Think of All the Good They Could Do...

[Guest shiloh357]

On 2/25/2017 at 3:29 PM, HisFirst said:

To be fair Shiloh, the 2nd photo looks like after a calamity:( eg: earthquake - not everyday street life.

Nope, that is a picture of the live of poverty that currently exists in Socialist Venezuela.

[HisFirst]

Just now, shiloh357 said:

Nope, that is a picture of the live of poverty that currently exists in Socialist Venezuela.

I get the poverty part but that particular photo looks like after a natural disaster.

There's a microwave in the street. ....

[LadyKay]

Well now I am going to have to google stuff to get the bottom of this. 

[Jewels7]

7 hours ago, LadyKay said:

Propaganda.  That's all this is. 

That aptly describes the Democratic Socialists of America in that first picture, yes. 

All the good they could do? Move! Go to those socialist countries that are already in existence and see how they fare. They're crowing for a socialist model in America thinking that's ideal because they'll be on the receiving end as lazy parasites who will live off the hard work of others in the socialist model. Look at the average age of those in the first picture holding the banner for the DSoA. All of them under mid 30's range if that. 

 

[Jewels7]

2 hours ago, shiloh357 said:

Nope, that is a picture of the live of poverty that currently exists in Socialist Venezuela.

And yet when the Socialist model there began it was promoted as glorious for the people. Keep in mind though that Venezuela is extreme right wing anti-abortion by law. There , a woman that is in an at risk pregnancy and has been told will perish if she remains pregnant , by her physician of course, will indeed die. Unless her family can get her out of the country and to a country that will perform the procedure. 

That is also what some factions in America want to see happen. That and or the socialist model coming here as well. Because they've never lived under that kind of governance. Bernie Sanders was their champion. He was out of his wits and knew nothing about what he was speeching about, but he was still a proponent of the same government as now exists in Venezuela. 

 

August 2015  In Venezuela, the same lessons as Cuba, North Korea, USSR . . .
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423011/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-socialism-economics

[LadyKay]

All I can say is that some of you really need to educate yourselves about what Socialism is. And telling people to leave the country because they think differently then you do is UnAmerican. That's all I have to say about this. 

[Guest shiloh357]

16 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

All I can say is that some of you really need to educate yourselves about what Socialism is.

Socialism is shared property.   In socialism, if you bred and raised milk  100 cows in order use their milk to make money, the socialist government takes 99 of your cows and distributes them to 99 other people.   In socialism, your property and your money are not yours.  In socialism, everyone is left equally poor because of the concept of shared property.  

In social justice, which is rooted in socialism, if I am rich and you are poor, your poverty places a moral obligation on me to alleviate it.   So basically socialism doesn't help you and it doesn't help me.  It impoverishes both of us and it keeps us poor.

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And telling people to leave the country because they think differently then you do is UnAmerican. That's all I have to say about this. 

Who is telling anyone to leave the country just because they think differently?

[Jewels7]

Thinking people who know what Socialism is are uneducated about Socialism is just sillyness.

Calling people un-American for saying people who wish they lived under a regime that is not a Constitutional Republic should leave a Constitutional Republic so as to find the Socialist regime they crave is un-American is just plain ignorant. 

Just like those who are working to make America become a Democratic Socialist country are ignorant in that process. That's why calling people who are educated about what the Socialist model is are in need of an education in light of those aforementioned examples is darn funny. 

But it doesn't offset the fact that those doing the calling are ignorant. If they were educated they wouldn't have admitted they needed to Google first to find out what's being discussed here. Only to return calling others ignorant for having their own knowledge beforehand. 

 

[heretoeternity]

The USA that hotbed of "capitalism" could also be classified as a "socialist' state...public schools - socialism

government medical plan - socialism 

social security system - socialism

government services  - socialism

etc etc...

Poverty knows no ideological system...the Philippines has no social program to speak of yet 90 percent of its people live in poverty, worse than the pictures you showed...that country is pro free enterprise and not socialist and has been 'an ally" of the USA for decades, and a "christian" nation for centuries...

Your stereotype has no merit, and is rather offensive to the poor people of the countries you portrayed..we should all pray that the same fate does not come to the USA and other western countries anytime soon.

BTW you should not let the decadent anarchists in the USA paint the political picture for the planet...they are a result of the very capitalist system you are trying to glorify...

 

 

 

 

 

[MorningGlory]

7 hours ago, LadyKay said:

Propaganda is "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view".

This has no other information. Only a cut and past picture from two different settings. There for I see this as nothing more then Propaganda. 

 

Did you check out the link I posted on socialist Venezuela?  Nothing like facts to tell a story.