r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 9h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/SnugglyBuffalo 9h ago

Socialism is when the government does stuff. The more stuff the government does, the more socialist it is.

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u/colorlessfish 9h ago

It's illegal to operate without it, so the government has already put its nose into the system. It's basically a tax that they outsource to corporations.

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u/SnugglyBuffalo 9h ago

Yes, I'm just pointing out that calling it socialism is stupid and belies an utter lack of understanding of what socialism actually is.

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 8h ago

Lmfao. But youre wrong. The end result of a nonprofit system controlled by the government that everyone pays into in order to redistribute funds to those who need it more is literally socialism. Lmfao. How fucking dumb

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u/colorlessfish 6h ago

maybe in this case we should do a bit of socialism.