Socialists often treat wealth itself as proof of exploitation. They rarely explain how the exploitation occurred. The accusation is simply assumed.
The word exploitation is useful because it implies injustice without having to demonstrate one. If someone has more than they think is acceptable, they're labeled an exploiter.
The irony is that many who condemn others for "living off people" advocate systems where some live off the earnings of others through redistribution. They call voluntary trade exploitation and coercive transfers justice. The real disagreement isn't about exploitation. It's about whether people have a right to keep what they earn.
“High cholesterol” is a made-up medical condition. Cutoff levels are made nearly impossible to stay under if you’re a typical human being. The whole purpose of it is to push people away from the healthiest foods on the planet, meat, and to medicate you. That’s it. You won’t be healthier by having low cholesterol.
Wokeness is the most successful rebranding of evil in human history
It takes racism, division, and hatred, wraps them in the language of compassion and justice, and calls it moral progress
It made people cheer for the destruction of their own societies while feeling morally superior for doing it
@MsMelChen Sounds great
Accusations of racism have been such a useful tool for those hell bent on destroying the west
We need to start have serious, honest conversations again if something good is to be salvaged
There's no more accurate a metaphor for the West than slowly bleeding to death by the hand of barbarians while corrupt authorities tie our hands behind our back.
The government has a remarkable talent for making things "free." First it takes your money, then it buys the service at twice the cost, loses half of it in bureaucracy, and finally presents what's left back to you as a gift.
Calling that free is like a pickpocket buying you lunch with your own wallet and expecting applause for his generosity.
Nothing became free. Someone paid. Usually more than they would have otherwise. The only thing that disappeared was the honesty of the transaction.