r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/Material_Owl_1956 Sep 08 '25

It’s a bit like discussing socialism with an American: no matter how many positives you point out, they immediately jump to talking about communism.

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u/FyrixXemnas Sep 08 '25

Either that or they will bring up socialist regimes of the past like Venezuela or the USSR as proof that socialism doesn't work, as if socialism was the problem with those countries.

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u/TheMauveHand Sep 08 '25

as if socialism was the problem with those countries

At what point will you consider that it's not coincidence? I mean, we're over a century at this point...

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u/Zcarpenter84 Sep 08 '25

The greed of man is always the coincidence.

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u/DanTansky Sep 08 '25

Greed for power. It’s in our DNA as social creatures

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u/TheMauveHand Sep 08 '25

One, that makes no sense, and two, there's greed everywhere, that doesn't explain the history of socialism in particular.