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View Poll Results: Do you like socialism? (explain reasons in thread)
Yes 17 58.62%
No 11 37.93%
I'm confused 1 3.45%
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Old 07-01-2020, 10:20 PM   #361 (permalink)
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I'll take Sweden if all the furniture is by IKEA and we get those delicious meatballs in the gravy...

But there absolutely is a lot in this country that needs to change. I'm not arguing against that, but any change that's going to occur needs to be beyond meaningless gestures and virtue signals that make white upper-middle class post graduates feel like "allies" to "marginalized groups".

We could start by ending all of these stupid multi-decade wars. I really think that would be the most meaningful first step, and then after that we can rebuild the country's decaying infrastructure, including heavily investing in free or inexpensive public transportation (I'd personally like to see monorails) to the point where it would cause a significant reduction in personal vehicles: that's one big financial liability gone for a lot of people living at the poverty line & less black trucks on the road.

Those are two things we could just do. One tomorrow and one by the end of the next five or so years depending on how well we mobilize for it.
It's almost like you're a socialist who's been brainwashed by American propaganda to distrust socialism and college educated people even though you say many of the exact same things they do aside from putting "marginalized groups" in quotations marks for some reason that is kinda worrying.
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Old 07-01-2020, 10:37 PM   #362 (permalink)
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OK, well, maybe it was your run-on sentence about Franco and
"alternative model of socialism" that confused me.
Plus, I'm getting this kinda rant from the ramblin' "rambler"
thinking that Franco was some kind of result of socialist ideas.
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Old 07-02-2020, 03:29 AM   #363 (permalink)
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aaaahhh, OK.

Hey! Are you gonna go see Vanilla Ice on Friday in Austin -
where all other shows are canceled?
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Old 07-02-2020, 09:56 AM   #364 (permalink)
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It's almost like you're a socialist who's been brainwashed by American propaganda to distrust socialism and college educated people even though you say many of the exact same things they do aside from putting "marginalized groups" in quotations marks for some reason that is kinda worrying.
I put it in quotations because I don't like to use their terminology, just like I did with "allies". I prefer the term "minority" for myself, because "marginalized groups" sounds weak. I also don't like being called "differently abled".

You're right though, that's the reason why I don't like the term "socialism"... this is America, we can come up with something better to call it that doesn't have the connotation of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany... something without the totalitarian flavor to it. Maybe "New Americanism" or "America-first" (since we'd be rebuilding the country & withdrawing our troops from overseas, we'd be placing America First on our list of priorities)

And no, I absolutely do not trust many if not most college educated people because they don't know how to think outside of the boxes that their hate-filled professors have corralled them into. I went to college, got an associate's degree, took a lot of American history and political science classes, learned absolutely NOTHING about "socialism"... at all, all of that I had to do on my own when I was involved with DSA: who don't want socialism, they want authoritarian liberalism based on "intersectional" hierarchies. That doesn't sound like a classless society to me.

My degree is in American History & political science. I didn't go on to a university because I saw the writing on the wall and didn't feel like saddling myself to upwards of $50k in debt whereas my mom's student loans were like $6k back in the 1980s. I didn't walk either.
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Marginalized groups and minorities are two different things. E.G. Jews are a minority but they also control the media and all the banks.
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"Incel" is a portmanteau of "involuntary" & "celibacy." It's a person who is in the state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, but done without will or conscious control.
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