Boomer78
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Communism/socialism is funny. It's ok to say that no one should own property, so long as it is everyone else that has to make the big sacrifice. Yeah, I've smashed my head against that wall with my friends for a very long time. I was always the black sheep amongst my Chomsky reading, new age freak pals. It's a difference that I love to have with them. And by this many years later, my argument points have become razor sharp blades. I remember a story from Michael Badnarik, the former Libertarian Presidential candidate. He was debating with a socialist lady one time at the Texas Capital. She told him that no one should have property because it creates a top down poverty system where the poor have no opportunities and the rich only squander what they have. It was a cold day, and the lady was wearing a really nice thick coat. Michael Badnarik told her that he hadn't prepared for such cold weather and demanded that she let him wear her coat. She pulled the coat closer to her chest and told him no, he needed to go buy his own. Badnarik laughed and asked her why she thought that no one should own property and that we should all share, but at the moment when someone else needed what she had, that she had refused to make the sacrifice. She had no answer and walked away angry and probably rethinking her ideology.
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