You can’t research socialism on a large scale because it has never existed.

You’re arguing from an ideal. I’m arguing from reality. I look at evidence, not theoretical constructs of how the world ‘should’ be. ’

PRC is not socialist dude. You are straight up delusional. It’s autocratic capitalism. They pivoted to that after Maoism was a titanic failure. But hey, don’t like history or facts get in the way of the fantasy in your head that you got from reading a few books?

it makes them feel important. that’s why.

That’s why most cults have an element of apocalyptic baked in. Fear of the ‘end’ keeps people in line, and it also makes them feel like they are superior to those who are ‘ignorant’ of ‘the end’.

The proto-revolutionaries in the comments here are of the same mindset. They are ‘aware’ want to collapse to come so they can demonstrate how right they were.

Not too different from horror/apocalypse movies too. The fun of those movies is the projection the viewer has about how they would not be as ‘stupid’ as the characters.

pretty much. and most people think you’re an asshole if you disagree with them.

can’t tell you how many times I get told I am an asshole for not being into professional sports. for example. i think it’s pretty harmless, but for pro-sports fanatics I’m a heathen to their religion.

Yeah that’s accurate. I accept lower social status for my goodness.

Turns out other people don’t admire that. They admire assholes and they tend to think anyone who isn’t seeking wealth, power, and status is mentally deficient. At least in USA. I have been told many times that me not rent-seeking and exploiting others is ‘being lazy’.

what kind of education?

plenty of education is about instilling ignorance and hate in people. plenty of ‘educated’ people are the ones creating the vitriol because it’s financailly beneficial for them. Most of the right wing nutjobs are just doing it for money.

I’ve noticed this. Even in small groups of ‘community’ minded people. The sociopaths always rise to the top and the good honest people get pushed aside. And people LOVE it. Because the sociopaths tell people what they want to hear and people love being lied to.

And nothing pisses off a sociopath more when you aren’t swayed by their bullshit or offer deference to their status. They get so angry with you and they will then character assassinate you, usually by spreading lies and rumors. And people eat it up because they’d rather believe in dramatic bullshit lies than the truth in front of their faces.

I grew up in a household full of hateful bigoted ignorant people. I’m aware of the consequences of that.

People who didn’t grow up with that experience aren’t. I noticed most of the hateful ignorant people I meet grew up with ‘supportive’ parents… and basically were isolated form the consequences of their actions. They don’t have ot be nice or kind… because they will get what they want regardless of how they behave because money and power and privileged.

These are also the same people who think anyone who doesn’t have a elite degree or wear designer clothing is subhuman. They think they are inherently superior to other human beings because they possess these things… which were given to them by their wealthy families and they operated under the delusion that anyone who doesn’t have those things just didn’t work hard as they did. And anyone who doesn’t want them… is mentally ill.

Amen. Just look at media. Look at popular media.

Tells you all you need to know.

I think deep down most people are assholes. But it’s just hard-wiring.

Not being a decent person is hard. And assholes won’t think you’re decent unless you are also an asshole with them.

Nice people will also turn on those of us who do call them out. Standing up to popular bully is the fastest way to get people to turn on you.

Popularity is what people care about. As long as violence is against unpopular people, it’s great.

Live your life by example.

The world has enough people who preach and don’t practice. It needs more people that practice and don’t preach.

Socialism only works in small coherent groups. It doesn’t scale. You can run a socialist business, or group, or town. Sure. People are generally pro socialism when it’s amongst their own tribe.

You can’t run a socialist multi-ethnic society for millions of people. Human tribalism.

All the socialists I know seem to have a hate hard on for working class people. At least where I live.

Don’t forget, supporting the status quo and doing the popular thing, regardless of how hypocritical it is.

What gets me is how openly hypocritical people are becoming. There is no more shame. I notice that many of the ‘principled’ people think their principles do not apply to them. Only other people that they don’t like.

I’m not even talking politics. Often in personal relationships people will tell you how lying is awful, but then lie themselves and justify it by claiming that everyone else is doing it or that they had to do it because they are ‘disadvantaged’.

I don’t. Most techies are idiots outside of anything technological.

and they overcompensate hard by trying to turn everything into a problem to be solved with a convoluted technological solution.

IME the loudmouths are mostly mouthing off about things that are totally unrelated to the problem at hand. all in some weird big to appear confident and in control.

smart doesn’t mean anything.

what baffles me is that so many experts just willfully refuse to apply there general intelligent to problems outside of their field of expertise in the most basic ways.

like so many ‘genius’ techies who can’t cook or understand a sentence with more than two clauses. it’s not really that hard… just break it down into the functional components like you do with your code, bucko.

that sounds like it’s part of the homosexual/trans agenda!

most replies to my comments on here seem to think their are foolproof geniuses while espousing that there is no such thing is nuance or complexity in the world. there is only good (agree with them) or bad (disagree with them).

super big-brained thinking, that.

people want to be well connect and socialized generally are.

those who don’t, aren’t.

It’s an individual choice.

the only big difference is how much internet content is anti-male and how many sad dudes internalize it.