‘Yes, I’m Running as a Socialist.’ Why Candidates Are Embracing the Label in 2018

[Berniewood Hogan]

We've seen it work fine in several countries. We're seeing the usual excuses from idiots and weird accounts in here.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

You think Amazon and Facebook as we know them would have ever been born under a socialist regime?


All of the advances and conveniences we have today were made possible because of capitalism.

It's almost like when you put a lot a money and support behind something, it can come to fruition. If only that was the case for Medicare for all.

and last time I checked, I believed a communist nation sent the first satellite to outer space before America....

He’s economically illiterate

Sankara, a charismatic army captain, came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, in a popularly supported coup. He immediately launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. To symbolize this rebirth, he even renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ‘Land of Upright Men.’ As soon as he took office, he reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of chauffeur-driven Mercedes and 1st class airline tickets. Like many revolutionary leaders, he banned unions, a free press, anything which might stand in the way of his plans for the immediate and radical transformation of society.

He was one of the first to recognize that key to the development of Burkina Faso and Africa was improving the status of women. He was the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions and to recruit them actively for the military. He outlawed forced marriages and encouraged women to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant. He launched a nation-wide public health campaign vaccinating over 2 ½ million people in a week, a world record. He was also one of the first African environmentalists, planting over 10 million trees to retain soil and halt the growing desertification of the Sahel. He promoted local cotton production and even required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in just three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. He started an ambitious road and rail building program to tie the nation together, eschewing any foreign aid by relying on his country’s greatest resource, the energy and commitment of its own people.

This is some damn good economic illiteracy

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

It's almost like when you put a lot a money and support behind something, it can come to fruition. If only that was the case for Medicare for all.

and last time I checked, I believed a communist nation sent the first satellite to outer space before America....





This is some damn good economic illiteracy

So you’re applauding slavery now

Ya a communist nation whose people starved because, like all communist nations, they are o my focused on protecting their business - which is why communist nations only innovations will be in the military sector.

Dude you hate your individuality and you want a big nanny state to provide for you. Cool, move somewhere else

 

[Pressure]

The purpose of representative democracy isn't to give people what's objectively best for them.

The purpose is to allow them to choose. For better or for worse.

 

[Alpha Male]

So you’re applauding slavery now

Ya a communist nation whose people starved because, like all communist nations, they are o my focused on protecting their business - which is why communist nations only innovations will be in the military sector.

Dude you hate your individuality and you want a big nanny state to provide for you. Cool, move somewhere else

most advocates for socialism are lazy bums who depend on others to provide for them...while at the same time being the most selfish and least charitable themselves


“gimme gimme gimme” mentality

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

So you’re applauding slavery now

Ya a communist nation whose people starved because, like all communist nations, they are o my focused on protecting their business - which is why communist nations only innovations will be in the military sector.

Dude you hate your individuality and you want a big nanny state to provide for you. Cool, move somewhere else

But people weren't starving in the example I provided for you, chad.

And where was I applauding slavery like the very nation we sit in isn't built on one of the most heinous acts of slavery the human race ever seen

And like I said, the commies beat us to space, you can't refute that breh

I can even go into detail how the US and other govt's used sanctions to outright starve and block the progress of many other nations for their difference in economic practices if you'd like.

most advocates for socialism are lazy bums who depend on others to provide for them...while at the same time being the most selfish and least charitable themselves


“gimme gimme gimme” mentality

If you're not an entrepreneur, then chances are you also depend on others to provide for you.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

If you're not an entrepreneur, then chances are you also depend on others to provide for you.

Entrepreneur depend on people and the government too. No one is clean of help/welfare.

 

[wtfyomom]

ar you morons here actually arguing for capitalism ?? lmao goddamn yall some fools, everyone likes to say socialism never works, show me where capitalism works ? and no, 1 percent of people being wealthy and everyone else fighting for crumbs does not qualify as "working:

 

[wtfyomom]

socialists want hand outs? all the capitalists here are the ones that literally have everything handed to them, none of them work for shyt, the richest people are all come from inherited money. but then want to tell everyone else theyre lazy, look at our president, awful business man, literally you could not fukk up more than he has in life and yet cause of his network hes the president, thats capitalism and its faling in Europe too, its a wreck

 

[wtfyomom]

dont want to hear no bullshyt about corporatism either, capitalism ALWAYS leads to corporatism. shyt if we gonna get technical we never had a socialist/communist system that wasnt authoritative so how do we know f it works or not ? you cant allow one argument and not the the other

 

[Alpha Male]

ar you morons here actually arguing for capitalism ?? lmao goddamn yall some fools, everyone likes to say socialism never works, show me where capitalism works ? and no, 1 percent of people being wealthy and everyone else fighting for crumbs does not qualify as "working:

sounds like a personal problem

if you’re a bum living on crumbs in America then that’s your choice.

people have come to this country with pennies in their pocket and have become self made millionaires.

what’s your excuse.

 

[wtfyomom]

sounds like a personal problem

if you’re a bum living on crumbs in America then that’s your choice.

people have come to this country with pennies in their pocket and have become self made millionaires.

what’s your excuse.

not personal, statistically speaking. im not speaking on personal finance on here, but if every single person worked their hardest all the time, everyone could be rich? no thats not logically possible. its not a "choice" that doesnt mean you dont put yourself in the best position but thats not what im arguing, you the one putting emotion in it. just like the other idiot saying you have to be lazy to think its good. this current inequality is unsustainable. even if youre a millionaire you should be against it, actually there are some that are, unless youre a billionaire you should think this shyt is dumb.

 

[wtfyomom]

also show me this plethora of pennies to millionaires foh are you black and in this country ? you prob a undercover cac or maybe an african that looks down on american blacks seeing as you mention coming from another country. that shyt aint the fukkin norm

 

[Alpha Male]

not personal, statistically speaking. im not speaking on personal finance on here, but if every single person worked their hardest all the time, everyone could be rich? no thats not logically possible. its not a "choice" that doesnt mean you dont put yourself in the best position but thats not what im arguing, you the one putting emotion in it. just like the other idiot saying you have to be lazy to think its good. this current inequality is unsustainable. even if youre a millionaire you should be against it, actually there are some that are, unless youre a billionaire you should think this shyt is dumb.

if someone wishes to be a billionaire and have 10 houses and 5 yachts, that is their right. if someone wishes to play videogames and post on the coli all day, that is their right.

that's the beauty of america, you have that choice.

 

[Alpha Male]

also show me this plethora of pennies to millionaires foh are you black and in this country ? you prob a undercover cac or maybe an african that looks down on american blacks seeing as you mention coming from another country. that shyt aint the fukkin norm

right, we are not all equal.

some people are smarter than others, more ambitious, more hard working, more creative, more innovative, more determined. naturally those people have an advantage.

it is immoral to suggest that everyone should be equal in terms of the economy regardless of what they contribute.