Actually, when you get down to it, there is no socialism without a little capitalism, and visa versa. For the Orange Oaf to rail against socialism in his jingoistic SOTU speech is hysterical, given that Trump Enterprises takes every and any gov't handout it can.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Stretch (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
dukkha (02-20-2019), Stretch (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
Something is wrong when a country says it’s 40 million rolls short on toilet paper
https://qz.com/85373/something-is-wr...-toilet-paper/
Super market shelves have already been stripped of toilet paper for weeks. But while matters of personal hygiene have taken center stage, Venezuela’s economic health is most worrisome.
Earl (02-20-2019), Stretch (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
Is the industrial working class in power in Venezuela? Is there an industrial working class in Venezuela? Should only obedient American colonies be allowed food? Does any American rightist have the slightest idea what socialism IS?
Earl (02-20-2019)
America has sent food and medicine to the Venezuelan border. It has been refused entrance because it would be an admission that this Socialist nation can not feed its own citizens.
Last edited by Earl; 02-20-2019 at 09:06 AM.
Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
Is Maduro really getting death threats from Cuba? Been reading a few pieces on this. Amazing what millennial snowflakes don't realize about real life, dictatorships and history in this world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...ezuela/528003/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics...atened-by-cuba
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Earl (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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Stretch (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
Venezuela.....read/listen to something besides MSM and Fox before you mouth off:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-fr...b_9401644.html
https://nacla.org/news/2018/05/18/un...racy-venezuela
Now, all you MAGA wearers have to actually fault the content, not just bitch & moan about the source. Carry on.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Almost every single Republican on this board called Obama a socialist, a Marxist, a commie, or some permutation thereof.
In reality, Obama is your standard center-left politician who believes there is a need and a role for the public commons in addition to a for-profit free enterprise system.
It is way, way too late to try to walk back, retreat, and shift the goal posts and belatedly try to claim that what you really meant is that socialism only is really what Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung were doing.
You wingnuts have called everything from Obama to the nation of Sweden "socialist". I intend to hold you accountable for that. Sweden shows that socialism works.
Leading Republicans Call Western Europe "Socialist"
Newt Gingrich has constantly accused the president of being a "European Socialist", often adding in a reference to an all-but-forgotten community activist from Chicago, who died in 1972, but whose Democratic-leaning writings are thought to have influenced the current president
"I am for the Declaration of Independence; he is for the writing of Saul Alinsky. I am for the Constitution; he is for European socialism," Mr Gingrich told voters in Florida last week.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16583813
Leading Republicans Refer to Western Europe as "Socialists"
....(and let's not forget, rightwing message boarders have spent years calling western Europe "socialist")......
Lately it seems that not a day goes by without a Republican presidential candidate portraying Europe as a socialist nightmare. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum paint a picture of the Old World as unfree, strangulated by bureaucratic and inefficient welfare systems, and unable to reform and modernize. To these Republicans, Europe seems to be the antipode to everything America is meant to be.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.310f3f267a8a
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BILL DE BLASIO CORRECTS OCASIO-CORTEZ'S CLAIM ABOUT SPENDING AMAZON TAX BREAK MONEY
"I'm a progressive too, but I'm pragmatic,” she said. “We are $4 billion less than we usually get and yet we are kicking out a company that would have been projected [to pay] over 10 years roughly $27 billion in taxes.”
"New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin ripped into critics of the deal, saying it was evidence of a “financial literacy epidemic” in America."
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