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    Re: Alan MacLeod -'Venezuala' - The media's one word rebuttal to the threat of socialism Archived Message

    Posted by turtleman on February 9, 2019, 6:01 pm, in reply to "Alan MacLeod -'Venezuala' - The media's one word rebuttal to the threat of socialism"

    To be fair, Fair.org isn’t exactly being accurate and fair!

    “A recent Gallup poll found that a majority of millennials view socialism favorably, preferring it to capitalism.”

    But this is no surprise! Millennials are well indoctrinated in PC concepts and Marxist dialectics by the liberal schools and universities, not to mention the media! Also, just as Left vs. Right is a false dichotomy, and Men vs. Women is a false dichotomy, and Patriarchy vs. the rest is a false dichotomy, so to is Capitalist vs. Socialism a false dichotomy. The U.S. and its allies (“International Community”) are not capitalist, but rather comprise an Imperialist Technopoly which totally inverts the concept of free enterprise and free trade, and abuses and even inverts the law and the concept of truth itself (with voluntary help from their favourite useful idiots: the deluded left-liberals).

    Socialism is ideologically and militantly committed to equality to a degree that inhibits and limits free enterprise (both in terms of material wealth AND spiritual wealth i.e. personal development). The human animal is certainly a social mammal, but the social sphere is naturally hierarchical and competitive, and for a damn good reason (like all things in nature). It is how we are naturally pushed to grow, to learn, to actuate potential, to develop strength, alertness and intelligence. Socialism is certainly NOT a natural friend to any of these things. Basic social policies, however, are a good thing in any system. So what is capitalism? Free enterprise. What is Social-democratic capitalism? Law and regulations to limit fraud, corruption and the emergence of competition-killing monopolies. Social-democratic capitalism is a RISK in the name of freedom. Socialism is a SAFE against such risk. Capitalism gone bad is slavery. Socialism gone well or bad, from its very root and beginnings, is already slavery! BUT, at least everybody will get their bowl of soup.

    “[N]ew leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (AOC) policies of higher taxes on the wealthy, free healthcare and public college tuition are highly popular—even among Republican voters.”

    Is Fair.org suggesting popular support for AOC is a good thing? She’s not even a woman - she’s a girl! Policies that even the playing field and strengthen democracy and justice are a wonderful thing, but if you love these ideas too much you end up falling for foolish strategies and allowing imbeciles and buffoons to implement them. We need intelligent people who are not caught up in the false Left vs. Right paradigm, people who understand their opposition and can intelligently play chess with them in good faith, who do not WAR with the wealthy but rather pitch for win-win scenarios. We need people who are rooted in truth, justice and law rather than ideology, emotion, and mob rule.

    “Regardless of these bothersome facts, the media has continued to present Venezuela’s supposedly socialist dictatorship as solely responsible for its crisis as a warning to any progressives who get the wrong idea.”

    I suspect this is to deliberately inflame the liberal-left. They are perfect useful idiots.

    “That the media is fixated on the travails of a relatively small and unimportant country in America’s ‘backyard,’ and that the picture of Venezuela is so shallow, is not a mistake.“

    But Venezuela is most certainly an important country! It’s a major oil producer! Hence the ongoing imperial designs on it.

    “Rather, the simplistic narrative of a socialist dictatorship starving its own people provides great utility as a weapon for the establishment to beat back the domestic 'threat' of socialism, by associating movements and figures such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn with an evil caricature they have carefully crafted.”

    But Sanders, AOC and Corbyn have to take at least some responsibility for this due to their naivité and, esp. in the case of AOC, stupidity. And like I said, the media narrative seems to be a deliberate plot to inflame the contemporary left. By now, they are so perfectly indoctrinated in Identity Politics, Feminism, Intersectionality, Marxist dialectics, gender dysphoria, sexual degeneracy, and extreme egalitarianism (of outcomes), so convinced about the evils of Whiteness, Toxic Masculinity, Patriarchy etc., that the very kind of control and human engineering they crave is exactly what would be beneficial to the World Dominators’ final and towering achievement.

    The whole article seems quite drenched in the cheap left vs. right dialectic, and the dangerously naive mythology of incompetence and ignorance in the media and Western rule. Instead of playing chess with the devil, they are slinging mud at an imagined Bozo. We are in the phase of rampant double-bluff, but the liberals and leftists are only calling out the surface bluff, and hence are not only behind in the game, but positively fueling the devil’s game!

    turtleman

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