Whose money goes into socialism? Which government has ever shared said money with the general public. Y'all haven't watched hunger games and it shows.
Mice die in mouse traps because Capitalists have turned their natural environment into a prison where the abundance of food is locked up to control the workers. Mice are just collateral damage.
Men die in work traps because they do not understand why the cheese is NOT free.
Well if the rats had abundant food we'd get "A plague tale"
Only if you move the corn around and thus spread the fleas.
Let's consider what's happening in Gaza with the hungry being shot. Let's then consider those in the US needing healthcare. Underying similarities and the opposite of socialism
Tell me more about this mouse economy.
It's not free. It comes from our taxes. School lunch is free for the kid, and paid for by taxes.
And if you think that's a bad thing, then why does the military give free lunches to its soldiers?
I feel like soldiers are a not great analogy here as they've literally signed over their lives and autonomy.
Soldiers are a great analogy because the American military is one of the most socialist endeavours in the world. Everything they need is tax-payer funded. It's incredible really.
Socialism is anti imperialism. Just because something is socialized doesn't make it socialism. If the military was socialists it would have cut the head off the military and formed a workers militia. No wars for oil or opium, no military bases all over the world.
The military itself isn't run for profit, but profits flow from military imperialism, which opens the door for financial I action and mass extraction and forced austerity for less developed countries.
If anything the military proves that such mass socialization is possible, which makes capitalism obsolete. But the military is not an example of socialism, don't muddy the water with goofy opinions. Words have meanings, politics has consequences. Stop trying to have takes, fight for worker internationalism instead
Fascists hate socialism for others, but greedily extract from others.
Actual socialism is equal for all.
Whereas the children are just missing their autonomy without signing it over?
They get free clothes and free housing too.
My brother in law is an ex-marine, no college and now easily makes 4x what I do. Free network, free training, free career, low-interest loan on his house. I promise I'm not bitter... But if that's not socialism I don't know what is.
Believe it or not, there are a subset of us that understand this and want those things for the citizenry (we're now part of) too. Seeing taxes tangibly invested back into you is a wonderful thing.
If anything, being in the military keeps driving me further to the left
Yeah I get it, he's a good dude and you sound like one too. The only real resentment I harbor is towards our government. Because the military seems to offer the only real path to a life like that if you don't have the means to get on that track yourself. Plus, it's such a perilous one, not for everyone. My bil was lucky enough to serve at an allied base during peacetime - he still ended up half-deaf from all the live-fire drills.
But if everyone got it no one would have a reason to join the military
The most desperate wouldn’t join, but plenty still would.
The bigger question is; if we were a smarter more generous country, would we need such a big military?
I know a handful of military folks who are now doing so much better in their lives. Came from a shitty background, and now work IT or management.
Unfortunately, I also know a lot of military folks who didn't make it. Some are in prison. Some suffer from issues in society. Many still work for the military/government because they have no other skills.
The most common bond: they tell their kids not to join the military.
Somewhere, a cow is mooing at the metaphor
I don't think mice understand the concept of something not being free tbh. It ain't like they go around with little mouse wallets filled with little mice money and little mice credit cards.
Nothing is free to a mouse. Everything comes with risks. Deadly risks lurk around every corner. That’s why mice dart around so quickly and act so cautiously, like tiny thieves.
And they’re right. Little buggers best not let me catch ‘em in my chicken feed
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Damnit now I picture a little mouse in a 3 piece suit, hat, strolling down the street, only to be conned by some rat with a goatee. But in the end he wins by getting the rat trapped in a cage.
And now I just converted that little scenario into a random encounter for my d&d session on Monday.
Is this socialism? 😅
You think the satanic panic was about occult imagery? No, it's about loot distribution! Why should the druid get an equal cut when the rogue is going all the damage?
Socialism is where the mouse gets the cheese. Capitalism is where the cheese looks free, then you try to get it.
Capitalism is where the mouse pays for the cheese and then gets killed anyway
The cheese isnt real cheese but 'cheese product' created from industrial waste and artificially priced to maximize profits for the shareholders.
Just pull yourself up by your cheese traps, bro.
Capitalism: If it’s free, then you’re the product
If it's paid, you're actually still the product
Enshitification
The cheese has a subscription and cheese payments will slowly bleed you dry. You can try to quit cheese but the capitalists know that you have eat. Under capitalism, all the mice die poor and hungry except one.
I know many people who were the mouse in this story by going to the hospital in the US, not conceiving that it won't be free, only to get hit with the trap of huge bills when they get out.
Socialism is when the mice make their own cheese.
Yeah when you are about to join a workers collective Karl Marx is waiting to hit you on the head with a comically large flyswatter
Dear corporations, is this why we can access your apps websites for free? You are not stealing our information, selling them to data brokers and advertisers, and weaponising our interests to vote against our own interests, do you?
I dunno man, when I do a critical theory examination of the mousetrap system, it doesn't seem to involve the cheese at all but the fact that some powerful bastard wound up a spring.
The mouse trap is capitalism, the cheese is your retirement.
Somebody really not understanding what free means…
Social protections are not free, we all pay into them. Europe has much higher tax rates than US. These tax rates are there to pay for healthcare, public services, education, and a host of employee protections (infinite sick leave, significant maternal leave, various forms of care leave, protections from exploitation and unfair dismissals…)
Our grandfathers fought for it, so we can live a healthy work life next to a healthy personal life. And every day we fight to find the correct balance to maintain this system.
Unless… are taxes the trap??
All what mouse eat is free.
All what mouse eat is THEFT. If they weren't so LAZY and got a job they could pay for cheese like the rest of us. Ratatouille was one of the good ones.
but...the 'cheese' isn't free. my taxes..you know what...never mind.
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