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   From: MeanDog@BiteMe.dash   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 23:25:29 +0100, -hh   
    wrote:   
      
   >Socialism fails  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:59:35 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> -hh wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>>   
   >>>> pothead  wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2025-12-30, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   >>>>>> ?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> While Republicans may rejoice in the loss of allies, rising inflation   
   >>>>>> and unemployment, Presidential support for dictatorships, disdain for   
   >>>>>> democracies, and the falling value of the dollar, the rest of us do   
   >>>>>> not.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm doing fine.   
   >>>>> Hope you are as well.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Whistling past the ?K? shaped economy.  /s   
   >>>   
   >>> Indeed. It's the people at the bottom of the K that get hurt the   
   >>> worst. Any deficit in their finances is proportionately more   
   >>> devastating.   
   >>>   
   >>> Some of us have real sympathy for that situation. Others, not so   
   >>> much.   
   >>   
   >> Chances are good that your "real" sympathy is for your own situation.   
   >   
   >How much have you donated to your local food bank this year?   
   >   
   >As much as you like to ridicule collectivism, there’s invariably self   
   >interests.  Reducing poverty also reduces crime, for example, and it’s   
   >cheaper than hiring personal security guards.   
   >   
   >   
   >-hh   
      
      
   Satisfaction of self interest put humans on top of the food chain.   
   --   
      
   "Collectivism, any of several types of social organization in which   
   the individual is seen as being subordinate to a social collectivity   
    such as a state, a nation, a race, or a social class. Collectivism   
   may be contrasted with individualism (q.v.), in which the rights and   
    interests of the individual are emphasized.   
   https://www.britannica.com/topic/collectivism   
      
   A collectivist is someone who is content to give up his rights and   
   interests and be subordinant to the group's leader, Such people are   
   commonly referred to as"sheeple."   
      
   Collectivism is for losers   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)