Stop Socialism Memes

[truthspeaker]

Hey everyone,

I know it's been a couple years. I wanted to do a little pre-planning with everyone BEFORE the primary season starts. Our biggest challenge isn't the GOP frontrunner--it's the corrosive mark socialism makes. This is a brainstorming thread.

What I propose is that we bookmark this thread and grow it. Every reply to this thread may be a commonly said remark by a socialist followed by a meme we may all use in reply.

Why am I proposing this? Because our opponents rarely freaking read their own literature, I think we have to meme them.

What I will say that some may not like? "Taxation is theft" is not the best argument to make with them--they worship the State. We need something they can think about. Something that maybe even shocks. Use cited data, their philosopher quotes, ANYTHING to make them pause. There are too many mis-information memes out there like "roads are socialism"....sorry I'm digressing.

I'll start:

"But Socialism isn't Communism!"

Reply:

via Imgflip Meme Generator

[r3volution 3.0]

"The government's gonna pay for it."

[Natural Citizen]

I've laid stones for a different path and a different approach and the door to which those stones have led has been opened so I won't be here when that time comes. At least not regularly anyway.

That said, thoughtful memes are good for people who do facebook and twitter and instagram and whatnot.

Just be careful not to allow the cause to be misrepresented by the reckless and short-sighted. We don't want to burn anyone to death so pictures of federal buildings with people in them and on fire is contrary to it. That's not how we want to end the fed. So if you see anybody doing that, tell em to knock it the heck off because they not only represent their vew, they misrepresent your view in the process by mere (and most often impractical) association. So that's counterintuitive and presupposes your own doom.

Good luck with it.

This is likely too long for a meme, but....

In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.

[acptulsa]

Damned good idea!

This is where the battle is.

'Communism is like Prohibition; it's a good idea but it won't work.'--Will Rogers

The big theme seems to be, it government would work better than it does if only the right people were in charge. We've been failing to put the right people in charge for an awfully long time now; surely there's ample meat for making memes in that simple fact.

'Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.'-- Thomas Jefferson

It has. We just have to cut through the brainwashing that is preventing people from seeing that answer.

[A Son of Liberty]

Damned good idea!

This is where the battle is.

'Communism is like Prohibition; it's a good idea but it won't work.'--Will Rogers

The big theme seems to be, it government would work better than it does if only the right people were in charge. We've been failing to put the right people in charge for an awfully long time now; surely there's ample meat for making memes in that simple fact.

People who say things like that (the Rogers quote) clearly do not understand the nature of human existence.

Communism, nor Prohibition, are not "good ideas". They're terrible ideas conceived by control freaks who hate the idea of human beings living free. There isn't a construct wherein communism nor prohibitionism are good or workable ideas.

Just thought I'd point that out.

[acptulsa]

People who say things like that (the Rogers quote) clearly do not understand the nature of human existence.

Communism, nor Prohibition, are not "good ideas". They're terrible ideas conceived by control freaks who hate the idea of human beings living free. There isn't a construct wherein communism nor prohibitionism are good or workable ideas.

Just thought I'd point that out.

I stand by what Rogers said. Clearly he was a humorist, and clearly there's humor to be found in a concept being both a good idea and doomed to failure. He could have said, it seems like a good idea to people, but it isn't a good idea, because it won't work. But who would have laughed?

From the perspective of ninety years later, is it not true that the USSR must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it never did work right? Well, I say give Will Rogers some credit for seeing that at a very early date.

[misterx]

Damned good idea!

This is where the battle is.



The big theme seems to be, it government would work better than it does if only the right people were in charge. We've been failing to put the right people in charge for an awfully long time now; surely there's ample meat for making memes in that simple fact.



It has. We just have to cut through the brainwashing that is preventing people from seeing that answer.

Love Jefferson of course, but he was kind of wrong. Time has proven that people are too intellectually lazy and apathetic to be able to govern themselves. They allow bad actors to hijack the government.

[acptulsa]

Ron Paul had a sign on his desk that said, 'Don't steal--the government hates competition'.

Memes that call for competition with the status quo might be the key. Common core has failed, but the government has made it mandatory, so we can't see if some other educational scheme might work better. Free market health care was kicking Medicare's ass, so the government made it mandatory to charge everyone the inflated charges necessary to cover the incredible costs of Medicare paperwork. The government designs our cars, and it isn't possible to test other safety schemes on American roads. Using money other than the Federal Reserve Note is illegal.

If this government stuff is so damned great, why is it illegal to try something else? Memes that ask this question could make quite a difference.

[Anti Federalist]

[The Northbreather]

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[Raginfridus]

[Raginfridus]

The truth about NAZI Germany will irritate the Socialists. They love calling others nazis, but they've never looked in the mirror. I wish I could find more NAZI propaganda, but I'd probably have to buy an account with an online historical archivist, or request prints from countries which still respect freedom of speech. So, sorry they're in German, but the imagery and some obvious words are clue enough.

Also, anything connecting Trotsky with Irving Kristol and the Neocons is legitimate. These memes would be for planting doubt, whereas the NAZI ones are for catching them "naked" to embarrass them.

[Raginfridus]

[Suzu]

This image is a misquote and is wrongly attributed to Hitler. The actual quote -- from a book by Gregor Strasser -- is this: ""We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!"

[not.your.average.joe]

But aren't 'neo-nazis' supposed to be white supremacy extremists on the far right? I would ask socialists, 'what about socialism and Nazism has changed since WWII for the two philosophies to be so diametrically opposed?' (Hint: Nothing has changed and they aren't opposed.)

[brushfire]

Who likes slavery? What if its public slavery? That's what socialism is, public slavery.

[Danke]

Who likes slavery? What if its public slavery? That's what socialism is, public slavery.

He marched (walked) with us in the Rally for The Republic in 2008.

[William Tell]

It's pretty funny to hear liberals try to explain how national socialism is not actually socialism.

[AZJoe]

[Raginfridus]

[AZJoe]

[Leaning Libertarian]

[Lamp]

[CaptUSA]

[AZJoe]

[CaptUSA]

[CaptUSA]

[Raginfridus]

[Tywysog Cymru]

[CaptUSA]