At the Washington Post, where democracy dies in bloviating pomposity,

opinion columnist Elizabeth Brunig has written an op-ed headline,

it's time to reclaim socialism from the dirty word category.

By the way, here's a fun little quiz.

Try to figure out just from that headline,

whether Elizabeth Brunig is a, another one of these vaguely cute millennial babes

without the brains god gave a goose, or be...

something else.

Anyway, the cute goose brain millennial babes has quote,

and this is a real quote,

socialism has meant different things to different people

in different times and places, unquote.

And this is undoubtedly true, for instance.

There's the Soviet socialism that caused the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s,

leading to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

But there's also the Chinese socialism that led to the famine of 1959,

leading to the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese.

There's the wonderful socialism of Europe that provided universal 19th-century healthcare,

while gutting the most vibrant culture the world has ever seen,

until it's now a listless hulk of a wimpocracy that stands and stares gormlessly

while invading hordes of medieval crazy men,

rape their children and uninterrupted.

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