Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 29/11/2024 08:18, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

It's still a different world south of the line  🙂
    Not Von Braun's America, but still "different".
   I'd say "more real" as opposed to the yankee
   intellectual/ideological abstractions.
    Oh well, all of that is taking full power in a
   couple of months.

Not just south, but West, if you ignore the fantasy existence of Californians and the brown-rice-and-hiking-boots people of the North West.
I once defined New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in someone else's pocket..
Its OK for hippies to live like that: Just not the whole government
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“Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee,”
  – Ludwig von Mises