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Then the NYT blames the "smugglers" who charge for the boat ferry service that the illegal immigrants voluntarily hire to escape from the socialist disaster that the NYT admired.
The NYT, all the lib mass media, the Jackass Party, RINO moles and so-called progressives everywhere operate under the delusion that good ole' Yankee ingenuity can make socialism work--not just for America but for a whole globalist freaking world!
Yay! Whoopee! Clap! Clap! Clap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxZr...
Just noticed on the YouTube sidebar that libs have their Donald Palpatine version. Well, of course they do.
More power to these folks...
On the other hand do we assume that Venezuelan people have the understanding of and respect for free markets and individual liberty (that Americans are supposed to have,) or is socialism propaganda pervasive and convincing enough to create a socialist majority in Venezuela?
Stalin ruled Russia for 3 decades. Arguably many of Stalin's "supporters" did so in fear for their lives. The same could be true in Venezuela, and the NYT would never mention it.
Truth is elusive when the mainstream media is active.
even if they are bad guys
The theme for coups has been replace a bad guy with a more despicable guy.
This is an issue of semantics, but I insist on saying it how I said it. Prosperity requires people serving one another. We can do it freely for ourselves or under some kind of coercion: money or guns. These people are fleeing guns, and what's the first thing they do according to the article? They make money however they can.
Prosperity is never the result of collectivism.
Socialism is NOT the same as service, by my definition. Serving people in some form of slavery is just one type service, a perverted, evil type. Most service in the world is voluntary. I know socialists will say things like it's not really service if you're want to do it and benefit from it. They'll say if you have fun doing something and made money serving clients, you must have stolen from the fixed pie of happiness and value in the world. I won't give them the word.
"Service" in the sense of something provided in a trade is a different concept than the ethical injunction and motive to serve others as a primary or a complete end in itself.
A "service worker" as someone who works in a restaurant or hotel, or a "service station" as the old name for a gas station, were not the concept of ethics expressing altruism.
Right. I won't give collectivists the word. We're not the minority. Most people don't want to be forced with guns, manipulation, or pity into serving one another. They've re-defined it so when I even used the word "serve" it spawns this long discussion about whether we can use "serve" in the sense of a "service station". I support "service". I don't support arm-twisting, appeal to sympathy, being hit up for help/money. There are plenty of words for collectivists' forced service. We're about living life, being happy, serving one another in mutual deals that work for all parties involved. That's where our society's amazing wealth comes from. It's what appears to be wrong in Venezuela: People are eager to serve one another, but people with guns won't permit them to do it unless it's under threats, manipulation, etc.
Service as an ethical primary should be rejected regardless of whether it is forced. Don't voluntarily accept or sanction an ethics of sacrifice in the name of voluntarism, as if politics were the only issue. Once that is done, the politics and the force follow, but serving others is a destructive basis of ethics, voluntarily accepted or not. Every ethics, including altruism, is accepted voluntarily when it is believed, and the notion of serving others as an ethical principle is destructive to one's life regardless of what others do to impose more of it.
Well done video and very good to listen to:
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina (America)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33i_B...
The political thing at the end is nonsense though. If it were true, the deficit, which has been shrinking for the past seven years, would start shrinking faster now the Republicans control the government. Instead it will go up. The video has the political parties reversed.