heraldthemoth

I was just wondering why so many Americans seem to dislike Socialism - many call it "European Socialism".  Many equate it to Communism (which it isn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism).  Are a lot of Americans selfish? Are most okay with not giving money to the government to take care of other people who are down on their luck as long as they are doing well themselves? 
 
I get the feeling that the mentality is "Fuck the poor, jobless, or sick people. They can go kill themselves for all I care, because as long as I get my HDTV and nice car I don't give a crap." 
 
What are your thoughts on this? 

@heraldthemoth said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@heraldthemoth

Actually it's 46 million give or take for the Nazis but who cares about facts right?

60-75 million total in WW2 which you could tack on to Hitler as he started it all!

The Nazis had nowhere close to 46 million deaths under their belt. And you can't pin all of WWII entirely on the Nazis. There was still the whole East Asian theater of war that was going on with Imperialist Japan wrecking shit up, you know. Yeah, who cares about facts, right?

Uh Yeah they did, the 11 million figure you are talking about is Jews being killed in concentration camps. The rest is Allie deaths, civilian casualties and Jews being killed on the spot. And yeah I can blame what Japan did on Hitler aswell as they became Allies in 1940 with Hitler saying Japan could take over Asia where Germany was going to take Europe. Germany supplied alot of weapons to Japan in this time. So it all stems from Hitler so next time check your facts before you create a Hitler aint so bad thread.

@heraldthemoth

Actually it's 46 million give or take for the Nazis but who cares about facts right?

60-75 million total in WW2 which you could tack on to Hitler as he started it all!

@heraldthemoth

@Brodehouse said:

People can walk around with Stalin and Mao merchandise? What?

Yeah, I see it all the time here in California. It's mostly college students doing it, at least it's what I get from my own perception of things.

That's Che Guevara, not Josef Stalin.

Watch any action movie from the 80s and try and tell me that.

People can walk around with Stalin and Mao merchandise? What?

In modern times, people can walk around with Stalin or Mao merchandise and people wouldn't think twice about it. But if someone were to wear Hitler merchandise, he would get the crap kicked out of him lickity split (and rightfully so). A large part of that has to do with ignorance about the atrocities of the communists, because there are very few anti-communist movies about them. Hollywood mainly puts out anti-Nazi movies when targeting a specific ideology, yet rarely addresses the atrocities of communism even though communist leaders killed millions more people than the Nazis. There are many who were adversely affected by communism and many more people have relatives killed by commies than nazis, and I think they deserve more recognition from the media. 

So why do you think there are so few anti-communist movies?   

Eh, most were obviously staged which made them not funny. Also, the OP lead me to believe he was going to share mishaps of his own.

Overal, 2/10.