i much prefer our system where the government doesnt give a shit about keeping people warm and fed
communism is when bread lines
capitalism is when you just starve
What was that idiot's quote, they know a country doesn't have 'freedom' if it doesn't have homeless people everywhere?
What a cruel society we live in, where "government ensures its citizens' most basic needs are met" is a newsworthy story.
In a particularly dark twist, some of this shit only has purchase because of sinophobic racism.
Rome, the high water mark for white civilization (not true, but idiots think so) had bread and circuses but these DASTARDLY CHINESE are etc etc. Absolute jackasses.
Luv 2 have to live through the fucking yellow peril-red scare collab remix
100 years ago you could add the whole empire to that list. Fucking Mayos.
Bernie was just asking for us to consider bringing back the grain dole, but all the statue avatar freaks stabbed him in the back like Julius Caesar.
Ancient Rome is about as foreign to American "civilization" as China is. The US is a living-experiment of the utopian fantasies of middle-class British people. The only connection to the classical world is a bunch of soft plantation owners LARPing like they were a paterfamilias.
Damn straight. "Latifundia for some, misery and small american flags for the rest"
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
These people went on too be consultants. As the skill of writing essays and making graphs to suit the objective while appearing neutral is a very profitable skill.
During the election cycle of 2016, the rabid sexism of the Bernie bro movement could transform any aspect of Hillary Clinton's perfect qualifications into negative traits. If she encouraged voters to Pokemon-go-to-the-polls, she was being too naggy; if she strategically backed off from campaigning in Michigan she was being too quiet. If she liberated Libya from the tyranny of Ghadaffi she was being too aggressive; if she allowed Americans to continue having the freedom of medical choices then she was being too passive.
If your country doesn't have people starving to death then it doesn't have human rights.
Yeah, but coming from Bloomberg you know that isn't their intention.
Well you see the CCP is only feeding and housing people so the people will like them, and this is actually a dastardly ploy to further consolidate power around dictator Xi Jinping.
The government doing things that make people like them is bad, actually.
The funny thing is, this doesn't even have to necessarily be a socialist thing. Political Science 101, this is just how a state establishes its legitimacy, by providing those under its power something in return. I'm not just going to pay taxes without asking "what's in it for me?"
I thought this for a while but then I went to therapy so I don’t think about it anymore. Not worth bothering yourself with when Russians are fucking with elections!
"China Is Keeping Its Citizens Warm And Fed, This Is Nefarious Somehow"
Unlike in the US, where the government has no obligation to actually do anything for you.
People have no duty not to guillotine governments that let them starve in a crisis.
"If people starve they rise up and guillotine you" is now a controversial take apparently.
Just watch, with all the food shortages, the USA will be the slimmest and most trim nation in no time!
"Wait...Communism isn't making everyone starve!?! welll....uhhhh.........gommie is bad because they are preventing GOOD STARVATION from happening! Wait, what do you mean 'that's just eugenics with extra steps'?"
Countries leaders know they need to provide basic necessities for their people at the very least, especially during a global pandemic. Wow, so oppress, very authoritarian
