Socialism is very strong in the US. For example, Trump just ensured the us government has a 10% interest in Intel. That's pretty socialist.

Anyway, I'm going to bow out of this thread again. I rarely came once I didn't have to for moderation reasons, because I get too invested. Just letting you know so that if anyone is writing a response to me, you can decide whether or not to spend the time on it.

I do think in retrospect I would have changed some of my earlier posts. I think in the future, I will wait at least a week to comment on these things. Easy to get caught up in the emotion.

At any rate, I genuinely wish everyone here, regardless of your affiliation, a happy and healthy life where you strive to make things better for yourself and those around you.

Here is the 'Zionist' propaganda

https://www.adl.org/resources/article/hamas-its-own-words

Since its founding in the late 1980s, Hamas has been promoting rhetoric and policies aimed at destroying the Jewish state of Israel and killing Jews and Israelis around the world. This is evident in their founding charter, which cites the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery as “proof” of a Zionist plot to control the world. It remains true after Hamas released a new charter in 2017, which essentially simply swapped the word “Jew” out and replaced it with “Zionist” while repeating antisemitic tropes. 

Here is the Hamas version:

https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/hamas-2017.pdf

16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.

While they indeed reject the occupation from the start and state all of Palestine (prior 1947) shall be free, here are the concessions:

20. Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their
homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

Which would be this 2 state solution
https://www.britannica.com/topic/two-state-solution



Anyway I'm not here to defend Hamas, they need to relinquish power as they have said they will do. Hence the technocratic interim government proposal until fair elections can be held.

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian 'leader' atm, he should be freed so he can form a new political party.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marwan-Barghouti

Netanyahu and his Likud party are the problem

Netanyahu vows there will be no Palestinian state ahead of UN meeting
https://abcnews.go.com/International/netanyahu-vowsthere-palestinian-stateahead-meeting/story?id=125489981

Even if we consider mixed-ownership (alone) to be socialism (which those of us who are socialists disagree is necessarily the case) it is still far from communism. It is mostly just mild democratic socialist polices, when partially implemented (like the TVA, and post-office, as prior examples.) 

Communists and other radical socialist want to abolish (or outmode) the dominant relationship of production that defines capitalism -- wage labor. We are further away from that happening than we were in the 1930's -- when there was a real threat of mass expropriation of the means of production. 

Being DJT doesn't make him Rep, Con, or Nazi. Politicians change parties because they were always politically closeted or just flat out full of sh*t.

If we only had solid evidence through decent enough reporting, something greatly lacking for decades, we'd all know for certain what he falls under.

As for the MSM, can't be sure which side they're on either...

Not saying anything is the case, but...

Correct. Being DJT in 1995 didn't make him a Republican, Conservative, or Nazi. Being DJT in 2025 means he is a Republican (because he explicitly chose that affiliation), and fascist (because he subscribes, albeit inconsistently/self-interestedly, to an ideology of palingenetic ultranationalism in the form of "make America great again") 

The mainstream corporate media is biased toward the established center of power, whomever that might be at any time. They're certainly not professing "the liberation of the working class is the job of the worker alone."

I am going to respond here, because this post of yours is similar to what you posted in response to me in the thread about the state of the forums.

Transsexuality and homosexuality are not left ideologies nor are they left ways to live your life. So when someone is like that, it tells you absolutely nothing about their political views.

It's a wrong assumption to believe that the assassination of a far-right activist must have been committed by someone with left political views, and the same holds true vice versa. Once you enter the area of extremism - which is where Charlie Kirk is located in when it comes to politics - then Kirk being not extreme enough suffices as a reason to kill him.

The reason why far-right thinking leads to many more killings than far-left thinking is because the far-right's most common form (fascism) is explicitly about killing and getting rid of political opponents or groups of people who don't fit a clearly defined racial profile. The far-left has no such equivalent, hence why both sides are not the same despite both having extreme political views.

As general advice, you should not put yourself in a position where you think along the lines of left vs. right, because that's the path to drifting towards extremism over a prolonged period of time. The battle is reasonable vs. unreasonable, so the broad middle of society can actually agree on a lot of things.

By that measure Luxembourg would be a communist country, considering that the state has a stake in every single major Luxembourgish company. And that's in general between 30% and 50% of the company, so more than a blocking minority (which is around 15%) and enough to have a say in operations of the company.

That said, they tend to be rather hands-off with those companies unless shit hits the fan. And in some of those cases, the state has actually helped create those companies in the first place, like SES for instance.

The best part: From the dividends the state is earning tens of millions each year from those companies additional to the taxes they pay. Which is one of the reasons why Luxembourg has lower taxes: the income from those companies dividends actually amount to a couple percent of the total income of the state, so the taxes can be lowered yet not lose out on income.

Americans' taxes aren't going to be lowered at the federal level because of whatever profits Intel makes. That money is going straight into the pocket of the donor class. On the other hand, American taxpayers will eat whatever losses Intel incurs. 

At the state level, some states don't have an income tax. Texas and Florida don't. Texas has oil, Florida has tourism. Nevada also doesn't have an income tax due to tourism, though Vegas's tourism has cratered this year because... well, you know. On the other hand, they make it up with some of the worst property taxes in the country, extensive toll roads, and during the 2021 ice storm in Texas, the state's power authority, ERCOT, slapped a lot of customers with bills in the thousands due to the pricing algorithm.

Alaska has the Alaska Permanent Fund, which is a sovereign wealth fund that pays all qualified residents a dividend based on resource extraction. However, this dividend was $1702 last year, which, given the high cost of living in Alaska, basically amounts to a windfall to catch up on bills or blow it on fun stuff. 

“'I stopped seven wars, and I thought this one was going to be easy for me, but this has turned out to be tough,' Trump said Sunday, referring to the Russian invasion. “I think I have to do all the talking. They [Zelenskyy and Putin] hate each other. They hate each other so much they can’t breathe.'

With Trump’s tougher stance failing to push Putin to the negotiating table with Zelenskyy, the U.S. administration is facing increasing calls to impose harsher sanctions on Russia. Trump on Sunday claimed he planned to do so — but only after Europe stops buying Russian oil and toughens its own sanctions regime.

While Trump said European countries are his 'friends,' they are still 'buying oil from Russia. I don’t want them to buy oil. And the sanctions that they are putting on are not tough enough.'

Hungary and Slovakia are the EU’s top purchasers of Russian energy and have opposed the European Commission’s efforts to phase it out."

Trump finally calls Russia the 'aggressor' in war on Ukraine - Politico