Molten has absolutely no idea what he's talking about considering one of the kinda biggest requirements of a socialist society is for democratic control of the production. forget, even a quick google search would show that the USSR was state-capitalist, not socialist. The nomenklatura (forgive me if this is a mistake I don't know much about russian history) was in complete control of the means of production iirc, not the workers.
If he wanted to cite a country or territory that is a testament to why socialism doesn't work, he could've said something like Cuba instead, but if there's a recurring trait of stupid people it's that they're almost always wrong about everything
Even so with the USSR, there was that "everybody gets equal" mentality except because of their stuff distribution it meant like the majority of populace had to wait in the bread line or eventually were allowed to get a car if they proved their worth/pay/etc. Being a person of a higher class or position was the key to having anything remotely lavish in the USSR.
And even so regarding an irl socialist state: current socialist countries include PR/China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. China is doing fairly well economically overall minus the hiccups here and there with their stuffty stock markets, albeit considering they're 1 billion plus growing it's kind of hard to even have anything remotely like the socialist state we'd want in America. Cuba is doing okay, it wasn't doing hot in the past but it's slowly making it's way to doing better considering it had pretty stuffty leadership prior, with the addition of the US opening back up to Cuba (because god knows loving why we'd still be closed to them post Soviet collapse), it's bound to become the crown of the Caribbean in decades. As far as Laos and Vietnam go they still have some stuffty leadership leading their socialist states. A socialist state is only as good as the management making sure things actually go smoothly and prosperity without sacrificing quality for everyday people is the goal.
So the guy who's whole political campaign was about ending corruption on wall Street decided to support one of the most corrupt politicians of all time because of "the ebl Republicans". Funny since Bernie recently bought a new car and bought a vacation home for 600k. I wonder who's money he was using...
Probably his own paychecks. He's a Jewish 74 year old who's been in Congress, House and Senate, since 1991 and has been living a pretty simple life til those purchases. All his political campaign money was given to Hillary's campaign and the DNC, because that's how the political party operates upon candidates becoming a nominee and the un-nominated support them. I think he's probably reaching the point of retirement soon after this election cycle (inb4 "see he's too old!!", try running for presidential nomination on a huge progressive movement and getting roosterblocked by the party establishment and media. You'd be tired of that stuff too) and wants to just live comfortably with the money he's made having a great political career. If he actually used campaign money, it'd be a massive scandal as long as we forget the fact that it isn't even possible since all campaign donations are publicly accounted for and Hillary/DNC take it as part of the political process.
That's funny coming from you, the same handicap who said later in this thread that the USSR wasn't "muh true socialyst sistem"
To be fair your arguments in this, your quoted post from Ike, and Ike's post you quoted don't rely on anything but slander and ad hominem.
