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I don't think the Fox anchor was comfortable letting her panelist answer the way he wanted to, but he did a pretty good job getting his point out despite her interruptions at key points.

"I actually made the largest contribution allowable ($2,700) to the campaign of Bernie Sanders"

"REALLY??"

"WHY?!?"

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HEARTHUNTER

Oh my god, that news anchor is dumb :saladga:

A democrat-socialist regime would be amazing for the USA sincerely.

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Voltaire
Just now, HEARTHUNTER said:

Oh my god, that news anchor is dumb :saladga:

A democrat-socialist regime would be amazing for the USA sincerely.

A shift away from greed driven politics and power-playing with dictatorships would be a wonderful start.

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Iwontell

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IS NOT SOCIALISM!!! For crying out loud!
Seriously, does that anchor have ANY idea what she's talking about?

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HEARTHUNTER
Just now, Voltaire said:

A shift away from greed driven politics and power-playing with dictatorships would be a wonderful start.

I hope that it's definitely a road to the ban of lobbying as well, that's when things will be more interesting!

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PartySick
10 minutes ago, HEARTHUNTER said:

Oh my god, that news anchor is dumb :saladga:

A democrat-socialist regime would be amazing for the USA sincerely.

The most prospering and happiest countries are democratic socialist countries, no?

You'd think they could take a hint. A country that puts its citizens above everything else is a country that thrives.

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Alcina Dimitrescu

Explain socialism omg nvm abort abort what did i do :air:

cackling.

Yeah, venezuelan socialism (And the typical dictatorship socialism) isnt actual socialism. It's communism. The idea of communism by Marx is nice but sadly its utopian

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HEARTHUNTER
Just now, PartySick said:

The most prospering and happiest countries are democratic socialist countries, no?

You'd think they could take a hint. A country that puts its citizens above everything else is a country that thrives.

That's why I want to move to Sweden :giveup:

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PartySick
2 minutes ago, HEARTHUNTER said:

That's why I want to move to Sweden :giveup:

I think I want to go to Denmark since, apparently, a lot of people there speak English. So while I'm learning Danish I won't have too bad of a language barrier :neyde: but Sweden is amazing too :giveup: take me with you :giveup:

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Aura Veil

She was afraid that he was going to educate her audience. Faux News is a joke. 

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OmgSum1Actually

There are three types of socialism 

1 reformist socialism

2 revolutionary socialism - communism

3 utopian socialism

Scandinavian countries are those with reformist socialism.

 

Btw communism is a good idea with bad execution, something like ARTPOP..

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LebaneseDude
1 hour ago, HEARTHUNTER said:

Oh my god, that news anchor is dumb :saladga:

A democrat-socialist regime would be amazing for the USA sincerely.

Tell that to the European countries (and Japan) with this system currently facing huge economic problems.

Socialism is nice and all but it doesn't function well in a world where imperfect humans exist.

There is always going to be corruption.

There are always going to be leeches and essentially useless people in society who do not contribute remotely enough compared to what they receive. In the same vein, the ratio of retired to employed people is rapidly increasing. This poses a problem to many well-developed countries.

There are always going to be financial disparities given how current systems work (professions related to media will always make $$$$$$ for example).

etc...

 

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LebaneseDude
1 hour ago, Voltaire said:

A shift away from greed driven politics 

Kind of idyllic don't you think?

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Voltaire
Just now, LebaneseDude said:

Kind of idyllic don't you think?

I wouldn't call a "shift away" from something like lobbying and massive corporate political donations "idyllic". I'd call it "exactly what a democratic society should be doing".

You can't eliminate money and power influences, but you can certainly impede them rather than embrace them. Bernie Sanders has at least gone so far as to show that a campaign can be financed without them- I'd say that's a clear step in the right direction.  Repealing Citizens United would be another. The DNC re-instating the limits Obama put in place, that they just removed weeks ago, would be another.

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Just now, Voltaire said:

I wouldn't call a "shift away" from something like lobbying and massive corporate political donations "idyllic". I'd call it "exactly what a democratic society should be doing".

You can't eliminate money and power influences, but you can certainly impede them rather than embrace them. 

I agree.

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