I always find that using humor is a good way to introduce “radical” ideas to socialists/statists. Sometimes it allows for a soft confrontation with their ideas and creates an easier atmosphere for them to switch to your ideas. At other times they ask follow up questions and thus let me explain my position. At the very least, some humor helps me to net get mad ad them for their positions.
Here are two that work quite well:
“We have so much state education you can become a standup comedian by telling the truth!”
“The government fails at everything it does. It it manages roads, you get traffic jams. If it manages defense, you get war. If it manages schools, you get socialists.”
Are there oneliners you like to use in discussions with statists? Other effective things you do to “plant” that idea/doubt in their little statist brains?
A Communist / Socialist is someone with nothing who wants to share with everyone else.
Ronald Regan’s most feared words in the English language: I’m from the Government and I am here to help you.
I think that the is a book of actual USSR jokes, one I remember was a long the lines that a Russian orders a car, only to be told that the waiting time is 15 years 4 months and it will be delivered in the afternoon of Sept 15th, to which the purchaser replies that that date won’t work because the pumber is coming round then!
Socialism is when you give the people with a lesser percentage of the cake, a higher percentage of the cake, but shrink the cake
Captialism is when you have people voluntarily divide up the cake for frosting, forks, and plates which leads to the people who give more stuff to have more cake, but which also enlarges the cake.
So if you believe that democracy is right, then if we take a vote right now and the majority in the area says you’re wrong…
Democracy is glorified mob rule
So if I come and rob you its ok as long as I give half of that to the poor?
I do find that its hard to be really funny and libertarian at the same time. Its too serious. Because the left all buy into various fantasies, they can make jokes about other views and how ‘barbaric’ they are. Because everyone buys in, the logic behind the jokes don’t need to be explained and everyone can go home happy.
Thank God we have the president to tell us where to put grocery stores. Without him, we’ed all starve to death.
Immigrants suck. They take the jobs from us that we don’t want, and it makes life nicer for the locals.
I’m sick of having to pay to get into malls. Good thing the government owns all the roads, or we’ed have to pay a toll every few seconds!
So what if he steals it from me? He’s stealing it from me for the good of society.
I’m glad that someone 500 miles away has a say as to what children in our community are being taught. I need the wisdom of complete strangers who know nothing about me or my community to tell me what is good for us.
The doctor healed someone. Good stuff! And he made money in the process? HOW DARE HE?!
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Yes, I say these kinds of things in casual conversation.
The best case against democracy is to talk to the average voter for 5 minutes.
Socialism is what happens when the talen pool in society begins to shrink.
The only thing the government knows how to produce is long lines.
The funny thing about government, the smaller it is the better it gets.
I just recently discovered an organization that extorts money from everyone, is heavy into counterfiting, sells weapons to third world dictators, intimidates companies to help thier buddies, and claims its all for my own good. No, its not the mafia, its the government.
I have more respect for a gang member than a socialist. At least he’ll threaten me in person.
Its amazing that people trust their money with a government whose policy is that debt is a good thing.
Public school teachers love to blame the parents when the kids are not being taught and I wholeheartedly agree with their stance, fire the teachers since it is not their job to teach anyway and let the parents get to educating. Saves money in the long run
“anyone remember the story reagan used to tell about the pig that ate dinner with the farmer and saved his family???”
Nope, but the magic of Google remembers all:
There’s a joke President Reagan told about the way collectivist politicians treat rich people: A traveling salesman stays overnight with a farm family. When the family gathers to eat there’s a pig seated at the table. And the pig has three medals hanging around his neck and a peg leg. The salesman says, “Um, I see you have a pig having dinner with you.”
“Yes,” says the farmer. “That’s because he’s a very special pig. You see those medals around his neck? Well, the first medal is from when our youngest son fell in the pond, and he was drowning, and that pig swam out and saved his life. The second medal, that’s from when the barn caught fire and our little daughter was trapped in there and the pig ran inside, carried her out and saved her life. And the third medal, that’s from when our oldest boy was cornered in the stock yard by a mean bull, and that pig ran under the fence and bit the bull on the tail and saved the boy’s life.”
“Yes,” says the salesman, “I can see why you let that pig sit right at the table and have dinner with you. And I can see why you awarded him the medals. But how did he get the peg leg?”
“Well,” says, the farmer, “a pig like that–you don’t eat him all at once.”
