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Jan 15 2018 01:35pm
Quote (excellence @ 15 Jan 2018 18:34)
attempting to be a braggart about your little piggie bank. :rofl: Hey why dont you be a good full-on socialist and share the excess with the needy???? after all its each according to his needs. you clearly dont need that excess other than try to brag about it to strangers.


Why do people hate what they don't understand though?
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Jan 15 2018 01:43pm
Quote (Scaly @ Jan 15 2018 02:33pm)
Trumpers. Invariably politically illiterate.


Why are you bringing up trumpers?
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Jan 15 2018 01:45pm
Quote (djman72 @ 15 Jan 2018 19:43)
Why are you bringing up trumpers?


We've had this conversation before.
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Jan 15 2018 01:46pm
Quote (Scaly @ Jan 15 2018 02:45pm)
We've had this conversation before.


Yawn....... yet again.

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Jan 15 2018 01:51pm
Quote (djman72 @ 15 Jan 2018 19:46)
Yawn....... yet again.


Exactly what I was thinking.
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Jan 15 2018 02:49pm
Quote (djman72 @ Jan 15 2018 08:39pm)
I'm 26 and have a couple retirement accounts set up and a decent AMT of money in savings. I'm also debt free and have a masters.

I'm glad our sample sizes are now the same. Socialism should never be anyone's choice, regardless of the window dressing idiots decide to put on the same exact failing concept.


Can you actually name a disadvantage of social democracy other than that it's social democracy?

I'm glad for you that you're better off than many of your peers.

Quote (Scaly @ Jan 15 2018 09:35pm)
Why do people hate what they don't understand though?


Cognitive dissonance. He cannot bear the idea that socialism could have led to something that works. He's an indoctrinated American, what else did you expect?

This post was edited by Leevee on Jan 15 2018 02:51pm
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Jan 15 2018 03:09pm
Quote (Scaly @ 15 Jan 2018 15:35)
Why do people hate what they don't understand though?

its a good question. plenty of anti-Ameican hatred here by people who’d be penal laborers under some military empire if it werent for “stupid American meddling” at choice points in time, allowing their nations to recover, spend peanuts on their defense, and become as Plasma described them:

Quote (PlasmaSnake101 @ 15 Jan 2018 15:20)
Your current idealized "socialist" European nations aren't socialist, they're high tax nations with universal welfare programs. Some have higher levels of economic freedom than the United States.


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Jan 15 2018 03:13pm
Quote (PlasmaSnake101 @ Jan 15 2018 02:20pm)
If every attempted Democracy ended with the bulk of people executed and in poverty, we'd agree it's a shit system. Ideology is worth fuck all if every single attempt at it ends in ruin. This is socialism.

Your current idealized "socialist" European nations aren't socialist, they're high tax nations with universal welfare programs. Some have higher levels of economic freedom than the United States. "Real" socialism is impossible, the theory of the "new socialist man" is evidence of this.


It might be more useful nowadays to think of the labels socialist and capitalist a superlatives and extremes of a spectrum.

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Quote (excellence @ Jan 15 2018 11:09pm)
its a good question. plenty of anti-Ameican hatred here by people who’d be penal laborers under some military empire if it werent for “stupid American meddling” at choice points in time, allowing their nations to recover, spend peanuts on their defense, and become as Plasma described them:


By this logic, all black people should be treated with extra respect because their ancestors were slaves.

But then again, their ancestors actually were slaves. Europe owes tons more to the Soviet Union than to the USA if we're talking about who defeated the Germans.

I bet it must be difficult for you, trying to get validation through something your country did in 1945, and which only you think is true. I wish just as much as you do that the USA had done any useful invasions after that, but it sadly just isn't the case.

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By this logic, all black people should be treated with extra respect because their ancestors were slaves.

But then again, their ancestors actually were slaves. Europe owes tons more to the Soviet Union than to the USA if we're talking about who defeated the Germans.

I bet it must be difficult for you, trying to get acknowledgement for something that only you think is true.


not all black people were slaves my dude
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