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Republican senator introduces bill condemning socialism
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1. It's not a bill, its a resolution.
2. Oh look, another US politician that doesn't understand the concept of socialism outside of a middle school education with an American, Cold War-inspired, us/them adversarial framing of the concept.
From the resolution:
Expressing the sense of the Senate that socialism poses a significant threat to freedom, liberty, and economic prosperity.
Whereas Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines socialism as—
(1) ‘‘any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and ad-ministration of the means of production and distribution of goods’’; and
(2) ‘‘a system of society or group living in which there is no private property’’; Whereas socialism and the policies advocated by self-de-scribed ‘‘democratic socialists’’ have an underlying histor-ical connection to the Marxist theory;
*Slaps forehead*
None of these definitions bear any relationship to socialism as its been applied outside of the Eastern Bloc in the last ~60 years, and none of them bear any relationship to "socialism" as its being used by the vast bulk of the US liberal left, barring the extreme end of the spectrum.
In this sense 'socialism' is a fictitious bogeyman invented to score political points.
3. Here's the second to last bill cosponsored by the senator in question:
S.2247 Cosponsored — A bill to amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide greater transparency of discounts provided by drug manufacturers, to establish requirements relating to pharmacy-negotiated price concessions, and for other purposes.
I smell hypocrisy.
2. Oh look, another US politician that doesn't understand the concept of socialism outside of a middle school education with an American, Cold War-inspired, us/them adversarial framing of the concept.
From the resolution:
Expressing the sense of the Senate that socialism poses a significant threat to freedom, liberty, and economic prosperity.
Whereas Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines socialism as—
(1) ‘‘any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and ad-ministration of the means of production and distribution of goods’’; and
(2) ‘‘a system of society or group living in which there is no private property’’; Whereas socialism and the policies advocated by self-de-scribed ‘‘democratic socialists’’ have an underlying histor-ical connection to the Marxist theory;
*Slaps forehead*
None of these definitions bear any relationship to socialism as its been applied outside of the Eastern Bloc in the last ~60 years, and none of them bear any relationship to "socialism" as its being used by the vast bulk of the US liberal left, barring the extreme end of the spectrum.
In this sense 'socialism' is a fictitious bogeyman invented to score political points.
3. Here's the second to last bill cosponsored by the senator in question:
S.2247 Cosponsored — A bill to amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide greater transparency of discounts provided by drug manufacturers, to establish requirements relating to pharmacy-negotiated price concessions, and for other purposes.
I smell hypocrisy.
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TLK Valentine
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I'd think it was a slow day in the Senate, but McConnell probably won't let them vote on anything else.
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Nobody's scared.
And not many were back then either.
Maybe you weren't alive then?
I was.
Great American Days.
M-Bob
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Putin won’t let them. Let’s be honest he runs the show. And I am fully willing to retract my statement if McConnell does the right thing and gets our elections protected from foreign interference.
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Putin who?
He does nothing here.
Can't even hold his own country together.
Geeze where do these thoughts come from?
M-Bob
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Explain to me why McConnell doesn’t care about foreign interference in our elections. McConnell earned the nickname he hates and can get rid of it really quickly. Make sure that Russia can’t mess with our elections like they did in 2016.
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Well, they can’t have them. We have people that need to be taught about the Red State, er, menace.
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