Current Events > Trying to get into socialism

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What are some good entry points, comrades?
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I think youre lying
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1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.

6. Postal Service - Like having mail delivered directly to your front door and paying next to nothing to send mail anywhere you want? Well it's all made possible by socialism.

7. Student Loans and Grants - Did you go to College? If you did, you family might not have been rich enough to pay your way through. So you got your education anyway through student loans and grants from the federal government at taxpayer expense. Of course you have to pay back the loans, but if not the government, did you know anyone else who was going to lend you tens of thousands of dollars? Probably not. So the taxpayers lent you the money and you paid it back with slight interest. The government grants you accepted were gifts from the taxpayer and the federal government that you did not have to pay back. Socialism got you through school.

8. Bridges - Along with our highways, our government used your taxpayer dollars to build bridges. This allows the public to travel across rivers without having to sail or swim.

9. Garbage Collection - Like having your garbage collected once a week instead of having to drive it to the landfill yourself? Thank socialism.

10. Public Landfills - Taxpayer dollars are used to have places to dump all of our garbage that is collected by taxpayer funded garbage men.
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Shablagoo posted...

government spending is socialism and the more spending there is the more socialist it is

consider not posting

watch the news on Venezuela to learn about socialism

Shablagoo posted...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.

6. Postal Service - Like having mail delivered directly to your front door and paying next to nothing to send mail anywhere you want? Well it's all made possible by socialism.

7. Student Loans and Grants - Did you go to College? If you did, you family might not have been rich enough to pay your way through. So you got your education anyway through student loans and grants from the federal government at taxpayer expense. Of course you have to pay back the loans, but if not the government, did you know anyone else who was going to lend you tens of thousands of dollars? Probably not. So the taxpayers lent you the money and you paid it back with slight interest. The government grants you accepted were gifts from the taxpayer and the federal government that you did not have to pay back. Socialism got you through school.

8. Bridges - Along with our highways, our government used your taxpayer dollars to build bridges. This allows the public to travel across rivers without having to sail or swim.

9. Garbage Collection - Like having your garbage collected once a week instead of having to drive it to the landfill yourself? Thank socialism.

10. Public Landfills - Taxpayer dollars are used to have places to dump all of our garbage that is collected by taxpayer funded garbage men.

Wtf I love socialism now.
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Look at everything you own in your home, now strangers are entitled to take it form you because they're lazy or flat out too pathetic to hack it in the real world to get those things and somehow people defend this practice.
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friendbuddypal posted...

Wtf I love socialism now.

:)

Broseph_Stalin posted...

consider not posting

Do you ever post anything interesting, or just piddly catfight stuff like this? Could swear thats all Ive seen from you lately.

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Don't, nothing but misery comes out of socialism.
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Tc is hypno right
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i feel like "public spending funded by a free market system isn't socialism" is pretty to the point, idk what else you want me to post

Fam_Fam posted...

watch the news on Venezuela to learn about socialism

Broseph_Stalin posted...

i feel like "public spending funded by a free market system isn't socialism" is pretty to the point, idk what else you want me to post

Its socialistic principles in a capitalist society, like the Scandinavian countries. I dont think you have to adapt socialism fully in order to utilize its ideals for the betterment of society.
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"socialistic" isn't a thing, you have collectivization or you don't. Public spending isn't socialism, Scandanavia isn't socialism.

Stop cheerleading a discredited 19th-century economic system that's failed catastrophically every time it's been tried because you want higher spending on infrastructure or whatever, it's weird.

Socialistic

If you describe a policy or organization as socialistic, you mean that it has some of the features of socialism.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/socialistic

How is it not? Some countries are obviously more socialist or have more socialist policies than others.
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Shablagoo posted...

. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world.

Jesus Christ, no
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Ask for free stuff. Don't pay for stuff you agreed to pay for.
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Godnorgosh posted...

Capital, Vol. 1

Das Kapital is a good read for pretty much anyone.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Shablagoo posted...

Some countries are obviously more socialist or have more socialist policies than others.

You can't be more socialist, workers own the means of production or they don't. You have a planned economy or a market economy.

Using roads and libraries as examples of successful "features of socialism" is stupid, I'm sorry.

Broseph_Stalin posted...

Shablagoo posted...

Some countries are obviously more socialist or have more socialist policies than others.

You can't be more socialist, workers own the means of production or they don't. You have a planned economy or a market economy.

Using roads and libraries as examples of successful "features of socialism" is stupid, I'm sorry.

I think we are talking about 2 different things.
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Right, I'm talking about socialism and you're pretending any public spending is socialism.

Well youre looking at the textbook economic definition of socialism, Im thinking of it in a broader sense. In a purely capitalist state a lot of the socialistic programs we have today wouldnt exist and, as weve seen again and again ardently capitalist politicians do indeed try to cut those programs at every turn.
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If you want to properly understand Socialism or Marxism, you absolutely must begin with Hegel
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post #4 might genuinely be the dumbest thing I've read on CE in months

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Socialism is a failed ideology which leads to totalitarianism and mass murder.

Godnorgosh posted...

tremain07 posted...

Look at everything you own in your home, now strangers are entitled to take it form you because they're lazy or flat out too pathetic to hack it in the real world to get those things and somehow people defend this practice.

I wonder if there's a distinction between personal and private property which makes this post look ridiculous

If there's no private property, where do you keep your personal property?

Shablagoo posted...

Well youre looking at the textbook economic definition of socialism, Im thinking of it in a broader sense.

Yes I'm using the definition of a word because that's how words work. You're trying to use public spending to validate an economic system that's caused nothing but misery.

And no, most of those "socialistic" programs predate socialism.

Jfc where did all these believers in socialism come from?

Where is Liberty Prime when you need him?
America will never fall to Communist socialist invasion.
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Superlinkbro posted...

Jfc where did all these believers in socialism come from?

Where is Liberty Prime where you need him?

It's disturbing that we have so many people peddling this garbage which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.

Superlinkbro posted...

Jfc where did all these believers in socialism come from?

Where is Liberty Prime when you need him?
America will never fall to Communist socialist invasion.

Hey howd you do the strike-through on those letters?
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Shablagoo posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

Jfc where did all these believers in socialism come from?

Where is Liberty Prime when you need him?
America will never fall to Communist socialist invasion.

Hey howd you do the strike-through on those letters?

@Shablagoo I used this:

https://saijogeorge.com/strikethrough-text-generator/
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Superlinkbro posted...

Shablagoo posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

Jfc where did all these believers in socialism come from?

Where is Liberty Prime when you need him?
America will never fall to Communist socialist invasion.

Hey howd you do the strike-through on those letters?

@Shablagoo I used this:

https://saijogeorge.com/strikethrough-text-generator/

Awesome, thanks! I frequently want to do a word like that in a post, lol.
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Every night eat a nice socialist dinner of nothing. Geta feel for the cusine

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@Shablagoo posted...

Well youre looking at the textbook economic definition of socialism, Im thinking of it in a broader sense. In a purely capitalist state a lot of the socialistic programs we have today wouldnt exist and, as weve seen again and again ardently capitalist politicians do indeed try to cut those programs at every turn.

Let's adopt those policies.
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Notti posted...

@Shablagoo posted...

Well youre looking at the textbook economic definition of socialism, Im thinking of it in a broader sense. In a purely capitalist state a lot of the socialistic programs we have today wouldnt exist and, as weve seen again and again ardently capitalist politicians do indeed try to cut those programs at every turn.

Let's adopt those policies.

lol xD pretty much my exact experience ITT
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Notti posted...

I love this picture

Middle hope posted...

Every night eat a nice socialist dinner of nothing. Geta feel for the cusine

Good post.

@Shablagoo posted...
You forgot to mention Trump's border wall.

read tolstoy
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TheMikh posted...

read tolstoy

or Solzhenitsyn

I had to Google how to spell his name lol

Socialists

NinjaBreakfast posted...

Tc is hypno right

I think tc is realdill. What I've been seeing from the user lately fits the idea of ditching the pro-trump gimmick after getting into too much trouble for trolling after being caught breaking character and trying to cover it up. I could be mistaken though. Either way, tc has pulled a 180 from how they used to post.
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Broseph_Stalin posted...

Shablagoo posted...

government spending is socialism and the more spending there is the more socialist it is

I never knew this but it is so clear now
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Notti posted...

@Shablagoo posted...

Well youre looking at the textbook economic definition of socialism, Im thinking of it in a broader sense. In a purely capitalist state a lot of the socialistic programs we have today wouldnt exist and, as weve seen again and again ardently capitalist politicians do indeed try to cut those programs at every turn.

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Why does the last pic have to make the guy look like an idiot/hypocrite rather than saying "No, I don't want a huge tax increase"

Seems biased to me, I dunno
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coh posted...

Socialists

Capitalism has killed far, far more people than socialism, by your logic.
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