Valid meme but hopefully it doesn’t minimize the plight of Uyghurs in peoples minds.

Obviously I’m teleporting to Albania.

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.

If not retail during Christmas than the worst of humanity is on display weekly on Sundays when the after church crowd starts funneling into their favorite brunch spot. Every server has horror stories

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

Are you suggesting that Liberals aren’t blind to the realities of life cause literally everyone I’ve talked to on the Left is convinced they are. If both Left and Right thinks Liberals are blind to reality shrug

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.

My carbureted v-8 feels called out

Reminds me of the biblical scenes from A Clockwork Orange. Some people think history is neat and the Romans had alot of history. Some people wish they could conquer Gaul and own sex slaves.

Turns out the mild obsession was really with tits.

Probably the misogyny and the totalitarianism.

Bruh, you’re thinking about Fallout, not Ancient Rome