Message from @Tinytim
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They don't understand why things are cheap.
15% for food, 12% for hotels
@CasualSailor I won't underestimate their tendency to splinter and turn on each other like a pack of starving cannibals either
Norway is worse on cars, but we have low taxes on electric cars to encourage people to buy those instead
so, Norway has the most teslas per capita in the world
@Dusty Morgan Nothing is really free. And as Robt Heinlein said, nothing given for free has any value.
Anyway, I like to call Norway social capitalist
Social democracy
It's what that's called
Same with Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Germany
yeah, but it has gotten ruined by bernie not having the galls to actually explain it to the US properly
Yeah but then he'd lose socialist support
I feel that social capitalism is better, because we want capitalism to produce as much as it can, but where there are externalities we need the government
Bernie is a socialist, but he wants American to be a social democracy
@Misomania The problem with identity politics is that you can keep fracturing groups of people into smaller and smaller groups based upon their subtle differences until you eventually arrive at a group of ONE. The individual. And that is what Western culture figured out hundreds of years ago. That is why in the West the individual is sovereign.
@CasualSailor Exactly. Nothing is ever truly free except for oxygen. :\
If he was dictator, he'd be Castro
@CasualSailor Even then plants must inhale carbon to exhale oxygen.
it also doesn't help with them flying the RUSSIAN COMMUNIST flag as the flag of the democratic socialists
@Dusty Morgan Death is free. And the socialist should understand that given the piles of corpses they stack up everytime they get into power.
democratic socialists tend to wave this flag when they march https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31VUn0IP17L._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg
Why is that flag less offensive than a Swastika? Because 60 million dead is more noble than 8 million?
that include a lot of bernie supporters
240 million dead for communism
Anyway, I've come to realize that a lot of the reason Norway has done so well, except for the oil ofc, is that we've been damn good in designing systems that work. A pragmatic attitude and putting workable solutions above ideology
I don't find either symbol offensive...
@Misomania Yeah, if you include Mao and the rest. I was just referring to the Soviets.
well, you can't count the chinese deaths under mao, that's like comparing protoss to zerg
/edge :p
people aren't people in other countries?
@CasualSailor oh, I wasn't including mao and his killing of 200 million chinese via manafactured famines
is google just straight up blocking some search terms ?
interesting.
@Tinytim They were all murdered for the same idea, identity politics. Remember Mao invented PC.
probably, google hasn't been a good search engine for at least a decade
they block "guns" among other things
which makes it fun to look up MGS4 among other things
obligatory duckduckgo here
@Misomania The numbers are unknown. I usually stick with 60 million because that prevents them from claiming I'm inflating it. But after tens of millions I think the point is made, don't you?