Quote from: TDoS on Aug 16, 2024, 09:31 PMEverything discussed around the 31 minute mark bashing the oligarches and whatnot is no different than what the Communists did...some are above the law, collect all the money on the backs of the working folks.

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What does it mean to be a communist.  It means the working people taking collective responsibility for their country.  This is in line with the Declaration of Independence.  In line with the ideological premise that the United States is based on.  This is fundamentally the guiding ethos of the American people.  If you call yourself a patriot and you aren't a communist well then I don't really think you're that much of a patriot.  You have  fallen into what Michael Parenti calls super-patriotism or something maybe even darker and deeper.  Do you not believe in the American people enough to say that we are the ones who should be running everything.  Why do we need an oligarchical click telling us what to do.  We don't.   If you look at these oligarchs.  Sean O'Brien touched on this in the teamsters speech at the RNC.  The oligarchs of this country the ruling class, they don't have any form of national pride.  They don't care about the nation.  They care about lining their pocketbook.  Most of these people are in bed with foreign governments trying to undermine our sovereignty as a nation, as a people.  They don't care if their wealth is measured in dollars or or Euros or or what have you  They care only that the number continues to rise in their bank accounts.  They care not for the suffering of the American people or the stripping away of their national sovereignty or or their individual rights.  How you can ascribe to a political system that that is at the heart of this and call yourself a patriot is truly beyond me.

Your claim is that communists are no better is not relevant.  This is not about ancient history in a foreign land.  This is about America and not about a garbled tale you obsess with concerning a time and place far away, of which you know nothing about.

QuoteWhat does it mean to be a communist.  It means the working people taking collective responsibility for their country.

That is what Kyle is talking about.  What communist do you think he is talking about?

This video is about America.  Tune in, your head is somewhere else.

Concerning the how, the answers are in the video.