Mayor de Blasio Says Wealth Is ‘in the Wrong Hands,’ Pledges to Redistribute It

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  1. struth

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    No thanks, I have worked to hard...trust me it’s easier then simply collecting a check
     
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    No. It is a direct attack on the authoritarians in USSR. Orwell loved the leftists there
     
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    As you wish
     
  4. struth

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    He must certainly did not like Statinb et al. The leftist there. Yes leftist are authoritarians. They are one in the same
     
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    Not to Orwell. And not to me. Fo you know Orwell risked his life fighting for the leftists during the Spanish civil war?
     
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    Nonnie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So why not become a company gimp yourself.
     
  7. struth

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    He fought for the Republicans...supports of the Spanish Republic against Franco. Yes, it was easy to want to fight against the horrors caused by Franco
     
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    His book was specifically against stalinism.
     
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    Which has nothing to do with socialism which no one can deny he loved
     
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    They were left wing socialists to be clear
     
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    Stainism is a form of socialism. Just like the failed Maoism, and Marxism. He did like the theory of democratic socialism...but after Venezuela, I’d think he’d see how the theory was wrong and no different then the rest
     
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    Wrong. Both the national socialists, and the soviet socialists were being socialists.
     
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    No again you are wrong. Stalinism is a form of authoritarianism and fascism.

    He would marvel at present day Norway
     
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    Not according to Orwell or myself or many many other people
     
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    Actually is a multi-party republic
     
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    Mot according to Orwell. Lol
     
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    They are paying their taxes, they almost 90% of the taxes and as we are seeing now supply-side works. More jobs than people to fill them, income increases we haven't seen in a decade, labor force participation rate turning around as those who have been out of the work place returning. THAT'S who you better the lot of the lower income groups NOT by taxing those at the top.
     
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    "That wasn't real socialism" isn't a defense.

    You don't get to ignore socialists being socialists because you don't like the outcome.
     
  19. struth

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    No, Stalin was a friend of Lenin and part of the October Revolution. Look at his economic policies...clear socialism. I agree hard sometimes to see a difference between his socialism and that of the national Socialist.

    He would because Nordic countries aren’t democratic socialist
     
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    That's nice that they were friends. No one claims stalin was democratic socialism.

    No one
     
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    Sure I do. Is every capitalist country a success? Sudan?
     
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    LOL the vast majority of those MILLIONS are lazy, ****twits who can't be bothered to do a honest day's work. While I am college educated I ran out of money and I still have to take 3 classes yet to get my degree (after two years I switched from engineering to economics) so technically I don't have a degree yet. I am still pulling down over 40k. I did this through hard work and making sure that I work for a company that appreciates my efforts. I have worked for crappy companies before and you know what I did, I ****ing quite and got a better job. Its not that hard in fact its really easy to do. The problem with a lot of people is that instead of trying to better themselves they just sit around and bitch about it. Whiny little bitchy losers who blame everyone else for their pathetic lives and the fact that they are complete failures and useless human beings. I have been surrounded by those types of idiots and lazy morons my entire life. I have zero sympathy for those useless pieces of human feces.
     
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    No just a socialist. They didn’t have to try and disguise their names then
     
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    But not a democratic socialist which is what I and Bernie Sanders support.

    You do know this?
     
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    There is no difference as Hugo Chavez showed us. Same end results
     
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