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I think this one has already been covered by Auric Goldfinger.

Perhaps, and I may be wrong here, if facebook is just a giant data compiler, the information it sells to its corporate clients could be used to peddle junk through their other marketing outlets. In this case, facebook's relative lack of overt marketing would work in its favor. Companies aren't paying to have their ads plastered all over the place, they're paying for access to personal info (and probably online conversations between users as well).

You're the sucker if you think: a. most users of facebook are having the same experience that you are. b. That facebook advertisers and investors aren't getting something for their money. That's "serious bank" from their sponsors.

You present a false duality based on an inaccurate separation of the economic from the political. One of the primary functions of the state in capitalist society is to protect and enhance private property. Libertarianism's inability to grasp this simple truism and that state structures are formed and informed by class relations are exactly what I take issue with.

Apparently he's right.

Yeah, shilling shitty corporate products by compiling personal information through false relationships sounds great! What a guy. And a fellow capitalist utopian to boot. I think I'm in love...

Like me? I loves me some Ron Paul!

Mmmm-hmmm. I especially enjoy it while watching my favorite television programs on NBC. Must see TV!

What does Hilary have to do with facebook? If any politian is in favor of us putting personal information online, it's one who supports wire tapping and tracking down "terrorists". I so appreciate these kind of social networking activities with my friends. Do you guys like Pepsi. I don't. I like Coca-Cola better.

Who?

Good thing all my real friends are on CC.com. A rather disturbing article.

I think that having radical viewpoints expressed in a mainstream forum is important. Some liberals' and progressives' uncritical acceptance of Ron Paul's brand libertarianism is unfortunate but not surprising. An anti-state message coupled with anti-war cred is bound to resonate with working class folks. I agree with much of libertarianism's view of the state; my problem with it is its fetishism of private property, its lack of a critique of capital, and its inability to grapple with the relation between private wealth and public power. As far as "kiddie porn" goes, it takes all of five seconds to establish the love-affair between Ron Paul and racist extremists. Any liberals, progressives or lefties out there curious about Paul should consider why libertarianism often tends to attract such followers.

Yeah, and the white supremacists seem to think he's okay too. Maybe this guy's not so bad.

Angela Davis on Obama: Angela Davis is a former Black Panther and academic.---from Guardian 1/25/08

Yeah, thanks for the "historical context" Let me guess, either the Wikipedia Whiz strikes again, you've been watching the History Channel, or you dusted off the Time-Life books your uncle gave you in high school.

Bush's witches-brew of foreign policy instruments, from "renditions" to "preemption", have helped to legitimize these "tools" and either enabled other states to use them or fostered a climate in which other states feel they must adopt such tactics to defend themselves.

Hey dipshit, thanks for the historical legacy. A foreign policy that someone with a nuclear explosion for an avatar could be proud of.

The point was less my own spending and borrowing habits, for which I'm solely and fully responsible, than pointing to who ultimately benefits from a "stimulus package" in a consumer-driven economy.

How will you all be spending your $500-$800? I'll be using mine to pay down my credit card debt. So in that sense, I'll be helping to prop up the very financial corporations that created the crisis in the first place!

Here's some brilliant analysis! Oh well, being a belligerent, chauvinist asshole means never having to say you're sorry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aImvw9N2ms0

Remember The Lusitania! Oh...

"Nothing to see here, keep moving, move along, nothing to see here..."

Thanks for the reality dose. The "mortgage market regulatory protection" you speak of is only the tip of the iceberg with regard to a whole host of deregulatory policies that have enriched corporate finance capital while increasing economic instability and possibility of widespread damage.

How's everybody enjoying those productivity gains?