Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Why Files" channel.

  1. Pretty much. A cloying appeal to the immature sentimentalist in everybody. Near enough to Disney.
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  2. We've heard this before. From Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin etc.
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  3. Where? Scandinavia? Actually those are all free-enterprise countries with economies based on regulated capitalism and high taxes. High taxes and lots of social programs do not equate to socialism or "socialism democracy." Under socialism there'd be no Ikea, SAAB, H&M, Carlsberg, Maersk or Nokia. So just call them high-tax free-enterprise democracies and steer clear of sentimentalism concerning socialism. Cheers mate
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  4.  @TheWhyFiles  Careful with the term 'socialism.' So-called 'social programs' generally aren't socialism. Welfare isn't, for example, even though prized by socialists. Public ownership of the means of production is. No need to call that "pure socialism." It's just plain socialism. To regard public schools, fire departments, old-age pensions, and publicly-paid-for streetlights and sidewalks as (watered-down) socialism isn't right. The farthest-right libertarians may call them that, but they're wrong. (Publicly-funded single-payer health care might qualify as watered-down socialism, though, if it bans private insurance of most or all kinds.) Anyway, debating over terms is useful up to a point, but I think we're agreed on what's best, and that's far more important. Cheers and thanks for your reply.
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  5. Tell us what they did to those poor moths.
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