IN THE MEME TYME 11/10/25 EDITION: Socialism and Hangin by a Thread
A refresher course on Socialism/Capitalism for you to pass on to others (Obviously needed) and (the last 5) something a little different.
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Trying something over and over again, thinking the outcome will be somehow be different if you try it enough times, is the very definition of insanity.
The way I remember it spoken was a Socialist Democratic Republic.
That was 1930's. Germany.
And we all know how that turned out.
It always comes down to the classic triad:
Power. Money. Societal Control.
Not necessarily in that order.
Religion has nothing to do with freedom. We have nothing to gain from it, and everything to lose from it.
Woke and communism as well. I have often argued that religion's failure (and it is failing) due to dogma and lack of logical, philosophical merit, is a reason people are going Woke, climate-Nazi's, et al.
Many people want to be told the right answer my charismatic and/or people they trust. It is WAY easier than figuring out what is right on one's own. Most people want to be told what to believe.
Woke and communism as well. I have often argued that religion's failure (and it is failing) due to dogma and lack of logical, philosophical merit, is a reason people are going Woke, climate-Nazi's, et al.
Many people want to be told the right answer my charismatic and/or people they trust. It is WAY easier than figuring out what is right on one's own. Most people want to be told what to believe.
Socialist systems can be made to appear to work as long as there is a strong capitalist base to support them. The support is through government thievery, of course.
And then the Margaret Thatcher observation: Socialism may work until it runs out of other people's money.
Should the nightmare of a Communist Utopia ever take hold here, our comrade masters would surely be opening reeducation camps and/or practicing final solutions for nonconformists the Soviet Union used to call "refuseniks."
If they are successful, we'll all leave these digital spaces until we figure out how to mask ourselves via AI so that they'll never know who we are . . .
Now it is My Majesty since I'm referring to my own title and not you.
Seriously, though, how about "His Excellency?"
The Kool-Aid hair -- that and the metal bone in the nose... a lovely combination that shouts "Lunatic On Board!"
The preponderance of external displays -- skin graffiti, cobalt hair, bones in the nose, dressed like clowns ... all a superficial effort to purchase status. These louts are unwilling to work for it, so they just slap it on like a coat of shabby paint and then expect to be taken seriously.
I especially like the Canadians on the raft. ;^)
I 1/2 expected Armpit Hair
LOL