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[–] nomadriders 0 points 21 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago
That's from the bottom feeder point of view but for the elites it's about people control and making people dependent on them. It's why the farmers are always the ones to suffer first, they can survive without any government at all.
[–] Zaqwert [S] 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago
Yep, the ivory tower leftists essentially use the bottom feeders and the promises of these goodies to acquire power.
[–] Gorillion ago
Yep, building nearly unshiftable voting blocs.
[–] Glory_Beckons 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The left as a whole are essentially "human farmers" and their willing livestock. Our howling haunts them in the night.
[–] REEEEEapWhatYouSow 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They're haunted by that and the unrelenting imagery of Trumps dick in their mouth.
[–] Braulio237 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Which would explain the lefts obsession with "factory farming" under the guise of "global warming".
[–] [deleted] 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
[–] BigMatteson 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
You must be old enough to remember when personal responsibility was a thing.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
[–] Naught405 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Getting yourself out of a tough spot really shifts your perspective. I think that's why a lot of college kids are lefty but it doesn't carry through even 10 years later.
[–] 12102916? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I was for a little but I had a job and I didn't take any hand outs, waiting a couple pay checks from that shit part time job and found a room to rent so I could get my humanity back.
[–] vastrightwing 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Socialism works great until it runs out of other people's money.
[–] SiliconMasterRace 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Also, democracy works great until people figure out they can vote themselves money.
[–] newoldwave 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
someone else's money
[–] modsrcuntz 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
its worse than getting a "participation trophy"....its like "here ya go failures"
[–] Lazmat 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago (edited ago)
I believe this is an over simplification, the original Leftwings were probably closer to Libertarian....JFK, Roosevelt, MLK, Truman would probablly turn in their graves if they seen what the Left has become today, the Left are globalist owned Neo-Liberals much like the Neo-Cons. Politics often flows and rises and drops, its like waves and degree of Liberalism or Libertarianism is probably a good thing to keep the authoritarian far-right in check, too far and you get something like the Spanish Civil War...Bush helped create the mentally crazed unhinged left when he started those speeches you are either 'With us or with the terrorists' before his Iraq invasion. A place like Turkey which is now going full rightwing islamo retard probably needs Leftism badly to keep the dumb jihad islamic Turks in check and Atatürk's secularist vision alive....I hate Communism and its disgusting but for real poor backward shitholes perhaps it has some merit, strangely I think Communism/Socialism might have been one of the better things to happen Afghanistan when Reagan and Baroness Thatcher and the CIA started sending guns and bombs and missiles to Afghanistan to fight the Socialists USSR Russian Soviets.....These mahometan theocratic righwting conservative islamists took power and the place went so far backward it made the salem witch trials look like a teddy bears picnic...Regan even brought the Moongod worshiping terrorist ragheads straight from Asscrackistan into the Whitehouse and dedicated NASA's Shuttle Launch speech to them...it probably 'cursed' the Shuttle as it would blow up a few launches after with some teacher in space on board, broadcast on Live tv across America.
[–] BigMatteson 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Never happened. Most of those 'astronauts' are still alive today and using their same names.
[–] Mylon 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Google is with more today than GM or Ford were worth 40 years ago, yet they employ less people than those companies did at the time. More total wealth is being created than ever before, but the workers creating that wealth aren't seeing these increases. Asking for fair compensation isn't demanding things from the winners, but acknowledging that everyone is working far harder than we need to.
This kind of wealth inequality is dangerous because it allows those with all of the money to subvert democracy and subvert capitalism.
[–] The_boz_man_cometh 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago (edited ago)
The rich convince half the poor that the other half is the reason why they're poor. Hell, some people want to get rid of the inheritance tax^1 because somehow they believe their kids will benefit. Not many are rich enough to have to pay this tax, but the rich convince the poor to vote for it with the lie that it's somehow unfair to everyone.
1: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estate-tax
[–] Mylon 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I know. Voat is a fucking joke. It's poor people whining about poor people. But they don't even think they're poor.
[–] Hmmm 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
[–] EarlPoncho 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-speech/
[–] Hmmm ago
Yeah, if someone doesn't want to read the whole Atlash Shrugged they should at the very least read the Money Speech by Francisco. One can never re-read it enough times.
[–] lipids 2 points 3 points 5 points (+5|-2) ago
Then there are those that "won" by being born into the right family. They don't have to contribute anything but are immensely rewarded.
[–] EarlPoncho 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
yes we must strip children from their families. we need equality
[–] Zaqwert [S] 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
The vast majority of millionaires in the US are self made. A fact left wingers willfully ignore.
[–] lipids ago
And the vast majority of lottery winners aren't born rich. Just because some people get lucky doesn't mean the system is working. Meanwhile: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-500-emergency-expense/
[–] analfaveto 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago
Were you born in the US or the EU? You were already born into a very, very good family by world standards. Being jealous of those few who were born into slightly better families than you won't take you far in life or do anything for your happiness. You're spoiled, and all you can do is be jealous of those who are slightly more spoiled than you, which makes you a little brat.
[–] lipids ago
This isn't jealousy. This is indignation that merit isn't adequately rewarded. And it is a tragedy for society. How many Einsteins were doomed to a life of burger flipping? Opportunity is limited and that is made apparent when birthright matters more than ability.
[–] FuckYouReddit- 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
"YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!" - Some fucktard foreigner who became POTUS