Socialism bad...

@Harriet03 Funny you should bring up fire brigades. For profit fire departments are a huge reason why The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 got so bad.

@Harmonium1923 Even Ayn Rand was happy to put her hand out when the time came.

@Harmonium1923 And many of them who don't like socialism will set up a Go fund me page whem they cant afford a medical bill.

@Harmonium1923 those older Americans paid into social security their whole lives and are now collecting unlike the young who took some meaningless major in college and now want you to pay for it. paid off loans now and down the road they'll be wanting the government to pay off their mortgages too.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow oh Id be quiet happy to let the gov choose who eats because YAY I want to starve the right wingers. No food for right wing filth! I vote aye!

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow yeah but direct democracy here in Oregon finally killed our stupid fucking drug war. and we the people were correct. and Im just done. Im done pretending I dont want to see revolt with the huge levels of inequality.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Still want a way to vote for it. For real.

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@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow the ussr in the mid 80s had less people in lines for food and less people in prisons then the usa un 2020

@AngelofFail Agreed.

@helenS In English, in the days before electronic computers a calculator was a person who performed arithmetic calculations usually for engineering or science projects. Nevil Shute, the author of On the Beach and A Town Like Alice and many other novels was chief calculator on the R100 airship project [1]. He oversaw a department whose job it was to calculate the stresses on the airframe, as far as I remember most of those doing the actual arithmetic were women operating simple mechanical calculating machines.

[1]See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_an_Engineer

@helenS [quote] in French, a "calculatrice" is a pocket calculator[/quote]
Interesting, how is the gender of new words determined in French?

@ninalanyon Thank you – to me a "calculator" has always been a little machine that does – well, calculate. But yes, a person who calculates is a calculator. The usage shift is interesting.

Regarding the gender of French "calculatrice", I'm afraid I don't know why.
English "a computer" translates to "un ordinateur" or "un calculateur (!!!) electronic", or even "le computeur". Maybe because computers used to be big and powerful machines, so they had to be male. Sexism in language, perhaps.

"email" is male, in French: "J'ai reçu un e-mail de mon ami."

It's language! 😜

@TexChik under socialism you'll be waiting in long lines just to see a doctor

@saragoodtimes Here's an article about the everyday tristesse in a socialist country (Socialist Poland in this case, pre-1990), maybe it's of interest to you, with nice pictures of loooong lines, just to get your everyday stuff such as toilet paper:

http://cosmopolitanreview.com/how-i-survived-socialism/

Here's a brief quotation:
'I am going to begin with food because most of my family’s activities, as I remember them, focused on and around acquiring food. That’s the only way to be when you live under socialism because food is not something you just go out and buy. Under socialism, food is something you “organize.”'

@JT123 Republicans brought it on themselves by not calling Trump out when he went off the rails which is did frequently.

@JT123 Good job proving the dangers of defunding public education. That is so ridiculous it would be funny if it was not so dangerous.

@JT123 You do know that there's a US Socialist Party, right? We don't need Democrats to fill the niche.

Waitin' on that free vaccine? When you're getting your dose, thank socialism for it.

@KiwiBird Interesting tidbit I am just not sure where you are going with that. That pretty much confirms my point.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I wasn't arguing with you.

@KiwiBird I thought so. Otherwise I would be very confused. lol

@Muthafukajones not really, whats horrifing is that people have put up with the inequality and havent been willing to cause real chaos to do something about it. I dont give a shit about keeping people calm so long as the rich keep running away with all the money. I want to amp up and amplify the *unreasonable* your kind is pissing and moaning about. You think they are extreme now? just wait watch what happens. The pitchforks are coming.

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Think ya know it's all of that, HUH!
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Yeah...
Know your enemy!
Come on!

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A witness to the slit wrist
As we, move into '92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know, ya got to know
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Amp up and amplify
Defy, I'm a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We don't need the key, we'll break in

Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
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I was born to Rage Against 'em!
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Know your enemy!

Know your enemy!

Yeah!
Hey yo, and get with this... ugh!

Word, is, born!
Fight the war, FUCK the norm!
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
WHAT?! The "land of the free?"
Whoever told you that is your enemy!
Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to Rage Against 'em!
Now action must be taken
We don't need the key, we'll BREAK IN!!

I've got no patience now...
So sick of complacence, now...
I've got no patience, now...
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Time...has...come...to...PAY!!!
Know your enemy!

Come on!
Yes, I know my enemies!
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me!
Compromise! Conformity! Assimilation! Submission!
Ignorance! Hypocrisy! Brutality! The elite!
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