A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.
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“Protect the children” is a popular modern rallying cry. If only.

NSFW for: Potentially challanging your narrative and worldview.

I recently found this article summarising important findings.

Breaking out of ones own bubble is important. And I would like you to remember this the next time you are at a ballot.

If you really think of the children, vote according to reality.

And if you FEEL personally attacked by this article and bash me in the comments, whataboutism away from the subject or bothsides-ing the issue; Thanks for making my point for me and seek help.

  • irmoz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Okay, so what happens when I dont work but want the peoples’ stuff?

    You only work if you want to. No one is going to force you. It is natural for people to want to work because we get bored if we don’t. Communists believe in leaving it up to you when you want to work, and what you want to do, and how and where and why. And you can go and take what you need from the freely available goods when you need it.

    “For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”

    - Karl Marx

    Just as you hid your true colors,

    I never did that.

    you are obfuscating all he forseeable places where force WILL be applied.

    Such as where?

    It will be applied somewhere.

    Why?

    Maybe it’ll just be me. Should dissidents like me get the bullet? Why not?!

    Because there is no reason to shoot you just because you don’t enjoy… checks notes being allowed to work or not work when you feel like it.

    There is a lot of hand-waving here.

    Such as when?

    Like how great things can be.

    How is this a hand wave? I have explained above, and you haven’t even responded. This reply here doesn’t even touch any points I’ve made. You’re just repeating yourself.

    And all I see is Holodimur

    So, there are a few points to make here. This video goes into a whole lot of detail and is thoroughly sourced and reasoned in a very balanced manner. The TL;DW is:

    1. The soviet famine was largely the result of natural factors.

    2. It was then worsened considerably by a very slow and negligent response from Stalin.

    3. It affected more than just Ukraine. Kazakhstan and even Russia itself also suffered.

    4. Stalin did send help - but not enough, and it was sent secretly so as not to let the outside world discover the famine.

    In summation, it was far from deliberate, but Stalin’s response was cold and insufficient, and cared more about appearances.

    All in all - not very damn communist. Because, surely you know, The USSR was not communist? The first clue is it has a damn state. That’s a big clue. I’m generally not a big fan of the USSR and the big fuckin state is one of the reasons.

    One-child policies.

    That’s China right? Yeah also another big fuckin state that I’m not a big fan of. Here’s a fellow communist also hatin’ on China.

    Large spying governments with huge militaries

    Yep, things I’m also not a fan of.

    taking land from farmers, always followed by famine.

    Lol wut? Taking land from farmers? Yeah, with communists it’s generally the opposite. If farms are being taken over, it’s from fat cats hoarding land for private use, to be taken into public hands for the use of all.

    But I know, its all really chill on paper. Slick academics make it sound sexy, sure.

    Yeah, slick academics also make rocket science sound sexy. And then you follow the theories and oh my goodness, you’ve made a fuckin rocket. But if somewhere along the way, you decide to swap out aluminium for styrofoam, you’ve made an expensive waste of fuckin time. So the think is - if you’re trying to make communism and you make a big fuckin state, you’ve taken a wrong fuckin turn or you were fuckin lying!

    And Im sure this time we’ll find those chill sociopaths to put at the reigns of power, lol.

    WHAT FUCKING REIGNS OF POWER? IT’S COMMUNISM! IF THERE ARE REIGNS OF POWER YOU BUILT IT WRONG!

    You can try to explain it to me, I guess, but this sounds like the most statist worldview imaginable.

    HOW? A stateless society sounds statist? Are you high? Because I am, and it still sounds out there to me.

    You’re using an analogy about drivers licenses to a libertarian. Fuck a drivers license.

    Did you… miss the point? It’s a prop. Jesus fucking Christ. Oh my God. You’re so hung up on such a small detail that the wider point was completely missed. Let me try again.

    If I go to eat a cake, what do I do if it asks me out on a date?

    In order to answer this question, I have to take for granted that not only can cakes speak, but they also understand what dates are, and might proposition me.

    Its just a regulatory device to attach fines to a person. The identification card is not for you, its for them!-

    Yes. So fucking what. It doesn’t fucking matter in the context of the analogy. Now think about the damn point it’s making and respond to it you fucking loon.