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re: Socialist supporters are merely failures under capitalism....

Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:28 pm to
Posted by The Torch
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:28 pm to
A lot of them are also highly educated in fields that don’t pay so they think it’s “The Man’s” fault that they suck at life.


Liberal arts degrees should pay as much as engineering to these people.

Posted by kingbob
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:29 pm to
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The reason socialism is becoming so powerful is that working people are supporting it because they can't keep up and are being sold an alternative.


This thread makes for strange bedfellows as you have hit the nail on the head.

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That's a complete lie. Look at all the blue haired losers at rallies.....you freaks are trying hard to spin this though.


I don’t know about the people at rallies on FoxNews. I am talking about the people I know personally. I don’t know a lot of people who don’t work. I know folks that are underemployed, sure, but I don’t know many folks who just sit on their arse and collect a check.
This post was edited on 9/24/26 at 8:31 pm
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:31 pm to
As one of the few free market guys left on here who has always criticized Trump for his leftist economic policies, I understand the allure of the selling point for the working class.

What you're going to see on here, I imagine, is mostly going to be NPCs projecting caricatures they've been fed via the echo chamber. Because that's what partisan brain rot does.
Posted by Powerman
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:32 pm to
The "socialist" movement in the country is still more of a free market movement than the traditional socialist movement.

They think that the balance of power has shifted too far away from the common worker and to the elite. And the math says that on that point that they're absolutely right.
Posted by kingbob
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Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:33 pm to
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The "socialist" movement in the country is still more of a free market movement than the traditional socialist movement.


They might give lip service to that, but it’s really not. These are Maoists. They’re a lot closer to Pol Pot than Scandinavia.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:35 pm to
Right.

It’s like all the retards, nerds, and frickup band together against the smaller group of cool kids to elect a prom queen that’s not a cool kid.

What they don’t understand is that even if they win, they are still retards, nerds, and frickups.
Posted by Powerman
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:36 pm to
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They might give lip service to that, but it’s really not. These are Maoists. They’re a lot closer to Pol Pot than Scandinavia.

And you would comfortably apply this observation to the ones you know in your personal life that you mentioned?
Posted by oldskule
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:37 pm to
I dont know any pronounced socialists....but do know plenty of libs that prolly are closet socialists. Mainly because I choose my friends carefully.

I do know this: their agenda WILL FAIL!

Posted by RohanGonzales
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:38 pm to
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you should find better acquaintances


defend your comrades!
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:38 pm to
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It’s like all the retards, nerds, and frickup band together against the smaller group of cool kids to elect a prom queen that’s not a cool kid.

What they don’t understand is that even if they win, they are still retards, nerds, and frickups.

If you know anything about life and I'm sure that you do, it's not always "the cool kids" from high school that go on to be successful.
Posted by Powerman
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:39 pm to
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I dont know any pronounced socialists....

Then maybe you're exactly the wrong person to be making such proclamations.

Did that ever occur to you?
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:41 pm to
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If you know anything about life and I'm sure that you do, it's not always "the cool kids" from high school that go on to be successful.


Most don’t grow up to be liberal America haters neither
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:41 pm to
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Then maybe you're exactly the wrong person to be making such proclamations.

Did that ever occur to you?


You sound very invested in people's opinions of socialists.

Tell us about the good ones you know. Why are all the people who represent them pieces of shite?
Posted by kingbob
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Member since Nov 2010
71481 posts
Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:42 pm to
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And you would comfortably apply this observation to the ones you know in your personal life that you mentioned?


Yes, yes I would.

I think politicians severely underestimate just how much the youth want to kill the ruling class. This is a bipartisan belief, btw. The socialists and MAGA youth actually have a shockingly large amount in common outside of wedge social issues like trans, abortion rights, and immigration.

Before you ask, I am friends with peoples of all walks of life, all political stripes, just not many people of wealth.
This post was edited on 9/24/26 at 8:44 pm
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:45 pm to
If the RINOS were eliminated, and Reps got out and voted, we would have a much better agenda ongoing....

DEMS vote for free money, that is what motivates them!

REPS vote for common sense and a peaceful, productive life!
Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:45 pm to
The fact that a socialist movement is getting this much traction demonstrates the utter failure that is crony capitalism.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:47 pm to
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Socialist supporters are merely failures under capitalism....

And they march in lockstep.


Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
175955 posts
Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:47 pm to
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Before you ask, I am friends with peoples of all walks of life, all political stripes, just not many people of wealth.

Certainly nothing wrong with that. Same here.

And as you said, many of them despite being political opposites share a lot of the same concerns. They just have different ideas about how to reconcile the issues.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
71481 posts
Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:47 pm to
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The fact that a socialist movement is getting this much traction demonstrates the utter failure that is crony capitalism.


Bingo. And that’s a hat trick of weird posters for me to be in agreement with in one thread.
Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
63380 posts
Posted on 9/24/26 at 8:48 pm to
It’s been a really long day for me and I can’t figure out if you’re insulting me or not.
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