Death by Socialism: Look at the numbers

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[–]Nemacolin 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Thank you for giving us a link to another source of silly letters to the editor! s/letterstotheeditor

I love this stuff; Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a favorite of the American left, exterminated 1,176,000 his first year. Remember those crazy Leftists, Kissinger and Nixon meeting their hero? Nixon wore that tie-dye shirt? I have never seen those two kids so high.

Yep, those nutty Leftists!

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Mao Money Mao Prolbems.

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Isn't remarkable that Nixon and Reagan are no longer considered conservative enough?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Reagan sure, but what's wrong with Nixon? He wasn't a corporate cocksucker, but if someone takes "conservative" to mean free market worship, then I'm not sure how they'd also have an issue with Reagan.

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Oh, he is the one who kissed up to Mao, in another discussion, Mao is called the favorite of the Left. Further, he cut deals with the Vietnamese that prolonged the war and killed Americans. You may be too young to remember his wage and price controls.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You remember Nixon? God damn you're fucking old. I kid, I kid. Even so, I don't have much of an issue with the state taking charge of the economy. All economies are command economies in a way. And in terms of cultural issues, China (and pretty much every other Communist/former Communist country) is way to the right of the US.

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. Born in '58.

Mao was a mass murderer. Nixon normalized him. Called him all sorts of nice names. He & Kissinger were completely taken in.

Jim, on Vulcan we have a saying, "Only Nixon could go to China."

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Overton window always edging towards totalitarian with extremes on the left and right pulling it.

[–]tomatosplat 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

These numbers are actually pretty conservative, I see that they do not include the sacrifice that millions more paid to keep those fuckers out. Probably because no one can count that high.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Should be "Death by Communism", the corrupted extremist form of socialism.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Communism is socialism in practice. It takes a mix of pure stupidity and extreme narcissism to believe that you are the one to finally "do socialism right". Every socialist is the next murderous tyrant in waiting.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Communism is extremist corrupt socialism.

Socialism is a process, like science and can be used for good and evil.

Governments steal taxes to pay for military and police who oppress their own citizens. That's also socialism. Some governments provide healthcare.

It takes a mix of pure stupidity and extreme narcissism to utter "mix of pure stupidity and extreme narcissism". Oops I just did it. I guess we're both purely stupid and extremely narcissistic.

I'm a minarchist. Fuck left AND right. Aim high for the ideal of voluntarism, and any progress is less government.