Are You a Socialist?

And so was Einstein. Turns out all smart people are socialists.

This is one of my all-time faves, especially the last line. But even though it aged beautifully, would have been great for him to point out that those other countries who spend more on infant health and education, will bury us economically as we become more and more a nation of overfed illiterate and innumerate barbarians.

In social democracies your taxes pay for everything you need, healthcare, education, child and eldercare, etc. Your salary is for the things you want. America is the opposite of a Social Democracy, it's a corporate welfare state where companies have rights and people are fodder

Prohibitive tuition fees for higher education, for example, are a disgrace to this country.

For a moment I forgot what "Star Wars" meant those days 😂. Reagan's Star Wars

This is one of the tenets of Modern Monetary Theory. The amount spent is not as important as what it is spent on

I love Carl but he was a socialist

Amen, and the United States is not 19th in infant mortality. The United States ranks 54th globally out of over 220 countries Among wealthy peer nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the U.S. ranks near the bottom at 33rd out of 38 countries.

I've personally been blaming the people responsible for Star Wars and their fans for years, and I cant agree more

Many of these people don't want edumacated they just want cash!

Sadly we see what Orwell warned about the erosion of language; socialist today is akin to McCarthy’s communist where anyone even accused of being red is black balled, ridiculed, regardless of what they actually say. It is a modern witch hunt hysteria to dehumanize opposing ideas

Btw Star Wars he’s referring to is not the movies… hint Ronald Regan

As a European I find it fascinating how much Americans fall for this anti socialism scam where they'd rather be sucked dry by corporations and corrupted politicians than vote for anything not even closely related to socialism.

Did you notice that Musk's machines decided that a famous and highly revered Amercian talking about the goals of nationhood is so disgusting that it should be treated with the same viewing restrictions as pornography?

Are you anti-abortion, then? Since one of the key metrics is infant mortality rates and all…

We are the richest country, until you spend all that money. Look at us now. -40T. "We're spending it on the wrong stuff"... want to know how to spend it on the right stuff? Stop all taxation and let the people decide were their money should go.

He is not wrong

Dunning-Kruger in the house. Stick to the astronomy.

Funny years later and the country has not changed.

Yep. Stop spending money on the scheme that LBJ bragged about relative to having the "black vote" for the next century. That includes public education and welfare; both of which discourages personal responsibility.

A very political answer for a scientist.

I am a Democratic Socialist, a government of the people, by the people and for the people. What does that mean, I do not know, I am not the people, I am one person and that must be democratically decided.

Tell me you're a socialist without telling me you're a socialist.

Yes, he is. But the feeling against any kind of collectivism was, and is, so huge in US that he has to avoid any sheer answer

Socialism cannot balance a budget When revenue can't pay for all the govt spending Money printing begins, and so does Socialism If you don't believe in more balanced budgets You're a Socialist And if you're an elite, you're a Fascist And that's why the world is going to hell

@DNC while R’s frame them as “socialists”

I DON'T want the Government to give me a help hand. They should provide for the common defense. They should maintain a stable currency. Right now they are only doing one of those 2 things. Every time something happens that is annoying or causes hardship It is something the Government initiated. Stay out of my life.

Ejem no

the idiocy of that question.... are you against mass murder......

I did not realize that Sagan was a socialist. CA should be doing a great job on the homeless compared to FL, according to Sagan's model projection.

Alguien que le traduzca a @JMilei

I mean, it is more about the military budget than the money spent to make Star Wars.

🎯

The world misses Carl Sagan.

Funny he goes after entertainment instead of just rich people’s personal wealth.