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      11 days ago

      Socialist democracy is not just socialism. Socialist democracy is good.

      America mocks socialism and confuses it with communism and fascism.

      Ironic, rich, predictable

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        10 days ago

        Socialism is inherently democratic, and is also inherently a pre-communist, transitional form of society. Social democracy is not “socialist democracy,” it is capitalism with welfare.

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            10 days ago

            Socialist democracy is just democracy in socialist countries, which has nothing to do with the article or those depicted on the cover. I thought you were talking about social democracy, considering these are social democrats.

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              10 days ago

              I get the mix-up then. It’s not about those depicted, it’s the obvious implications based on how they’re depicted

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                China’s a socialist country on the path to communism. Newsweek is mocking social democrats by depicting them as though they are socialists and communists. The implication is that they are socialists, and not social democrats.

                Are we in agreement, then? Reading your comment, it seems you think they are socialists.

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      11 days ago

      I just want to point out that if you took the shirts off of three out of four men on this cover, they’d be absolutely shredded.

      Wake me up when its the cover of Maxim.

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        10 days ago

        El Sayed is a good man, and there is nothing wrong with renting out your property in itself. Many don’t have homes and need to rent, you want to leave it all to private equity and blackrock? How is that working out for you?

        Spoken like someone with a house already.

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          I rent.

          Looks like I found the landlord. Does it feel good to profit from human’s universal basic need for shelter?