Mr Percent; I'm curious to know how you would have inside knowledge that there exists "no evidence". Are you a member of the defense team? A member of the media? I would be interested to know since there seems to be only one side of this equation that is broadcasting that there is "no evidence". What is the source or supportive data for your conclusion?
Mr Percent; Your #1 statement would be true, communism is not politcal by nature, it is an economic system and Russia is no longer a communist entity. The current system in place there would be plutocratic with strong overtures of being authoritarian and totalitarian. Your #2 statement reminds of right wing dogma whereby those on the right subjected to intense conditioning and indoctrination have been taught to conflate "socialism" with "communism" when in fact, they are two differnt things. I would gather from the tenor of your statements that you would be against both of them, however, the United States has been socialistic in its nature for decades and we have examples of it all around us. In fact, it is why We the People have been able to have many of the things that our society enjoys now. The highway systems, police and fire are common examples of socialism at work. Our military, no matter if one goes along with the manner in which it is currently being used (or misused) is probably the single largest example of a socialist undertaking in the history of the world. I would urge you to seek out the article "How Socialism built America". I'm certain you can find it online. While I enjoy reading about various political or economic systems of countries around the world, I enjoy them the most when they are properly represented, I'm not much inclined toward bluster be it from the right or left.
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Juan, you are absolutely correct. If ever there was a charismatic "leader" who tried to divide our country with anti-white racism, who could not be criticized or wrong because he was black, who controlled with his phone, pen, and freebies-it was good old empty suit obama-still untouchable because of his race and leftist goals.
Marc, in Socialist countries, by definition, the government owns the means of production. Look it up. You're talking about something else, but it isn't socialism.
American Heritage dictionary: socialism (sōˈshə-lĭzˌəm)►
n. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
n. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
What is the sense of trading a few temporary mining jobs for the most beautiful, clean, wilderness that millions of tourists seek to visit every year? Haven’t we caused enough harm to this earth already? Is it man’s nature to corrupt everything beautiful and good?
Way to go Todd!! I'm glad to be able to call you a friend for all of those years since high school days and see your talents being enjoyed by everyone who is lucky enough to see you perform!!
I loved this movie. I want to comment on one of the messages that said too bad that they didn’t have enough backbone. This was the deep South were blacks and whites didn’t intermingle and when they did they were killed by the KKK. It really had nothing to do with that bone it had to do with surviving. I think that reader needs to know their history before making comments like that. Other than that I think the movie was remarkable
The same thing happened to my major at UWS. They should’ve never even offered it by the time I was enrolled. By the way, every student is supposed to be entitled to an advisor. It’s just a standard courtesy to guide the students through the educational system.
Mr. Percent, well, well, well. Looks like we are going down the literal path and that's alright. Your copy and paste skills are solid and if we are discussing the old Soviet style communism/socialism, your pasted dictionary definition is most correct. However, I also believe you know exactly what I was referring to in my post which is that of the American right wingers wont to conflate the two. If you want to be more precise that's ok, Soviet style communism/socialism will NEVER take root here and thats pretty much a fact. Socialism via social democracy style progressivism has and will continue to grow here. The right wants to cast that into a negative light because they favor a world whereby the elites have and are in control of everything and the masses get to attempt to live off of their crumbs. (trickle down disaster) As the elites suck up more and more of the peoples treasure with their hypodermic needle known as their global war machine, phony war on terror etc, the less chance that the people willl get any basic neccessities back from their hard earned tax revenues in the form of healthcare, education and the like. Isn't it ironic that we can afford to roam the globe and kill people, but we can't afford to take care of our own citizens....
Gary, at this moment in History you might with to be concerned with actual violent people, today, those people are 'ANTI-FA.' Your NAZI straw man does not exist. How much violence are you willing to accept from your leftist goons before you acknowledge they have gone to far?
An interesting thing about History, Ed, - when 10 people witness an event, you get 10 different interpretations. Those are events that are fresh in peoples memories. Do you think that with history we ever get anything that closely resembles what happened in the past? Who writes history? Who mines history? Can we both agree that this pursuit is a waste of time?
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