John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism.
“Imagine no possessions” he told us.
He also:
– helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman
– incorporated his IP holdings
– moved to a lower-tax country
– fiercely protected his royalties
- drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes.
– made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity.
If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves.
John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice.
It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.
@NicholasSproto@beckaliciouss_@grok Wouldn’t be nice to start early so you already have the bone density and habit when you start to become middle age?
Roughly half of Americans even own a passport. In Sweden and the Netherlands it’s basically everyone, over 99 percent, and across Europe about two thirds have been to another country. Same rate? Come on.
And it’s not one trip either. More than half of Swedes have been to ten or more countries. For Americans it’s about one in ten.
Can a conservative/libertarian actually explain to me why they actually believe if they stripped regulations/minimum wage that companies will just self-regulate out of the goodness of their heart? Thats genuinely gotta be one of the most delusional ideas I’ve ever heard.
@shaunvlog_ So, my wife adopted a cat that just showed up one night. We leave the garage door open just enough for the cat. Raccoons found it and they would get in and throw all my golf balls out of my golf cart.
Gov Ron DeSantis: “If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.”
Do you agree?