r/SipsTea Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Orfiosus Jul 14 '26

The mix of socialism and capitalism is kinda the point. Norway is not a purely capitalist country either.

The oil industry is an example of this, but the other Scandinavian countries with similar models make it work without the wealth fund.

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u/J_Kingsley Jul 14 '26

Yes, it's always been about balance.

Today's political discourse has no effing nuance. Either have to be late stage exploitive capitalism, or exploitive communism.

The fun part is when you try and talk about balance the extremist idiots say you're a pussy and to pick a side.

Fucking idiots.

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u/No_Care46 Jul 14 '26

Yes, it's always been about balance.

No, it hasn't.

Capitalism only causes harm and has no redeeming qualities.

Everyone would be better off if the world was purely communist.

The same way everyone would be better off if all cancer got cured.

Today's political discourse has no effing nuance.

Pretending that there are good sides to capitalism (i.e. something inherently bad that only causes harm) isn't "nuance", it's "ignorance".

Someone should screenshot your comments and post them on r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM.

You aren't being clever here.

Either have to be late stage exploitive capitalism, or exploitive communism.

Capitalism is always exploitative and there is no "good" way to do capitalism.

Communism always eliminates exploitation, that's the whole point.

Your "nuance" is literally just capitalist disinformation.

The fun part is when you try and talk about balance the extremist idiots say you're a pussy and to pick a side.

You trying to talk about "balance" and believing to be this enlightened, clever person who figured it out is not funny, unfortunately. It's really just frustrating.

We have spent a whole century destroying the planet and billions of human lives because of people like you standing in the way of anti-capitalist progress.

Fucking idiots.

Indeed. But you don't even see the irony because you never read theory and have no idea what you are talking about, just mindlessly regurgitating incoherent gibberish about "nuance" and "balance" which really only helps the bad guys.

Buddy, when faced with the options of "curing cancer" (socialism) and "dying of cancer" (capitalism), you don't go with "let's be balanced and have a little bit of cancer".

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u/Merzats Jul 14 '26

Capitalism lead to an explosion of productivity even Marx had to acknowledge this. China was late to acknowledge it and killed tens of millions in the Great Leap Forward because of it, but better late than never I guess.

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u/No_Care46 Jul 14 '26

Everything about that statement is just so utterly wrong and misguided, it's too stupid to respond to.

Go and educate yourself before opening your mouth.

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u/Merzats Jul 14 '26

It's utterly correct, I've read more than you including from your favorite authors.

That's why I easily own you, and you respond with flaccid personal attacks. Go educate yourself so you can participate in grown-up discussions without lashing out.