Phart, the America you grew up with was a homophobic, racist, alienating, egotistic, society. Now the Clown has brought us back 50 years. It's a crime.

Wrong, I TRUST no group of "elected" officials.
I am supporting bottom up democracy, like my party does.
Every member regularly gets to vote on their representatives,
from the chair person directly above the members, to the top.
We have gatherings all the time to debate the direction of the party.
If I want, I can sit in with any city ​​council meeting.
To us, representatives are fully expendable; if they represent the party well,
they get all the support and aid they need, if we think someone can do better,
we vote in the next person, no hard feelings.

We exchanged our faction leader Lilian Marijnissen, after seven years, in very a democratic way. Not because she was not a lovely person, doing her very best to represent the party, but because she was not succeeding in strengthening the party. Everyone liked her, even political opponents, but the times called for a street-fighter, who takes on the right-wing like the right-wing fights itself. It is too early to tell if her replacement Jimmy Dijk is succeeding in strengthening the party, but he is clearly the street-fighter we thought we needed. The right-wing coalition is already showing it's failures and its colors, and Jimmy is both voicing reason and devastating attacks. We will get the working class to see through the right-wing lies eventually. Most of them were done with neo-liberalism, they just need to see that right-wing fake populism has only false promises.

Your attitude that no decent person is going to be in politics, allows you to justify the most horrible people in politics. There are better people, but you chose to support the most awful ones. I don't, if I don't like what they're doing, I'll discuss it in the membership meetings. We disagree on just as much as we agree on, but we are all in it for the same broader message. We are very well capable of identifying someone who doesn't share our broader message. Also, we have a solidarity arrangement, where all paid officials donate a lot of their salary to the party.
That eliminates selfish career politicians, who are in it for the money, by design. Our politicians don't have large corporations or tons of stocks, they would have corrupt motives over. Donations don't go to the politicians, they go to the party, and we are very careful on what to spend it on. Mostly we do all political action with volunteers. At best they get a chicken sandwich with a soda. We do it for the cause, not for the money.

no problem.
You serve a greater purpose leo than you could ever imagine.
You remind us of the dangers of complacency and tolerance of liberal ideology.

Oh even our government tells us to trust the science when it's in their motives best interest but don't trust the part about chromosomes, that 1 don't apply.

You bet she will regret it after we all know her dirty little secret

What color is the sky in yer world? Old slag!!

You really are a slow individual.

Avenatti in jail!

yep.

You are a moron. I'm 72 since last March and 71 all last year. The problem is not me. You are the one that must be high when you read other people's posts

Ok, guys, as usual, you've taken over the line. You want to go after me? Ok, go right ahead, but, leave my kids out of this. Let me say this:

Cyberstalking is when a cybercriminal uses email, direct messaging, or other electronic means to harass, scare, or threaten someone with physical harm. It takes different forms, including: Tracking someone's online activity or physical location.

I hope you get the point.

Don't hold back, say what you need to say.

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-gringo- half a pinche mayate!

And I certainly can’t spell it i also know some pretty raunchy stuff in Vietnamese now that I mention it in German too

Oh my English gets me in trouble a lot
And my sign language when I’m driving

I'm not aware of any such information.

No, especially not on this site, but there's a difference between "unchaste" and "hateful".

In the future, I hope you remember that when you use words like that, you hurt more people than just the person you are directing them at.

We seem to agree on many things, but I had to make this point.

Until recent times a woman that spoke nasty and hatful didn't get far on the social ladder. But now adays it is like a right of passage or something.
Acting respectable is not that damn hard to do.

and kamalla woulda been her vice probably. I don't like her for alot of reasons.
she also sold a bunch of state owned land to the chinese, boy talk about a real patriot.

So, basically, you agreed with every point, is what you're saying.

You are tricked by 'populism'. It is a belief in simple solutions to complex problems. Some of those problems are real, but they always misrepresent the causes.
When people don't understand the causes, there is no possibility of introducing real solutions. That's why populism always fails in solving the problems.
In fact, mostly the problems will only get worse. It always fails, but keeps pointing
to others for their failure.

"When populism runs out of road, it blames the road."

You keep blaming people. How come that your people suck so much then?
Americans are the hardest working people in the modern world. Then why are there so much more poor people in the US, than in most of the modern world?
It just doesn't make sense.
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What a ridiculous victim complex. Conservative biljonairs are running the whole world into a war-stricken hellscape and no one is touching them at all. They are respected by politicians, the media and you.
That story of George Soros gets more ridiculous every time I hear it. Some sites on the internet now claim he broke 15 countries. Which one are your 2? Malaysia and England? He used their own system, legally, to enrich himself. Both Malaysia and England are fine, not bankrupt. You would endorse that as being a smart person, every day, but because he's mildly culturally liberal and donates to Democrats, he's your chosen bad guy.

You just defended Warren Buffett from being a villain, but he's exactly the same as George Soros. They hack the capitalist system to create money from nothing, to enrich themselves. At least they used smart tricks. High-frequency trading is just abusing the power of a server farm to gain a millisecond advantage to take advantage of the trading system, to create money from nothing. It wastes ridiculous amount of electricity, raises your electricity costs, steals billions of dollars from the economy and creates stock crashes too. They are not evil or villains to do that, people are rubes to keep supporting the system that allows them to keep doing that. Democrats want to restrict it Republicans keep supporting it.

Like I said before, you only see the faults in the system,
when it's a Democrat or a liberal abusing the system.
When it's a Republican or conservative doing much worse,
then you always find a way to defend it.

"The people who do the exploiting exist in every country. Even yours, Ananas."
That's true. That is the problem I'm addressing all the time.

If by your reference to a 'Datcha', you imply that Russia is, or ever was the most socialistic country; it isn't and it never was. It was at most communist; an authoritarian government controlling everything. Socialism means full democratic control of the PEOPLE. Russia never had that, it was always controlled by the wealthy elite and it still is now. The people never had any power and even now Putin does some sham elections, they still have no power. The most 'socialistic' countries are the Scandinavian countries. And there are the least starving and homeless people in the world there. When people refer to Venezuela, they know nothing. That's a corrupt state run by oil barons, an oligarchy is not socialism.
The people have no power at all.

A free market is part of capitalism. It doesn't mean that everything is owned and controlled by corporations. But who is owner of the farm, or the mortgage of the farm or who owns that mom and pop shop, who collects their rent, who controls the money you pay with or the method you pay by. Where did the farm buy their seeds, or the manure. Who competes with that farm and mom and pop shop, determining the price you are willing to pay, where does your money come from?
When there is an economic crisis, who gets bailed out with your tax-dollars,
that self-pick farm, the mom and pop shop, or big banks and corporations?
In all those steps, corporations have lots of influence over what you think is an uncontrolled free market.

In the past, everyone was exploited. We come from a time of lords and serfs.
It's true that people are more free to be happy now, but don't be complacent, because your freedom is fragile and the time of lords and serfs is closer than you think. For many uneducated working people, it's already a reality that is almost inescapable. They are living in their car, on the parking lot of the factory, because they don't have money for a house and they work too many hours to travel home anyway. That bar of exploitation is moving up, to more people we used to call the 'middle class'. How many jobs do you know, that used to pay enough to house and feed a whole family and now doesn't pay enough for one person? Are there less people doing those jobs now? Or are there now just more people with jobs that don't pay enough to house and feed them?

You don't know where that money came from. Every city has a slush fund

They don't. It just works out that way because they have a business. They don't get up in the morning and ask themselves, " What can I do for people"

How?

Showing news articles about crimes is not an argument.
We are not saying crime is GONE, we are saying it is DOWN.

The media has an incentive to keep you hooked on news.
Then the 24/7 news channels have nothing else to do,
than grinding out every little story to its absolute depth.
That gives people the idea that the world is turning uglier by the day.
That's mostly perception, crime really has gone down year by year,
with maybe a temporary uptick here and there, when there is a crisis
and people are more desperate and stressed out.
Check some statistics, before you make claims on your feelings.
Your feelings are based on hypes and lies.

The only crime that is worrying is mass shootings. You cannot solve that with criminal justice reform, not in a liberal way and not in a right-wing way.
The only thing that would help is improving mental healthcare and gun reform. Republicans think mental healthcare is too expensive and think that gun reform is an afrond against the 2nd amendment. That means that the worst crime know to man is flourishing, while crimes that can be reduced with policing has been declining for decades.