• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Socialism used to be something we Americans picked up in our freshman dorm room and dropped right around the time HR walked us through the concept of a 401(k) match

    I hate when people project their own failings onto everyone else to feel better about themselves…

    Loads of people can personally accumulate wealth well past entry level.office work and not sell out their class.

    Also pretty underhanded to call utility monopolies socialism when it’s a capitalist monopoly. If basic services operate for profit, it doesn’t matter if the city or a corp gets the profits. It shouldn’t be free, but public utilities just should never turn a profit.

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      47 minutes ago

      Surviving within the system doesn’t mean you believe in or support said system. I would much rather have my old pension that was eliminated at my last job than have my financial security hinge on the whims of a bunch of gambling addicts and AI bros.

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        Surviving within the system doesn’t mean you believe in or support said system

        Cool, but that’s not what the article said…

        Socialism used to be something we Americans picked up in our freshman dorm room and dropped right around the time HR walked us through the concept of a 401(k) match

        Like…

        I quoted the literal words from the article, explained my issue with them…

        And your response to that was essentially:

        But what if it wasn’t what they said, what if they said the opposite?

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      Socialist democracy is not just socialism. Socialist democracy is good.

      America mocks socialism and confuses it with communism and fascism.

      Ironic, rich, predictable

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      2 hours ago

      I just want to point out that if you took the shirts off of three out of four men on this cover, they’d be absolutely shredded.

      Wake me up when its the cover of Maxim.