What do you mean by "social level"? We're talking about the political and economic theory called socialism, right?
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worker ownership of the means of production
Everything is government owned, check.
that workers must gain the power from their economic output to have true control over their social and political future.
Firefighters are paid and have control over their social and political futures, check.
You state it's not socialist, but you don't say why. What's your argument?
How so?
The actual original names of baseball teams are fun. Almost all of these teams changed names (or locations) since their founding. The Atlanta Braves used to be from Boston, where they were the Boston Braves (much better alliteration). Meanwhile, Miami gained alliteration because they just used to be the Florida Marlins.
The Phillies were known as the Phillies pretty much from the beginning, but their official name was the Philadelphia Ball Club Limited. But that was a mouthful so they were nicknamed the Phillies (and also the Quakers).
The team that's now the Washington Nationals used to actually be Canadian: the Montreal Expos (named after Expo '67). Seems a bit weird to me that the baseball team in the US national capital is a transplanted Canadian team.
Also, while looking this up, I found probably the worst-named team ever. The Philadelphia Phillies came to be because the league needed an 8th team to balance things after this other team was dropped from the league. Its hometown was too small to support a pro team. But, it did do some historic things before it folded, like being the first pro team to visit Cuba in 1879 and having the first pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game, but it wasn't because they were an amazing team. They also set a record as the first team to be defeated at home without even a single hit.
The name of this historically interesting team? The Worcester Worcesters. Also, if things were pronounced then as they are now, that would have been pronounced "The Woostah Woostahs"
Insert meme: "That's on me, I should have set the bar higher"
And then there's cricket...
I miss the Elbows. 😕
Diamonds are cool. Not as engagement rings, but as ultra-dense carbon.
They're arguably the hardest known substance in the universe. The only things that might be harder are so rare that their hardness can only be tested in simulations. That makes diamond unequaled for cutting. They also have amazing thermal conductivity. All that from a transparent rock is awesome.
This didn't happen to them
What didn't happen to them?
Democrats shouldn't be pointing and laughing
Nobody's pointing and laughing. Leopards Eating People's Faces is about Justice-based Schadenfreude. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a person who wished ill on other people receive that ill themselves. The overriding emotion isn't joy, it's a mix of exasperation and relief. Exasperation because someone was stupid or cruel enough to wish those things for other people, and relief that there's finally some justice because they're suffering from the exact thing they wished on those other people.
Sure they do.
Nor does any worker. That's part of the deal with a society where things are communally owned, you know, socialism. If you want an individual to be influential enough to dictate the flow of their society's political and economic power structures, you're looking for a rich capitalist.
You seem determined to try to come up with a way to pretend that clearly socialist parts of a mixed capitalist/socialist system are not socialist, while maintaining that the parts that are capitalist are still capitalist. You can't have it both ways.