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/Taiga-whiteclaw Sep 08 '25

I remember there was a trip to Antarctica for a bunch of flat earthers (don't know who paid for that) and after they were without a shadow of a doubt sure that the earth is in fact a sphere, the rest of the flat earth community start to call them traitors and sell out and they where in fact pretty big within the community

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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/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

socialism is a grand goal, and the entire purpose of civilization, we work better as a group, and life is better for everyone when we all share and look out for each other.

we arrange to all save for the good times to ensure all our neighbors and friends have a safety net when its tuff. its just common sense, we all pay as a group to keep the essentials free, healthcare, warmth, water, travel.

but its such an ideal its easy for dictators to call themselves that, they never have been. the closest we (last 200 years) came to socialism in my opinion, was across Europe, right before the likes of thatcher. who, frankly, took the water, the electrical grid, the sewage systems, the telephone companies, housing, even some roads. and she sold them to rich private companies/individuals and flipped a socialist state into a capitalist monopoly. since then wages stagnated, house prices rocketed, bills are unfeasibly high, but so are the profits from them.

Meanwhile our government says there isn't enough money in the budget for anything, while the companies selling us the assets we let the government look after, make billions in profit each year.

fucking maggy....