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In Germany the say:
I don't know bout you, but my socialism does not come from a lack of understanding how politics work.
There's another sentence: "feminist until married, atheist until the plane falls and communist until rich". But if you are like that you were never feminist, atheist or communist.
"There are no atheists in the foxhole." Is suppose to mean that, but it also means a CO will order atheists out to get shot first.
I was a communist at 15, by 30 I was an anarchist.
I used my brain to study history and politics and realised authority would never absolve itself.
Based
Are you me?
Authority has always been so obviously full of shit for my entire life. There has never been a real demonstration of how it aids the common people, but constant demonstrations of how it abuses us.
When I made claims like that when I was younger, I was scoffed at and insulted for not slobbering on my masters schlong like a good little serf.
The quote was authored by liberals, so of course its going to be insulting towards their major rivals.
Of course, leftists have their own sayings. One of my favorites being
Although
is a close second.
Since socialism isn't communism the sentence either doesn't apply to you or it REALLY applies to you. 😆
Bit like saying a rectangle isn't a square. True some of the time.
They're very closely related