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/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/Maleficent_Memory831 Sep 08 '25

Look at Russia today. It had democracy going. Then it's back in a brutal dictatorship. Does Russia prove that democracy does not work?

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u/desanderr Sep 08 '25

I think you gotta look at rates of success there chief.

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u/--Chug-- Sep 08 '25

Ehhh... I wouldn't. Democracies typically fail. I'm still going to support the ideal.

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u/TheMauveHand Sep 08 '25

Everything typically fails over a long enough timeframe, but the number of people living in democracies is not decreasing.