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on degrees the country DOES NOT value."

"They spent $200,000 on a women's studies degree [meanwhile] plumbers and electricians are driving better cars and making MORE money."

"They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."
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"Accidental Mismanagement" :rofl:

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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 4:16 pm "Accidental Mismanagement" :rofl:

That's :dunce:

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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 4:16 pm "Accidental Mismanagement" :rofl:

Lol some libtard :dunce: Evan is. Grokking it for deaths responsible for:
Hitler : 17 million.
Stalin 10-20 million.
Mao: 40-80 million.

Hassan Parker admires a commie that was FAR worse than Hitler or Stalin, responsible for more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined.
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BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 6:03 pm
Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 4:16 pm "Accidental Mismanagement" :rofl:

Lol some libtard :dunce: Evan is. Grokking it for deaths responsible for:
Hitler : 17 million.
Stalin 10-20 million.
Mao: 40-80 million.

Hassan Parker admires a commie that was FAR worse than Hitler or Stalin, responsible for more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined.
Mamdani's old man wrote a book saying Idi Amin was a misunderstood anti-colonial modernizer. Why do the worst people in today's society always seem to gravitate towards the worst figures that history have to offer?
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BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 2:53 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 11:59 am
Exactly.
-AOC ie Sandy from Westchester,
-Mamcommie,
-The crazy commie DSA chick in NYC,
-Michigan Mancommie,
etc, etc, etc, all grew up uppper middle class to wealthy, and all are wealthy now.
I forgot about Platner. Grew up in an upper middle class family.

85% white, grew up mostly upper middle class to wealthy, disproportionately elite universities/colleges with advanced degrees. Angry at being largely unsuccessful in life, so the fault must lie with the system.
I love this post so much! And on so many levels! :lol:

BTW…what’s unsuccessful about being in Congress or mayor of NYC? You seem to be confused or maybe resentful here? :lol:
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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 10:25 am
kalm wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2026 9:24 am

:lol:

I was chuckling as I wrote it. Gwenyth’s vagina candles? C’mon…!

And the bias or ineptitude of your new sources is shining through. Dem establishment is apoplectic over the incursion from the left. They are throwing money at and endorsing washed up or aged out candidates like Janet Mills. You could even say the same thing with Biden and then Harris. The Dem civil war is raging.

Lastly, can you crawl up the ass of failed neo-liberalism any further? Do you have any idea at all of the impacts of monopolies and political power consolidation. We’ve been seeing it in real time for most of my life right through to today and the broligarchs.

Go neo-feudalism! :clap:
Isn't it beautiful when they eat their own? :lol:
There is no doubt that there is a Donk Civil War, and it is beautiful, but Schumer and other 'mainstream' Donks endorsed Platner and others like him. These people are trying to play both sides and look ridiculous doing so.

I'm so sorry the the market economy and capitalism hurts your feelings so much. Maybe you would be happier in Cuba or North Korea. I hear both have great health care and schools. :lol:
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So now there’s no doubt of the civil war?

Is this you?
Surprisingly, the Donks are more than happy (for now) to let them take over.
Schumer and Dem establishment backed Platner only after Mills gave up. So about a month? Otherwise they were opposed to Platner. They’re corporatists just like the conks.

I hope that you’re joking about Cuba’s healthcare and education. :suspicious:

Capitalism has been very good to me. Market economies are great when they’re properly regulated and operate on a level playing field that protects competition from monopolistic practices. We used to have one of those.

Realistically though, we have a mixed economy like every other successful nation on earth. Thought you might like to know.
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BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 3:59 pm Lol the overwhelmingly white, racist, elitist DSA has a ‘people of color’ and blue collar worker problem.
Students/Unemployed/Disabled: 23%
These entitled, spoiled rotten retarded assholes have never done a days work in their miserable life….

I’ve been asking the TDS crowd what good ideas have the Democrats suggested over the past several years and the answer is always ….. none…… but Trump is there answer for everything

The Lunacy is being orchestrated from somewhere
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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 8:27 pm
BDKJMU wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 6:03 pm
Lol some libtard :dunce: Evan is. Grokking it for deaths responsible for:
Hitler : 17 million.
Stalin 10-20 million.
Mao: 40-80 million.

Hassan Parker admires a commie that was FAR worse than Hitler or Stalin, responsible for more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined.
Mamdani's old man wrote a book saying Idi Amin was a misunderstood anti-colonial modernizer. Why do the worst people in today's society always seem to gravitate towards the worst figures that history have to offer?
Like putin and kim jong?
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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 10:12 pm
Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 10:25 am
Isn't it beautiful when they eat their own? :lol:
There is no doubt that there is a Donk Civil War, and it is beautiful, but Schumer and other 'mainstream' Donks endorsed Platner and others like him. These people are trying to play both sides and look ridiculous doing so.

I'm so sorry the the market economy and capitalism hurts your feelings so much. Maybe you would be happier in Cuba or North Korea. I hear both have great health care and schools. :lol:
:suspicious:

So now there’s no doubt of the civil war?

Is this you?
Surprisingly, the Donks are more than happy (for now) to let them take over.
Schumer and Dem establishment backed Platner only after Mills gave up. So about a month? Otherwise they were opposed to Platner. They’re corporatists just like the conks.

I hope that you’re joking about Cuba’s healthcare and education. :suspicious:

Capitalism has been very good to me. Market economies are great when they’re properly regulated and operate on a level playing field that protects competition from monopolistic practices. We used to have one of those.

Realistically though, we have a mixed economy like every other successful nation on earth. Thought you might like to know.
Yep, that's me. It's just the Donks being Cucks. Letting the communists in sheeps clothing slowly take over their party without a fight...for now.

It was a joke. No matter what their propaganda says, Cuba certainly does not have first world health care nor education.

You bet your ass Capitalism has been very good to you, but you seem to not want to realize that Bernie, Mamdani, and their fellow DSA psychos you admire aren't and want to eradicate it.
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Baldy wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 4:16 pm "Accidental Mismanagement" :rofl:

It wasn't anywhere close to that many!

I had a really bad PR dept! C'mon man!
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Tuberville makes Louis Gommert look like a Mensa candidate.

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Baldy wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 4:12 pm
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2026 10:12 pm :suspicious:

So now there’s no doubt of the civil war?

Is this you?



Schumer and Dem establishment backed Platner only after Mills gave up. So about a month? Otherwise they were opposed to Platner. They’re corporatists just like the conks.

I hope that you’re joking about Cuba’s healthcare and education. :suspicious:

Capitalism has been very good to me. Market economies are great when they’re properly regulated and operate on a level playing field that protects competition from monopolistic practices. We used to have one of those.

Realistically though, we have a mixed economy like every other successful nation on earth. Thought you might like to know.
Yep, that's me. It's just the Donks being Cucks. Letting the communists in sheeps clothing slowly take over their party without a fight...for now.

It was a joke. No matter what their propaganda says, Cuba certainly does not have first world health care nor education.

You bet your ass Capitalism has been very good to you, but you seem to not want to realize that Bernie, Mamdani, and their fellow DSA psychos you admire aren't and want to eradicate it.
It was obvious to everyone… you even used an emoji to remove any doubt

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kalm wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 7:07 pm Tuberville makes Louis Gommert look like a Mensa candidate.

The democrat party has a communism problem.
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BDKJMU wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:27 am
kalm wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 7:07 pm Tuberville makes Louis Gommert look like a Mensa candidate.

The democrat party has a communism problem.
So does the Republican Party. In several ways. :lol:
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BDKJMU wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:27 am
kalm wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 7:07 pm Tuberville makes Louis Gommert look like a Mensa candidate.

The democrat party has a communism problem.
You're both right.

The Republican Party has a fascism problem and the Democratic Party has a communisim problem.
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Americans — including many Republicans — are losing faith in capitalism, polling shows
But the larger story in American politics right now might be less the rise of socialism than the decline of faith in capitalism and economic fairness.

And new polling reinforces that even the right is growing more disillusioned.

A recent Fox News poll echoes Gallup data from last year in a key way: It shows views of socialism improving modestly, at best, but views of capitalism dropping more significantly.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find data that better speaks to Americans' apparent growing disillusionment with our economic system.


And that's hardly the only data pointing in this direction:
  • Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even "somewhat" well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll.
  • 61% of Americans said they were bothered "a lot" by the feeling that the wealthy don't pay their fair share in taxes, per a Pew Research Center poll in January. That included 41% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.
  • The same poll showed another 60% overall — and 42% of Republican-inclined voters — said the same about some corporations paying their fair share.
  • And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to the Gallup data.
Given all of that, it's easy to see why candidates promising to overhaul the economic system — whether that's labeled socialism or something else — might have increasing appeal to American voters.

And it goes a long way toward explaining how, despite socialism and democratic socialism remaining pretty unpopular, some of the politicians who have polled best nationally happen to be democratic socialists.
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UNI88 wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 10:54 am Americans — including many Republicans — are losing faith in capitalism, polling shows
But the larger story in American politics right now might be less the rise of socialism than the decline of faith in capitalism and economic fairness.

And new polling reinforces that even the right is growing more disillusioned.

A recent Fox News poll echoes Gallup data from last year in a key way: It shows views of socialism improving modestly, at best, but views of capitalism dropping more significantly.
...
You'd be hard-pressed to find data that better speaks to Americans' apparent growing disillusionment with our economic system.


And that's hardly the only data pointing in this direction:
  • Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even "somewhat" well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll.
  • 61% of Americans said they were bothered "a lot" by the feeling that the wealthy don't pay their fair share in taxes, per a Pew Research Center poll in January. That included 41% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.
  • The same poll showed another 60% overall — and 42% of Republican-inclined voters — said the same about some corporations paying their fair share.
  • And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to the Gallup data.
Given all of that, it's easy to see why candidates promising to overhaul the economic system — whether that's labeled socialism or something else — might have increasing appeal to American voters.

And it goes a long way toward explaining how, despite socialism and democratic socialism remaining pretty unpopular, some of the politicians who have polled best nationally happen to be democratic socialists.
Like I’ve said all along it’s not an either or proposition. All advanced countries have mixed economies. The real argument is over priorities. The working class and majority of Americans vs. the wealthy.
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kalm wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 11:56 am
Like I’ve said all along it’s not an either or proposition. All advanced countries have mixed economies. The real argument is over priorities. The working class and majority of Americans vs. the wealthy.
You're not wrong. Too many capitalists are spending their time attacking anything they perceive as socialism rather then attempting to address the real issues that are causing people to warm to socialism.
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Elon Musk is living proof Capitalism works
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GOD wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 12:40 pm Elon Musk is living proof Capitalism works
Stick to theology.
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kalm wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:04 pm
STERQUILINUS wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 12:40 pm Elon Musk is living proof Capitalism works
Stick to theology.
He is. He hasn't specifically told us which god he is but he's Sterquilinus. Throwing out sh!t like this is well within his realm of responsibilities.
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UNI88 wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:10 pm
kalm wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:04 pm

Stick to theology.
He is. He hasn't specifically told us which god he is but he's Sterquilinus. Throwing out sh!t like this is well within his realm of responsibilities.
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kalm wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 11:56 am
Like I’ve said all along it’s not an either or proposition. All advanced countries have mixed economies. The real argument is over priorities. The working class and majority of Americans vs. the wealthy.
You and your strawmen.

The point is Mamdani, Bernie, the DSA and the like DO NOT want mixed economies. They don't want Scandinavian styled mixed economies. They want planned, state controlled economies. They want Communism without the authoritarianism (allegedly). The problem is the only way to achieve their goal is through autocratic means.
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UNI88 wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:10 pm
kalm wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2026 3:04 pm

Stick to theology.
He is. He hasn't specifically told us which god he is but he's Sterquilinus. Throwing out sh!t like this is well within his realm of responsibilities.
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