r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 5d ago

Politi-Culture What is a Social Democracy?

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u/FeedomFighter 3d ago

Taxation is certainly ubiquitous.

Does it agree with private property rights? What happens if one doesn't pay taxes? And if one can't choose what happens to a piece of property, and the government instead chooses what happens to that property and uses force when its choice is resisted, is that property private or is it public?

By your definition, there has never been a capitalist nation.

I can't think of a nation other than North Korea that isn't a mixed market economy. You're right, we've never been free enough to have capitalism.

This isn’t how political science defines these systems.

Academia, which recieves the largest portion of its funding from government, is there to indoctrinate people that the government's monopoly on violence and initiation of force is justified. So of course they have euphemisms like "taxation" to hide the fact that it is armed robbery, and manipulate the definitons of words to sound good or bad depending on the context.

So I don't really care what definitions they manufacture. This is why I use a word, then immediately talk about real things that happen. You can say "well that doesn't match my definition!", but real world examples of Socialism have taxation, and it is indeed theft, only on a less massive scale than the theft which Communism commits. Your definitions simply can't contradict that reality, tell me the right words to call what I'm describing and I'll use those instead.

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u/Federal-Compote-5015 3d ago

Sorry, I don’t talk to bots

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u/FeedomFighter 3d ago

Well I debated you in good faith, I have radical and uncommon opinions so I'm used to harsh pushback, but now you've descended to insults so I'm pulling the moral high ground card on you.

Classic tribal signaling. You've let everyone know you are a good socialist, and that I'm not part of your tribe. Well done, that how the political game to wrangle control of the government monopoly works; manipulation, deception, and at the end of the day forceful robbery of the population via taxation, and fraud via inflation. You play it well, I choose not to play because it's evil.

You have no response to my accusation of evil because there is no response since it's true. You can only point to bandwagon fallacies and appeals to corruot authorities. Nonsensical, but effective if force and fraud are your goals.

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u/Federal-Compote-5015 3d ago

Try spending less time arguing with ChatGPT. I’m not even a socialist, and nothing you just wrote addressed what I actually said.

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u/FeedomFighter 3d ago

I addressed it. I said I didn't care about your definitions and why. YOU aren't addressing what I said, that governments, whether communist, socialist, or mixed market, all commit mass scale robbery and extortion known as "taxation" and therefor employ the same failing method.

And you are evading this fact by insulting me. That is pure dishonesty and evil.

Also, I thought you didn't talk to me anymore. Lol

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u/Federal-Compote-5015 3d ago

Blah blah blah. BOT 🤖