winston churchill

McCarthy and Hollywood was a bit more complicated. There has been a lot of suggestions that Hollywood was selling each other out not because of 'patriotism' but because of things like envy and spite. Actor A didn't like Actor B? Then Actor A calls McCarthy's office files a complaint.

So it’s Hollywood’s fault that McCarthy scapegoated Communists/Socialists for political reasons. Bear in mind, it isn’t illegal to be a Communist/Socialist in America and never was. Except, apparently under McCarthy.

If you don’t ask, you are just putting words in his mouth.

Perhaps I will.

In the meantime, be a dear and stop deflecting by define what you mean by cleanse.

A one way ticket to socialist nirvana in Venezuela, Cuba or NoKo.

Your goal seems to be as practical as the Communistic ideal goal of a Utopia. In that it isn’t practical at all. You might want to stay away from such radical idealism. You could just end up a Communist yourself.

Thankfully, you won’t be deported for it. Nobody would want you unless you have or had prior citizenship.

You’ll just be scapegoated and imprisoned like any other American socialist. If not just thoroughly ignored.

Proven beyond a shadow of a doubt it was a false claim. Follow the money to Clinton.

Read the Durham report.
There was no probable cause to investigate Trump or anyone associated for Russian collusion.

Found it too partisan for my tastes is another way of saying my belief system will not allow me to believe the truth

It read as if Trump should have never been investigated which is thoroughly absurd. Of the two of us, whom is denying truth?

Durham was investigating the investigators as if they themselves were guilty for doing their job. They weren’t.

I even admitted that the evidence needed closer scrutiny but to believe that only the Steele Dossier, where most of the criticism stemmed, was the only compelling evidence of wrongdoing is absurd.

Keep the circle jerking to a minimum if you can.

No one was found guilty of collaboration, just process crimes

They were found guilty based on financial accounts and lobbying. “Follow the money” indictments are indicative of collusion.

See Biden family accusations.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GL081477. -

“Major drought events have been reconstructed in India during 1870–2016
India experienced seven major drought periods (1876–1882, 1895–1900, 1908–1924, 1937–1945, 1982–1990, 1997–2004, and 2011–2015)
Out of six major famines that occurred during 1870–2016, five are linked to soil moisture drought, and one (1943) was not”

Death in India during the famine of 1943 was not a primary goal of British policy.

So because it wasn’t stated in policy, the outcome wasn’t the goal? What a genuinely fascinating position to take in an argument if not slightly ignorant or naive.

Power is never gained without some amount of bloodshed. To believe the British had some noble goal while Communists did not, that we never killed anyone to obtain the United States, that Russia never killed anyone to become what it is today, is again, incredibly naive.

The perceptions of history are always quite bloody and to be so inclined to believe the policy of one government while at the same time questioning every single policy of your own, rightfully, I might add, is and I cannot stress this point naive.

You could measure the number dead by Capitalism to be far greater than Communism as the latter is only a 20th century construction while the former is centuries older.

The proper response to Prager was not to fall for his trap of the comparison at all.

It simply has no practical application to the human condition. People want things. Denying them their individualism in service to the community is as naive as believing governments who state noble goals cannot have bad intentions.

And this applies to politics as well. While it might seem noble to get everyone to agree, if we are only thinking of the party, and singling out individuals who speak out from within then we are no better than communists for denying the individual in favor of a party… or the political community.

I agree with your fifth paragraph!

A pity you're apparently reluctant to agree on the last two paragraphs.

The world will always be run by fallible humans with different philosophies. How does one get the world to adopt the principle of all lives matter?

Well, first one would need to adopt the principle that all lives matter.

In my experience, there are always individuals who hold exceptions to that. And I'm not beyond my own. Murderers, rapists, lawyers, child molesters... to name a few.

Lawyers are not a protected class. I know a landlord who refuses to rent his houses to lawyers.

Those exceptions are condemnations of actions.

Correct, and as a result there are very few people that actually believe all lives matter. Some within reason, others not so much.

The problem is that communists have this problem of denying or downplaying the bloodshed they caused.

Yes, the winning team does this as well. Though they’re rarely accused of it because, you know, they won.

Once AI gets better, it'll replace politics...

Capitalism was invented by Karl Marx, socialism was already invented, but he made it worse.

Capitalism was given mathematical theory by Karl Marx. He explained what was already happening and demonstrated why it fails. That's what his first volume was all about.

Correct. Marx made excellent points about the Great Machine. The irony is this what was use to refer to Democrats and Liberals. Where communism failed was that it claimed to be for the working class, much like ultra-capitalists in conservative parties are doing now, pretending to be for workers when in actuality they’re for the suppression of the individual. Where capitalism and communist divide is their reason. One is purely for gain rather than a functioning economy, and the other is for the betterment of the community. Both roads lead to a complete economic collapse if you don’t pay workers to buy commodities. Commodities cease to have value, currency ceases to have value, and all you’re left with is a power vacuum. One usually very violent.

Too bad no one cares about the working class. We say that hard work and good work ethic will lead to a reward while simultaneously sabotaging the working class at every chance we can. It is unsustainable.