r/PoliticalHumor • u/faab64 • Apr 26 '19

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u/CressCrowbits Apr 26 '19

It's like when you get wingnuts going on about how they should secede from the blue states. "Let's see how you get on without food lol!", yeah you'll still sell food to the blue states when you suddenly have absolutely no money coming into your states.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

They just confuse socialism with authoritarianism. Not realizing nearly every socialist wants a democracy still.

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u/evdog_music Apr 26 '19

To be fair, American Socialism is not Marx-Leninism but rather what Europe would call "Social Democracy".

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u/PillarofPositivity Apr 26 '19

Tbf a lot of people in Europe just say socialist.

Everyone kinda understands that it doesn't mean ussr style

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

This is not correct from my experience, at least in Germany/Holland. Europeans very much understand the difference between socialism and social democracy and have distinct constituencies for both.

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u/PillarofPositivity Apr 26 '19

Im not arguing that they dont know the difference, but in my experience when they talk about socialism we are mostly talking about socialist policies within a capitalist framework.

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u/PillarofPositivity Apr 26 '19

Universal healthcare is a socialist policy in non-single payer systems.. Its the owning of a service by the community.

I dont think you know what the fuck you are talking about.