That’s just delusional.

I’d say coerced wage slavery.

Settle down, Beavis

Saying the public has ownership implies that they have some control of it which certainly isn’t true. It’s more like a Palace economy than anything.

Fun fact, Britain had to create taxes in it’s East African colonies not to raise income but because British economic interests struggled to recruit workers from people who had everything they needed without the British. Forcing them to pay taxes in currency forced them to accept employment to acquire that currency.

Once down the dark path you begin, forever with it dominate your destiny.

Calling a country where the means of production are controlled by the upper classes “socialist” is a stretch even before we consider their mixed economy and rampant capitalism.

Someone’s got their head buried in the sand. The number of critical problems that are gonna come to a head in the next 20 years that could collectively degrade the biosphere beyond supporting a substantial human population is nuts. It’s not fatalist to say that billions could die and it’s no consolation to the dead and their loved ones that “humans are exceptionally durable”.

Income from India is the main driver of 18 century British naval dominance but even if we exclude India and the sugar growing Caribbean islands, there was tons of British colonial possessions that didn’t directly contribute to the treasury enough to cover expenditures but still benefited the Empire economically and enriched upperclass brits individually. There are maybe a handful of remote islands that could be considered charitable to add to the British Empire; exploitation was the name of the game everywhere else.

Quite often Nazism didn’t appeal to the upper class German Monarchists. Here’s an illuminating read from the 1940s: https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Word smiths decided that “earning a living” implies anything other than you work for you’re money. And I 100% support caring for anything who cannot work. But i’m not desperate enough for “likes” that i’ll read into something that isn’t there

British Imperialism?

Earning a living implies that you’re not using passive income to mooch off people. It’s contrasted to land lords and nobility who were simply entitled to money.

I think you underestimate how far to the Right establishment Dems are

He has two occupations: grifting and being a hype-man. This fits with him being a hypeman

It’ll be an uphill battle since Ranked Choice Voting would weaken the power of both Democrats & Republicans and party leadership knows it but I also support it strongly for just that reason.

Can’t win them all. I ascribe to the saying “if voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop people from doing it” though I am realistic about it’s limitations. Voting each year is the bare minimum people can do to change conditions.

I think the quote is saying that leaders aren’t being picked for perceived merits, rather we’re just shitheads picking shitheads

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin

without nuclear retaliation.

Obviously but the conversation was about conventional military strength