“Not fond of communism and state control in any way!"
This website and, pointedly, this writer, have been forced to fall on their swords following the outing of supposed “commie”, the world’s most loved commentator and surfing world champion Barton Lynch.
Lynch, who is fifty-eight and lives at Sunset Beach on Oahu’s North Shore, had taken to Instagram during a traffic jam to talk about disparity of wealth being the great driver of inequality and that if the world’s economies are gonna reset after the pandemic then a little wealth re-distribution will be necessary.
In a two-part missive Lynch had said,
“I love the idea of equality, I’m all about it, and I’ve often said there has to be a redistribution of wealth to create a base of equality so that things can move on from that place and if you think about this current moment that we’re in, there’s a lot of talk about equality and there’s equality in some language and in some other areas but when we talk about financial equality or opportunity it would seem that in the pandemic the money has gone up! The money hasn’t come down!
“And in any redistribution of wealth for the future of the planet the money’s gotta come down from where it is already, up. And with those that have it, corporations, individuals, families. Where that wealth is concentrated, they’re the ones that have to let go, and give some of that wealth back to the others to create a base of equality that the world can move on from.
“Because it’s not the average person on the street who’s harbouring and holding onto the cash, you know what I mean? And that’s where the inequality is, between the rich and the poor.”
A classic socialist sentiment, I thought, and given the previous day’s reveal of a silver beard reminiscent of the German philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx, well, were these not a modernising of the themes of a man who wrote Das Kapital and co-wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Not according to Lynch, who delivered a stinging rebuke to BeachGrit via Instagram’s direct message service.
When I replied that his theories were straight out of the ol’ red play book, Lynch clarified his position,
“Not fond of communism and state control in any way so I feel it paints my perspective incorrectly but that could be my fault in the detail because it’s on a Instagram span.”
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“A beard alone does not a wise man make”
Socialism is a direct derivative of Communism period! Communism is when 1 percent of the population control all the wealth and media they fly a red flag as a distraction for their zombified masses and behind the scenes they steal everyone else’s shit! Barton’s comments are straight out of the Marxist ideological playbook
Just to drag this conversation on longer than need be; I don’t nesc agree with ‘forcing’ as such, but I (an a few others) feel that a complete overhaul in societal expectations is required where the need for such private charitable intervention is not required to the same degree. This is everything from education, law, medical, the lot. Too much profit being made in the spaces where people suffer. This needs to change.
yup, everyone gets the government they deserve.
My general policy is to trust no one. Especially people and the media.
watched the u-boob commie channel and Cote’ was speaking plain english wearing a Nightfly t-shirt…am a bonnafied reviewer Steph’s highest scored wave of the contest for bias…against Tati?
too early!
“Kissing Negs ass”? Can’t say I do that, especially not like you kiss the ass of the wealthy.
impressive LGR,””Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them……when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”…..straight from the Bible/Gospels….amazing how caught up Western Civilization is with itself…….
brings up the ol’ ,”It is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle , than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!”
I am all about free market as well, specially when we can control it as we want it.
It’s nuts that after years of hearing about how our every move is tracked by our devices, when we needed to have our every move tracked by our devices, every country managed to completely bork it. Meanwhile, Google sends me regular updates showing the increasing frequency of my night visits to the bathroom.
Sounds like you do good work LGR, but there are lots of foundational misalignments which you and your organisations are having to rebalance privately, much further up the stack.
Legend Bob Hawke is the link!
BL snubbed Bob.
DR loves Bob and wrote book.
Bob let his daughter get raped a couple of times by one of his political mates….Bob makes Trump seem like a good guy!
Grim assertion. Legend status now in question. Try The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa for such political lunacy.
Book is good read!
PMWS can attest.
Been trying to get it for a good price in UK. Rare as hen’s teeth. But definately on list.
BL made little sense on his IG rant. But he is not a commie.
Communism is a little like a bad fart – sounds good, stinks in reality with the negative after affects lingering.
just the sickle offensive, hammer ok? carpenters of the world unite!
Especially Karen Carpenters!
I stepped onto the first tee to play some golf the other day and as is customary the crew began discussing the day’s wager, including the distribution of handicap ‘strokes.’ “Wait a minute” I half-joked, and then asked why should I work hard on my game only to hand over the product of that hard work to a bunch of lazy slackers?
Damn commies are everywhere.
Capitalism does redistribute wealth, it’s just not forced.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett made a shit-ton on money, thanks to capitalism, and will be giving it all away to charity when they pass.
Look I have a PhD in the humanities. Was it’s lot of work to get it? Yes. Do I then deserve to make enough money to live anywhere because I worked hard and have “academic commitment”? Of course not.
You are making two distinct questions blurry: how much should capitalist subjects pay to the governmental system, and should economic compensation for work be based on capitalist utility. I’d say there are far better things for the government to do with tax money than pay me like I’m an MD or Amazon executive because I chose to be really good at reading poetry or (as one of my colleagues is) the nation’s expert on alternative incest narrative in 19th century British prose.
Bruh, fuck PhDs in the humanities.
I’m on board with that – we make about 10x more of them than we need. Fucks over so many bright hopeful naive young people.
That said, I’ve always been killing it with mine, so exceptions to all the rules ….
Sure. And also government in the US particularly does a dog shit job of using tax dollars usefully. My city, just for instance, points one billion a year at homelessness. $93k for each and every down on luck angel and/or violent junkie hobo. The problem is fucking terrible and worse every year. Most of those dollars are sucked up by ultra-left extra-woke utterly ineffectual .org cronies of the city council. Meanwhile public infrastructure rots, law enforcement no longer can afford to run rape kits or investigate sex assault, classrooms are overcrowded, etc etc. The government fucking sucks at allocating funds to solve problems.
All in including sales, gas, fed, state property, car reg, dog tax, etc, etc my family forks over just over 50% in the “low tax wild west” the USA supposedly is. I’m no libtara-tard, but cough up just a little more to the bureaucratic trough and it all gets better is a fucking joke. Reality is you as an individual need to get after it and save yourself, not wait on the government to help. They ain’t coming. Odds shitty maybe, but in reality saving up for a leaf blower (metaphorically or actually) and making a hard run at it it’s your last and only best chance. On your side is the fact that most people won’t compete with you.
*la libertad
Yep, time to redistribute. Start with taking the Mormon Church’s land holdings in Hawaii and give them back to Hawaiians.
I say we give Big Rock back to the kneeboarders
At least take it away from Machado.