Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

Kill the man and you keep the fish,

Communism works people!

Communism is taking all his fish and distributing it to the people who are too lazy too. What is left over is then given back to him aka the bones.

Well if we are talking about communism, there would be presumably no one being "too lazy" to work

They just assume people will work for free. Sorry but human nature is greedy.

Anyways I need to lay down, I am passing out at the keyboard.

No work hard? GO TO GULAG

@Timcast Thanks for being a great journalist, you open my eyes to many things that I normally wouldn't be able to see. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for talking to me Captain...

I do appreciate being able to talk about these things and learning new things.

Broadening my knowledge.

Same my dude

The more I know, the better I can understand the world around me and be able to effect it in a meaningful way. Being ignorant of the situation will only serve to make things worse. ^_^

Agreed

Re: communism, not owning your own labour is effectively slavery. How can you own yourself when you can't own the fruits of your labour?

Re: Trump
So did the left want President Pence or did they just not think ahead?

real communism doesn't work, realistic communism is just killing anyone who doesn't serve 😛

They call that socialism :^)

"If we separate all the murder into a separate stage it doesn't count"

Commies are that guy who rejoins the server to fix his k/d

true

doesn't work cuz after a while its bad anyway

Communism would need two things to work: total conformity in the rejection of private property , or a very advanced state of post-scarcity

The former is simply impossible because of free will, greed and egos of the humans

The latter may never happen because of exclusive items always existing and being in demand

Should we ever try? Can't we just settle down with something that already works? No?

Even then, social loafing undermines the overall system

And a centralized economy cannot be counted on for efficiency

controversial opinion: communism BAD

"So did the left want President Pence or did they just not think ahead?"

from experience and observation, they do not think ahead.

even post scarcity won't work, communism needs everyone to never try and gain authority

and its human nature to just want a little bit more

Communism could work in small scale. Small enough so that those who do not conform or no longer want to conform can leave the group without significant upset. But we are talking like town sized communities.

basically tribes or family units

well in real communism theres no heirarchy,

Sharing stuff works in small communities but theres still leaders

i imagine everyone deferring to someones judgement would not be considered a "heirarchy" to a communist.

... people wanna get rid of Drumpf but don’t understand they are bringing in Mike “Zap the Gay Away” Pence smh

as they did not take that power nor use force to keep it

so its basically a group decision to follow the advice of someone.

Actual communism is stateless

making them a leader without being given the official position as leader.

what is a state?