10 Reasons Why You Should Reject Socialism

[User Name]

“Democratic socialism,” as envisioned by its proponents, doesn’t exist. Not in the real world. It’s just another pipe-dream fantasy with which hucksters like Ocasio-Cortez hope to fool unsuspecting, uninformed, entitlement-minded voters. Or worse yet, themselves.

The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining, with a high percentage of the workforce unionised and a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector (roughly 30% of the work force).

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

 

[Ktoyou]

Wealthy women become pornography actresses and prostitutes?

It's somewhat relative, be wealthy enough and the woman could have male prostitutes. What does that tell you about prostitution?

 

[The Berean]

Wealthy women become pornography actresses and prostitutes?

Yes, some actually do. Google "Mikaela Spielberg". She is the daughter of Steven Spielberg. She recently went public that she is a porn actress and sex worker. And she specifically stated that she is not doing this because she needs money. Steven Spielberg has a net worth of $4 BILLION.

 

[Trump Gurl]

Yes, Virginia: Hitler really was a socialist
https://www.glennbeck.com/glenn-beck/yes-virginia-hitler-really-was-a-socialist

For those of you looking for the Cliff's Notes version, here is the answer: Yes, Hitler and the Nazis were socialists, for the simple reasons that they were staunchly anti-capitalist and believed that the means of production in their society should be controlled by a centralized state power. That is very clear from their writings, their words and their actions. Done and done.

 

[Trump Gurl]

Praising a Brutal Killer
Bernie Sanders Decided to Praise Fidel Castro on '60 Minutues'

Bernie Sanders Praises Fidel Castro for Increasing the Country's Literacy Rates
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julio...stros-cuba-because-of-literacy-rates-n2561776

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) defended his past remarks about Fidel Castro's regime that was installed after the revolution because while Castro jailed and executed dissidents, at least he improved the country's literacy rates.
Sanders told Anderson Cooper during his "60 Minutes" interview that while he's "opposed" to Castro's authoritarianism, it "unfair to simply say everything is bad."
"When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it?" Sanders asked.
Cooper said there would be many dissidents who would argue it was bad since they were wrongfully put in prison.

 

[Traditio]

Yes, some actually do. Google "Mikaela Spielberg". She is the daughter of Steven Spielberg. She recently went public that she is a porn actress and sex worker. And she specifically stated that she is not doing this because she needs money. Steven Spielberg has a net worth of $4 BILLION.

Yes, there are some women who go into sex work who are not doing so out of economic desperation. My suspicion is that the overwhelming majority of women who go into sex work are not like Mikaela Spielberg. They're doing it out of economic desperation. In a socialist economy, they would not have gone into sex work.

 

[Traditio]

Incidentally, the same holds true of abortion. A substantial number of women who have abortions do so out of economic despair. Capitalism kills the unborn.

Socialism would have saved those unborn babies.

 

[User Name]

Bernie Sanders Decided to Praise Fidel Castro on '60 Minutues'

Bernie Sanders Praises Fidel Castro for Increasing the Country's Literacy Rates

Castro increased Cuba's literacy rates? What a horrible thing!

I knew Castro was a rat, but I didn't know he was that bad!

 

[ok doser]

Castro increased Cuba's literacy rates? What a horrible thing!

I knew Castro was a rat, but I didn't know he was that bad!

and Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler built the autobahn

so?

 

[User Name]

and Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler built the autobahn

so?

They should have been executed for that!

 

[Traditio]

They should have been executed for that!

That's literally how "big brained" Republicans like Trump Girl think. Bernie Sanders wants to do infrastructure spending. Hitler did infrastructure spending. Bernie Sanders must be sympathetic to the Nazis.

 

[The Berean]

Yes, there are some women who go into sex work who are not doing so out of economic desperation. My suspicion is that the overwhelming majority of women who go into sex work are not like Mikaela Spielberg. They're doing it out of economic desperation. In a socialist economy, they would not have gone into sex work.

I do not agree. In today's culture narcissism is everywhere. Many young women go into sex work because of the exposure and the belief that it empowers them. This would not change in a socialist systems. The supposed democratic socialist Nordic countries have all sorts of sex workers in their red light districts. Prostitution is legal. Amsterdam's Red Light District is legendary. Since Holland is not a poor country the sex workers there are not driven by poverty.

 

[thborn]

Parental rights in education has nothing to do with worker ownership of the means of production.

I do think you're overlooking something here, if I may politely say so. Socialistic policies, in my experience, can lead to things like homeschooling being outlawed. This is unjust.

#BillionairesShouldNotExist

I don't really see anything to be gained in arguing for a dogmatic stance in this case.

If Mr. Rogers or Saint Francis of Assisi were to become billionaires, I think they would do a good job of spending their money on worthy causes.

If more individual Christians were to really follow Christ and do His work, and not behave like mainstream materialist sexually lewd pagans, this issue wouldn't really be an issue in the first place.

However, there is good reason to criticize atheistic and uncaring mindsets among the super rich, without persecuting individuals unfairly.

 

[User Name]

Socialistic policies, in my experience, can lead to things like homeschooling being outlawed. This is unjust.

Homeschooling is legal in Finland and Norway. So-called socialistic policies do not necessarily mean that homeschooling would become outlawed.

 

[Traditio]

should #Millionaires exist?


For example - Climate change will inevitably open up large new areas of the Canadian north to exploration in a manner previously impossible. If I roll the dice, risk my wealth, health and time, explore the area south of Salluit and discover vast, previously unknown deposits of mineral wealth, gold for example, and develop my claim, what would you say is the limit to my compensation? Let's consider the Kirkland Lake mining area - total extracted wealth of roughly 400 billion dollars so far. Let's say my discovery up near Salluit dwarfs Kirkland Lake and is worth 2 trillion dollars. After development costs and extraction costs (including worker salaries and taxes), the mining operation yields a net profit of 500 billion dollars, US.

What share of that profit do you think I'm entitled to keep?

Let's reframe your question.

"If I discover natural resources that I had absolutely no hand in creating and OTHER PEOPLE dig them up and refine them (I, of course, not even laying a single finger on a shovel to help those people dig the resources up), how much money should I get from that?"

Is that basically what you are asking me?

 

[Traditio]

I do think you're overlooking something here, if I may politely say so. Socialistic policies, in my experience, can lead to things like homeschooling being outlawed. This is unjust.

Socialism is an umbrella term for a number of economic systems (economic systems in which workers own the means of production, not a handful of billionaire oligarchs). It has absolutely nothing to do with cultural or social issues.

You can be socially right wing and a nationalist, but also a socialist.

That's what Strasserism (which is what my avatar stands for) and national bolshevism are.

 

[Traditio]

I don't really see anything to be gained in arguing for a dogmatic stance in this case.

If Mr. Rogers or Saint Francis of Assisi were to become billionaires, I think they would do a good job of spending their money on worthy causes.

They may or may not. The decision to do so shouldn't be left to them.

It's amazing that people love to recite that quote about how "absolute power corrupts absolutely" in a political context, but conveniently forget that quote in an economic context (even though economic power directly translates to political power; as Michael Bloomberg admitted in last night's debate, he "bought" those campaigns).

The decision to "spend their money on worthy causes" should not be consolidated in the hands of a few billionaire oligarchs. It should be spread out among the entire working class.

In the words of Marxist economics professor Richard Wolff, capitalism is both unequal and undemocratic.

 

[Trump Gurl]

Six posts from a sick liar who promotes evil and is fake Catholic.
The good news is that only idiots believe you, and no socialist will ever be president.

 

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Varney shreds Bernie Sanders' policies ahead of Democratic debate

 

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Dave Ramsey breaks down capitalism vs. socialism