Message from @.B
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Just a personal addendum. Oppression is not dependent on slavery.
Of course not
A slave can actually have rather a lot of agency.
And a free man can be horribly oppressed
In my country we had the Stavnsbรฅnd.
Is that a guy shoving something up that cow's butt?
sicko
Its a plow, the cow is pulling
It's faster than ๐
But you have to have a ๐
grilllllllllllllled
People are still talking about E;R smh
Also, why does JEFF believe HuffPo as a secondary source, but not this guy? <:TimThink:482277772497125378>
who said "I'm a nazi"?
Jeff always been an idiot, it's not like I'm surprised tbh
National socialist =/= Nazi. That said, national socialism is easily abused - just look at China and quite likely Russia depending on how their current kleptocracy evolves.
I think Trump's dream is national socialism but he most certainly is not a Nazi.
Trump is far from a socialist.
I think he'd like to be. His reflexes are certainly in that direction.
He just wants to erase everything Obama ever did. When he talks about replacing it with something, he talks some pretty socialist stuff. The congress the past two years just wouldn't give it to him.
But his socialism is nationalist, not communist, in nature.
When he says he supports universal healthcare? It's a social policy but far from socialist.
Universal healthcare, especially when you guarantee equal rates with pre-existing conditions, is gonna end up being highly government-involved. Whether by ownership or regulation.
He also supports social security and medicare
universal healthcare could be good
or it could be horrible
it all depends on whether they tackle the hard problems around cost and pricing
( they won't, there is a reason the investment portfolios on the hill do so well)
He advocates for a $1 trillion infrastructure initiative coordinated if not paid for by the government.
If he started talking about complete redistribution of wealth and workers taking the means of production I'd agree but at the end of the day he's a capitalist (also socialists don't lower taxes).
He keeps talking about what "he" will do, meaning the government, and taking credit for it. Not the market. Not entrepreneurs. But him, himself, as president.
Communists are about complete redistribution of wealth and workers taking the means of production. Socialists are about government directing, either by ownership or regulation, the flow of wealth.
When I say socialist, I am talking about socialism in the sense of western Europe and even 1930's Germany. The government didn't own everything, they just gave it to people who would do what they wanted and regulated the hell out of it.
I imagine any socialist you'd talk to would say Trump is far from being a socialist.
National socialism is very different from Marxist socialism. One has as it's guiding star benefiting individuals collectively - whether or not they ever achieve it is another story. National socialists are all about the state. Glorify and better the state and everything trickles down. In both cases, government either owns or heavy directs production and wealth distribution.
National socialism was a response to marxist socialism
Would Trump deregulating tons of things fall under that? I think not.