Students Love Socialism… But Can’t Define What It Is

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
July 27, 2017 8:29 am

This is like the Codes of the Underworld thread.

People are perfectly fine tossing around terms that define something without really knowing if the terms define something accurately.

Socialism is theft from individuals sanctioned by the collective using a morality created by psychopaths.

Dutchman
Dutchman
  hardscrabble farmer
July 27, 2017 10:55 am

Socialism is OPM.

We should ban using the word ‘free’ from any political discussion or politician.

Anytime somone wants to use the word ‘free’ – they need to say: “Free to you, while others pay for your ‘free’ item.”

What really scared me about the video is that these kids are in college. Unbelievable. Just fucking unbelievable – and we give them student loans.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
July 27, 2017 8:35 am

Socialism explained in 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen
  hardscrabble farmer
July 27, 2017 8:43 am

This is the first and only piece I’ve learned on the piano. So relaxing. I’m working on a guitar version but I’m stuck on the second movement.

Truther
Truther
July 27, 2017 8:37 am

The fat snowflake in the green dress says socialism is a more open govt. omg what a complete idiot, its as closed as communism, moron. All I heard was crickets and birds when they tried to define socialism, crickets and birds, seriously in the background, lmao..

musket
musket
  Truther
July 27, 2017 11:28 am

These noobs couldn’t find their own asses with both hands and a torch if their lives depended on it…..

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen
July 27, 2017 8:46 am

You could explain socialism to them in about 1 minute. Point a gun at them, steal half of their shit then give it to the first bum that walks by. “This, my friend, is socialism”.

David
David
  Smoke Jensen
July 27, 2017 11:44 am

If you gave 10% to the bum, 20% to a bureaucracy, and the rest to yourself and your buddies it would be more accurate.

overthecliff
overthecliff
July 27, 2017 9:22 am

Most people think socialism is a political system that steals from others and give the proceeds to them. Actually, it is a political system that steals from everybody and the thieves keep the proceeds.
Kind of like Illinois.

Lala Blood
Lala Blood
July 27, 2017 9:24 am

That’s funny, ’cause many conservatives hate socialism, and they can’t define what it is either.

Rdawg
Rdawg
  Lala Blood
July 27, 2017 10:00 am

You have any evidence to support that claim, or are you just trolling?

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Rdawg
July 27, 2017 10:49 am

he’s probably correct dawg if one is to go by the book,or academic definition–
my definition-
socialism is where the means of production is owned by the private sector but directed by the govt,as opposed to communism,where the govt owns the means of production–
socialism usually evolves into communism wherever it is implemented–

though it won’t happen,i’d like to see some of these colleges try academic socialism/communism-
all grades will be averaged out and distributed according to the needs of the recipients,not necessarily awarded to the individual who aced the test or wrote the brilliant term paper–

David
David
  TampaRed
July 27, 2017 11:45 am

Try this

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production,[10] as well as the political theories, and movements associated with them.[11] Social ownership may refer to forms of public, collective, or cooperative ownership, or to citizen ownership of equity.[12] There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them.[13] Social ownership is the common element shared by its various forms.[5][14][15]

And that is why it never works, except for the assholes at the top and the complete losers.

fleabaggs
fleabaggs
  TampaRed
July 27, 2017 12:48 pm

Red.
Didn’t they already do that by dumbing them all down plus affirmative action enrollments?

Card802
Card802
July 27, 2017 10:25 am

These little bright eyed ignorant snowflakes think they want a version of democratic socialism because they were raised in a protected, everybody gets a trophy, everybody passes, everybody wins childhood. Now these children are growing older, but not up. (Jimmy Buffett song)

Anyway, a good history lesson for the little ones would be the story of the Pilgrims. They were taught that the American Indian saved their ass’s.

Not true. The Pilgrims embraced socialism, a seven year agreement was enforced by the first governor, all goods, buildings, food etc were to be divided equally at the end of seven years.
Problem was nobody did shit because they expected the other guy to provide, and they would share the bounty.
After half the people died it became apparent Capitalism was the only way to survive, and so it is today.
But some either forget or are ignorant of history, and so are doomed to repeat past failures.

This is why you could take every penny from the successful and give it to the socialist tards, and within a year the successful would have their money back and the socialist tards would be crying to the government once again.
Somewhere along the way the definition of fairness has been altered to legal theft.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit
  Card802
July 27, 2017 11:56 am

Ah, the “Pilgrims were communists” bit again. The story goes like this, when they arrived in North America they shared everything so they were communists, and they starved. Then they embraced capitalism and prospered. There is an element of truth to the fable. In a practice they called “The Common Course and Condition”, when they arrived in 1620 they did share everything. What is left out of the narrative is that they arrived in November (i.e. winter). Not just any winter, 1620 & 1621 were in a period climatologists call “The Little Ice Age.” The Pilgrims’ first winter in North America was brutal. They had no choice but to share. All they had to live on was the meager rations they brought from England and the corn they stole from the Native Americans.
Their harvest in 1621 was successful enough that they celebrated with a feast we call Thanksgiving. After the feast, an inventory was done and they realized they had greatly overestimated the harvest. They had to cut food rations to get through the winter of 1621-1622. Here’s is where it gets complicated. By the first Thanksgiving, half of the colonists had died in the “Great Sickness”. Only four women survived to see Thanksgiving. Right after Thanksgiving 1621, the ship Fortune arrives with 35 new colonists (only three were women). At this point there are seven women doing laundry for about eighty-five colonists. The seven women complained about doing laundry for all the bachelors. It was at this point that individual plots were assigned, and everyone started to make their own way. They shared when they had to in order to survive, and they “went capitalist” when they were they settled in as experienced farmers and had a full planting/harvesting season ahead of them. In the end, it had as much to do with laundry as it did with economics.

harry p.
harry p.
July 27, 2017 11:35 am

They are children, kids are bathed in to socialism from birth to adulthood bc thats all they can do, either take care of your newly formed or underdevekoped blob (baby/child) or it dies. Parents carry the extra weight bc thats our jobs for our children.

The problem is they think this is the natural order for their entire existence instead of jsut their first years on earth bc parents dont start weening them off when they should and next thing we know we have 18 infants in favor of socialism.

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
July 27, 2017 11:51 am

Those fucking oxygen thieves are the reason there needs to be life guards for the gene pool.

fleabaggs
fleabaggs
July 27, 2017 12:56 pm

They don’t have a clue anymore than they know that we are supposed to be a republic not a democracy. They have been so dumbed down that they just parrot what their braindead liberal commie teachers in grade school and now their professors tell them. Just like our middle aged women parrot whatever the girls on the View told them to think this morning.

Rise Up
Rise Up
July 27, 2017 2:38 pm

As long as their faceplant, snatchchat, and twitty accounts work, these kids are dumb and happy. They will live in mommy and daddy’s basements until they are 50.