Double_R wrote:
Most people actually don’t, in fact the people who love to accuse everyone else of being socialists a most tend to be the people who understand the word the least. But I’m not interested in litigating what the word actually means, it’s obvious you have no idea and for some reason even with google right there you still can’t be bothered. All I’m asking you to do is provide your working definition, which is a really easy and basic ask for anyone who wants to argue in good faith, but you don’t so you continue to tap dance around it.
This thread and this conversation in particular is about our national politics, why do you think telling me what one mayor of one city wants to do is relevant?
What a way to run away from a discussion. I've just explained what socialism is about but you keep giving excuses to shake off the debate, like this one where you state that Mandami has nothing to do with the national politics. He's so irrelevant to you that he went to visit Trump to have a talk. I mean, you are supposed to live in New York conducting tours for many visitors and you tell me that New York is not relevant for the United States? For fk sake, New York is the financial heart of the world, no less, along with London. It's not a coincidence that a socialist Democrat like Mandami chose New York as his lab to experiment with the evil socialism. Don't be surprised to find Mamdani running for governor or even for president. You might have already seen his website, he says there that he and his socialist pals want to extrapolate what he does in New York to the whole country.
Anyways. You wanted a definition of socialism from google? There you have your definition to break it down together. It's the typical definition you will hear from your favourite socialist politicians and it's not different to what I've explained many times. They call it Democratic Socialism, as if the word 'Democratic' could downplay the evil inherent in socialism.
...democratic socialism is a system where ordinary working people—rather than wealthy elites or corporations—democratically control the economy, workplaces, and society to meet human needs instead of maximizing private profit.
As you can see it's no different to what I've explained so far. Socialists hate the wealthy, they can't stand people that make financial progress, they can't deal with the envy that the rich provokes them. So, for terminating the wealthy people they propose a collective system where everybody owns everything, a collective economy.
But let me explain why socialism is a bad idea, I'll explain it as if you were a toddler. Imagine that you are in charge of a class in a high school, you will have good students with A grades and bad students with F grades, it's very common. And one day you wake up with this stupid idea to fix the inequality that exists in your class, so you say 'from now on we're gonna distribute the grades equally among all the class'. So, in the next exam, you add up the grades of all your students and distribute it equally so you grade all your students the same. Of course, your bad students will be happy but not your good students. Next exam something strange happen, the average grade falls to D or even E and you'll ask yourself what it's going on? It's simple, the good students didn't study for the exam because they know they will not have the grade they deserve. This is socialism at its finest, it doesn't work, it never worked, it will never work.
