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  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

Since you've ignored my prior post of my thoughts as there is no way to dispute it, I will repost it for all to see how stupid you are:

Every Reason Socialism is Stupid

Socialism is one of the stupidest ideas a moron could hope to dream up. Literally nothing logical can be said in its defense. It has wiped entire civilizations off the earth, murdered tens of millions of people due to starvation, and mercilessly butchered more than a hundred million people in concentration camps because they dared to object to the tyranny of socialism. By contrast, the free market has brought tens of millio…  Read more

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

Granted, nearly all of this is just textbook Red Scare propaganda, that is so intentionally vague that I could copy+paste all of these arguments with "socialism" and "capitalism" swapped and it would be the exact same thing, to the point where I'm not convinced that you even know what socialism is (and given what I've read, I'd be very interested to hear you define it). However, I'll do my best to provide some clear counters to the few actual claims you made:

"Whereas capitalism, the system our founders intended for, supports equality of opportunity, socialists demand equality of outcome..."Read more

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

Because workers are not forced to work they can freaking quit the job if they believe they are being exploited. With such stupid people as you, the drums of war are beating and let the war come, I repeat, let it come! Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death!

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

lol so are you literally arguing that "Liberty" means being legally denied ownership over the profits of your own labor? You genuinely mean to tell me that workers are NOT entitled to the fruits of their own labor? That's literally the opposite of freedom and liberty. You're seriously defending the right to steal the product of another man's hard work? What a fake Libertarian you are lol...

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

What a TRUE libertarian I am. Workers do get the fruits of their labour, it's called a PAYCHECK, stupid. And do you think the business owners, who've worked their butts off to get where they are, should have the fruits of their labour taken by government coercion from THEM? What about THEM, stupid?

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

If everything you say is true then why has socialism always failed? Answer me that. Look at every socialist dictatorship and name one policy they promised that you disagree with. Name one.

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

Which nations are you referring to? Considering socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially-owned, can you...name one that instituted such a system? I am not aware of any such nations. I can think of plenty of nations that attempted to break free from global capitalism via transitional state-planning, but I don't know of any that actually implemented a socially-owned economy. Which nations do you know of that had socially-owned economies?

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington corrected…10mos10MO

This may help you -- USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 1620s, Jamestown, Nazi Germany, the list goes on

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

You're so stupid it's beyond belief. You think you can perfect human nature under your little socialist utopia, where everyone holds hands and sings kumbaya in a beautiful circle of life. Well, maybe ignorance it bliss. Maybe I shouldn't hammer some hell into your head, and let you live on in dreamland, but if you believe this crap please don't vote. Dream on!

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

What "human nature" is there to "perfect"..? That claim doesn't even make sense. Humans are adaptively conditioned under whatever system they materially exist within; there is no objective or intrinsic "human nature" to frame society around, so I have no idea what it is you think any society is "perfecting"?

Secondly, I didn't even advocate for a "utopia", since it's an entirely subjective concept that doesn't exist. I merely advocated for a system that is owned and operated BY the public itself, instead of by private interests. You're free to dispute that, but given the fact that you seemed to be unable to, and instead had to attack a strawman, with some ad hominem mixed in, suggests that you couldn't...

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

If you don't understand the very basic concept of human nature then this argument is hopeless. You're no longer illogical, you alogical, and will undermine every genuine argument. Also, the straw man fallacy that you allege that I made is completely false, because I define socialism as virtually every single person on the face of this planet does -- government ownership of private property. If you define it some other way, I would be happy to listen to your idea is. But it's so ironic that you accuse me of being illogical when you don't even appear to know what the philoso…  Read more

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

I didn't realize that you were unironically under the impression that socialism is "when the government owns everything", because that's literally a meme. Socialism has never meant that, nor has any socialist economist or thinker ever claimed that, so I'm not sure where you even made that assertion from..? Socialism isn't even a governmental system, it is an economic one, so your false definition doesn't even make sense either.

Socialism is, in it's most basic definition, an economic system in which the means of production are socially-owned (hence the…  Read more

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

Couldn't help but notice my argument about human nation left you speechless. I schooled you.

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington commented…10mos10MO

Capitalism believes government should leave us alone, socialism believes it should run our lives. Simple as that

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