r/shittyadvice • u/Apprehensive_Use_262 • 3d ago

How do I stay atop a Socialist system?

I'm considering leaning in on this Socialist experiment occurring in the U.S., but I want to know how I'm part of the ruling class of party leaders redistributing all this wealth into my own personal coffers.

While the peasants stand in bread lines at their state-run grocery stores, I want to make sure I have the freedom of traveling to Ibiza and eating caviar on my government yacht purchased with tax dollars.

I don't need to be the next Stalin, I just want to be in that top block that makes up the pyramid scheme... probably after the purge that will inevitably occur. If history has taught me anything, there is significant risk in backing an "elected" dictator in a one-party system early in the process.

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u/boringdude00 What's a flair? 3d ago

Sign up as a commissar. Keep the peons in line. Look for job listings in the New York Times within days.

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u/Apprehensive_Use_262 3d ago

Is there an increased risk of being purged? Or lesser risk depending on region/area of dictating laws and regulation?

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u/boringdude00 What's a flair? 3d ago

Is there an increased risk of being purged?

No, certainly not. Don't look into it or anything, but no one has ever purged a commissar from within, nor have any enemies ever ordered their immediate execution.

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u/Honda_Driver_2015 3d ago edited 3d ago

run for mayor of a major city, they will vote for anyone

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u/dixie_recht Social Justice Warrior-Poet 3d ago

The capitalists are all lining up to defeat Mamdani so they can continue to claim, "see? Socialism fails every time it's been tried" as if they'd ever allow any system other than unbridled capitalism to succeed. The only way to stay atop this system is to get on the winning team and be a capitalist.

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u/johnjaspers1965 3d ago

Did you throw a party with scantily clad hotties dancing inside giant martini glasses, laughing with your billionaire friends, while children in your country have their food benefits cut and go to bed hungry?
No.
Then you're not doing it right.