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A Simple Bit of Advice

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I agree. Socialism is just awful, absolutely terrible.
"But, but... it hasn't been tried yet", and "That wasn't real socialism!"
Socialism is the work of Satan.
But I love bureaucracy, red tape and useless laws that hamper prosperity and happiness.
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Advice for those who actually believe that socialism can still work, or has "never been tried yet".
I live in the state of Victoria, a socialist hellhole run by a virtual dictator called Daniel Andrews (he's the premier of the state).
During the so-called lockdowns his regime was vindictive and punitive, and the ordinary citizenry was basically under house arrest for more than a year. Melbourne, the capital, became THE most "locked-down" city in the entire world, and it is still an awful place to live.
Businesses have fled the state or gone bankrupt, the bureaucracy has expanded like a balloon, and government secrecy is at an all-time high. "Woke" agendas have been promoted, and parents who try to dissuade their own children from indulging in gender fluidity fantasies can actually be sent to prison. Abortions are on demand and up to and including the TWELFTH month! Taxes have skyrocketed in order to pay for the horrendous debt the state is in (it's effectively bankrupt).
Prior to the epidemic, he tried to sell out the state to the Chinese government, by embracing the "belt-and-road" initiative that has seen many small nations effectively become controlled by the CCP.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
I there is evil in all systems. Some are less evil than others. Yet one of the greater evils is capitalism.

I'm not a believer yet this states idea quite distinctly if any believe in such:

Math 19:24 KJV
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

The ultimate socialist if any could think of one I believe. He never asked for payment, at least by any of bible the stories.

Everything else you have described really isn't social, in the slightest, by comparison.
@DeWayfarer Yes, true, there is evil in all political systems, but as I pointed out to TelegramSam, some systems are much better than others.
As for the Bible and Christianity being "socialist", well... not really. That KJV passage you quote, for example, is true, but what Christ condemned was the obsession with the accumulation of wealth at the expense of all else, the obsession that many have with its acquisition at the expense of their spiritual development.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Cassie2083 not going to fight over the interpretation of something I don't believe.

Yet both the verse and the context doesn't need further interpretation.

That's is why there is so many different interpretations. To fit the beliefs of their own.

I would debate this even with the Koran.

Yet by his own deeds, according to the stories, he had to have been a social person. Not interested in possessions or money.