Totally unrealistic. That guard would’ve been given an AR-15 and a pension.
Maybe that is why a lot of crazy people say that so many governments are socialist.
Because factories close?
Could you elaborate?
I’m not sure if this meme (any government I dislike is socialist) is common in the US, but here in Brazil it is not hard to find people claiming that, for example, Obama government, or even some old center-right governments from here were socialist.
They have a list of things that socialist government might do (or that they simply oppose) and do a black-and-white matching of those factors to identify socialist governments, and if one of those leaflets said that factories closings happen in socialist governments, then if a factory close, it means that we are under a socialist control.
Maybe a /s could have solved that in my original message.
and…
I guess because the propaganda says socialism closes factories, but capitalism actually closes factories, and the people who buy into the propaganda think that factories close because of socialism, therefore the capitalist system they live in is actually socialism 
Taking this a step further, propagandists can use this to blame damn near everything that’s wrong with capitalism on socialists. Then, when people who are actually socialist (or Social Democrat, or plain-old right-leaning Democrat, or independent progressive, or anyone with a conscience) says “this is fucked up, we need to change it”, they get called socialist because socialists want to change things. Because socialism is blamed for the mess they want to fix, they get blamed for causing the problem they’re trying to fix
Hey, I didn’t say it made sense, just that people believe it.
I think you’re right!
Socialists are the new “commies.” Or “pinkos.” They stink in conservative noses even worse than “liberals.”
aaaaargh how times have changed:
Oh my god, it’s like a scene from Action Bastard in Shin chan.
Sadly all the nationalists, in their attempts to prove that they are alpha hetero sapiens, will queue up to be shot at for the benefit of capitalists.
What is this, a joke? Who wouldn’t pick anarchism?
#7 … it is known.
But there is the second audience. A secret audience. This audience, of which you are a member, is both mesmerized and repelled by the Style section. This audience reads the Style section, week after week, and thinks " what the fuck is wrong with rich people ?"
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