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Martin Hash
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Re: Socialism

Post by Martin Hash » Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:01 pm

It’s those books you read in high school that form your ideology. Animal Farm is the most well-written for that (“All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others.”), and 1984 had the concept of NewSpeak which I didn’t fully appreciate in high school but at least when I finally got it, I had a word for the tactic.
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Re: Socialism

Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:05 pm

Yeah they made us read that in high school too. I remember it well when I was kicked out of high school and placed in detention centers where they made sure we read both of them. Are they supposed to be the rallying books of freedom or something? All they did was indoctrinate a hatred of authority even while being fucked in the ass. Nothing has fucking changed I assure you.
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Re: Socialism

Post by Martin Hash » Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:11 pm

Those books didn’t end in a triumph of liberty over socialism. They were more of an eye-opener. Dune and Atlas Shrugged had more of an impact on me. All those books seem like trash now.
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Re: Socialism

Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:13 pm

Both Dune and LOTR are far and away better political books than Orwell's commie ass ever was.
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Re: Socialism

Post by Speaker to Animals » Sun Oct 28, 2018 5:19 am

You guys should read some of Pournelle's novels.
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Re: Socialism

Post by Fife » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:53 am

Fife wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:24 am
Zlaxer wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:13 am
 Taxes are legalized extortion....legal because the Government (note the capital 'G') has the consent of the governed.

Fife knows this - but it's Beer' thirty in Nash-Vegas on a Friday...
We've know that "IT'S LEGAL" is a lazy and disingenuous fallacy since back early on in the DCF days.

The concept of a Social Contract is Marxist hogwash. As to "consent of the governed," can we agree that "consent" is a pretty important part of that phrase?

What contract did Dred Scott join into regarding his servitude?
Never fail to call out the Dred Scott Fallacy when you see it fam. And you see it all day, every day.

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Re: Socialism

Post by Fife » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:56 am

Also, I found a meme for all of you Orwell scholars and deep thinkers this morning:

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Re: Socialism

Post by Fife » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:58 am

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Re: Socialism

Post by Speaker to Animals » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:12 am

Fife wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:58 am
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Great meme this time.

Point being, if you want to turn America into Somalia, then you might as well move to Somalia, and if a Somalian wanted to turn Somalia into the United States, he might as well try to get to America.

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Re: Socialism

Post by Fife » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:16 am

No shit Sherlock. Go buy yourself a cookie. :goteam:
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