Libs of TikTok on X: "American Tiktokers are flocking to the new CCP app Rednote where they’re getting fed propaganda about how great life in China is https://t.co/BX2gZ3fu7T" / X
“Democracy” has become the new pseudonym of “progressivism”, which is the misnomer of “socialism”, “Marxism”, and “Leninism”. It is, in reality “statism” : concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.
I suppose when you are too embarrassed by your own ideology, you’ll call it anything to obfuscate what it truly is. Recall this, the next time you encounter the phrase “our democracy”, or the claim of being “progressive”.
Too embarrassed, or you don't want the populace associating it with the failed policies and misery from the last time it was tried under a different name.
Not too surprisingly, the ignorant believe in the equality of outcomes, as promised in socialist (communist, Marxist, Leninist, Maoist) ideology/dogma. It all seems so -- fair, until reality sets in, when the elites share in the largess, while the majority share in the leftovers and misery. They never learn, until it's too late.
They have gotten more than enough warnings. And, even the most die hard socialist has to realize "that was not real socialism" is just a meaningless platitude at this point.
And, thanks for that link. While that is the kind of book that just annoys the F out of me. I know several folks that would be thrilled to read it. (I have little tolerance for idiots that create their own problems, then complain about it.)
Let's start with this: So if everything is free ... Why do you need to be paid anything at all?
I'm fine with them going, just no remittances and no backsies. If you're gonna commit, commit.
Thanks for the book link. Speaking of propaganda:
“Democracy” has become the new pseudonym of “progressivism”, which is the misnomer of “socialism”, “Marxism”, and “Leninism”. It is, in reality “statism” : concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.
I suppose when you are too embarrassed by your own ideology, you’ll call it anything to obfuscate what it truly is. Recall this, the next time you encounter the phrase “our democracy”, or the claim of being “progressive”.
Too embarrassed, or you don't want the populace associating it with the failed policies and misery from the last time it was tried under a different name.
Not too surprisingly, the ignorant believe in the equality of outcomes, as promised in socialist (communist, Marxist, Leninist, Maoist) ideology/dogma. It all seems so -- fair, until reality sets in, when the elites share in the largess, while the majority share in the leftovers and misery. They never learn, until it's too late.
Not everything is free, Comrades. Your family will receive a bill for the bullets if you step out of line and need to be executed.
Communism = what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. If you think I will distribute it equally, you will get a bullet, zek.
Read "The Gulag Archipelago"; all 3 volumes. I did as a young lad. Communism ain't for me!
No, I say let them go.
They have gotten more than enough warnings. And, even the most die hard socialist has to realize "that was not real socialism" is just a meaningless platitude at this point.
And, thanks for that link. While that is the kind of book that just annoys the F out of me. I know several folks that would be thrilled to read it. (I have little tolerance for idiots that create their own problems, then complain about it.)