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Im more depressed than ever today.

Beer is good. I feel that way whether i am depressed or not though.

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Why do young people like socialism so much?

Anonymous wrote:
Lano. I hate to break it to you. You are not a young person anymore.
I was refering to uni students.
The 18 to 22 crowd.
Ypu read way more into the post.
It was a sincere question.
No spins. It wasnt even a rant.

I think i took it as a sincere question and replied addressing the problems with the question. If I did not answer appropriately, it's because as it stands, the question comes off as quite vague for the reasons i mentioned.

In other words, you might as well ask why most everyone is socialist if you're not going to specify which socialist policies you are presuming are especially popular with college students.

If you're asking a question honestly you also have to be open to the idea that maybe the question, as posed, will not give a meaningful answer.

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Why do young people like socialism so much?

Thats the funny thing llama, you're european concerned about socialism while people on the right in the usa will look at europe and call you all irresponsible socialists.

It just illustrates that the term in most public discourse is disconnected from its real meaning and is just used as a rhetorical device to make people think of the soviet union. If you're for ANY form of public healthcare, you're with Stalin! Puh leez

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Why do young people like socialism so much?

Questions are good but if this is more than a rant, the right question must be asked.

I'm in my early thirties, so i count as young? What about elementary school kids?

And what do you mean by socialism? The usa has tons of socialist policies that no one (or at least not most) seem to have a problem with. Public schools, public libraries, social security, unemployment benefits, the government of most states requiring you to have auto insurance if you want to drive, and others i can't think of right now.

Probably you have none of these things in mind when you say socialism, but are simply aping rhetoric that a pundit is spouting who could care less if your child has a basic education.

The only way a debate like this becomes grounded in reality is by talking about specific problems with specific policies. Otherwise both sides are swiming in a sea of idealisti nonesense.

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The coronavirus is only 45 miles away.

It is concerning but panicking won't help either. Just make sure you are being hygenically responsible and if you see someone cough, run screaming and crying in the opposite direction.

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Now that there is little doubt that Trump did what he was accused of...

My biggest problem with trump is MUCH simpiler than the subtlties of libeterian vs more socialist based economic policies. At the end of the day i just want the economy to be good and people to have good jobs and i dont care how we get there.


Regardless of your political views Trump is not your guy. Voting in corruption is not going to help you long term.

I'm not even Democrat but i want trump to lose and for the republicans to lose the senate big because i think it's the only thing that will wipe the stain of trump off the constitution.

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Now that there is little doubt that Trump did what he was accused of...

I don't have any strong feelings either way.

Speaking of former Presidents, remember when FDR got in trouble for trying to pack the courts?

You had a couple of the Democratic candidates talking about doing that if they get in office.

Door of corruption swings both ways.

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Now that there is little doubt that Trump did what he was accused of...

So, this is the first time Trump has done something that has actually made me REALLY angry:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/alex-vi...

It is the President's right to fire these people but he's firing them for OBEYING THE LAW and TELLING THE TRUTH. These were good people, who, regardless of how you feel about the impeachment inquiry...were just doing what they thought their duty demanded of them. Loyalty matters over quality of people to this President, clearly.

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Whatever happened to integrity?

Averageness is the tendency in most things in life, so most people have an average amount of integrity, which can often be seen as...no integrity at all.

I think I know some people of great integrity. It's not a general rule though.

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Now that there is little doubt that Trump did what he was accused of...

Also "went about in an odd way" is the understatement of the year. There are literally hundreds of ways he could have done it without damaging our national security or attempting to solicit a bribe from a foreign leader with aid he was entrusted by Congress to disperse.

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