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On Dec 30, 2025 at 12:45:53 PM PST, "Rhino" <
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A fascinating episode of Triggernometry where Konstantin, Francis, and
their guest looks at Venezuela, formerly viewed as the poster child of "Democratic Socialism", and why it is now a disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swPGLfi2_8 [1 hour, 5 minutes]
Francis, the co-host with the glasses, has a Venezuelan mother and knows
the country well.
Anyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders are "on the right
track" needs to watch this to see just how wrong they are. Mamdani and Sanders are also being fundamentally dishonest by claiming they want to build Norway in America when they are actually fanboys of the far left dictators like Nicolas Maduro.
Rather than stump for collectivism, you could just say that you're lazy, unskilled, and unable to take care of yourself, but sure. Let's play this
out.
I go to work in a socialist utopia. It's payday. I come home, I look at my paycheck and find that the government has taken almost all of my pay from me
to put in a taxpayer fund to redistribute to the rest of society.
Well, that sucks. Why should I be the one who has to labor every day when I could be one of the ones who just stays home and lets the government take care of them? So I quit my job.
Then everyone else starts coming to the same conclusion and quits their jobs
as well, because the government is going to take care of us all, right?
But wait! Now we're having mass supply chain issues because there's not enough people to maintain production. So then the government starts assigning people to jobs because society's gotta run, you know what I'm sayin'?
So you get assigned a job by the government and if you don't do your assigned job, then you don't get your rations. And if you still persist in not working, they send men with guns to persuade you. Congratulations! Now you're a slave.
The collectivist utopian scenario also requires the heavy assumption that the humans in charge of dispensing the rations are not corrupt. But let's be honest, who's ever heard of a corrupt government official, amirite?
That's just one of the reasons communism doesn't work. But I'm sure it just hasn't been done right yet, eh comrade?
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