Youtube hearted comments of Rusty Shackleford (@POCKET-SAND).

  1. Good way of telling us you didn't watch the video without actually telling us you didn't watch the video. Also notice how SecondThought is citing mostly other YouTube videos and left-wing publications as its sources? It even gets the basic definition of Socialism wrong.
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  2. Notice how that video mostly cites other YouTube videos and left-wing publications as its sources? It also uses an incorrect definition of Socialism.
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  3. My home state of Pennsylvania (state within a state technically), does possess a voluntary tax, the Pennsylvania Lottery, colloquially known as the "stupid tax." Unfortunately, they only use it to supplement the mandatory taxes they already collect.
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  4. He cites everything. He's pretty much throwing the sources in your face too with the citations at the bottom of the screen.
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  5. Socialism - any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods (Merriam-Webster) Nothing about "workers" to be found here. You're thinking of Marxist Socialism, which many people mistakenly believe to be "all Socialism" when in reality, it is only one variant.
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  6. It kind of does though in the sense that it throws shade at the true reasoning behind it. For example, many Communists acknowledge that 10s of millions died in famines in Communist countries, but they often blame it on pretty much everything except Communist ideology. They blame the weather, the "kulaks," the foreigners, . . . and so on. By constantly denying the origin of the famines, they've essentially learned nothing from the whole thing and will continue to subscribe to an ideology that regularly causes famines. TIK's explanation of the Holocaust is similar to this.
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  7. And the Soviet Union banned all Socialist and Communist political parties that weren't aligned with the Bolsheviks and executed them en masse . . . I fail to see the difference.
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  8. Care to elaborate? Or is a simple "your sources are debunked" enough to convince us in your mind?
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  9. 4. The definition of Socialism is "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." No other tenants are required, if the means of production are in collective control, it is already a variant of Socialism. 6. Because they were his rivals, much like the Mensheviks were rivals to the Bolsheviks, which is why the Bolsheviks killed all the Mensheviks. Were the Bolsheviks not Socialists because they killed Mensheviks? 7. He abolished all other political parties other than the NSDAP. Right-wing groups that resisted these measures were crushed just as hard as Left-wing groups. He also didn't find a common course with Capitalist industrialists, he stole their companies from them. Capitalists and Conservatives were killed on the Night of Long Knives too.
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  10. Socialism is defined by Merriam-Webster as "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." Socialism in its base form really has no tenants other than collective control of the means of production. The National Socialists seized control of the means of production and placed it under the de facto administration of the state, so they are Socialists.
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  11. Socialism has nothing to do with class, it is simply collective control of the means of production. Did you even bother to watch the video?
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