• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I dunno man, when I do a critical theory examination of the mousetrap system, it doesn’t seem to involve the cheese at all but the fact that some powerful bastard wound up a spring.

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    I don’t think mice understand the concept of something not being free tbh. It ain’t like they go around with little mouse wallets filled with little mice money and little mice credit cards.

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      4 months ago

      Nothing is free to a mouse. Everything comes with risks. Deadly risks lurk around every corner. That’s why mice dart around so quickly and act so cautiously, like tiny thieves.

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      4 months ago

      Damnit now I picture a little mouse in a 3 piece suit, hat, strolling down the street, only to be conned by some rat with a goatee. But in the end he wins by getting the rat trapped in a cage.

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    Socialism is where the mouse gets the cheese. Capitalism is where the cheese looks free, then you try to get it.

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    The mouse trap exists to prevent the indigenous population (mice) from sharing in the bounty of their land, so the colonizers can hoard it all.

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      4 months ago

      All what mouse eat is THEFT. If they weren’t so LAZY and got a job they could pay for cheese like the rest of us. Ratatouille was one of the good ones.

  • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Yeah when you are about to join a workers collective Karl Marx is waiting to hit you on the head with a comically large flyswatter

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    Whose money goes into socialism? Which government has ever shared said money with the general public. Y’all haven’t watched hunger games and it shows.

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
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    Somebody really not understanding what free means…

    Social protections are not free, we all pay into them. Europe has much higher tax rates than US. These tax rates are there to pay for healthcare, public services, education, and a host of employee protections (infinite sick leave, significant maternal leave, various forms of care leave, protections from exploitation and unfair dismissals…)

    Our grandfathers fought for it, so we can live a healthy work life next to a healthy personal life. And every day we fight to find the correct balance to maintain this system.

    Unless… are taxes the trap??

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    Let’s consider what’s happening in Gaza with the hungry being shot. Let’s then consider those in the US needing healthcare. Underying similarities and the opposite of socialism