{"id":332,"date":"2003-12-10T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T23:37:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-10T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T23:37:35","slug":"infuriating-the-warbots-with-half-our-wits-tied-behind-our-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/10\/infuriating-the-warbots-with-half-our-wits-tied-behind-our-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"Infuriating the Warbots with Half Our Wits Tied Behind Our Backs"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, OK, I’ll give this dude<\/a> (scroll down) a link for all the effort he’s put into calling us “socialist half-wits.” But praytell: where, exactly, is the socialism? Here<\/a>? Here<\/a>? Here<\/a>? Here<\/a>? Maybe here<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I don’t expect the accuser, despite having way too much time on his hands<\/a>, to read the links above, much less understand them, but he should recognize that “socialist” is, unlike “dumbass,” a charge easily supported or refuted. Here’s a definition of “socialism,”<\/a> and here’s an example of it in action<\/a>. Criticizing self-designated conservatives–especially the sort who push ever-larger government<\/a>— hardly a socialist makes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, OK, I’ll give this dude (scroll down) a link for all the effort he’s put into calling us “socialist half-wits.” But praytell: where, exactly, is the socialism? Here? Here? Here? Here? Maybe here? I don’t expect the accuser, despite having way too much time on his hands, to read the links above, much less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}