Another Failed Socialist Experiment

Indus

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Was Panera was owned and regulated by its customers? Nope! Not socialism!

Thread fail OP!
 

Vic

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Government control of the means of production not found.
 

Muse

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Socialism bad, capitalism good, socialism bad, capitalism good, socialism bad, capitalism good.

Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good. Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good.Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good, Hillary bad, Trump good.

Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news, Collusion fake news.

Firing Comey was because he botched the Hillary email investigation.
Firing Comey was because he botched the Hillary email investigation.
Firing Comey was because he botched the Hillary email investigation.

Say something enough times and people will believe it. - Herman Goebbels, minister of propaganda, Third Reich
 
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thraashman

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Well, this thread failed in a most spectacular manner. It's always nice when the ignorant make it so damn easy for you.
 
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dawp

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Was Panera was owned and regulated by its customers? Nope! Not socialism!

Thread fail OP!
you forget, it is socialism because shareholders, the ultimate socialist experiment.

all publicly traded companies are socialist. /s
 
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Socialism probably doesn't work*, but this is clearly not an example of that. This is just an example of hippy idealism and private charity not working out.

* it's a question of information and efficient allocation of resources
 

Muse

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What a surprise there was "more taking than giving", and ultimately, "those who can't/won't pay" were no longer welcome. In fact, they hire a manager to escort people out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...d-now-the-irs-is-coming/ar-BBViHJH?li=BBnb7Kz
In the USA, this was bound to happen. It's a capitalist jungle, so advertising that people could get stuff cheap or free was going to have these results. Capitalism is cutthroat. Socialism is having a social conscience. Conscience is regarded with suspicion in many quarters in America, unfortunately. Without it, you're pretty soul-less.
 
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Honestly, I've heard of 'socialism in one country' but I've never encountered 'socialism in one shop'. It's beyond ridiculous to call this 'socialism'.

If this is 'socialism', what do you call the family, incidentally? Do you operate a contract-based market system in yours? Make your kids pay their way and downsize them if they aren't profitable? Contract out for better ones? Put in bids for the use of family assets?
 

Starbuck1975

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This is not socialism. Socialism would be the Panera employees rising up and taking ownership of the company. The charismastic baker would then assert leadership over the workers, kill his rivals and then lead them to eradicate all the Subway, Jimmy John and Corner Bakery stores along with all their workers for good measure. They called the baker Che Panera.

The CIA will eventually take him out.

Fifty years from now, college kids will be buying t-shirts with his image from Hot Topic.
 

pmv

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This is not socialism. Socialism would be the Panera employees rising up and taking ownership of the company. The charismastic baker would then assert leadership over the workers, kill his rivals and then lead them to eradicate all the Subway, Jimmy John and Corner Bakery stores along with all their workers for good measure. They called the baker Che Panera.

The CIA will eventually take him out.

Fifty years from now, college kids will be buying t-shirts with his image from Hot Topic.


Or he'd introduce some "reforms" and reintroduce a market system just before retiring and being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Much later there'd be suspicion that the now semi-fascist Panera was now pulling the strings of the US President.
 

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This is not socialism. Socialism would be the Panera employees rising up and taking ownership of the company. The charismastic baker would then assert leadership over the workers, kill his rivals and then lead them to eradicate all the Subway, Jimmy John and Corner Bakery stores along with all their workers for good measure. They called the baker Che Panera.

The CIA will eventually take him out.

Fifty years from now, college kids will be buying t-shirts with his image from Hot Topic.

A legit chuckle from me this morning, thank you. :D

Che Panera. Still laughing.

That being said, it's amazing what difference three little letters make. "Social Experiment" vs "Socialist Experiment".
 

zinfamous

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what's with this rash of dummy accounts resurrected all, by quick inspection, the same sort of ignorant cumbucket that can't distinguish the simplest differences between socialism, fascism, communism, and capitalism?
 

zinfamous

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This is not socialism. Socialism would be the Panera employees rising up and taking ownership of the company. The charismastic baker would then assert leadership over the workers, kill his rivals and then lead them to eradicate all the Subway, Jimmy John and Corner Bakery stores along with all their workers for good measure. They called the baker Che Panera.

The CIA will eventually take him out.

Fifty years from now, college kids will be buying t-shirts with his image from Hot Topic.

..actually, that's communism. Also not socialism. :D