"What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever."

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[+] -38 points 6 months ago (34 children)

I know many of you will dismiss this as the ramblings of a Third-worlder... Yet, as someone who saw and suffered under the socialists, I can identify a populist demagogue the moment I see and hear/read one.

Her ambition is the seat and to perpetuate herself in the power, nothing unlike Cristina de Kirchner, or Hugo Chávez, or Maduro.

And, unless you do something about the illegals, her "ambition" is just a bait.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    look inside

    account created less than a month ago

    Yeah, I'm dismissing this as rambling, but of a bot account funded by a right-wing organization.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sure... I am a bot.

    Repeating like a good sheep what is written in Reddit.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't been on Reddit in at least two years, maybe longer. I can't remember and honestly don't care enough to check. But that sort of statement sounds exactly what I would tell my staff to have the bots write when accused of being bots, if I worked at an agency aiming to stir up dissent on social media.

    So how about this: if you want to prove that you're not a bot, try being kind and thoughtful about what you say, be introspective about your edgelord views, and actually write something that has respect for the dignity of human life.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Oof. Plenty of countries have implemented socialist programs. Healthcare, access to basic necessities are needed. No one "illegal," they're just people trying to establish themselves. Whole country was built on the blood of Native Americans. So, yeah that shit about this country being a melting pot is more relevant.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They're democratic socialists, not corrupt communists.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (11 children)

    I'll take the bait. In what way, specifically, did you suffer under socialism?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (10 children)

    First of, thanks for the opportunity of a proper conversation. Second, a quick rant:

    Many countries here in South America lived through some form of socialism. So, for us Peruvians, we live what I am warning through the decade of the 80s.

    With many public services collapsed, and a severe hyperinflation.

    The presidents of that time, first Fernando Belaúnde Terry (who focused on housing, but not on security which lead to the formation of Sendero Luminoso) and the Alan Garcia ( whose strategy was similar to what AOC is doing right now, while enacting most socialist programs like price control, and healthcare (in reality, an oversaturation of the dangerously lackluster service (further context: it was common to die from diarrhea here))), had a socialist government which worsened the situation until the next government of Alberto Fujimori.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Many countries here in South America lived through some form of socialism

    ...with an often overlooked caveat that the US imperial empire, through the CIA, has staged coups, assassinations, embargos, sanctions, color revolutions, political meddling, contra scandals, and outright genocide during that time. The expressed purpose of all of that was to cause as much human suffering as possible, in order to get people to hate their government.

    So, for us Peruvians, we live what I am warning through the decade of the 80s.

    Peru has never been a Socialist state, although I will give it to you that there was a significant socialist movement during that time.

    The presidents of that time, first Fernando Belaúnde Terry (who focused on housing, but not on security which lead to the formation of Sendero Luminoso) and the Alan Garcia ( whose strategy was similar to what AOC is doing right now, while enacting most socialist programs like price control, and healthcare (in reality, an oversaturation of the dangerously lackluster service (further context: it was common to die from diarrhea here))), had a socialist government which worsened the situation until the next government of Alberto Fujimori.

    So, just to be clear, ... there was never a Socialist society during that time, correct? You only had a leftish government, surrounding by US meddling, literal genocide, and death squads of Communists and supporters. Socialism doesn't mean anti-market and doesn't mean "government does stuff".

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Partially wrong. Most of what happened in Perú had been the prelude in many other countries like Venezuela and Cuba.

    A leader who either took the power by force (Velazco) or by using the system, and then ruining the country for the rest (Garcia Perez). With many policies focusing on the ""wellbeing" of the people, which (sadly) backfired terribly.

    Velazco is the first example, with the nationalization of many businesses; as well as the alliances with the USSR, for the acquisition of weaponry. He tried to do the "best" for the Andean people, yet many of his reforms (the most notorious being "La Reforma Agraria") only weakened the productive capabilities of many farmlands. Only to be left forgotten, and squandered. La Piturrina in Ica being the perfect example of such.

    Fortunately, Moralez Bermudez helped with the transition back to democracy.

    Alan Garcia implemented many socialist policies, as already mentioned. He tried to control the prices, unaware of how it impacted on the economy of the average Peruvian. With most investments escaping the country, the Into (the currency of that time) devaluated to the point that a million of it were needed to buy one dollar.

    And something I must admit I forgot to write is how we were affected.

    The Constant devaluation of the currency made it difficult for the average person to buy the groceries, also diminished for only estate backed businesses operated then. A can of milk could cost almost 2 billion intis (more or less 20 dollars). Imagine feeding a kid during that time...

    And thanks to the insecurity of the terrorists, we suffered constant blackouts. Imagine doing your homework by the lights of the candles... Many of my generation need glasses thanks to that.

    And lastly, you would be lucky if you were alive the next day... For any second a car could explode nearby.

    This is what many Peruvians, and many South Americans will warn you.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (7 children)

    None of that sounds anything like Socialism.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    It is... Unless you want to raise the "That is not the real Socialism" commentary.

    Also, that is how it started in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Argentina with Kirchner.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Funny, I don't remember reading in any theory book that "Socialism is when government tries to control prices".

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    So you believe Socialism is when the government does stuff, yes or no?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    No... Socialism is the very political and social movement in which, by taking down the very pillars of this working society without true understanding, damns it completely.

    Independently on who does it.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well there you go. You fundamentally don't understand what Socialism even is, yet you are criticizing it and attributing capitalist failures to it.

    As I suspected, you are just ignorant this entire time, or arguing in bad faith, or both. Maybe you're just a troll, who knows. Blocked. Cheers!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    And it seems that you are idealising a philosophy not even wanted in its original country. So fixed on your seat that you can't imagine someone, let's say a Cuban or a Venezuelan, dissing it.

    Oh, and just to annoy you, Trump did more for both countries than Biden did.

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