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Shardikprime
Laughed so hard i got the Trotskys
Branmaster4
This country's economy will crash... Then can socialism be destroyed. The road to hell is paved with central plans.
LookAtTheFlowersLizzie
How old is this photo? Where are his wrinkles?
prp2k11
Bernie Is a jew, he doesn't want to give thing to anyone
EmileLewis
CONFESSION: I'm voting for Bernie, but I downvote every post that involves him because I hate his online fanbase
Griffin97
I'd imagine this gets an average donation of 27 upvotes
ZappyKablamicus
Participation trophies for everyone!!!
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MerToo
That would be communism. Socialism would be about making sure no Imgurite was Forever Alone, which in the majority of cases is only 1 upvote
WorldsSmallestMegaDick
Communism would be no upvotes or downvote at all
BlueStringsAttached
Let's just redistribute all the points the spambots have accumulated.
MerToo
The 0.1% who own the spambots will arrange for the media to start a huge anti-redistribution hysteria immediately.
leodavinci1
That's because socialist aren't funny. I know some and they don't have a sense of humor.
BALKatalo
Yuge numbers of up votes are being funneled to the dankest among us.
tippytruck
ProudAussie
Are you sure? Did you pinky swear a secret?
shadowgnu
Clever.
buttcreambandit
Fuckin spam bot
HoosierGirl1357
There's a difference between socialism and democratic socialism. They're two different things
Phaggotboy
Yeah, the difference is that socalism was meant to be democratic, now people have to add democratic. Still the same thing though
Baja2185
Lol
Phaggotboy
? Do you have an actual argument?
Baja2185
Yeah, one you vote for and the other is forced upon you. It's the same system.
LoudAngryJerk
I like how now that his chances of victory are growing ever closer to impossible we're back to making fun of him.
SatansLover
I worked on his campaign in a state he won. This is an unfortunate side effect of a grassroots campaign. The media won't help us, so we (1)
SatansLover
Have to make our own news. People really drive it into the ground and get burnt out from is. I just hope it doesn't take away his message.
pasturama
Can we redistribute the imgur points people earn from these jokes?
feeltheice
I don't want to share mine. What now!
WhitePhoenix
No worries, we can just PRINT MORE IMGUR POINTS. #AuditTheImgurFederalReserve
SottoFrotto
Nope! +1 for you! :)
throughthoughtthough
Just take points from the top 1% and give them to the lurkers.
demonic
Pfff I earned my points, why should I have to share ?!!?!? I'm keep all these useless points
Freytis
take your hate speech off my webstie!
FourCatsAndSevenMemesAgo
imgoingtoshrekyou
I don't get it.
vector616
I got this joke at least, thanks Imgur. Thought it was pretty funny too. Still voting for Bernie.
DaveLikesImgur
It's amusing that people put down socialism... except for public schools, EMS, police, accept medicare.. a wee bit hypocritical
StarrrryNight
And the US Military. The single largest socialist program on earth, ever.
DaveLikesImgur
The knee jerk cons are not willing to accept the term "socialist" as anything good. They've been Pavlovian trained to associate it with bad.
Baja2185
That's not socialism. And I'd like less government involvement in all those areas
DaveLikesImgur
If they aren't then we hick towns teaching old testament elementary school in public schools & poorly regulated EMS. Neither are acceptable
WorldsSmallestMegaDick
It's weird how the term socialism has grown to be fundamentally misunderstood as involving literally anything the government does.
DaveLikesImgur
maybe not so much as short lived but the monopolies that we saw last century that stifles an economy
Baja2185
You mean that century where standards of living rose faster than at any other point in human history.... THAT century? O.o
DaveLikesImgur
LOL. slightly before that :-) Before unions held conglomerates to giving workers a living wage.
DaveLikesImgur
Not pure socialism but we're no where near a pure capitalist society either. Pure in either is short lived.
Phaggotboy
There is no such thing as pure capitalism/socialism. Socialism ≠ welfare, Free uni, social services.
CountSnarkula
Sweden has no inheritance tax and is in the middle of privatizing parts of it's healthcare and telephone systems. Socialism almost killed it
charliegrs
I'm sure a massive influx of immigrants that require tons of services has made the system hard to fund
Phaggotboy
Do you have any sources or are you just full of shit?
CountSnarkula
http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/08/sweden-not-a-socialist-standard-bearer-a written by a Swede. Late 20th century socialism was a fail.
Phaggotboy
Oh so you are talking about actual socialism and not what most Americans think that socialism is(which is actually social democracy)
ionlycommentwithgifsandpics
Sweden is a social democracy
Phaggotboy
tell me simething I don't know
ionlycommentwithgifsandpics
Trust me, i live there.
MerToo
Can't wait to see how that works out for the average Swede ... oh wait. Probably as badly as it has every time other 1%ers did it.
StarrrryNight
Bernie Sanders is getting millions of votes across the country because capitalism is killing the majority of the USAs citizens.
ImgurMontoya
Bernie Sanders is losing because a majority of Americans know that Socialism does not work. Capitalism is the foundation of the modern world
StarrrryNight
Then the majority of Americans are ignorant. Socialism is the foundation of the modern world.
ImgurMontoya
Socialism is a failed experiment. Look at how the application of stringent socialist and collectivist policies have wrecked many countries
StarrrryNight
Capitalism is a failed experiment. 62 people having the same wealth as over 3 billion people is a failure. It's wrecked many countries.
StarrrryNight
as the deep water horizon and the Nestle baby milk scandal.
StarrrryNight
Look at how corporations exploiting the workers for profit keeps the poor poor and makes the rich richer, not to mention the disasters such
Goodmerlinpeen
Sweden is comparable with the US in terms of GDP per capita, it is not suffering due to economic policies. Norway is even better, so.
Baja2185
Actually, yeah it is if you read the economic analysis of what they're doing now, also, look up yearly gdp as a percentage of yearly deficit
Baja2185
There a very big and scary difference there son.
Goodmerlinpeen
I must have missed something, those figures suggest both Sweden and Norway are in very strong short/longterm economic positions.
Baja2185
Yes that's correct. Because of various economic reasons. Look at the USA and imagine us EXPANDING our social programs while in the situation
Goodmerlinpeen
Sweden's deficit proportion to gdp -0.8 in 2015, Norway 10 (surplus), US -4.6. Net government debt/gdp: Sweden -17, Norway -165%, US 87%.
MarekS
Norway has oil and the profits benefit the whole country through investments and pension funds.
Goodmerlinpeen
Yep, and a fitting way of using the proceeds.
MarekS
What? Are you saying buying a dozen gold plated Boeing 747s for private use à la gulf state princes is not good use and benefit the people?
ImgurMontoya
They're also the rape capital of the Western world
ImgurMontoya
I guess people downvoting this are fact-averse.
Iskneekwordsintomyname
Swedens definition of rape is way broader than most other countries though
ImgurMontoya
Their definition is "forced sexual intercourse initiated against a woman by one or several men without her consent". That doesn't seem broad
Iskneekwordsintomyname
So you mean you can't rape a man in Sweden then? Apart from that, "sexual intercourse" is pretty broad.
hearthstoneaccount3
With the rise of automation capitalism cannot possibly function. Within the next 20 years 70 million jobs will be lost in transport jobs.
Sawsomebullshit
I've seen automation devices that people wouldn't believe. Over the next 20 there won't be many industries untouched. Ideas need to change.
hearthstoneaccount3
Exactly. Coffee is better made with a machine than a person, transport is safer and easier, Fast food is quicker and overall nicer etc etc
IronicUsername
Isn't that a cruel twist? You'd think life would improve as we move closer to post-scarcity.
ArmorcladCowboy
Post-scarcity is a sci-fi pipe dream. Demand will always expand to exceed a limiting factor. Only which factor changes.
hearthstoneaccount3
Not really. Life is improving as eventually no one will be working which is the ultimate goal.
tisphated
And jobs will be created elsewhere. It's what capitalism does. Always has. Creative destruction.
hearthstoneaccount3
Enough net losses and eventually we don't have people working. That is the goal of automation
hearthstoneaccount3
You're a fool if you honestly think automation has ever resulted in a net gain of jobs. The whole point is it always results in a net loss
tisphated
Give me one example. Because I've got the spinning jenny, car manufacture automation, back office automation.
hearthstoneaccount3
Lets take retail in UK shops. When self service took over in Tesco Expresses they only had to hire 1 person to do the job of 5.
tisphated
It results in a net loss to the one automating. It results in gains elsewhere in the economy. Always has. Frees people up for useful work.
hearthstoneaccount3
You cannot create 70 million jobs from this. At most we're projecting 60,000 jobs created in Europe.
hearthstoneaccount3
and as everyone knows more minds working on software != more productivity. There are only a limited amount of jobs you can have there
ImgurMontoya
Just like the millions of jobs that were lost and never replaced by the industrial revolution, right?
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ImgurMontoya
1 Humanity will always be useful to itself. A fully autonomous society is science fiction, and implying that Capitalism can't survive
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ImgurMontoya
2 the innovations that it has created itself doesn't really make sense to me.
ferryp
Whenever people say idiot shit about capitalism, it usually shows they just don't know what it means. Better ask them to define the term.
Phaggotboy
Sources? And you do know that doesn't mean shit, as in a capitalist economy those jobs can be replaced.
hearthstoneaccount3
I work in the industry developing trucks on the UK roads.
Phaggotboy
Oh yeah, anecdotal evidence. Should have seen that one coming
hearthstoneaccount3
backed up with 6 years of higher education and copious amounts of experts saying that this will result in a net loss of jobs?
hearthstoneaccount3
manufactured by existing jobs. At most we are predicting 60,000 jobs created watching over the bots. Which is 1 per platoon of trucks.
hearthstoneaccount3
Please explain how you can possibly create 70 million jobs when the technology has already been developed, the cars already get 2/3