I didn't engage because I don't see any evidence of a good faith argument.
They put effort into their possessions and want to keep them. Fine, socialism is workers owning the means of production, the only thing you can't own under socialism is a business that employs other people in a hierarchical fashion. You can still own a business where you are self employed. You can still own property, goods, purchase services, etc. you can even hire contractors to help your business.
But this poster seems to be operating on the less well defined "socialism is when the government does things to help people." I think being against that is cruel to the point of psychopathy. But you can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into, so instead I made a sarcastic comment.
There are exceptions even here in Texas. My city has no toll roads and has a publicly owned power company.
We don't have private power companies in this county. What are they gonna compete on? Price? They would buy the power from the public company. Service? The service is honestly good.
I dream of moving to a different. State but I thank my lucky stars I grew up in this city.
Ameancow said it better, but I wanted to add that new York could be hit with a hurricane next year. Or a terrorist attack like 9/11. Neither of those are likely, but if it happens, Mamdani wants help from the feds and if trump is threatening to kill him every week that becomes harder.
This is heartbreaking as a trans woman. I remember living as a man. It was hard in a lot of ways. Then I learned how women have it hard. I can still have empathy for men. I walked in their shoes as a younger person.
We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.
Republican politicians aren't leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.
I didn't engage because I don't see any evidence of a good faith argument.
They put effort into their possessions and want to keep them. Fine, socialism is workers owning the means of production, the only thing you can't own under socialism is a business that employs other people in a hierarchical fashion. You can still own a business where you are self employed. You can still own property, goods, purchase services, etc. you can even hire contractors to help your business.
But this poster seems to be operating on the less well defined "socialism is when the government does things to help people." I think being against that is cruel to the point of psychopathy. But you can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into, so instead I made a sarcastic comment.