@dictatordave @freepatriot @Wtdrisco @Escoffier
Socialist: But if everyone doesn't pay, it's not fair!
Me: Yes, but if I don't pay, and you don't pay, it means you actually do not care about helping people. If that would be the most important goal, wouldn't you pay anyway?
Socialist: But it's unfair and unrealistic.
and on and on it goes.
@dictatordave @freepatriot @Wtdrisco @Escoffier
_Ideally_ I'd have socialists "re-educated" and become productive members in the market place.
Killing them right away is a waste of potential creative resources.
What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember.
I was struck by how familiar the Party’s mind control methodology now seems – with the emphasis on invented, irrational narrative and willing suspension of critical faculties.
What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember.
I was struck by how familiar the Party’s mind control methodology now seems – with the emphasis on invented, irrational narrative and willing suspension of critical faculties.
@Escoffier @freepatriot @Wtdrisco
Yes, that's the common argument, and somehow it just keep failing, again and again and again.
The problem is that it is impossible to kill, due to mans infinite stupidity.
You can explain from a scientific and financial and psychological point of view why communism will always fail, yet, the only reply is "that was not real communism".
@freepatriot And liechenstein, and monaco, and san marino. Many small countries disprove that. You could add Singapore to the list as well.
Because they ahve never experienced communism up close. They therefore are susceptible to the error of it being some kind of utopia.
Ask anyone aged 45- or even 65- in the former soviet union what they think of socialism and communism, and you will hear a unanimous "horrible" from them.