Posted on 01/02/2022 4:58:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
A testament to how strongly a false idea can seem to be supported by fact.
Arguments for the Flat Earth Theory and socialist doctrine share many aspects in common. At first glance, to a casual observer, the Earth really does seem flat, and for most practical purposes, that observation is sufficient to guide our activities locally. Only when one travels far enough to change time zones, or to experience a change in the duration of daylight, does the flatness theory begin to seriously break down on the local level.
Most of us live in a family where socialist, even communist principles seem to prevail. In my family, we all produce according to our ability, and we each receive according to our need, at least within our means. Who knew that Karl Marx got it so right? Why can't the same principle apply just as well to society at large? Why can't we travel 12,000 miles east or west and not notice that we have to reset our clocks between A.M. and P.M.?
A more than cursory glance at websites promoting the Flat Earth Theory provides an amazing insight into how strongly a false idea can seem to be supported by fact. Its proponents can explain everything about the issues raised above, such as time differences, and even why the Earth looks round from space — everything, that is, if you take their arguments piecemeal, one at a time. It's like a game of whack-a-mole, where as soon as you defeat one item of contention, another one pops up. Yes, the Earth may look round from space, but then, what about this? What about that?
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Those who believe in both call nonbelievers foolish. It is projection.
The difference is that with Communism we have some very smart people who see it as a way to rule over others, and who have the support of all the losers who see it as a way to grab stuff from the productive.
A planned society looks attractive to those who are arrogant enough to think they will become the planners.
“A planned society looks attractive to those who are arrogant enough to think they will become the planners”
Like Hitlery ...
Well put.
And history shows there can be only one planner per planned society. All the wannabes end up finding themselves exterminated.
It’s the old joke about stupidity:”Doing the same thing and expecting different results”. Socialism/communism has NEVER worked, never will.
And hopefully, we will not accept it. There are reasons for the 2nd Amendment. Socialism/communism has to be reason one.
socialism + statism = state ownership & control + universal wage and price controls + elimination of profits & private property & competition + central planning + political incentives + collectivist duty & altruistic sacrifice + government monopoly + bureaucratic management + mob rule + force/tyranny + slave labor & forced labor + terror & mass murder = anarchy of production + economic chaos + inefficiency & waste + shortages + technological backwardness + misery/suffering for the masses + riches & aristocratic privilege & court society for the rulers/leaders
This person has no clue whatsoever what they're talking about regarding the flat Earth theory.
That is the truth! It is insanity to blame infections in the vaxxed on the unvaxxed. They should be blaming those who said the jab would protect them and coerced them into taking it.
Yes, and socialism/communism will always be popular with those who think they can get something for nothing.
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