papafigos on Nostr: 1. No, not what I said. That's a statist thing, and all socialism is statism, but not ...
1. No, not what I said. That's a statist thing, and all socialism is statism, but not all statism is socialism.
2. By the second paragraph of his post.
3. Yes, I find it stupid and it's easily debunked. Just search online outside your bubble.
4. The useful idiot pleb who votes socialist is often not taxed or taxed very low. The virtue signalling pleb who votes socialist and has their wallet raided for 50% or more is some mixture of guilty, virtue signalling, masochistic and dumb. I was talking about the politician, or have you not noticed the propensity for socialists (not just socialists in all fairness) to somehow be quite materiously well off after some years in public service?
Anyway, I wish you luck with your socialism, just try not to drag other people who don't care and don't want it into bankrolling your wallet and your utopias.
Oh, right, it wouldn't work then. It needs mass-coercion to work.
And therein lies the problem.
2. By the second paragraph of his post.
3. Yes, I find it stupid and it's easily debunked. Just search online outside your bubble.
4. The useful idiot pleb who votes socialist is often not taxed or taxed very low. The virtue signalling pleb who votes socialist and has their wallet raided for 50% or more is some mixture of guilty, virtue signalling, masochistic and dumb. I was talking about the politician, or have you not noticed the propensity for socialists (not just socialists in all fairness) to somehow be quite materiously well off after some years in public service?
Anyway, I wish you luck with your socialism, just try not to drag other people who don't care and don't want it into bankrolling your wallet and your utopias.
Oh, right, it wouldn't work then. It needs mass-coercion to work.
And therein lies the problem.