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Just because the USSR and its allies found it convenient to keep the term 'socialist' in their official names, doesn't mean the rest of us should go along with that. There is a perfectly acceptable, generally understood and basically unambiguous term for their ideology: communism. Which you're welcome to rail against, and the vast majority of American self-proclaimed socialists won't have an issue with that.
Just because the USSR and its allies found it convenient to keep the term 'socialist' in their official names, doesn't mean the rest of us should go along with that. There is a perfectly acceptable, generally understood and basically unambiguous term for their ideology: communism. Which you're welcome to rail against, and the vast majority of American self-proclaimed socialists won't have an issue with that.
I once had a very long argument online with a dude who argued that you couldn't call the Soviets 'communists' because they never actually achieved communism.
That is, his argument was that Arnold Schwarzenegger could not truthfully have claimed to have seen communism with his own eyes as a boy who traveled to the Soviet-occupied portions of his country, in the same way that, I suppose, someone from Denmark could not claim to have seen Nazism with their own eyes during the Nazi occupation of that country. Because the Soviets were Socialists, and never achieved Communism.
For some people, beliefs about Socialism and Communism are consistent only in that they define the terms in whatever way is necessary to win today's point.
Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
Get your ass the hell off of my goddam lawn. 
- 09/05/2019 03:02:49 AM
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- 09/05/2019 03:02:49 AM
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What is it with the obsession about that word?
- 09/05/2019 06:35:49 PM
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I was involved in a particularly annoying Facebook discussion *NM*
- 09/05/2019 08:49:57 PM
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Ah. Sorry I missed it. 
Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM*
- 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM
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Or possibly not that sorry, I've really seen too many debates about that. *NM*
- 09/05/2019 09:03:31 PM
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It was a triggering word that was made a triggering word in the US context.
- 09/05/2019 11:42:27 PM
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yah
- 10/05/2019 02:45:46 PM
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I hope not on this site / wotmania?
- 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM
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- 10/05/2019 07:23:02 PM
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The Soviets were totally communists even if they didn't achieve communism.
- 19/05/2019 05:07:28 PM
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Socialism is the takeover of the means of production by the "people" (in practice, the state).
- 19/05/2019 05:06:19 PM
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Stop being a Fachidiot Mookie
- 09/05/2019 11:36:51 PM
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- 09/05/2019 11:36:51 PM
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He is far from ignorant about the theory and history of the word.
- 10/05/2019 02:19:17 PM
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thank you
- 10/05/2019 04:23:58 PM
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Define the color Green.
- 10/05/2019 05:21:10 PM
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Wavelength: 495–570 nm; Frequency: ~575–525 THz
- 10/05/2019 08:44:56 PM
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Now define Green for a person that does not have a Spectrometer.
- 10/05/2019 08:50:44 PM
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*NM*
In what medium?
- 12/05/2019 10:33:45 AM
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huh?
- 12/05/2019 02:25:10 PM
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Light propagates differently in different mediums, though...
- 12/05/2019 08:10:19 PM
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Do you think that's what Jonte meant? I don't.
- 12/05/2019 10:54:40 PM
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Optical refraction is caused by different speeds of light in different media
- 14/05/2019 02:15:19 PM
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Sick your dogs onto me?
- 10/05/2019 04:24:00 PM
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Sic. Not sick. I will not have my dogs vomit on you. That's just nasty. *NM*
- 10/05/2019 06:48:24 PM
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We have a mixed economy with elements of both capitalism and socialism.
- 10/05/2019 02:17:36 PM
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