@TheInterlooper Slander does not apply to textual interchanges, since the words are not spoken.

@FrancoFran He is still incorrect. If one wishes to debate (argue?) one must be correct.

@FrancoFran Precisely. @TheInterlooper should have used "libel".
I am a language pedant!

@FrancoFran Neither is particularly 'communist' Korea is a fascist dictatorship, Cuba gave up communism 30 +/- years ago.
oh, if only you took one moment to think instead of as usual posting drivel.

@FrancoFran Wrong.
Venezuela is not a communist country. Its government is a federal presidential constitutional republic. The citizens of Venezuela are able to own businesses for profit. In a communist country, the government maintains control over all businesses and economic ventures.

@Petter Clearly this idiot wouldn't recognize 'communism' if he fell on it (hopefully it was razor-sharp pointy, but i digress..)

@TheInterlooper You are so ignorant that you don't know who your real enemy is, neither did the violent Jan. 6 insurgents.

“Give people pride and they’ll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgment, our moral and esthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoleon, Hitler [Trump] or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is distinction in suffering, we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure." - Eric Hoffer

@FrancoFran but you'd feel right at home. J Edgar Hoover and Joseph Mc Carthy would love to meet you, another Commie hater.

I don't suppose in your simplistic binary capitalism/ communism mind that you've ever studied political philosophy at all, like the spectrum that ranges from old communism ( mostly gone ), and social democracy, democratic socialism ( mixed economies) through to oligarchic and authoritarianism capitalism, you know, like America, a country which actually practices corporate socialism? ( like now, bailing out banks, and 2008). No, I guess you haven't. People like you never do. A simple binary world is all that's needed for some.

@TheInterlooper you neither read properly, nor understand the subject, so pointless engaging with you.

@TheInterlooper idiot. He's talking about the American ruling class and it's hegemony over Americans through manufactured consent. Like criticising it, get it?

@TheInterlooper you are lost and ignorant at the same time.

@FrancoFran "Capitalists respect all people's beliefs, communists indoctrinate kids in public schools and teach them to be gay liberals"..."One nation under God"

Flint Michigan

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@FrancoFran I am going to assume that you actually believe that, even though you never put up any links to real information. But then again anyone who supports a traitor like Trump will believe anything.
So I have this bridge you can buy really cheap.

@FrancoFran Sorry but if you had actually got your GED, you might know that the onus is on the proposer of a statement, not the questioner. For example, I can say "It is a myth that only 20% of US citizens own a passport. The true figure is 37%" and if questioned (which it might well be), I provide a link. If it was a book, I would use a footnote, quoting sources.
[today.yougov.com]
This is how a reasoned argument is presented. Now you can attack the source of my information and its accuracy/bias but you had better have some counter sources to back you up.
The burden of proof also grows greater the more extraordinary the claim. eg. If I say I have spiders in my basement, well that's no biggie and most people will let that slide. But if I say I have Bigfoot in my basement, you would want some heavy proof...right?
Bold statements without any kind of proof are just hot air and you are just some bozo mouthing off. Unfortunately, too large a percentage of Americans were willing to give credence to bozo number one ie 45 and when the hot air machine told you the big lie you helped him piss on your flag and constitution. If you had stopped to think critically for a moment, then America would not be the laughing stock it now is.

Ps. I originally thought it was only 20% of US citizens had a passport but the facts I looked up for this comment changed my mind. Facts matter.

@FrancoFran Thanks to people like you, it is no wonder that the USA is so screwed up, with a few multi-billionaires, millions of people in poverty and comparatively few in between the two extremes.

@TheInterlooper Really? Only government intervention, which forced the break-up of the big oil companies, prevented them becoming huge monopolies, larger and richer than the US government itself.
It is the reason why there are anti-monopoly laws, still forcing the break-up of corporations, which give the lie to your claim. In a truly free market economy nations would not exist, only massive corporate conglomerations hell bent on profit.