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You Don't Deserve to Be Happy, Because You're Not a Good Person.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

The Vietnamese Communists did all these things and more from the very beginning of their rule in the North in 1946.

After 1954 there was a consolidation of policy and another wave of executions and “land reform” that practically crippled North Vietnam for several years. In fact, historians of this period unanimously cite this troubled beginning as the reason the Communists held off a few years before seriously pursuing their agenda of agitation and killing in the South.

From 1975-1979, it’s estimated that the Vietnamese Communists were responsible (on the low end) for 300,000-500,000 civilian deaths, roughly the same number as had died in the entire war.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

Ho Chi Minh was a member of the 5th Congress of the Comintern in 1924. In the subsequent years the Soviets personally cultivated Ho. When the Indochinese Communist Party declared itself in 1929, Moscow refused to approve unless the party could be led by their hand-picked protege Ho Chi Minh.

That’s all for starters. Ho was absolutely a devout Communist long before the Americans set foot in Vietnam.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed it on Diary of a CEO: you can’t have an easy life and a great character.

Trust fund kids who inherit everything are often mentally tortured. The fun isn’t in having stuff, it’s in getting it. It’s the happiness of the pursuit.

Life is self-assignment. Easy path = short money. Hard path = stronger you.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

If an employer keeping part of the value you create is "theft," then how is a government taking 40–60% of your earnings under threat of fines or imprisonment not the same principle?

The difference is merely that one is called profit and the other is called public policy.

It isn't a lie to call socialism legalized theft by socialism's own standard.

Socialists define exploitation as one person benefiting from another's labor without consent.

Redistribution is precisely that principle institutionalized and backed by state force.

By its own standard, socialism is legalized exploitation.

The irony is that socialists spend decades arguing that nobody has a right to the product of another's labor, except voters, bureaucrats, politicians, and anyone declared sufficiently needy.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@MistralComet “Essential services” joins “access” (taxpayer-funded) and “resources” (the results of someone else’s efforts) on the list of phrases which mean both everything and nothing - whichever is more convenient for the argument being made by Statist parasites.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@financedystop I wonder if using the tool of the State to coerce employers into paying a hell of a lot more for full time minimum wage employees had anything to do with this.

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor.

Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself.

It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history.

Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that Brando considered acting "not a fit profession for a man." Brando deflected at first. "We can't believe the press; I don't know what we can believe in this country."

But then, in his words, "in an effort to help your ratings," Brando laid out his real view of acting:

"I think that we couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act; acting is a survival mechanism, a social lubricant, and we act to save our lives every day."

People lie constantly, he explained. By not saying what they think. By showing something they don't feel. By trying to give the appearance of feeling something they don't actually feel.

Cavett pushed back: "But that's not acting."

Brando disagreed:

"That is acting. When you're nervous or frightened in this chair, or distressed and angry, you know that is not what is necessary to be shown here, so you control your face. You're a highly controlled person and you have to do that."

Cavett argued there had to be gradations. He was motivated in the moment, but he couldn't wake up the next morning and repeat that same performance on command, take after take. Surely that skill, the thing Brando did better than almost anybody, was something different.

Brando refused the compliment. He pointed to the office worker who hates his boss but performs enthusiasm for his "impossible notions" day after day to keep his job.

Cavett countered that delivering the same line six times, getting "something deeper into it time after time," takes an actor. Everyday performances are one-time things with immediate motivation.

"No, they're not one-time things because it's a daily procedure," Brando replied. "The dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't."

Then came the moment the interview is remembered for. Brando turned the lens directly on his host:

"Right now, you're thinking of 60 things at once: 'Is it getting dull? Is he upset? Is he bored? Is he offended? Here's a good time for a joke.' You're doing this editing at an insane rate with a demeanor of levity and zest, and that finally isn't what goes on in your mind or feelings at all."

Cavett's response said everything:

"I just feel like all my clothes have been taken off."

Brando softened it. "I couldn't do what you do, and that's a different kind of acting; you're playing a different kind of role."

Cavett tried one final test. He handed Brando a commercial script and challenged him to read it, any way he wanted. Brando refused flatly: "No, I won't do it."

Cavett's closing line: "I'm glad you didn't. The man's incorruptible, and that's what I hoped."

Source: The Dick Cavett Show, interview with Marlon Brando (1973)

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It bears repeating:

On Wikipedia, objective fact loses to 'a random journalist said so' and 'a journalist hasn't yet confirmed the facts we all know to be true.'

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1980, China drew a fence around a fishing town and suspended communism inside it.

The town is now richer than most countries. 🧵

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@StaciBryant133 @spencerpratt @puddinchops1 One of these is responsible for 10-20 times the deaths of the other. One is responsible for most of the misery in the 20th century and the other was over within a decade.

To say they deserve equal contempt is a lie.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@UtahFlatRanger This has been happening here since at least the 1960s, though up until a decade ago we were on a slow drip instead of mainlining a dose.

Leftist politics is lipstick on a pig who wants to smash, grab, and destroy everything it sees.

[BKAEH @BELKAEH]

No one is rich because someone else is poor. Wealth is created and destroyed on the regular

[BKAEH @BELKAEH]

maybe if the politicians had less control, it wouldnt matter who was lobbying them

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@thatdayin1992 Anyone else getting sick of soft, pudgy edgelords named Hassan?

These boys need to be shown how to do a full day of honest work. Too much free time is filling their heads with stupid ideas and false realities,

[C3 @C_3C_3]

American taxpayers are paying for the Communist Revolution.

Funding our own demise.

American taxpayers spend $150-$200 billion a year on salaries for Marxist College faculty members.

Those faculty members turned Colleges into Communist indoctrination camps.

Cut it all off.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

For many of us, this is consistent with our experiences of friends, relatives, and acquaintances who've been devoured by the Collectivist Borg.

Distinctions made on the basis of political views aren't very good. Distinctions made through assessing wisdom and character are much better; those with a poverty of both are intuitively drawn toward the same destructive forces, one of which is leftist political rhetoric.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@RTSG_Main No Leftoid reprobate ever explains why the "oppressed" should be given more power or what will prevent them from exploiting every last inch they're given.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@NixonPunished Every problem starts in the university, where over-credentialed moral degenerates operate daily on weak-minded children like her.

I'm intimately connected with SE Asian culture and I almost GUARANTEE her family is ashamed and confounded.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

@DelusionPosting Leftism is most often nothing more than cosplay for bored, spoiled children trying to enjoy a reputation they know in their hearts they don't deserve.

[Porkulence @Porkulence]

Champagne socialists like Hassan have always been insufferable. The landscape of Socialist and Communist theory is littered with spoiled little fail-sons just like him.

From Karl Popper, describing his university experience in the 1920s:

"...one of the things which revolted me was the intellectual presumption of some of my Marxist friends and fellow students, who almost took it for granted that they were the future leaders of the working class. They had, I knew, no special intellectual qualifications. All they could claim was some acquaintance with Marxist literature—though not even a thorough one, and certainly not a critical one. Of the life of a manual worker most of them knew less than I did."