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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4814764" data-attributes="member: 56035">&quot;If you will not call for an arms embargo along with the boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, you are not a socialist. If you will not demand we dismantle our military establishment, which is managing the government’s wholesale surveillance of every citizen and storing all our personal information in perpetuity in government computer banks, and if you will not abolish the for-profit arms industry, you are not a socialist. If you will not call for the prosecution of those leaders, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who engage in aggressive acts of pre-emptive war, which under post-Nuremberg laws is a criminal act, you are not a socialist. If you will not stand with the oppressed across the globe you are not a socialist. Socialists do not pick and choose whom among the oppressed it is convenient to support. Socialists understand that you stand with all the oppressed or none of the oppressed, that this is a global fight for life against global corporate tyranny.&#039;bernie wasnt going to defund the empire.&nbsp; hes in bed with the democrats.&nbsp; aoc is coopted by teh party now too, or probably for some time.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-it-means-to-be-a-socialist/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4814764, member: 56035"] "If you will not call for an arms embargo along with the boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, you are not a socialist. If you will not demand we dismantle our military establishment, which is managing the government’s wholesale surveillance of every citizen and storing all our personal information in perpetuity in government computer banks, and if you will not abolish the for-profit arms industry, you are not a socialist. If you will not call for the prosecution of those leaders, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who engage in aggressive acts of pre-emptive war, which under post-Nuremberg laws is a criminal act, you are not a socialist. If you will not stand with the oppressed across the globe you are not a socialist. Socialists do not pick and choose whom among the oppressed it is convenient to support. Socialists understand that you stand with all the oppressed or none of the oppressed, that this is a global fight for life against global corporate tyranny.' bernie wasnt going to defund the empire. hes in bed with the democrats. aoc is coopted by teh party now too, or probably for some time. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-it-means-to-be-a-socialist/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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