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Re: protest thinking - universities are dying


 

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I¡¯ll just say that 99% of the people I see using the words ¡°socialism¡±, ¡°communism¡±, ¡°fascism¡± seem to have no idea whatsoever of the definition of those words. Those words have become meaningless epithets which people hurl at people they disagree with. They might as well just call the person a doodyhead.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jim twist via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [M-Powered] protest thinking - universities are dying

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Newsflash ,nobody is preaching communism or even socialism as you imagine it."Socialism is just a rightwing battle cry for anything that actually helps people.? There are at least 2 schools of thought. The"? conservative " approach? seems to wish to repeal the 20th century, in favor of pure capitalism , or at least trickle down economics , Milton Friedman , Arthur Laffer? , Ayn Rand theory.? It doesn't work. It 's practice is what gave Karl Marx so much traction.? The synthesis , what conservatives deride as socialism , is essentially what we experienced during the FDR administration. To oversimplify , allowing just enough of socialism into a? heavily leaning capitalist mix? in order to calm the extremes of capitalism and generally raising the quality of life for all and actually making capitalism that much more sustainable and accessible.? Of course academics can be dead wrong , as examples I submit Arthur Laffer and Milton Friedman . Lwyers can be dead wrong I submit Rudy Giuliani. Yet? I was speaking of the aggregate . BTW I find it disturbing that on this forum , I have seen poet Amanda Gorman scorned and gunman Kylr Rittenhouse defended.?

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On Sunday, January 24, 2021, 04:31:54 PM CST, David Smith <david.smith.mpowered@...> wrote:

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Communism and socialism are utopian. ?Easy answers appeal strongly to people who have little experience of the depths and complexities of human existence.

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On Jan 24, 2021, at 17:27, jimntempe via groups.io <jimntempe@...> wrote:

?Jim, your "they know things" might be persuasive if there were no examples of educated conservatives.? But you have given me a possible answer to my own question... and that is the reason universities have been taken over by liberals is because they no longer teach anything that's true.? So it's the exact opposite of your thinking,? The universities have been taken over by the ignorant who instead of knowing "real stuff" only know the line of BS the left pedals and they "teach" their ignorance to each new class.? Anyone with eyes can look at the world and see which models of society have both the most freedom and the most wealth.? Hint, it's not the socialist and communist ones.? Yet the universities continue to push for more socialism and communism and try to shut out anyone who would try to speak to the benefits of freedom and capitalism.

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