uncle bernard

A perfect example of someone claiming a label that doesn't actually represent them!

Maybe the better way to think about it is Bernie is well within the political mainstream of the Western world. His most radical policies are things that have been in place in every other developed country for decades. Not only do those countries have those things, namely socialized healthcare, but they are immensely popular and even Conservative parties wouldn't dream of taking them away. Are the Tories socialists? Hell, even Bernie's healthcare ideas are far more conservative than what the UK has had in place for 75 years. You see "socialist" and think Stalin and Mao when he's just a standard Labour party member or Canadian Liberal.

Is North Korea a "Democratic People's Republic?"

Israel has still been bombing in the south as well. They bombed the evacuation route. They bombed the rafah crossing. There is nowhere they can go where they can be safe. Honest question: Is there anything Israel could do to lose your support?

it’s a refugee camp you barbarian. you will not see heaven

If you don't support no fault divorce, you don't support living in a free society. It's a pretty cut and dry issue. Either people get to exit personal relationships when they want or they don't. Yes, this creates unfortunate situations. That's the cost of living in a free country.

Israel bombed Gaza's largest refugee camp. Even longtime Israel defenders in the media are aghast at this crime. Eager to see how the war crimes brigade on here handwaves this one away.

These people want to live in Saudi Arabia so bad

@Husker_Du thinks this means he wants to seize the means of production. Bernie can call himself what he wants. Doesn't change the fact he's a moderate Scandinavian style social democrat.

Do you think he knows it's a satirical article? (and a bad one at that)

Are you really so morally bankrupt that you believe "this has happened before. therefore, it's fine." You can apply that to any crime against humanity.

next you’re gonna tell me jesus wasn’t white???

There are Palestinians who could literally show you the house they got kicked out of

Good luck. I tried the same thing earlier and it changed nothing for the guy haha

They don't know what that means.

Yes, they are behaving very similarly to the Europeans who committed awful acts towards them the last thousand years. Especially, in the West Bank illegal settlements. The settlers there are radical, genocidal lunatics. Just today another Palestinian village packed up and left under threat from a settler militia. That's ethnic cleansing.

that is what ethnic cleansing is

I'm seeing the problem here. You think "communism" is a synonym for authoritarianism. You can be a capitalist authoritarian state. In fact, they exist all over the world!

In its explicit theory of governance, the CCP acknowledges China is not "communist" yet. In the 70's, they decided they needed to grow as an economy before they could achieve communism (referring to Marx's stages of history where the economic development under capitalism paves the way for communism). This is sometimes called Dengism or "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics." So, they opened the economy up and that's where we are now: one of the world's largest, most productive capitalist economies. The CCP remains a "communist" party because its ultimate stated goal is communism. But they seem quite a ways off from that, whatever that even means.

maybe true, but that tent isn't big enough for billionaires. mutually exclusive economic systems.

These people are allergic to knowing anything about the world they live in.

It's a mixed market economy. That is by definition not communist.