Capitalist countries have more free food available than communist countries do.
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It's either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that 'private vices' somehow add up to 'public virtues'.
Charity can serve as a means of control. This is way Republicans advocate against social services.
The government cannot mandate that you attend church to receive EBT. A church can require you attend a service to feed you.
I’ve heard from friends in Utah, for example, that access to many social services is through the church. Friend was trying to rescue a girl from FLDS - pretty much all job training/housing required she play along with mainstream Mormonism.
Orgs like the Salvation Army are known to require trans people to detransition to recieve services as well.
Another benefit is the rent seeking - Goodwill is a good example. You can still turn a profit with the right combination of PR, and tying access to services based on things that’ll make you profit (Goodwill “provides employment” for disabled people - they are legally allowed to pay them far below minimum wage.)
It’s the two pillars of the contemporary Right - control and grifting.
We will feed you if you believe in our religion and work our fields, your true reward for your good works and piety will wait for you in heaven.
It's like your pension plan in the sky.
When you feed the poor, you're called a Saint
When you ask why the poor have no food, you're called a communist.
I work a couple food service jobs and the waste brings a tear to my eye. And that's just what makes it to the restaurant. Oh this tomato doesn't look perfect? Throw it away.
Perfect tomato's for sale: $10 each.
Then the pile of perfect tomatos rot as hungry eyes look upon it from outside the store. (They aren't allowed inside, the vagrants might steal!) Rotten like the hearts of those who gatekeep necessities for profit and power.
That just Is word for word the peak of "grapes of wrath "
"The oranges needed to be dumped in kerosene and burned. It is cheaper than dumping them in the river and making sure the poor don't take them... why? All for the sake of profit"
We are also born unable to care for ourselves. Or speak. Or...
Kids don’t want to work these days
I'm sure it's the kids fault
Rents late you lazy toddler!
You shouldn't even attempt to figure out their logic. People will say and do anything for power. They don't believe what they say. It's just an excuse to do what they want to you and your people.
They will find a way to make their twisted dreams your reality, even if they have to manufacture it.
Communism Killed 100 Zillion People
Now the massive population of China and Venezuela and Vietnam and Cuba and California are going to take over the world
No, they aren't doing Real Communism. That's just Authoritarian State Capitalism.
Yes, we have to fight them. That's why we need the western governments to spend trillions of dollars on private military services.
We have to kill all 100 Zillion of them. Because they've been infected with the Mind Virus of Communism.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. There are too many people out there that sound just like this.
It's sarcasm.
The zillion part definitely made me lean towards sarcasm, but I guess I can never be too sure with all the brainrot and bots out there. The Red Scare still lingers.
The Red Scare never died, and the Cold War never ended.
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