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| Dupe entry: Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both? |
| 2018-07-30 |
| I think the technical term is "Banality of Evil" Congratulations, oh most insufferable of generations ‐ against all odds and confounding the experts, you have still somehow managed to make yourselves even more annoying. Apparently, the hep new jive among your tiresome cohort is "Democratic Socialism," resurrecting a poisonous nineteenth-century political death cult and putting a kicky new spin on it to make it palatable for the suckers. It’s the political equivalent of hipsters who insist vinyl records are superior because they didn’t grow up forced to crank their tunes on that miserable format. The "Democratic" part is some cunning rebranding. Just stick "Democratic" in front of something awful and it’s good-to-go. "Democratic haggis"? Yummy! "Democratic herpes"? Sexy! "Democratic Nazism?" Hey, what’s the difference? National socialism, democratic socialism? It’s really just a question of who runs the camps because regardless of the particular brand of socialism, there are always camps. Always. ...What the boring old facts, evidence, and history demonstrate, beyond any rational dispute, is that socialism is a bloodstained abomination with north of 100 million corpses to its accursed credit. The It Girl of the current commie/Democrat daisy chain, wide-eyed half-wit Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, doesn’t let bourgeois concepts like "knowing things" stop her from sharing her sophomore-grade insights all over the left-wing media, which is to say "the media." Gulag Barbie is a clown, and even the late nite hack hosts stare back at her adolescent babbling, amazed as she tosses an incoherent word salad about her workers’ paradise. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #15 The way I understand it socialism works on a very small scale and becomes a blood bath on a large scale. When one tries to impose the nuclear family model on a city, or nation. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-30 18:02 |
| #14 How's that "New Soviet Man" thing coming along? Communism can't work as advertised until the perfect altruism is inculcated in the masses. This really is sad. How many Utopian societies have come and gone predicated on this "ideas". They always devolve into the Animal Farms very quickly. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-07-30 15:41 |
| #13 Small scale is voluntary association, which is basically capitalism. When you get a laerger group then can start to enslave sub groups and that lack of reciprocation causes disaster for all |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-30 15:25 |
| #12 The way I understand it socialism works on a very small scale and becomes a blood bath on a large scale. So let the useful idiots set up communes and leave the rest of us alone. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-30 15:03 |
| #11 You expect them to come out up front and say they believe in the Magic Money Tree(tm)? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-30 14:47 |
| #10 Schlichter of course |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-07-30 14:07 |
| #9 :-) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-30 13:58 |
| #8 Love that book, it raises so many points to ponder after you finish it. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-30 13:56 |
| #7 Incidentally (Kaiel constitution's association to "proxy") magpie, ever read Courtship Rite? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-30 13:47 |
| #6 Re $5, Yes, Humans seems to be hard-wired to a limit on social interactions with about 100-200 other individual partners. Beyond that they need to start appointing a "proxy" to intermediate ... and we all know that those Proxies will be totally selfless incorruptible beings of Love and Goodness, right? Right? Socialism. Bah! Humbug! |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-30 13:20 |
| #5 #1 Sorry #2 It's not about socialism - an excellent system for hunter gatherers living in kin groups, it's about millenials |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-30 13:08 |
| #4 Yeah ok whatever. .. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-30 12:40 |
| #3 The funest argument I saw was that look how deadly even Half marxism is ! Imagine twice or more that death toll. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-30 12:10 |
| #2 I wish there were fewer spittle-flecked diatribes like this and more sober disconstruction of socialism. Stuff like this won't affect the Sanders crowd. They just shrug it off with "that wasn't real socialism" and move on. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-30 12:03 |
| #1 Rantburg’s clever programming automatically tagged as a Dupe entry because it was posted without a URL or even the name of the source in brackets to give busy moderators a hint as to provenance. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-30 12:00 |