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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Ideally there’d be a socialist system that would be effective at distributing food and water.

    Problem is socialism has the worst track record when it comes to feeding people. The worst famines in history happened under socialist systems.

    And the whole “water is a human right” slogan is really silly hyberbole. If it were an actually a right then I could move to the middle of a desert and the government would be forced to build the infrastructure needed to provide me water. I don’t think that’s what people mean, but it’s what the slogan means.

    Just say it’s bad when people struggle to get basic needs like food and water. Hyperbole is just setting yourself in a losing argument and doesn’t actually sway anyone.









  • They have a list of people that are registered to vote. They mark off the people on the list who have voted so they can’t vote twice. But when the person actually votes it’s done outside the sight of anyone else (sometimes behind a curtain) so no one knows who they voted for.

    There was a time when there were gangs outside of polling stations that would beat the shit out of people that didn’t vote how they wanted. And considering how insane the MAGAs are, it’s not too improbable this kind of thing could happen again if it weren’t for having a secret ballot system.



  • The point is that when violence starts, the politics don’t matter anymore. Whoever has the better army wins, there is nothing else other than that. Politics can lead to a war but once a war starts, the politics don’t really matter anymore. It’s just a lot of death and suffering until one side comes out on top. Which is why radical violent movements are really stupid.