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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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McCarthyism essentially never ended in America or this would be common knowledge everyone repeats in casual conversation
This is “crazy talk” and “nonsense” because critical thinking has been made illegal in America for decades
Also common knowledge: Communism is worse. Talk about fast-tracking authoritarianism.
lol almost everyone who says “communism is worse” has no common knowledge at all
Most cannot even define what capitalism or communism even is, nevermind talking about socialism instead
McCarthyism has done irreversible damage to “common knowledge” itself
communism = centrist Democratic positions???
There's how you define things, and then there's how they work in practice. If you're just going for the tired "Communism hasn't been properly tried yet" then I will submit that it never will be.
I'm all for regulated capitalism. That's what's done in some of the more "socialist" countries that exist today. But the idea that you can have a functioning system where the market sets none of the prices is laughable.
Please expand because as it is right now, your comment is laughable and one would think you're just ignorant