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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago

Stop couping yourself.
Stop couping yourself.
Stop couping yourself.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Anyone who says they don't like socialism I just tell to stop using public roads moving forward.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

socialism is when the government pays for things, and the more things it pays for, the more socialister it gets

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

socialism is where the government socialisms for things, the more they socialism for, the more socialismier it is.

- Cunk on socialism

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Publicly funded infrastructure and utilities within a Capitalist system isn't an example of Socialism. Socialism is an organization of society where public ownership is principle, ie at least over the large firms and key industries. The US Army is not "socialist," it's an arm of the state within a Capitalist system. Same with roads.

I get what you're trying to say, but I think this line of thinking backfires more often than it helps. Anti-socialists can easily point out that it's the broader system that needs to be viewed, not the discrete element.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My younger brother moved from the bay area to a suburb of Nashville. He hates it because (per him, I haven't verified this) there are no public parks or trails that he can run or bike at within like 40 miles of his place. Plenty of private parks, but nothing public. At least it seems that way to him since every city he's lived in California had/has at least 15 miles of bike trail and usable public parks in every neighborhood.

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[–] Sillyglow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The amount of Americans who were trained to misunderstand and hate socialism based on reaganomics but yet want to be Russian is heavily astounding. Americans are the weirdest bullies of the world.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

What does modern Russia have to do with anything?

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago
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