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Comrades! Behold the glories of correctly applied Socialism! ** -- MasterRusty 04/03/2019 11:13PM Poor people in South America is hardly news, unfortunately. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 1:28PM Does Sean Penn apologize for Maduro? That would be mind blowing. -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 1:02PM Should be impossible, but it's easy to ignore suffering from a distance (bo -- Hoo05Dave 04/03/2019 1:22PM The good news is very few people in the US really favor socialism. -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 3:39PM Not just young people ambivalent about democracy. Saw a segment -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 5:08PM Yep ** -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 5:25PM That is a smart point, how do you explain college/universities and ever -- Wembley 04/03/2019 4:47PM I'm not the right guy to ask, but I have heard a theory - status. -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 5:24PM True. Also what gets called Socialism -- Beerman 04/03/2019 4:27PM Here's a relevant poll/chart- I know the 70s were (or at least are often -- hoodeyo 04/03/2019 3:58PM The 70s would probably look more like 2017, if there were such thing -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 4:05PM The conflation of socialism and Venezuela is laughably simplistic however. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 1:33PM Yes, this failure in socialism is different from all the other failures in -- HokieDan95 04/03/2019 2:32PM Socialism and/or Communism would be GREAT, except for the fatal flaw -- Late 80s Hokie 04/03/2019 2:55PM Two Hokies constructing strawman arguments. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 3:56PM You're more than welcome to explain your belief on what happened in -- HokieDan95 04/04/2019 1:01PM We're good at construction...you lawyers take care of the arguing ** -- Tuckahokie 04/03/2019 4:14PM Some UVA grads are good at engineering, don't let the -- Wembley 04/03/2019 4:18PM And you know how crap gets done every day, do you? Do tell. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 4:48PM I know how to milk a cow. Do you? -- Wembley 04/03/2019 5:00PM No my grandfather didn't have dairy cows, though I did gather eggs, slop -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 7:02PM Still carrying hay bales ----> -- VaTechie 04/04/2019 12:50AM Super useful 100 years ago! ** -- Beerman 04/03/2019 5:44PM No, but he can put gas in the S Class. ** -- Hokieesith 04/03/2019 5:09PM Mmmm...no. If you looked, you'd rarely if ever find me in agreement -- Late 80s Hokie 04/03/2019 4:01PM Or conversely, "enough?" :) ** -- Shenhoo 04/03/2019 7:21PM That's only a question because corporations say it's a question. People -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 4:07PM Along with the other problem of allocating resources. -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 3:29PM By design. Propaganda is better when simple. ** -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 1:36PM Ultimately it is power pal, that's why I posted this here. Socialism -- Wembley 04/03/2019 1:58PM I think you will find that Swedish socialism is a world -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 2:27PM Can you define socialism? I find that most people can't. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 2:01PM For one that started the thread, I see Socialism is dumb people wanting -- Wembley 04/03/2019 3:14PM Nope. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 3:51PM So, no. ** -- southdenverhoo 04/03/2019 3:41PM Another circlejerk, both a no, with no explanation -- Wembley 04/03/2019 4:05PM I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about; I’m seeing a lot of heat -- southdenverhoo 04/03/2019 6:38PM Ok, but what you're talking about, making your own political biases very -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 4:10PM It's because your comment about dumb people wasn't serious. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 4:08PM It might be tongue in cheek but at least it is a point -- Wembley 04/03/2019 4:10PM LOL! I'm not a lawyer, man. What am I defending though? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 4:46PM As many guilty on the left of this as well. -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 2:11PM Good point. "Exchange" is the better word. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 3:50PM I didn't say left or right. I said "most people." And I happen to agree -- Seattle .Hoo 04/03/2019 2:20PM Venezuela comes pretty close. 80% of enterprises might have been privately -- hoolstoptheheels 04/03/2019 3:49PM I understand you didn't say left/right...i just figured that's where this -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 2:54PM My Swedish friends consider themselves to be -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 2:29PM Well my parents don't know why I take my brother -- Wembley 04/03/2019 3:21PM Not sure how we got here. Is this the same debate? ** -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 3:29PM Doesn't Sweden rank higher than most countries on economic freedom? -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 2:58PM Honestly, this whole discussion is a bit silly because there isn't a single -- WahooRQ 04/03/2019 3:46PM Agree, which is why i said it's more a movement along a spectrum, rather -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 5:22PM It is a fool's errand to try to pick out specific policies for -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 3:28PM But haven't you proven the opposite is true, as well? -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 3:37PM Sure. But can't American Exceptionalism pick and choose the -- HoosWillWin 04/03/2019 3:45PM I'm not sure applying a "best practices" approach to -- Folly Beach Hokie 04/03/2019 5:35PM Kind of funny (to me at least) recent application of the "socialist brush"- -- hoodeyo 04/03/2019 4:12PM Well, if people who say things like "socialism doesn't work" simply mean -- WahooRQ 04/03/2019 2:19PM I just saw her photos/videos and she has a weird way of being honest -- Wembley 04/03/2019 1:14PM Don’t you just hate it when the help takes a vacation? -- BambooHoo 04/03/2019 12:52PM And it is amazing how much you learn how socialism doesn't work -- Wembley 04/03/2019 12:56PM Neither socialism nor capitalism work very well in poor countries with -- WahooRQ 04/03/2019 1:10PM That's the strange thing, agriculturally they aren't poor, from an energy -- Wembley 04/03/2019 1:33PM Of course it's well worth it to keep trying ** -- HokieDan95 04/03/2019 12:40PM Not surprise, churches usually do the work, just not Catholics ** -- VaTechie 04/03/2019 12:38PM We split between 2nd Baptist and St. Mary's Episcopal in R'mond -- Wembley 04/03/2019 12:45PM