Remember the old politician's prayer. God grant us health and strength. We'll steal the rest.

For reals, if you know people who are heavy on the SJW social media, be fucking afraid of them, because next election, they're gonna go apeshit and start killing if things don't start turning around soon

Covington could have been a turning point to de-escalate the madness

@Tinytim Never underestimate the power of the mob. They've executed kings and queens, czars and ministers. They'd not hesitate to murder someone as insignificant as you.

@CasualSailor where's that from?

Me.

(c) 2019.

You may use with attribution.

lucky me, I live in Norway, so I can just watch the world go to shit

What's your sales tax in Norway?

but you all seem cool, so wanna spread my warning. Seriously, start comparing the social media bubbles to cults. It's scary af

I think it varies between 20 to 40%, except cars, which is crazy high

25% is the common one

Americans who like to point to Norway and Denmark as idealistic do not understand that. Our sales taxes are ~7%-10%.

@Timcast How do you celebrate the Lunar New Year? I'm curious. I NEVER celebrated it before.

Denmark has a 180% tax on automobiles?

People are greedy, thus they go to where ever things are free or cheap.

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

bernie pushed venazuela as his utopia @Tinytim

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

I think Castro is a likely outcome, not a disaster, but not good

@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?