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Midnight_Pearl [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

ah yes my favorite socialist countries! ...canada and switzerland

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ah yes my favorite socialist countries! ...canada and switzerland

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Midnight_Pearl [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 10 days ago
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and of course the reddit-logo libs are clapping like seals and posting the most unfathomably incorrect takes like they know their shit

massive brainworms

One reason might be that USSR and ColdWar were about Communism and not Socialism.

Most Americans, don’t know the difference nor do they care.

please fucking kill me

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  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Canada

    Affordable housing

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Pairing Switzerland and affordable housing is even worse.

      Switzerland also has mandatory private health insurance, amusingly enough (I assume there are subsidies or something for those who can’t afford it but I don’t really know any of the details).

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        Yeah rent ranges from $2000 to $6000 monthly for bog standard 3.5 room apartments (even ones that haven’t been renovated in 40 years) and most of them aren’t even in a good location.

        And the rent keeps going up. I don’t know who the absolute shitheads are who actually go for those high offers.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    The worst part is that if I saw this at age 17 I’d probably be clapping like a seal, too. I have woken up from a bad dream and can no longer make sense of my past behavior.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Liberalism is a hell of a drug

    • WellTheresYourCobbler [ey/em, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Real

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, I cringe at how much of a centrist prick I was in college.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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        Pfft, hahahahahahah, imagine being a centrist prick in college, I was at least an anarcho-Bidenist by the time I turned 18!(五十步笑百步wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù)

        • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          I was part of Obama’s oven border militia.

    • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I was a hater since the day I was born

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    Most Americans, don’t know the difference nor do they care.

    I would pay so much money to hear them actually define the terms and the difference, with the condition that I get paid back with interest if they just unironically do the Richard Wolff “socialism is when the government does stuff; when the government does a whole lot of stuff, that’s communism.”

    • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      “Socialism is when no iphone or tesla” are things ive heard people unironically say

      • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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        Socialism is when no personal property, the government actually owns your penis, and you’re black and trans now

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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          ♫ Come out ye black and trans, come out, yer dick is not a man’s ♫

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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        qin-shi-huangdi-fireball waow-based

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Socialism is woke and communism is fascism, actually.

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    switzerland is libertarian utopia, what are they on about

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      Americans can’t tell the difference between Switzerland and Sweden

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        I love Switzerland: the chocolate and the cheese, the IKEA and the Minecraft, the yodeling and the army knives, the Vikings and the runestones, the click languages and the hippopotami…

        • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Don’t forget Road House and Dirty Dancing!

          • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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            Hold on let me look something up

            (…)

            OK yeah this is funny

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    The socialist/affordable Canada where you make Alabama wages to live in areas with more expensive than NYC/bay area cost of living.

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      I hear Canadian housing prices blow American ones out of the water. Like, apparently, Toronto homes are 3x more expensive than those in NyC

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        I looked around and yes actually Toronto is more expensive than NYC. https://www.zoocasa.com/blog/us-vs-canada-affordable-housing-market-report/ (from 2024 but I think it still applies)

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      At least we have universal* healthcare

      * Notwithstanding prescription medication, vision, dental, physio, mental health, and more.

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      Depressing. Your telling me housing prices could triple and people still won’t revolt?

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        You see, houses are not made for living in, they’re made to make money! Very cool system!

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    I have a friend who went to switzerland and they got fined 150 euros for getting on the wrong train because their train was at 2:05 and this train was the 2:00 train. She also told me that a frozen heat and eat sandwich at the grocery store was 8 euros so y’know I think I’m gonna pass on visiting that country.

    • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, Switzerland is a real outlier. Even just thinking that having any more social services than the US is “socialism”, Switzerland is the nation of bankers and tax dodgers with one of the highest costs of living. Weird inclusion.

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        I feel like a lot of amerikkkans get sweden and switzerland mixed up, somehow 100% of the time

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          Used to happen to me. Same thing with Thailand and Taiwan.

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      fined 150 euros for getting on the wrong train because their train was at 2:05 and this train was the 2:00 train

      Lmao this is so quintessentially Swiss, holy shit

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      I don’t think they’re missing out

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    Liberals are as clueless about capitalism as chuds are.

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    In Canada we’re literally just the states with healthcare, government wise.

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      Yeah, most of the west mimics the US to varying degrees.

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    they got people unironically quoting thatcher with positive scores on their comments agony

    reading these is self harm folks just walk away it aint worth it

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    “Mom, can we have socialism?”

    “We have socialism at home.”

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    The kernel of truth here is that in the absence of a generational soviet enemy to point at, a huge amount of anticommunist (anti-Soviet) mythology has been rendered into weightless floating signifiers about 1894 Stalin Farm for anyone under a certain age, and most of what’s left our modern “socialist” boogeymen, are just basic policies necessary to have a society that our ghoul overlords have now spent decades villifying. There are a lot of busy people who only pay vague attention to political theater, and for them, when they think Socialism they think about basic concrete things to be able to live.

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    “We don’t believe one sort of bullshit capitalist propaganda, we believe in an entirely different kind of bullshit capitalist propaganda!”

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    I-was-saying

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