Is Socialism a Hate Crime?

On this Day:

622
The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054
Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism.
1779
American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
1861
American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war
1941
Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
1942
Holocaust: Vel‘ d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz
1945
Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Happy Anniversary!
1945
World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1948
The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
1950
Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
1969
Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2007
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800, and damaging a nuclear power plant.

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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a set of propositions seemed settled beyond dispute. Central planning had impoverished half of Europe while markets enriched the other half. Prices were not arbitrary impositions but signals carrying more information than any ministry could gather. The right to own a business, to keep the fruits of one’s labor, and to trade freely across borders had lifted more human beings out of poverty than every charity in history combined. They were the conclusions of an experiment run across a continent, with a control group on either side of a barbed wire line.--tupi

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Chipotle announced that it is opening its first location in Mexico

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Conspiracy alert: Some of the coldest objects currently listed as stars in the Milky Way may not be stars at all. A new study by astrophysicist Amirnezam Amiri from the University of Arkansas suggests that these extremely cold objects could instead be giant energy-harvesting structures built by advanced alien civilisations. According to the research, these objects match the expected behaviour of engineered systems that collect a star's energy and release the leftover heat as infrared radiation.

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At the centre of Earth is a solid metal sphere smaller than the Moon, probably heavier than it, and still accreting new layers from a surrounding ocean of liquid metal.

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Lindsey Graham’s sister is to fill his South Carolina Senate seat. (Keep repeating, 'There is no hereditary, aristocratic class.)

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Anthony Mantha, who scored a career-high 33 goals last season for the Pittsburgh Penguins, has signed a two-year contract worth $9.5 million with the New Jersey Devils, the latter team announced Wednesday.

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The Houston Astros optioned highly-rated, former Pirate, Mike Burrows to Triple-A Sugar Land on Tuesday.

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Is Socialism a Hate Crime?

Revolutionaries are forward-looking; they step over the bodies with their eyes on the horizon. But taking someone else's property and production is not passive; that's why it's always sold as an evolution, an inevitable and natural process. Nor are people recruited to work for the betterment of others; they are pressed into the service of the ship of state. That sounds much like another state, the state of slavery.

The socialist glibly talks around these grim realities by appealing to some vague construct like 'social justice', a recently coined fancy that is hard to attack because it is so insubstantial. But all of the various redistributive notions can be identified by their dark heart. Behind their curiously Christian-like vision breathes a very un-Christian-like motive: revenge.

Freedom, electronics, and anonymity have allowed the growth of absurd ideas that ordinary people in ordinary times would kill in their cradle. People will actually say, with a collective straight face, that some people are guilty of a crime other people committed before anybody thought it was a crime, and that a third party should be compensated for it. (Unsurprisingly, money, not incarceration, is the punishment.) A president is incapacitated for four years, and no one cries 'wolf.' And they offer him for reelection without shame and, when caught out, offer no contrition. We shut the entire social and economic world down for two years because some people got sick. A border declared closed is obviously not. An education system that denies it benefits teachers, not students, obviously does. Child rapists are pardoned. A Supreme Court justice cannot define a woman. Innuendo and rumor are presented unchallenged. A guy with a Nazi tattoo is nominated for the Senate. The culture is besieged by notions that are both silly and horrifying.

This is a perfect time for the resurrection of the socialists.

The communists have a reason for their revolution. True, it is inevitable. Like gravity, it's a law. It is also genetic. Who knew? Darwin didn't. But, apparently, some people have, like in the Indian caste system, certain inescapable genetic socio-economic-political groupings that their children share as well. These qualities do not go away. Or educated away. Nor can those so afflicted just go away and allow the socialist dawn to flower. Nor can they be driven away--or even put in camps. These regressives must be derascinated, branch and root. They must be killed, along with their children, to exterminate that regressive element that weighs, like a newly discovered group of moronic homo habilis living in their own camp, on the future. (You can see how this madness morphs so nicely into purges and pogroms.)

So the enemy is the productive and successful, and they must be killed so the society can become successful and productive.  

A philosophy whose time has come. Again.