Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:03:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <644516764.751141153.105442.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <652c95b8-cdfb-50ba-9632-e7cbeec5bf43@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b580b26224da2adc2d9d31413b77ebb3"; logging-data="1160108"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18OOd/9wD/CjhYHpOEM0SWO" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7U6woPLSVAUKKAbCo5K3pb2bfJQ= Bytes: 1959 On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:00:15 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > I would say that they are capitalist grifters using social morality to > justify what they do. > > Same as the whole West. > > Socialism is the new opium of the people. Wait ... socialism is actually “capitalist” now? Does that make it good or bad?