Child labor is one of the core tenets of capitalism

I'm forever grateful I was never born in a socialist or Communist country.

No, you were born in a hybrid one :) Enjoying weekends holidays, vacation time? Medical leave? Socialist programs.

I don't get any of those, I run my own business, so did my family, and my grandfather got his money by working in the goal mines then investing the money into property.
We don't use any public programs unless the government forced it's own monopoly over them.

Coal*

So you work all weekends, and holidays? You don't take sick leave or family leave? All of those things are legally permitted to you.

So, you own your own business, making you the Board Chair. I would suggest finding a CEO. If you're already the CEO, you're in trouble as you're making a lot of work for yourself. If that's the case I would suggest finding someone to fill the role of President. Beyond that there's the:

CAO - chief administrative officer - usually a substitute for the COO; oversees daily operations.
CFO - chief financial officer - oversees all financial matters.
CIO - chief information officer - oversees all forms of information and ensures that data and information are protected.
CTO - chief technology officer - oversees information technology systems such as computers.
CMO - chief marketing officer - oversees marketing activities, i.e. advertising, public relations and social media marketing.
CHRO - chief human resources officer - oversees the hiring process, training and employee performance.

I am assuming that since you said it's a family business, you don't have enough staff to man those positions. I suggest then, having your business closed on weekends. I mean, you're free to do with your enterprise as you please, that's the beauty of it. Point being, you do have these freedoms listed above, you simply opt out.

Kinda like opting out of the Affordable Care Act. Or Public Education.

Or they could keep doing what they want...

Sure they could. I was imparting advice to make their lives a little easier.

Work smarter, not harder.

Where did you get the idea that people want complete and total communism? Why would you take this notion of regime change seriously? Do you believe the majority of the left/democrats seek complete communism?

You cannot possibly live near a major urban area.

I could say you cannot possibly have received a college degree, but that would be a baseless accusation. Just like the one you made.

Well I got all kinds of degrees. But in 2021, a college degree only qualifies you to work in Starbucks. I’m way overqualified for that. The large urban areas that are transitioning to socialism are filled with seas of poor peasants and uncontrollable police. As is always the case with socialism.

Yeah, me too I have a lot of degrees as well. I just choose to spend my valuable time on imgflip.

It doesn’t matter wha they seek. It “always devolves into totalitarian dictatorship” only fools think you can destroy free speech and keep freedom.

No free speech was destroyed.

Of course it was, plentiful and severe violations were committed against free speech in an attempt to silence the opposition.

No freedoms destroyed; only forfeited.

Not forfeited, illegally taken by a company that is supposed to be a free speech platform not a content publisher or editorializer. They no longer qualify for 230 protections.

Do you pay for their servers?

Why would I pay for their servers?

So they're providing a service to you for free... Out of their own pocket...

We’re you trying to say service? Instead of servers? They provide me nothing I don’t use their service. What they are doing isn’t wrong and hypocritical. They allow everything they say they are banning if it comes from a leftist. Who are they to judge what is acceptable discourse. If they want to control the content then they are. Publisher not a free speech platform. Publishers don’t get 230 protection and can be sued. Break them up! anti trust regulations should be enforced.

"We’re you trying to say service? Instead of servers? They provide me nothing I don’t use their service. What they are doing isn’t wrong and hypocritical. They allow everything they say they are banning if it comes from a leftist. Who are they to judge what is acceptable discourse. If they want to control the content then they are. Publisher not a free speech platform. Publishers don’t get 230 protection and can be sued. Break them up! anti trust regulations should be enforced."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill last year aimed at ending the legal protections for tech companies unless they agreed to an independent audit to ensure they were moderating content without political bias. Following Twitter's actions this week, Hawley promised to introduce new legislation to end the legal immunity for tech companies.

How would you ensure a moderation team for millions of users without bias? There's no way to ensure that. Everyone has bias.

But you're right. let's scrap section 230 so that these media platforms will be even further responsible for their content on their website so that the right-wing can't spread fake news as everyone knows for a fact that they do. As the adage goes, "Does a trump supporter have their mouth opened? Yes? They're lying. is their mouth closed? Yes? They're not a Trump Supporter."

"Does a trump supporter have their mouth opened? Yes? They're lying. is their mouth closed? Yes? They're not a Trump Supporter."

That statement epitomizes the petty tyrant hypocrite viewpoint. Blatantly false statements don’t elevate your argument they make it look stupid. Maybe because it is.

Sucks when someone talks bullshit about your party that has no basis in fact, doesn't it? Maybe you should stop telling lies about the left.

Just a thought.

I don’t lie about the left. The left lies about itself. You guys just forget what lies you were telling yesterday when you come out with your new lies today.

You don't lie about the left?

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That's awkward.

Seems almost prophetic to me. What’s the lie?

"Nope, weve seen it all summer long and now even more."
the lie is that you're condemning the entirety of the left. You're applying that statement to everyone and is intrinsically false.

I have to go by what is presented as leadership and spokespeople of the left. Many have expressed desire for te education camps like all socialist takeovers to cleanse thought. That in itself is the greatest evil ever perpetrated by any political party in our history. Oh wait democrats already did that once in WW2 didn’t they.

"What they want to do: Murder and intimidate..."
That's a bold-faced lie. Literally.

Nope, weve seen it all summer long and now even more.

I mean, the only outrage I've seen in favor of communism is forcing twitter to give Donald Trump his account bank, and Amazon, Google et al to give Parler their platform back.

Not discriminating is not communism.

Where's the discrimination? What discrimination?

Humor me, under what grounds should Twitter let Trump back?

I'll wait.

It's also worth mentioning that your picture is of chimney sweeps...a job for children which had almost disappeared before the government set child labor laws.
By the time the government got involved child labour of any kind was down to 6% and was pretty much just farm work...and that farm work was exempt in said law.

Pretty much all the c*ap you find in society today is government policy related.

Ah, but prohibiting child labor, prohibiting excessive work hours, prohibiting 7-day work weeks were all socialist agendas as the workers sought to control the means of production. They wanted to have more say in how the work was done, and thus, advocated for these programs.

The point that this meme tries to make is that anyone can point the finger at any political/economic doctrine and put a magnifying glass on the extremist values of them. But that doesn't make them the boogie man. It just makes the poster an asshole for trying to find the worst of any given doctrine and try to normalize these extreme values to the whole of said doctrine. It's not a fair argument as it is quite literally, an appeal to extremes.

Which, is kind of funny, because you came here and said "I'm not a socialist, I don't use any of those programs!" This actually places you well beyond one standard deviation of the workforce of America who opts out of all said programs making you an extreme capitalist. So, you came here to deny that you were an extreme capitalist only to say that you are an extreme capitalist.

Do I have that right?

This is the world that socialists want for you.

I see nothing in there that speaks to socialism.

So does this mean your ok with persecution of religions you don’t believe in?

So your saying that religious persecution is ok because you don’t believe and the uighurs were forcing their religion on the rest of China. Brilliant argument.

😆 losing an argument? Got no comeback? scream racist or straw man or ad hominem just like your leftist indoctrinators taught you. Get off the video games and find a friend.

It's ironic you suggest that I have no counter-argument when you haven't even made an argument in the first place.

I call out your logical fallacies *because you lack any argument*. Just red-herrings, strawman arguments and so on without addressing my claims or arguments. That's all you ever do.

Don't be mad at me for seeing you for what you are - a political hack with no backbone because he can't take a stance or answer any questions without redirecting the argument away from him.

🤣 ya I won’t follow your script and that makes you mad. You want to play little debate trap games. I have answered everything worthy of an answer. You don’t like the answers because they don’t fit with your pre programmed attack lines.

In America not unless I want you to. Should have known you were an atheist or anti religion, as are all leftists. You fear anyone would follow dictates other than yours. That’s why every socialist regime attacks religion and free speech first.

"I have considered all theories and most are suspect. Including the atheist evolution fable that we developed from a mutated frog or other reptile. Or the dolphin with feet belief. Just as plausible to believe we were put here or arrived here from somewhere else."

You still didn't answer my question. You side-stepped it again.

I side/stepped nothing. I have no conviction on the matter as no single theory has shown irrefutable proof that that belief is true or the only plausible belief. So you could say I’m agnostic

Hey, check it out something we have in common.

So does that mean that you are religious?

Not really, but That matters a lot to you doesn’t it. Nothing more Intolerant than an atheist.

So, rather than take an affirmative stance to state whether you're in favor of it or not, you'd rather side-step the issue. You either are or you aren't. I can't take your criticism of atheists, or those critical of religion. Par for the course. Admit nothing, critique everything. Insincere arguments laced with non-committal stances.

I am In favor of the individuals right to worship or believing whatever they want. It’s called pursuit of happiness and I support it. You obviously don’t and are upset that I didn’t take your baited question. You can be critical
Of religion all You want. Atheists always are but their explanation of how we got here is just as open to ridicule as any other. We developed from amphibians? Pfffft

Clarification: Do you think we suddenly just appeared here?

I have considered all theories and most are suspect. Including the atheist evolution fable that we developed from a mutated frog or other reptile. Or the dolphin with feet belief. Just as plausible to believe we were put here or arrived here from somewhere else.

You're still not answering the question of whether you believe or not. Stop side-stepping.

I side/stepped nothing. I have no conviction on the matter as no single theory has shown irrefutable proof that that belief is true or the only plausible belief. So you could say I’m agnostic

"🤣 ya I won’t follow your script and that makes you mad. You want to play little debate trap games. I have answered everything worthy of an answer. You don’t like the answers because they don’t fit with your pre programmed attack lines."
There's no script. There's answering questions and not answering them. Side-stepping a question is not answering it, it's avoiding it. You can be immature about it all you want and try to gaslight me into thinking that I'm playing games, yet you're the one who is too chicken to take pride in what they believe in. What a shame. Before you ask "Well, what do YOU believe in?" I'd like to say that this is a redirection as this conversation is based upon the meme that you wrote "Chinese Uighurs Await Processing Their Crime? Improper Religious Beliefs." To which I replied with an image to counter the statement your claim made "May we come into your home and brainwash your children?" Stating that what you suggested was hypocritical as Christians are known to go door to door and try to convert you to their religion. Rather than acknowledge your own hypocrisy, you tried to redirect the conversation to me and any claims I have when the conversation isn't about my stance, it's about yours. Then we go back and forth about how you don't want to talk about what you believe because you know you're just a typical Trump Hypocrite.

Facts matter.

Yes, I see your frustration. It is exactly as I said it was. You somehow want to compare the Chinese Government rounding up and executing the Uighur people for unapproved religious beliefs to Jehovas Witnesses knocking on your door on a Sunday morning. So you are saying Jehovas should be executed and imprisoned? Nice and you call the right fascists.

Last I checked when they knock on your door you don’t have to answer or you can answer and refuse to invite them in or speak with them about their topics as 99.9% of people do. The whole point is you wanted to position me for an atheistic attack on religion. You likely wrongly deducted that I’m a Christian Conservative and thought this was your Spartacus moment. You failed. I don’t care what you believe.

Not remotely.

The same fanaticism is found on both sides. Christians try to push their religious beliefs into the law through politicians coddling to their vote. People will pretend to be Christian, but they aren't; they do it only for the votes. Take Trump for example.