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Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. https://t.co/fMHAyiwKhS
— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) June 25, 2025
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Clarissa's Blog 
A voluntary donation is the exact opposite of socialism lol.
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Stalin put scientists and inventors in jail so that they wouldn’t get distracted by regular life from their work. That was socialism.
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Really? wow.
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I don’t think we have socialists in SA. We mostly have black nationalists who sound like white nationalists complaining about how the Jews own the banks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250611105121/https://iol.co.za/business-report/opinion/2025-06-10-the-digital-land-grab-white-owned-fibre-giants-are-encroaching-on-township-markets/
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Meanwhile. A party incapable of wielding power.
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Of course, the parts that were stricken off included Medicare for illegals. This will never end.
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Left-wingers are so intellectually dishonest that they insist on confusing altruism (Dr Salk’s self-denial in pursuit of a higher good) with socialism (the idea that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is everybody’s since it’s a common good). The cheek!
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This guy smoothly obviates the entire issue of the state’s coercive power in his comment. In his worldview, the self is so omnipotent that it doesn’t need to worry about things like that.
Also, history doesn’t matter. That this approach has been tried many times in many different places and always had catastrophic results doesn’t enter in his calculations. Facts don’t matter. History doesn’t matter. Everything can and should be rearranged at will, with no end in sight. The rearrangement itself is the goal.
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You guys seem to have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the latest psyops. Socialist is the boogyman word they use to rile up the right-wing crowd, Nazi to rile up the left-wing crowd.
Listen to the latest Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYVzme2fybU
Nothing of what Bernie says there is extreme, except to the rich and private equity that just want to keep their free reign to continue hollowing out our healthcare, education system, and maximizing their profit; just like they did to our industrial base a few decades ago.
That’s not socialism, that’s reality and deep down everybody here knows that.
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e.g.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuZJySFXUAAlJ-B?format=jpg&name=large
Is this guy a socialist? No, but he is openly bragging about replacing his workforce with AI. Is that good? They want to do the same for education, healthcare, etc. not for our benefit, but because it’s cheaper to them.
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He’s a neoliberal and he counts on the wrecking crew of eager Mamdanis who overwhelm the people with high crime and the collapse of the standard of living that they won’t resist all this.
It’s an incontrovertible fact that Mamdani’s voters are overwhelmingly the winners of the neoliberal game. Defund the police is as neoliberal as it gets. Do I need to explain once again why defund the police is neoliberal? Or why transgenderism is? I don’t want to be repetitive but I can do it if necessary.
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Mamdani calls himself a socialist but I agree that the label is not important. I call people like him neoliberal but it’s not in the name but in the policies.
Are you in favor of defending the police in a city like New York? Are you in favor of prohibiting schools for gifted children from admitting based on merit? Are you in favor of public funds being directed towards transgender medical services? These are all openly stated goals of Mandani. We all know I’m opposed to them and we all know my reasoning behind it. If you are in favor of all this, then yes, you should be supporting him.
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I’m not in favor of any of that, and honestly i haven’t cared to look deeply into Mandani and his policies; don’t have any bandwidth for that.
What I do see is a huge operation against him and all the “socialists,” while people like Musk, Bezos, etc. and company get away with continuing to gut our country.
I did look at the Sanders interview with Rogan and I do see the need for huge changes to the existing system that these oligarchs continue to leverage to their favor. That’s the biggest part.
If Democrats are trending in that direction, great! Many of those policies are the very same many on this same blog applaud, but throw in the word “socialist, “transgerder children” and right-wing people start foaming in their mouths with rage like Stringer Bell in one of my other posts. They’re pushing your buttons and you’re falling for it.
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More on Mamdani’s racism:
https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/413785379808882689?t=1OMi9bIwv3wMGjtRvVMP3w&s=19
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That Twit is from 2013. I’m sure you and I have said stupider shit in that timespan. I mean, weren’t you a die-hard Democrat around then?
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But he repeated the anti-white sentiments since then, including in his platform. This is a sustained, long-term position. Dude doesn’t like white people. Question: why should we like him when he doesn’t like us?
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Hmmm, unfortunately for you, I am a Canuck and have some considerable experience with socialism. There are a few socialists, such as Tommy Douglas, whoses Christian beliefs are actually well intentioned — the “Sainted Tommy” as my grandmother called him and beloved by most Canadians.
But, and it is a large butt, Sanders was kicked out of his commune because he refused to work, but currently most would consider anybody owning three homes to be considered well, sort of wealthy — a grifter, a person who pretends to hold certain (often political) views in order to gain money or other benefits ;-D
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If I understand this debate correctly, Clarissa supports conservative nationalism against neoliberal globalism, you say she could make common cause with the democratic socialist wing of the Democrats, and she says that in practice those are all just woke neoliberals.
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That’s a great summary, thank you. I don’t want austerity, the rollback of the welfare apparatus, open borders, chaos, high crime, and the destruction of the middle class lifestyle and morality.
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Checkout how the power brokers use “trans” issues as cudgel against those that go against them:
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1938571730957619419
Massie in particular is very against AIPAC and foreign wars.
Next you’ll see with Mandami is that he’s an anti-semite, once the socialist discourse runs its course.
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I despise Massie. He’s a bloody neoliberal. An open-border freak.
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As for Mamdani, he refers to himself as a socialist. His supporters refer to him as a socialist. I sincerely don’t understand why we shouldn’t call him what he himself says about himself.
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In the following image we can see Zohran adopting a post-woke identity. As I, the baby, can no longer see wokeness during the campaign, it means that the wokeness is gone. The wokeness will not return when he governs.
The trans movement’s early playbook was all about working through courts and bureaucracies which are places shielded from public pushback. They slipped policies into bigger bills and avoided open debate.
Wokeness has always done best this way. The recent return to behind-the-scenes tactics (following a brief and largely unsuccessful attempt to win over the broader public) isn’t a retreat. It’s going back to what works.
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