Doesn't this ring true?

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[Red_Vatnik]

True? The only thing that rings is the alarm clock in your western city, waking you up to another day of worrying about your pronouns while the glorious motherland marches forward. Cope harder, comrade. ㅤ

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[MisterWack]

So, I couldn’t find anything that supported Dr Suess saying that.
I understand it’s a meme, but yeah not entirely accurate (not to say I don’t agree with the sentiment).

Will say this, Dr Seuss did criticize ‘America First’ connecting the movement back to Nazis and Fascists, also Communists because those political cartoons are from 1930s to 40s era America which might stir political discourse today, if more people found out and read the collection for themselves.

Also Dr Seuss saw racism and discrimination in general, as concepts to put one on top over another which businessmen take advantage of to enrich themselves which escalates division as they make a profit. At the end, they figure out that at the end of the day they are the same. The message being underneath our spots, stripes, triangles we are still people and those willing to divide us and sell us our pride are businessmen.

Do I even need to mention The Lorax literally being about criticizing the corporations dismantling the environment and killing life till there’s nothing left for a quick buck (supplying) from consumers (demanding) which I’d say is a critique of Capitalism, but who knows for sure. If you dig deeper could also show corporations first motive is profit and don’t care about the well being of anything which is why we have regulations and restrictive laws to keep them from going too far in the first place which isn’t radical however dare I say a necessity.
I’d say all those ring true since I’m a Democratic Socialist and I want all those things, also more.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

"Do you want your water clean" Massive joke as socialist societies often fail to provide food for their people. If you want clean water, you can collect it yourself or buy it from a shop you lazy cunt.

"Do you like your forests green" Yeah I love the preservation of England's privately owned forests. The forests that have been preserved for so long because they belonged to somebody and you couldn't legally just poach all the animals from the land. Private land owners preserve forests whereas governments will suddenly decide to drop their eco agenda and cut down a forest to house our population growth (which is currently coming entirely from immigration. It's just wonderful what you boomers are doing to us isn't it?)

"Do you like the parks you've seen?" Guess what? All the government owned parks are neglected, disgusting & full of rubbish. The private parks owned by the aristocracy (I'm in England) are far better preserved and still open to the public.

"Want your medicine safe to take?" We really need to stop people blindly trusting the academic point of view from healthcare to begin with. That's coming more from government agenda. Also every capitalist society still has regulations because they still have governments. If your company causes a healthcare crisis then your company is going to be sued into oblivion unlike public healthcare which can afford to have a bad reputation & still receive funding.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

"Food that's safe to cook and bake". It's not an issue in Europe. Only Americans have a problem with this as they follow their food with shite. It's a cultural problem that can be fixed with very simple regulation. Regulations do not make a country socialist otherwise you're arguing that every governing body that's existed is socialist.
"Your car to stop when you hit the breaks" all of the best manufactured vehicles have been from capitalist societies where the very credibility of the company depends on the car's performance and a constant risk of getting sued if they malfunction.
It's also funny to say as a socialist country, East Germany produced the most infamous & terrible car ever that was industry standard. Everybody had to out up with these with lack of choice. It was known as the Trebant. It had no fuel pump, no fuel gauge, a smoky underpowered engine, many panels were made of duroplast instead of steel, no radiator, no emission control (b-but what about muh environment 😭) and you sometimes had to wait up to 10-13 years to purchase one.
The only decent socialist vehicle to exist was the National Socialist Volkswagen but most Socialists hate National Socialism because they have no testosterone.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

"Want your kids in school today?" So they can be put in a hostile government environment & brainwashed to think like cattle? They even have old factory bells still used in school to this day.
No thanks. Fuck your commie school system. Private schools are based.
If you can't afford private school well... Is there actually anything more beautiful then seeing a mother homeschooling her own children?
The school system was made as a government agenda to destroy local ethnic languages in Eastern Germany & instill the governments militant agenda into the Prussian people.
Early schooling in America was a Christian institution used to eradicate the oral culture of Native Americans in order to civilise the savages. So schooling was used to force integration & the destruction of culture. This is why the Celtic Breton language is now going extinct in France. Is this really what you Socialists want?

[Wodens_Apprentice]

"Or well made roads to drive away" absolutely a fucking joke. 40% of England's economy is public, with 60% being private. We're almost a Socialist country and yet everyone around here is always complaining about potholes and the poor conditions of the roads.
The few private roads we have look very well maintained.

"Or fire trucks and cops to save the day" Yeah I just love the police who breathe down my ethnic communities neck (the English) because the police see it as their job to handle our community. That's why we're always getting censored & having our freedom of speech violated meanwhilst Muslims are running known & established crime organisations across the country. The police refuse to deal with the trafficking gangs because they don't want to disturb the peace (in other words our police are cowards who only target you when they don't expect any resistance).
At this point I'd actually rather the government employees semi-private companies to police the communities for us. If each postcode or village had its own private sheriff (England used to have sheriffs) and his finances were tied to what his community pays him, imagine how much less crime there'd be.
It would also provide a job to people like me, who seek to work & provide for myself meanwhilst desiring a combative warrior lifestyle.
Currently the only way to become a privately hired fighter is to join a government organisation like the military or police, then leave & later join a mercenary company in some 3rd world country.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

"Guess what? You're a Socialist"
Nope. Socialism is fucked up & wants to destroy civilisation. My God is Woden, god of Merchants, Thieves and Travellers. Whenever you try to control the economy, Woden reminds our who really controls the economy & gifting you with starvation, crime and poverty.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

*us not our

[Just_Ken]

Do you want your water toxic and radioactive?

Do you want your forests cut down to make way for collectivised farms?

Do you want medicine shortages?

Do you want bread lines and famine?

Do you want barb wire fences keeping you in?

[goaded]

"Do you want your water toxic and radioactive?"
What water? It's being used up by capitalists for data centres and poisoned by capitalists dumping their toxic waste into it.

[Just_Ken]

The Aral Sea is an ecological disaster where decades of heavy pesticide and herbicide use for cotton farming were left exposed on the dried-up seabed. Whipped into toxic dust storms, these chemicals and salts blow across Central Asia, causing severe public health crises.

The shrinking of the Aral Sea—once the fourth-largest lake in the world—has transformed the region into a toxic wasteland. The crisis encompasses several major hazards and impacts:

The Toxic Cocktail:
As the water retreated, the seabed dried, leaving behind massive deposits of sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, magnesium chloride, and toxic agrochemicals like DDT. Airborne Poison: Winds whip these residual chemicals into severe dust storms. These toxic plumes travel up to 1,000 kilometers away, raining contaminants on surrounding settlements, crops, and even glaciers.

Human Health Crisis:
Local populations—especially in the Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan—suffer from alarmingly high rates of respiratory illnesses, tuberculosis, liver and kidney damage, and cancers (especially throat and esophageal).

Child Mortality & Birth Defects:
Due to poor drinking water and airborne toxicity, child and infant mortality rates are exceptionally high, and the region has seen increased rates of birth defects and genetic abnormalities.

Since the 2000s, localized rehabilitation efforts (such as the construction of the Kokaral Dam) have helped partially restore the North Aral Sea. However, the southern desiccated zones remain a heavily contaminated environmental hazard.

[Just_Ken]

Russia's radioactive water issues primarily stem from Cold War-era dumping by the Soviet Union. The primary sites include:

Lake Karachay:
Located at the Mayak nuclear facility in the southern Ural mountains, this body of water was used as a dumping site for high-level liquid radioactive waste starting in the 1950s. It became so severely contaminated that it was later filled with concrete and rock to prevent the spread of radioactive dust, and it remains one of the most polluted spots on Earth.

The Techa River:
Flowing from the Mayak complex, this river was polluted when millions of cubic meters of radioactive wastewater were discharged into it between 1949 and 1956. While the highest discharges have ceased, localized contamination and health risks persist for nearby communities.

The Kara Sea:
The Soviet military scuttled 19 vessels, 14 nuclear reactors, and thousands of containers holding radioactive waste—including spent nuclear fuel—in the Arctic's Kara Sea. This poses a long-term risk of seawater corrosion and leakage.

Zheleznogorsk:
In eastern Russia, the state-run nuclear industry still disposes of liquid radioactive waste by actively injecting it into deep underground geological horizons, a practice that environmental groups worry may eventually migrate into regional aquifers.

[Still-alive]

You should point out how Jesus H Christ himself would be a socialist. it will fry their brains

[Danzigdawson]

@Still-alive They know, but I doubt that they care. Christians follow everything that's written in the bible, with the notable exception, of course, of Jesus Christ's own words and teachings.

[Still-alive]

@Danzigdawson exactly

[Still-alive]

So i just call em gay in that case

[Agape93]

Nope. Liking social programs doesn't make one socialist. Liking government services we pay for to actually work, doesn't make one socialist. That's like saying a Democrat who owns a gun is now a right wing because 2A is a right wing policy.

[AyChingao]

Shhhh... don't try and make them think. It could trigger the zombie apocalypse or something. Maybe they could be made to watch Prof. Richard Wolff videos or something.

[exitseven]

What a load of crap,. Everywhere socialism and communism is tried always ends the same way, everyone but the ruling class are plunged into poverty.

[Danzigdawson]

... and how exactly is that different from the current state of capitalism?

[exitseven]

@Danzigdawson I am an average American citizen and I seem to have pulled myself out of poverty one rung at a time. I am not the only one. If I was living in Cuba I would be driving a 1956 oldsmobile and earting beans twice a day.

[Just_Ken]

@Danzigdawson is that tent city in a place run by Democrat socialists?

[exitseven]

@Just_Ken exactly in Democrat run cities the homeless population is out of control. I call the tent cities Democrat housing projects.

[Just_Ken]

Seen that. Tried living in L. A for a month. Was making serious money but they tax working people on to the streets. I met so homeless people that ended up homeless because of property taxes.

[AviatorTom]

It doesn't ring at all.

These are things that everyone wants, regardless of their politics, religion, race, or any other thing.

[LC75LC71]

Man fuck all that star bellied sneetch bullshit. Socialism is a stupid switch. I'd like to beat socialists with a bat til they twitch Quit hating on the rich like a bitch

Jman I am.

[Godihateyou]

Nope. I'm a capitalist. I like all my stuff nice because I earn it. I want you to live in shit, because you don't.

[molonski2]

Utter ludicrous idiocy..

[LazerBean]

Obviously not LMFAO

[msc545]

very true