• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Embracing a few socialist policies does not a socialist make.

    I mean, really. Might as well say republicans are socialist because they let corporations socialize the losses.

    (Though republicans suck hard enough that corpo dems are preferable while still sucking)

    • rynn@piefed.social
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      4 days ago

      Might as well say Republicans are socialists because they literally took an ownership stake in Intel, they are picking winners and losers in industries, market manipulation, and they openly support corruption and cronyism which are commonly some of the worst outcomes from socialist systems.

      Most people don’t even know what socialism actually is, the democrats should just call all the republican stuff socialist because it’s certainly big government.

      If the government takes away services and increases its own budget to do its own state planned things that’s basically socialism to the extreme worst end of it. If full government control is what people are afraid of it’s what they are absolutely getting with republicans.