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#1013 I don't even go here but I post confessions sometimes.
#1012 Oh baby, do me like one of your PSETs. Long and hard and all night long, and then crying because you didn't finish.
#1011 For me, it stands for "I Have Tampons For Periods"
#1010 I am a senior with no clue as to why some emails contain "*insert color* for bc-talk" and at this point I am too afraid to ask.
#1009 Alright, here's the thing, people. Bernie Sanders is not actually a socialist. Socialism is defined as a socioeconomic system in which the means of production are socially owned. Thus, a socialist advocates for the transformation of the preexisting economy into one in which the workers collectively and democratically manage their own workplaces, instead of one dominated by privately-owned businesses.
What Sanders identifies as, a reformist democratic socialist, refers to someone who seeks to achieve that goal through reforms within the existing political system. But he only seeks to through reform make capitalism more regulated, not with any ultimate goal of abolishing capitalism itself.
Thus, Bernie Sanders is not actually a democratic socialist, but a social democrat. The Scandinavian countries he talks about are also social democratic, not socialist. Social democracy is a capitalist ideology that advocates for a more regulated economy and government intervention in social welfare, and it is not socialism.
#1008 I want to take a moment to defend Sanders from some of the haters here. They keep asking, how can we pay for the all the infrastructure spending without raising middle class taxes? Fair question, it doesn't mean Sanders hasn't thought it through. It's simple, we borrow more money. The U.S government is not a business, we have no borrowing limits. And the best part is, since we are the superpower of the world, we can borrow from other nations non stop and if we can't make the payments, we just tell them to take a hike and default. They can't come seize our assets or do anything, they just have to take a loss. That's their problem, not ours. Then we just borrow more at a higher interest rate and more to pay the higher interest, wash, rinse, repeat.
#1007 There was someone below who posted that he isn't sure if global warming is real or not. To you I say you are asking the wrong question. It no longer matters if global warming is real or not. Everyone thinks its real. I admittedly am not sure myself. But I no longer bother to even ask. If people believe it to be true, they will act in a manner of prevention, so long as they have to make little or no personal sacrifice along the way. So ask yourself, how can I use this to my advantage?
#1006 I ended up as an odd third wheel in an Obamacare debate the other day. One guy said we should repeal it, the other said it's fine. What neither said pointed out was that both their ideas suck. What I think we ought to do as a nation is address the fundamental causes of sky high health care prices which no plan addresses. For example, you cannot import drugs from other countries. You can get them so cheaply elsewhere, but it's illegal to get them here. Another problem is buying insurance. You can't buy across state lines. So each state insurer gets their own monopoly and doesn't have to compete. Democrats say the old system was capitalism out of control, Republicans say the new system is socialism out of control. It's crony-ism out of control. If we address these fundamental flaws, insurance will be irrelevant.