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Anticonsumerists, like all socialists in general, are racists. They tell us that things made by Chinese are lower in quality than those made by whites. They are opposing the moving assembly lines and manufactures to the developing countries to prevent such countries from developing and starve the population out.

If they tell you do not buy that brand new Nike boots but send your money to Africa instead, they tell you to take that bowl of ramen out of the shaky tired hands of Chinese or Honduran or whoever and pour some Kalashnikov cartridges into the greedy hands of Somalian warlord.

Anticonsumerists love to play with the obvious ideas like why do you need to wait till particular date to make a gift or something special for your significant someone. But they won’t tell it straight, they will blame you buying gifts for your wealthy beloved ones instead. That’s their point – to make you feel guilty – to gain some control over you.

And making you guilty is not the only strategy. They have another ace up their sleeves – flattery: they call you rich. Do you live on a paycheck to paycheck budget? Oh, you are rich, you are so freaking wealthy, because a lot of folks over there somewhere got no paychecks at all.

Actually, most of the really rich people are not anticonsumerists. They do not prey on money or goods, but they won’t lose a chance to buy a good thing for a good price. And this is quite logical. What more interesting – the really poor people are not anticonsumerists too. They know the price of money and they know what exactly they need.

Who’s that anticonsumerists though? Socialist fatasses with a fat paycheck or the grant driven slackers or the students on a welfare – just draw a picture of Michael Moore – he is one hell of a quintessence.

Progressive tax rates doesn’t make filthy rich people less richer. And it doesn’t really hurt middle class as hard as the poors. Actually, progressive tax rates make poor people even more poorer directly and indirectly.

When you make $100 000 a month and had to pay 60% tax, you hide $80 000 using off-shore accounts, deduct $10 000 with the help of your fellow accountant, pay $6000 and get $94 000 to spend on whatever you like.

When you make $3000 a month and had to pay 50% tax, you pay $1500 + $400 for different socialistic crap you think you may be find useful in the distant future and get $1100 to spend on food, closes, gadgets and entertainment.

When you make $800 and had to pay 40% tax, you pay $320 + $400 for different socialistic crap and get $80 for food. And when you come to the socialists with the words “Help me please, all I can afford is the cheapest and crappiest food I can find”, they are answering with “look, dude, you have a job and a pretty descent salary. You have nothing to complain about. You know, children in Africa, they are starving…”

I like the Reddit’s format. It’s pure, convenient and simple. And it comes very handy when you want to spot some wartime propaganda, disinformation, brainwashing and other infowar weapons:

Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians (electronicintifada.net)

This is screenshot of the Georgia related Reuters AlertNet page.

While Russian  military forces  taking  Tskhinvali under control, Russian  bombs are falling in vicinity of the Georgian capital Tbilisi… Russians are blaming their not pro-Putin neighbours. This time Ukrane – another  ex-Soviet country that’s not treating Russia as the only superpower in the ex-Soviet territory and try to make friends with the U.S. and NATO – long time ‘potential enemy’ of the Russia – was attacked by the Russian Orwellian mass media.