hint: capitalism doesn't work either when the central bankers create their own "capital" out of thin air and they're too big to fail, too powerful to jail.
At the end of the day the systems we use to organize society and the technologies we use are not nearly as important as the average level of maturity or self-consciousness of each individual participant in a society.
If people want to change the world for the better, they need to go within first and change themselves.
Think of Socialism as a fruitcake recipe. You keep wanting the fruitcake recipe to make chocolate chip cookies. And somehow you never learn that it's not the bowl, or the baker, or the oven. It's the ingredients.
"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."
"Equalize" everyone's income and lifestyle to the level of subsistence (because "the State" needs all "excess" money for state-provided "free benefits" and to support its "administration" [elites]) and take away the hope of bettering oneself (through hard work ["initiative"]) which stokes robust economies (growth, invention, investment) and you have stagnation, despair and mediocrity (against which the people increasingly want to rebel) EVERY TIME.
Communism has never failed. It’s the lie that authoritarians tell the masses to gain there support.
If you want to install an authoritarian state, do you tell people they’ll be poor and hungry? No! You tell them what they want to hear. You say their work will be easier. They’ll have more of whatever they’re wanting. Their babushka will be taken good care of. You promise to be a benevolent dictator.
There are those who are in on the lie, and there are suckers who believe it.
That woman who would 100% fail at making a sandwich thinks she's competent enough to remake society -- the most complex mechanism man has ever created and one he doesn't understand in any meaningful capacity.
How about a more apt analogy: you're a retarded monkey with a hammer and your vagina fumes make you think you can build a better jet engine by smacking a few rocks together and when you fail, it just means you try harder.
Socialism is like running a bakery but you're broke, so you steal ingredients and supplies from everyone around you, and then you throw the ingredients away, sell the equipment, spend it on guns and lackeys, then force the people you stole from to keep giving it to you under threat of violence.
I see no difference between socialism and communism other than the word socialism is easier to swallow.
All my life my parents warned me about communism...what its like, how it starts, at first people accept but later realize they lost all their freedoms.
Everyday I come here and see more and more push toward communism.
I would say a path littered with the horrific history of lives lost of innocent women and children. Not to mention obliteration of strong cultures and civilizations. If you're a loser and done little or nothing in your own life to feel the people around you are worthy of loving a fair life forward. Way paint the path forward in such an ugly dark color. Change the color of the paint you put on the wall of your home. If you want to unilaterally decide what color we all have to see outside.
White leftist elitists think they can make something succeed that has failed every time it's been tried by many nations and peoples of all races because they are the "right people" to run such a system while those others were not. The true White supremicism.
Learning from the example of others requires the ability to deftly think in the abstract. This is a strong indicator of intelligence.
Any Midwit can learn the hard way. Surviving the lesson is pretty much down to luck.
Morons never learn, and outside the nanny state, Darwin takes them away.
Liberals never think things through.
We should make an addendum to the definition of insanity and ensure that continuously repeating history is part of it.
hint: capitalism doesn't work either when the central bankers create their own "capital" out of thin air and they're too big to fail, too powerful to jail.
At the end of the day the systems we use to organize society and the technologies we use are not nearly as important as the average level of maturity or self-consciousness of each individual participant in a society.
If people want to change the world for the better, they need to go within first and change themselves.
Corrupt individuals can corrupt any system.
well said.
Facts! Many people are unaware that the Federal Reserve is neither federal nor has any reserves AND is a socialist construct!
Think of Socialism as a fruitcake recipe. You keep wanting the fruitcake recipe to make chocolate chip cookies. And somehow you never learn that it's not the bowl, or the baker, or the oven. It's the ingredients.
Ironically, socialism is a recipe for fruitcakes.
Except communism will always fail opposed to someone completely screwing up a baked good every time is it attempted.
"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."
"Equalize" everyone's income and lifestyle to the level of subsistence (because "the State" needs all "excess" money for state-provided "free benefits" and to support its "administration" [elites]) and take away the hope of bettering oneself (through hard work ["initiative"]) which stokes robust economies (growth, invention, investment) and you have stagnation, despair and mediocrity (against which the people increasingly want to rebel) EVERY TIME.
It's an unworkable THEORY.
They work for their intended purposes.
What. A. Dumb. Breeder.
Communism has never failed. It’s the lie that authoritarians tell the masses to gain there support.
If you want to install an authoritarian state, do you tell people they’ll be poor and hungry? No! You tell them what they want to hear. You say their work will be easier. They’ll have more of whatever they’re wanting. Their babushka will be taken good care of. You promise to be a benevolent dictator.
There are those who are in on the lie, and there are suckers who believe it.
That woman who would 100% fail at making a sandwich thinks she's competent enough to remake society -- the most complex mechanism man has ever created and one he doesn't understand in any meaningful capacity.
How about a more apt analogy: you're a retarded monkey with a hammer and your vagina fumes make you think you can build a better jet engine by smacking a few rocks together and when you fail, it just means you try harder.
What a terrible metaphor for socialism.
Socialism is like running a bakery but you're broke, so you steal ingredients and supplies from everyone around you, and then you throw the ingredients away, sell the equipment, spend it on guns and lackeys, then force the people you stole from to keep giving it to you under threat of violence.
Communism never did work and it never will.
I see no difference between socialism and communism other than the word socialism is easier to swallow.
All my life my parents warned me about communism...what its like, how it starts, at first people accept but later realize they lost all their freedoms.
Everyday I come here and see more and more push toward communism.
I would say a path littered with the horrific history of lives lost of innocent women and children. Not to mention obliteration of strong cultures and civilizations. If you're a loser and done little or nothing in your own life to feel the people around you are worthy of loving a fair life forward. Way paint the path forward in such an ugly dark color. Change the color of the paint you put on the wall of your home. If you want to unilaterally decide what color we all have to see outside.
So spicy
White leftist elitists think they can make something succeed that has failed every time it's been tried by many nations and peoples of all races because they are the "right people" to run such a system while those others were not. The true White supremicism.
While I love this response tweet I hope the 2000 or so likes go for a vacation in Venezuela.
Not even for the foot soldiers. Completely expendable.