Chain migration is bringing your extended family. If Jeff is an excellent doctor, Jeff and his wife and children get citizenship (if you get rid of chain migration, these people still get to come). By virtue of Jeff’s new citizenship, his lazy cousin Jim (who brings nothing useful to the table) shouldn’t be afforded…

They are worshiping him for being an athletic hero, not a stellar person.

I just find it laughable that they think he should answer questions when they still haven’t addressed the sexual assaults their former senior writers committed while they worked here. Should I be more upset that Shaun white sent a dick pick and settled in court? Or that Deadspin hasn’t address that Greg Howard…

Clearly not or he would have been charged and arrested. Phone crimes are easy to prosecute because the evidence exists.

Well North Korea doesn’t like Trump or Pence, so apparently you’re fine to murder civilians as long as you hate them. I don’t support them, but this moral relativity that the press shows is absurd.

They have to do with the fact that to get socialism/communism to work, you need 100% of the people to voluntarily do it or you have to repress them. How do you get someone to give up their stuff if they don’t want to?

Your link that says noted racist is a tweet asking for evidence of racism that has no such evidence. LMFAO.

Chain migration is the exact opposite of getting skilled people that help the economy. Lmfao.

Socialism was started in the French Revolution and clearly defined by the time of Marx. My list of wasn’t a shot at socialism (beyond the USSR and China). It was an explanation that Capitalism isn’t necessary for conquest. The Holodomor, Cambodian Killing Fields, Mao’s cultural revolution, FARC terrorism, Cuba’s…

Pakistan is way worse. Similarly bad extremism. Same export of power. Nuclear state, but way more likely to crumble into a completely failed nuclear state.

We are literally watching it happen with the media right now as they someone have a huge boner for the North Korean Cheerleaders who will be shot if they dance or cheer wrong.

Assuming you aren’t discussing communes, how does collective ownership happen without authoritarian coercion? Say I’m a business owner “exploiting” the working class, how does collective control of my business happen without some authoritarian stealing it from me? I won’t give it up voluntarily.

So DSA doesn’t accurately represent democratic socialism?

Nope. I’ve read Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. We are discussing the academic Marxist critique dummy.

If you are going to attribute something to capitalism, it can’t have existed everywhere in the world before capitalism existed. Especially when half the time Empires were built for religious or defensive reasons. Ghengis Khan didn’t conquer half the world because he wanted money. He thought a god had ordained it. Same…

And as I said earlier, by nature, it is authoritarian. How do you get collective ownership of the means of production when the owners say no? If you can answer that, I’d be shocked.

Sure they are. There isn’t a way to implement socialism without authoritarianism unless you can get 100% of the people to buy in on the project and guarantee their progeny will also buy in. It’s literally impossible.

Government control of private industry isn’t capitalist.

The Roman Empire. The Persian Empire. The Greek Colonies. The Phonecian colonies. The USSR. China in the South China Sea and Tibet. Pre-Capitalist France. The Holy Roman Empire. The Muslim Conquest of Africa and Europe. The Mongols. Historical Chinese Dynasties. The Ottoman Empire. The Aztec Empire. The Mayan Empire.…

No. There have been capitalist dictators (but since capitalism has no ideology on the freedom of people or lack of freedom of people beyond economic choices, it isn’t particularly relevant). Fascism, in addition to its nationalistic ethos, also has associated government control of private business. Italy, Spain, and…