Current Affairs War on Socialism

[ilikecheese]

I love these threads about Socialism, containing posts from Snowflakes who wouldn’t know socialism if it bit them on the arse and who have had the most pampered lives in the history of the U.K......

Just tell them to get off your lawn Pete.

 

[peteblue]

- man who created an anti-Corbyn thread.

It wasn’t anti Corbyn, it was anti traitors.....

 

[zzr45]

Britain is beginning to realize that we do not need our billionaire class. It’s like living with a hungry wolf, and lamenting that he monopolizes all the food in your fridge. You can either accommodate the wolf, in hopes that he’ll eat less of your food, or you can decide that maybe the wolf can be fought; maybe pissing him off could be a worthwhile endeavor.

That’s not a very apt simile at all really. You have to ignore the fact that billionaires create jobs, fund businesses and are as critical part of the economic make up of anyone. A Canadian coming in and telling others to get out certainly is droll. Im not too sure how socialism can claim victory for weekends, seeing as they existed before socialism did, but hey!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[Prevenger17]

Fairly cack-handed comment there from May, but socialism means so many different things to so many different people I don't even know what it is anymore. I wouldn't read too much into it tbh

 

[neil999]

I love these threads about Socialism, containing posts from Snowflakes who wouldn’t know socialism if it bit them on the arse and who have had the most pampered lives in the history of the U.K......

ACTUALLY ...I had to walk 60 miles to school, slept in the outside toilet and had dust for dinner

 

[Bruce Wayne]

ACTUALLY ...I had to walk 60 miles to school, slept in the outside toilet and had dust for dinner

I would have killed to have had dust for dinner...

 

[peteblue]

I would have killed to have had dust for dinner...

ACTUALLY ...I had to walk 60 miles to school, slept in the outside toilet and had dust for dinner

What’s dinner....

 

[orchard]

It's not great, although one ought not ignore it cuts both ways, and not unreflectingly regurgitate cliché that insist upon placing cart before horse.
That's the logic of the petulant nouveau.

That’s not a very apt simile at all really. You have to ignore the fact that billionaires create jobs, fund businesses and are as critical part of the economic make up of anyone. A Canadian coming in and telling others to get out certainly is droll. Im not too sure how socialism can claim victory for weekends, seeing as they existed before socialism did, but hey!

 

[zzr45]

It's not great, although one ought not ignore it cuts both ways, and not unreflectingly regurgitate cliché that insist upon placing cart before horse.
That's the logic of the petulant nouveau.

But it certainly seems to me that commentators like the one from your OP that it’s a bit black and white - billionaires are all evil who suffer off the misery of others and are all leeches. The problem is that the fingers that socialists tend to point aren’t at the actual instigators at all, but rather the easy targets at the top for daring to be wealthy.

 

[magicjuan]

I love these threads about Socialism, containing posts from Snowflakes who wouldn’t know socialism if it bit them on the arse and who have had the most pampered lives in the history of the U.K......

Such as? The fundamental issue with socialism is that irs opponents, such as yourself, describe and refer to it in patently false terms. The anti socialists, not tories, thats a different kettle of fish, so this isn't tory bashing, have no concept of socialism using as they do, Corbyn et al, as icons of the ideal and harbingers of doom at the same time.
Selfish, self interested, resentful, myopic, sneering, ignorant, rabid gibbons. Those who attack socialism from no knowledge whatsoever.
Give a flying one, become a socialist, it's that easy.

 

[ClausThomsen]

That’s not a very apt simile at all really. You have to ignore the fact that billionaires create jobs, fund businesses and are as critical part of the economic make up of anyone. A Canadian coming in and telling others to get out certainly is droll. Im not too sure how socialism can claim victory for weekends, seeing as they existed before socialism did, but hey!

The vast majority of jobs are not created by billionaires. The vast majority of businesses do not have a billionaire individual behind them. Billionaires sit on a fortunes that are virtually impossible to spend and is ring-fenced from taxation.

They are an insignificant overall contribution to the economy yet have a disproportionately huge amount of power to wield influence through party donations.

 

[zzr45]

The vast majority of jobs are not created by billionaires. The vast majority of businesses do not have a billionaire individual behind them. Billionaires sit on a fortunes that are virtually impossible to spend and is ring-fenced from taxation.

They are an insignificant overall contribution to the economy yet have a disproportionately huge amount of power to wield influence through party donations.

Nope.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Nope.

Well if you can point me to the billionaires who create more jobs than anything else that would be just swell sweetheart xxx

 

[zzr45]

Well if you can point me to the billionaires who create more jobs than anything else that would be just swell sweetheart xxx

So the likes of Branson, Dyson etc have never created jobs? Either directly or indirectly? I think you’re a bit lost here hun.