Yay, we've found another Millennial to troll

[TigerVols]

This guy meets all the criteria: He's written for Rolling Stone, he regularly uses the word "blows," and he has his own hashtag. And for added credit, said hashtag is #FULLCOMMUNISM!

Plus, he's been taken down a few notches by MSM.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-leftwing-youth-culture-20140107,0,3582630.column#axzz2piQJjT2e

His manifesto:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/five-economic-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting-for-20140103%20

 

[YankeeFan]

A top candidate for Ezra Klein's job when he leaves the Post.

Or maybe Rachel Maddow will put him on in prime time on MSNBC.

 

[MisterCreosote]

"Unemployment blows. The easiest and most direct solution is for the government to guarantee that everyone who wants to contribute productively to society is able to earn a decent living in the public sector."

"Because as much as unemployment blows, so do jobs. What if people didn't have to work to survive? Enter the jaw-droppingly simple idea of a universal basic income, in which the government would just add a sum sufficient for subsistence to everyone's bank account every month."

Geez, why didn't we think of that?

 

[MisterCreosote]

Bonus: In case you didn't know, "ownership" is as simple as saying, "This is mine!"

"ver noticed how much landlords blow? They don't really do anything to earn their money. They just claim ownership of buildings and charge people who actually work for a living the majority of our incomes for the privilege of staying in boxes that these owners often didn't build and rarely if ever improve."

 

[YankeeFan]

I'm all for this one if I can stay where I live now:

He has the same disdain for landlords, who "don't really do anything to earn their money." Which is why, Myerson writes, we need communal ownership of land, or something.


Of course the guy who owns my building -- a union electrician, no less -- spent 17 years rebuilding an abandoned building. Did most of the work himself, on nights and weekends.

But, **** him.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Eh, just tell him you own the building now. Easy, peasy.

 

[JayFarrar]

Jonah Goldberg penning that op-ed is the height of something something.

If only the Rolling Stone writer could follow the Goldbergian prosperity plan of being bankrolled by his mother.

 

[YankeeFan]

Love the #FULLCOMMUNISM hashtag, btw.

Liberals always think the problem is that their ideas weren't fully implemented; their programs didn't go far enough.

Communism has only failed everywhere it has been tried, because it wasn't pure enough.

The stimulus just wasn't big enough.

The was on poverty was underfunded.

The reforms in ObamaCare aren't big enough.

 

[YankeeFan]

Jonah Goldberg penning that op-ed is the height of something something.

If only the Rolling Stone writer could follow the Goldbergian prosperity plan of being bankrolled by his mother.

Odd that no one has ever mentioned that before either.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Jonah Goldberg penning that op-ed is the height of something something.

If only the Rolling Stone writer could follow the Goldbergian prosperity plan of being bankrolled by his mother.

Goldberg being Goldberg doesn't change the fact that Myerson is a naive, condescending jerkoff whose "column" should've never seen the light of day.

 

[TigerVols]

Was not was on poverty

 

[Big Circus]

Was not was on poverty

Government dinosaur-walking jobs? Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Everyone shall be given a government job recording crappy 1980s novelty pop!

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Was not was on poverty

Government dinosaur-walking jobs? Sounds like a plan to me.

ESpecially if we're breaking out the backup dancers

 

[User 11148]

Jonah Goldberg penning that op-ed is the height of something something.

If only the Rolling Stone writer could follow the Goldbergian prosperity plan of being bankrolled by his mother.

Odd that no one has ever mentioned that before either.

If you ever inherited anything from anyone anything you say/write should be disregarded.

 

[MisterCreosote]

If you ever inherited anything from anyone anything you say/write should be disregarded.

Well, no, but don't go lecturing everyone on the virtues of self-reliance.

 

[User 11148]

If you ever inherited anything from anyone anything you say/write should be disregarded.

Well, no, but don't go lecturing everyone on the virtues of self-reliance.

Right, and that's certainly what Goldberg's op-ed was about ...

 

[MisterCreosote]

Much of Goldberg's work IS about that. It's easy to be a fervent supporter of meritocracy when you have built-in advantages that 90 percent of people don't have.

Just because Myerson goes the complete opposite route doesn't change perception of Goldberg. In other words, two idiots on opposing sides of the spectrum are still idiots.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I'm all for it. Let's go. Today is a great day to start. Where do I sign up?
I hope he has a plan and will enlighten us on where exactly the government will get all this money to give everyone if no one is working to produce/sell anything and taxes aren't being collected. Plans blow. As long as it's a good idea, I'm sure everything will work out.

 

[britwrit]

Much of Goldberg's work IS about that. It's easy to be a fervent supporter of meritocracy when you have built-in advantages that 90 percent of people don't have.

Just because Myerson goes the complete opposite route doesn't change perception of Goldberg. In other words, two idiots on opposing sides of the spectrum are still idiots.

Somehow, an article attacking a version of socialism that will never exist, in the LA Times - which has been failing spectacularly at this whole "capitalism" thing lately - seems right for a bleak, cold January day.