Here’s the thing. They kind of do have socialism. The government has a controlling interest in their biggest industry. They also have a government that is very responsive to the people. I’d argue they have one of the most successful examples of socialism in the world.
They don’t advertise it. I’ve seen a right wing guy identify them as such, and then praising the Anders attack from 20 years ago as punishment for their socialism. I think it was the chinless guy who follows Theil around.
Yes socialism works everywhere** !!!
** everywhere that has a lot of oil
Imagine naming yourself SpaceCowboy, but not understanding that Cowboy Bebop is an obvious critique of capitalism.
Space Cowboys? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/
Firefly is about space cowboys. Assuming it’s a reference to Cowboy Bebop is a big jump.
The sign-off to almost every show for Cowboy Bebop is “See you, space cowboy.” They call bounty hunters in the story cowboys. Hell, it’s in the danm name of the show.
In Firefly, however, while it is a western themed space sci-fi, none of the characters are cowboys.
Firefly is the top result when I search “space cowboy show” and I do seem to recall an episode where they transported cattle; but, I have to agree that calling them cowboys is an exaggeration on my part.
The IMDB link is for a movie literally called Space Cowboys. The general point is that the theme is not exclusive to one show.
My second favorite kind of conservative:
“Let’s do a UBI instead of all this commie welfare stuff! But also lower billionaire and corporate taxes to zero! Why won’t someone do something about inflation?”
UBI is a good policy fight me
“If we don’t cater to the billionaires they will leave and take their money”
Oh no… Please… Don’t go. Noooooo…
it’s a myth anyways. Gary Stevenson talks about it. ultra rich people are rich because they own physical assets that society (businesses and individuals) must pay them to rent or use. you don’t have to be a resident of a place to invest in it, you can drop cash into places from anywhere. in other words, where money gets invested is NOT dependent on where the investor lives.
it’s naive to think that a billionaire who leaves the country will just walk away from say, a lucrative oil drilling operation or a supermarket chain or a new skyscraper or a data center… simply because they don’t live there? even if they choose to avoid US opportunities, other investors will come along to snatch it up.
billionaires can change countries and move anywhere in the world, but they can’t take a stadium or an office building or a football team with them. the productive resources (factories, shops, commercial buildings, apartments) that enable wealth generation and contribute to gross productive capacity each quarter, aren’t portable.
the physical resources and tools of production will still be here, the parasites who extract rents from them will not. besides, plutocrats don’t pay any income or wealth taxes, so it’s no net loss whatsoever.
So has this community been completely taken over by lefties? I assumed that was going to happen eventually anyway.
I don’t need another community that shits on conservatives. That’s 100% of Lemmy. It’s pretty much its foundation.
Edit: damn. Really upset some folks with this one.
If conservatives don’t want to get shit on, they should stop being a fucking sewer.
As a Norwegian I am not sorry to see your ass out the door. Now fuck off
Conservatives hate it when they find out their safe spaces aren’t safe.
I recommend retreating to /r/conservative where only vetted conservatives are allowed to post. Just make sure you don’t post anything even remotely critical of Donald Trump or the Republican party or you, too, will be banned.
You could also try racist cesspools like Truth Social or Shitter.
Let us know how that goes for you.
That’s 100% of Lemmy. It’s pretty much its foundation.
New here?
