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Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.
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When companies maximize profits they call it smart and good business. When employees try to increase their wages they call it greedy and bad business.
I wouldn't even call unions socialist, I think they're more like a capitalist tool for workers, so those that are already rich get to benefit from capitalism and socialism while workers benefit from neither.
I wonder if calling unions socialist is a deliberate union busting tactic since socialism is a dirty word in the US.
Why wonder? It's obviously true
It really isn’t socialism. It’s just a way to regulate capitalism by the workers.
I fully support the right for workers to unionize but I don’t ever see joining a union myself. It doesn’t make sense for what I do.
Right now it’s too easy for unions to get screwed by the companies. We need quicker enforcement of the laws we have in place. Often it takes years by then the union is busted or diminished.
We need enforcement in days. Not months or years.
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X/Twitter post by user Justin Kanew @Kanew reading:
'They didn't call the trillion-dollar Wall St. bailouts "socialism"
They don't call nearly $1 Trillion in oil & gas subsidies "socialism"
They don't call the billions in farmer bailouts "socialism"
But health care, wages, food for poor people? "SOCIALISM."'
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Socialism for me rugged individualist capitalism for thee!
I've been with conservatives all my life it's easy to understand their faulty logic, their logic is: poor people are poor because they are lazy so they don't deserve help. Part of the money = intelligence / success stupid mentality
They want privatized gains and socialized losses.
Bailouts aren't socialism, nor are subsidies or healthcare for that matter.
Talking as someone who lived in an actual socialism as a kid, most "socialism" in US political discourse is just the bare minimum of social measures that most Western democracies are already doing matter-of-factly (not only out of the goods of their hearts but also because it is generally known to pay itself off in the long run).
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America is socialist if you're a billionaire, can't have billionaires losing any money buying things. only they poor should pay for things. America is run by mentally healthy people. /s I fucking hate this country so much
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BUT DEY MAEK ER JERBS!!
Well, they are right somehow: socialism is when you also give money to the poor, and they want none of this shit! All the money must go the rich because they "deserve" it.
"You will be receiving health care by FORCE.."
Aren't "bailouts" usually just loans? 2008 housing crisis springs to front of mind.
Liberals need to get it through their heads that socialism for the rich is just capitalism. That's how it has always been. That's what capitalism actually is, the free market is propaganda that they feed to liberals to keep you from realizing capitalism is inherently bad.
its why people say "fascism is capitalism in decline", germany and italy saw massive government involvement in businesses: not to control or regulate them, but to bail them out.
i just started listening to blackshirts and reds so i wanted to butt in lol
It blows my mind that theres an anti work sub on lemmyworld. Are they just larping as socislists?
antiwork no longer means the abolition of the oppressive relationship with the capital owning class in which we sell our labor as a commodity.
it's been completely co-opted as a place for milquetoast reform (capitalism will work if we put the right people in charge and call it socialism), and low-effort outrage-porn.
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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