The Official Thread for Democratic Socialism

[Rico]

How dare she be a fun loving college girl once!

 

 

[mtangelsfan]

Interesting that both peeps who have posted this video on here aren't cons.

Maybe it is a whole lot of nothing.

[the dude abides]

14 minutes ago, Rico said:

How dare she be a fun loving college girl once!

 

 

Quick!!!  Someone check on FS79.

[mtangelsfan]

Just now, the dude abides said:

Quick!!!  Someone check on FS79.

someone better check yk first.  He's on record as thinking she's hot and liking teenage girls.

[fan_since79]

I'm too old for her. She probably would ignore me if we passed each other in the street.

 

 

[Adam]

I suppose this is the right thread... the first paycheck of the new year vs. the last paycheck of the previous year: lol

[Thomas]

14 hours ago, calscuf said:

Not here. Rooney would have gotten lots of tail. He has sugar daddy written all over him. And just how old do you have to be to even know who Rooney is let alone reference him?

[fan_since79]

CBS will showcase young Alex on 60 Minutes this Sunday. A sneak preview:

ANDERSON COOPER: You're talking about zero carbon emissions. No use of fossil fuels within 12 years? 

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: That is the goal. It's ambitious. And — 

COOPER: How is that possible? You're talking about everybody having to drive an electric car? 

OCASIO-CORTEZ: It's going to require a lot of rapid change that we don't even conceive as possible right now. What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible? 

COOPER: This would require, though, raising taxes. 

OCASIO-CORTEZ: There's an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes. 

COOPER: Do you have a specific on the tax rate? 

OCASIO-CORTEZ: You know, you look at our tax rates back in the '60s and when you have a progressive tax rate system your tax rate, you know, let's say from zero to $75,000 may be 10 percent or 15 percent, et cetera. But once you get to like the tippy tops on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent, that doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate but it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more. 

COOPER: What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done right now. 

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical. 

COOPER: Do you call yourself a radical? 

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yeah, you know, if that's what radical means, call me a radical. 

[Rico]

Rad

 

 

[Adam]

I love her

[Lou]

40 minutes ago, Adam said:

I love her

we know 

[Amazing Larry]

2 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

OCASIO-CORTEZ: There's an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes. 

I love when government gets to determine what "fair share" is.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

If that did happen I'm sure that would fix all the governments problems and they'd no longer be running a deficit.  Actually they'd come up short, the middle class would get hammered more than they do now and we'd still be running up debt.  I like how our elected officials are good at coming up with new ways to tax citizens but addressing spending is their kryptonite.    

[Rico]

48 minutes ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

If that did happen I'm sure that would fix all the governments problems and they'd no longer be running a deficit.  Actually they'd come up short, the middle class would get hammered more than they do now and we'd still be running up debt.  I like how our elected officials are good at coming up with new ways to tax citizens but addressing spending is their kryptonite.    

The middle class flourished during the Eisenhower administration when the tax rate for the top have of haves was over 90%.

[Thomas]

1 minute ago, Rico said:

The middle class flourished during the Eisenhower administration when the tax rate for the top have of haves was over 90%.

I wouldn't base any economics decisions on the 1950s. The US was one of the few non-war ravaged industrial countries on the planet. Literally any political system would have succeeded.  A system based entirely on bartering cats for services would have worked.

[mtangelsfan]

The middle class will continue to get prison raped until they don't exist anymore.  It doesn't matter what system we try.

[Spirit]

It's great to know that both sides are now embracing a factless environment.  As long as the topic fits your moral criteria, you're good.

 

 

[Schildog]

2 hours ago, BackUpTheTruck said:

Ocasio-Cortez jokingly said on Twitter that misogysts should be taxed at 100%.

I don't appreciate the attitude, but at least I know she is joking. The left has no sense of humor with Trump.

It would raise an extra $15k in revenue from this thread alone!

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, Geoff said:

It's great to know that both sides are now embracing a factless environment.  As long as the topic fits your moral criteria, you're good.

have at it, libs 

[UndertheHalo]

1 hour ago, Geoff said:

It's great to know that both sides are now embracing a factless environment.  As long as the topic fits your moral criteria, you're good.

 

 

Pretty solid complete misrepresentation of her meaning.  It’s not even quoted correctly. And out of context.  

Edited January 7, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[Spirit]

In response to criticism that she’s made factual errors:  “There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right"

 

 

[Lou]

5 minutes ago, Geoff said:

In response to criticism that she’s made factual errors:  “There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right"

 

 

misquoted!

out of context! 

[Lou]

[arch stanton]

Well she's not wrong about that. I don't Twit but it seems there's a whole new generation out there that have found a way to monetize nitpicking 

[Spirit]

Seems like being precisely, factually, and semantically correct would be a solid first step in making sure you were also morally right