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    CNN Says Socialism Is ‘Cool’ In MLK Day Tweet




    No. 2: He was a socialist before it was cool

    There was a time in American politics when calling someone a socialist was a slur. Not anymore, at least for many younger Americans who are developing a distrust of capitalism.
    One of the most popular politicians in recent times is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist who almost captured the Democratic nomination for president. A 2016 Harvard University poll said 51% of young Americans — 18- to-29-year-olds — oppose capitalism. And a poll conducted the next year by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that most American millennials preferred to live in a socialist country than a capitalist one.
    The reasons why some millennials prefer socialism have been documented. Lingering scars from the Great Recession; staggering student debt; the greatest economic inequality since before the Great Depression — all have contributed to an unease about capitalism.
    I hate both CNN and Martin Luther King. http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/us/mlk...ay0630AMVODtop

    The US needs to scrap un-American holidays like Labor Day and MLK Day.



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    I'm against socialism but I do think there should be a UBI

    and free health care
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    Trump thinks socialism is cool too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    I'm against socialism but I do think there should be a UBI

    and free health care
    It’d be nice if Texans were provided secondary education too.
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    With socialism all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Unfortunately most animals are doomed to be extremely poor without any possibility of creating their own relief, such as exists with capitalism.
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    Question of the thread

    Why would anyone expect CNN to say otherwise?

    It's CNN. it's who they are. This is not a surprise or NEWS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Question of the thread

    Why would anyone expect CNN to say otherwise?

    It's CNN. it's who they are. This is not a surprise or NEWS.
    It is relevant because today is MLK day. And for some reason the world shuts down to honor a guy who wanted to make America much less free than it is even now.

    It is news because a major network referring to socialism as cool is more repugnant than anything Donald Trump has said in the last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post
    It is relevant because today is MLK day. And for some reason the world shuts down to honor a guy who wanted to make America much less free than it is even now.

    It is news because a major network referring to socialism as cool is more repugnant than anything Donald Trump has said in the last year.
    Oh,, hadn't really noticed.. (other than RP 's post on FB)
    just another Monday.

    CNN is crap everyday.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    It’d be nice if Texans were provided secondary education too.
    I agree, high school should be free for everybody

    high school diploma is basically mandatory if you want a good career like TSA screener or similar
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Question of the thread

    Why would anyone expect CNN to say otherwise?

    It's CNN. it's who they are. This is not a surprise or NEWS.
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    They're going to have to do a helluva lot better than 51% amongst the college-aged/20-somethings before socialism takes root in this country. Hell, I was a $#@!ing socialist in college. I'm pleasantly surprised the percentage is that low in 2018. Many if not most of those kids are gonna grow up, get taxed and get good and tired of it, just like many of us did.

    There's little doubt in my cynical view that the country is trending in the wrong way, but CNN is jumping the shark, in my opinion. They're as much a victim of social media as the rest of us - they're banking on what I believe/hope is a short-term oeuvre, and forgetting that the great leftist tide tends to subside once those kids grow up, start to become economically successful and start paying a noticeable amount in taxes. And what's more? We're having fewer and fewer kids with each successive generation... which means the population *should* become more and more "conservative" (not that this is necessarily a good thing overall, but probably good with regard to the advance of "socialism", as it were).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post
    It is relevant because today is MLK day. And for some reason the world shuts down to honor a guy who wanted to make America much less free than it is even now.

    It is news because a major network referring to socialism as cool is more repugnant than anything Donald Trump has said in the last year.
    100% agree.



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    If socialism is so cool, why are the Haitians not fleeing to Venezuela?

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    From the CNN reporter who called socialism cool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post


    From the CNN reporter who called socialism cool.
    Welp, there's no arguing with that brand and strength of stupid.

    And there are a lot more of them than us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cleaner44 View Post
    With socialism all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Unfortunately most animals are doomed to be extremely poor without any possibility of creating their own relief, such as exists with capitalism.
    The problem is that what MLK was speaking of was NOT capitalism. True capitalism is freedom and few Americans know or understand this.

    The name has been stolen and is now used for what is really crony-capitalism or mercantilism. And was one of the main reasons for the Revolution.
    There is no spoon.

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    The guy who defended socialized medicine in the Republican debate won the presidency, the guy who won the democrat primary was a socialist and had the primary stolen. Liberty is not popular.

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    Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist
    What a blithering moran! This is like saying I am a Democratic Democrat. Dumb old buffoon he is.

    Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that most American millennials preferred to live in a socialist country than a capitalist one.
    WTF!? Socialism inevitably leads to communism, which leads to both mass-democide and genocide. We are suppose to learn from history, not become dumbed down to then repeat it.

    Socialism: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

    Communism: a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
    the Great Recession; staggering student debt; the greatest economic inequality since before the Great Depression
    These were all brought about by inherently socialist policies--which permeates America's present neo-capitalist system.

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    Oh and being socialist isn't cool, it is bloody dumb as $#@!. Good thing America is a constitutional REPUBLIC, we just need to work on keeping out all of the crazy though.
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