{"id":177122,"date":"2025-12-12T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177122"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:57:33","slug":"weekend-open-thread-577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177122","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Communism-free-stuff-rat-trap-bear-trap-venus-fly-trap.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Communism-free-stuff-rat-trap-bear-trap-venus-fly-trap-261x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Communism-free-stuff-rat-trap-bear-trap-venus-fly-trap-261x300.jpeg 261w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Communism-free-stuff-rat-trap-bear-trap-venus-fly-trap-290x333.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Communism-free-stuff-rat-trap-bear-trap-venus-fly-trap.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human nature is one of the reasons to why communism and socialism consistently fail. Success, and the enjoyment of the fruits of one&#8217;s labor, motivate the wealth generators who make capitalism beneficial to most. So, when the communists finally gain power and implement their policies, the wealth generators either stop generating wealth or they leave. The elites accumulate the balance of the wealth that could be collected, leaving the masses &#8220;fighting for scraps.&#8221; By the time the communism advocates realize that they&#8217;ve been hoodwinked, it&#8217;s too late. The movers and shakers of the movement have consolidated their hold to power. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human nature is one of the reasons to why communism and socialism consistently fail. Success, and &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177122\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}