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JackofallChems1 year, 8 months ago
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In other words, I'm a scientist that's surrounded by idiots who can be swindled into any garbage theory that float down life's river like a dead fish. Unless, of course, research engineers are excluded from the 'curiosity' end of the statistical 'correlation' that academia has managed to swindle you into believing. Note that engineers get paid to apply theory to reality, and have to make things work in reality no matter what the professors in college thought was true. Curiosity is one thing, openmindedness is another, but leave it to an engineer to scream loudly that the so-called 'experts' are wrong because reality disagrees! You all did notice that there's no such thing as the USSR anymore, because communism is a bust as a result of socialism being a fundamentally stupid idea concocted by a late 1800s crackpot, right?? LOL!
(the next question is how long it's going to take for everyone to figure out that multiculturalism is another stupid idea because neighbors aren't family)
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Tangent0011 year, 8 months ago
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The USSR wasn't socialist, it was communist. The difference is that most any government can incorporate concepts from socialism, but communism requires a whole-hog commitment (which is admittedly doomed to fail). If you as a scientist find the theoretical findings of researchers unsound in practical application, then by all means make a huge noise about it. The fortunate thing about science is that eventually it HAS to listen.
I'd enjoy exploring your objection to multiculturalism, as I agree with your assessment. I think multiculturalism amounts to little more than a 'zoo' mentality that allows us to pat ourselves on the back for maintaining, say, the Amish for the sake of 'cultural preservation', while turning a blind eye to their abuses.
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JackofallChems1 year, 8 months ago
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Communism is socialism with someone to kick in the front door and put a gun to anyone's head that objects to it. Fascism and Nazism are socialism with someone to sneak in the back door (through property rights infringements, mostly - letting people own stuff but telling them what they can and can't do with it) and put a gun to anyone's head that objects to the results. Socialism is a scheme to take money from the 'rich', give it to the supportive 'poor' after skimming off most of the money as a processing fee, and in the process destroying both the economy and the 'rich' that made the scheme possible in the first place - with the unsupportive 'poor' starved out of existence one way (submission) or another (death or perpetual imprisonment). Do try to get the definitions right. Anything that's labeled communism or fascism or Nazism is socialism with a violent streak that will ultimately fail - but it fails because of the socialism, not the violence.
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Tangent0011 year, 8 months ago
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"Communism is socialism with someone to kick in the front door and put a gun to anyone's head that objects to it."
Correct!
Socialism is not a method of taking fro the 'rich' to give to the 'poor', it is a manner of taking from the 'all' to give to the 'commons'. That's what we do now, except for frequent instances where we take from the 'poor' to bail out the 'rich'. Most of what we call 'civilized' countries have some measure of socialism, usually around matters of health care. Some are more successful than others, but NONE have gone from socialistic tendencies to pure fascist communism.
Communism is socialism taken to a fascist extreme, just as the Inquisition and Jihad is faith taken to a fascist extreme. Fascism is the enemy. Fascism will fail, always has.
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Tangent0011 year, 8 months ago
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"Anything that's labeled communism or fascism or Nazism is socialism with a violent streak that will ultimately fail - but it fails because of the socialism, not the violence."
Help me understand your point. Nazism and Communism were failed paradigms that combined socialism with violence. If it were because of the socialism rather than the violence, then there should be NO countries with socialistic policies, yes? Yet there are. I wonder by what standard do you decide that it was the socialistic ideology rather than the fascist implementation that was at fault. Currently, "...it fails because of the socialism, not the violence..." seems by mere assertion.
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