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Samantha Josephine Stockings retweeted
York cobblestones. 2006 vs 2026.
Well maintained in 2006. Can’t be arsed to maintain properly and just plaster with tarmac patches in 2026. British civic pride decay in a nutshell.
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Bunch of 20 year olds just doing an S Tier Airplane style bit randomly at their party.
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Fascists and communists have both practiced:
• State-directed production
• Suppression of economic freedom
• Confiscation of private property
• State control of labor
• Price and wage controls
• Political control of industry
• Suppression of dissent
• Subordination of individual rights to collective objectives
• Concentration of political and economic power
Their justifications differ. Their methods overlap considerably.
One subordinates the individual to the nation, the other to the class.
Capitalism subordinates neither to the state.
The distinction that matters isn't which collective supposedly benefits from coercion. It's whether individuals have the right to refuse it.
Samantha Josephine Stockings retweeted
Capitalism recognizes that we're human beings, not sacrificial animals belonging to one another.
It encourages both competition and cooperation, with the latter vastly outweighing the former. Even competitors depend on countless voluntary relationships of mutual benefit.
Socialism makes us adversaries by turning one person's needs into an enforceable claim against another person's property.
Worse, it forces people to compete for political favoritism, fighting over government redistribution of an increasingly smaller economic pie.
Under capitalism, competition encourages us to create more wealth by serving others better. Under socialism, political competition encourages us to seize a larger share of what others produce.
One rewards cooperation and value creation. The other rewards political influence and coercive redistribution.
And somehow the latter is supposed to remind us of our humanity.
Samantha Josephine Stockings retweeted
If you actually believed this, you'd be typing it on a typewriter.
Instead, you're using technology that would have seemed like science fiction 50 years ago to complain that nothing has improved.
Medicine, communication, transportation, agriculture, computing, life expectancy, and access to information have all advanced enormously.
But apparently none of that counts because someone got rich providing things people wanted.
Imagine being so consumed by envy that you can't even recognize progress you're benefiting from.
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The irony is that communists still imagine themselves leading a workers' revolution when their ideology demands that workers surrender control over their labor, their property, and ultimately their lives to the state.
They call capitalists the class enemy while demanding a political ruling class with powers no capitalist could ever legitimately exercise.
They aren't fighting to liberate workers from masters. They're fighting over who gets to be the master.
Samantha Josephine Stockings retweeted
You'd be surprised how often this happens. Several times Ive been met with abuse for trying to warn people - especially with children - that what they're doing is dangerous.
Tip tip on holiday in Kernow:
1) the waves are much bigger and stronger than they look
2) learn to spot rip tides
3) follow the fishermen - if fishermen appear on cliffs, gather your stuff and run like hell. The tide comes in very quickly here, and very powerfully. Fishermen know the water and only turn up when the tide is due in.
If the tide is already in, and there's nobody fishing - do NOT go in.
If the tide is out, and nobody is around - do NOT go in.
4) If there are no surfers/body boarders in the water - do NOT go in. Surfers, like fishermen, know the local waters better than you.
5) if a local tells you what you're doing is dangerous - listen to them: they know the water better than you.
6) if there are no lifeguards and you have your children with you - do NOT go in.
