Is this what the current crop of Bernie supporters wants for our society? This fascinating article describes life under communism in wonderful detail."Oh, but this is communism, not our soon to be implemented perfect version of socialism!" I hear the young brown-shirts say... "The reeducation camps and high taxes will create a perfect society interspersed among rainbow farting unicorns!"
The part that gets me is the commenter above me who mentioned people being quarantined to their apartments.
Yes, that's the dream of the progressives and social planners who are fighting the good battle against sprawl. A future where you can quarantine a population by turning off the elevators and posting a few gourds in the stairwells.
The part that gets me is the commenter above me who mentioned people being quarantined to their apartments.
Yes, that's the dream of the progressives and social planners who are fighting the good battle against sprawl. A future where you can quarantine a population by turning off the elevators and posting a few gourds in the stairwells.
Dang. That's how you know communism fails. "I can't leave my apartment because the squash might inform on me to the pumpkins in charge". But seriously, China has been welding people's doors and windows shut as a means of quarantine.
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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Is this what the current crop of Bernie supporters wants for our society? This fascinating article describes life under communism in wonderful detail."Oh, but this is communism, not our soon to be implemented perfect version of socialism!" I hear the young brown-shirts say... "The reeducation camps and high taxes will create a perfect society interspersed among rainbow farting unicorns!"
(Okay, I'm ready to be modded down now.)
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The part that gets me is the commenter above me who mentioned people being quarantined to their apartments.
Yes, that's the dream of the progressives and social planners who are fighting the good battle against sprawl. A future where you can quarantine a population by turning off the elevators and posting a few gourds in the stairwells.
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The part that gets me is the commenter above me who mentioned people being quarantined to their apartments.
Yes, that's the dream of the progressives and social planners who are fighting the good battle against sprawl. A future where you can quarantine a population by turning off the elevators and posting a few gourds in the stairwells.
Dang. That's how you know communism fails. "I can't leave my apartment because the squash might inform on me to the pumpkins in charge". But seriously, China has been welding people's doors and windows shut as a means of quarantine.