn't mean that Amazon doesn't thoroughly control that industry. Any former competitor survivors like Barnes & Noble have downgraded to "partners" who make a fraction of what they used to make as actual competition, which they can't pretend to be now.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "So when you fail to provide evidence he runs a monopoly"
You can't become a billionaire without being a monopolist. Whatever you believe about this subject is naively incorrect. Or maybe you are aware of how it works, and are committed to covering over the mammon-worshipping evils of white wealth hoarding. You are a professional partisan propagandist after-all.
Gary McCoy - who's your favorite monopolist billionaire.. Oprah Winfrey or Michael jordan?
Muhammad Rasheed - The billionaire class are the bad guys of modern society—I have no favorites among them. They have their own rank structure based on net worth and amount of power they wield, but any Black Americans in that clan are guaranteed to be at the bottom of the barrel.
It's not lost on me that the social media white conservative likes to single out the Black Billionaires™ as if they are somehow the masterminds of the world's problems. You lot bring up Oprah's name in this capacity ALL the time. Remember one of the times when Black Billionaire™ Kanye West got himself in trouble, and his handlers flipped a switch and suddenly he wasn't a billionaire anymore within that same hour? lol
That means that in a societal structure maintained by the descendants of the white chattel slave holders, the best a Black American monopolist can achieve is as a low-ranking lackey under the far wealthier white billionaires who actually call the shots.
Gary McCoy - I see. All the monopolist billionaire talk goes out the window when black billionaires are brought up. By The way, who pays my reparations? I have black blood in me and DNA from Africa. I can dance with the best of the Soul Train regulars.
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "I see."
The rest of this post proves that you don't.
Gary wrote: "All the monopolist billionaire talk goes out the window when black billionaires are brought up."
Black people who reach high-levels in a white-controlled society are always tightly-controlled puppets, no matter what flimsy label is applied to them.
Gary wrote: "By The way, who pays my reparations?"
Reparations are reparatory justice for a wrong done to your people.
Gary wrote: "I have black blood in me and DNA from Africa."
Do you identify as an African? From which country? Which historic wrong was done to the people from the country whose African people you identify with?
Gary wrote: "I can dance with the best of the Soul Train regulars."
What does Africa have to do with the show Soul Train that is a very American program and in the culture of the American Descendants of Slavery ethnic group? You seem easily confused...
Gary McCoy - @Muhammad... so I'm wondering who appointed you the Arbiter of those who are and aren't deserving of reparations? Do you have a license or some kind of special governmental appointed status? What difference does it make how I identify? I identify as someone who has African blood and my DNA test can prove it. My people were sold into slavery. Could have been by some of the black African Chieftains on the west coast of Africa who centuries ago sold other blocks into slavery. Now when do I get my reparations check?
Muhammad Rasheed - Gary wrote: "so I'm wondering who appointed you the Arbiter of those who are and aren't deserving of reparations? Do you have a license or some kind of special governmental appointed status?"
First, you need to know what Reparations actually are. That way, when some random sarcastic troll proclaims that he is magically owed Reparations you can discern whether he is full-O-sh*t or not. I notice that you ignored all of my questions in the previous post. Curious.
Gary wrote: "What difference does it make how I identify?"
Well, if you claim to belong to a specific group who are owed Reparations, then whether your records reveal that you are actually a member of that group matter. Like people who file for worker's compensation by way of an injury on the job. Proof that you are actually injured matters.
Gary wrote: "I identify as someone who has African blood and my DNA test can prove it."
Irrelevant. In order to qualify for Reparations, your records must demonstrate that you are a part of the specific lineage/heritage of the American Descendants of Slavery ethnic group who are owed Reparations for generations of accrued discrimination in the USA, not that you have "random black DNA/blood" or whatever.
Gary wrote: "My people were sold into slavery."
Proof?
Gary wrote: "Could have been"
That sounds like wild speculation, not definitive proof of a claim.
Gary wrote: "Now when do I get my reparations check?"
You haven't demonstrated that you are of the lineage and heritage of the American Descendants of Slavery ethnic group. In fact, your actual social media post record shows that you often mock that group using white conservative hate rhetoric.
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