• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    The funny thing is, what Americans call communism is in fact what Europeans call social democracy - i.e. capitalism with a variable amount of social-oriented restraints on it that simply make sense and work for the benefit of everybody, including the rich. And to a large extent, social democracy works fairly well in Europe. And I know that cuz I moved there, and I would never go back to Stupidland.

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      What most Americans call Communism and Socialism is meaningless because our leadership have been using those terms for ages to just mean “something bad”, and there’s a huge chunk of people who will simply never know any better.

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      Turns out a putting decent safety-net at the bottom does more to help society than just praying for trickle-down economics to come into play any day now

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        There’s no praying involved: trickle-down economics has been tried for half a century and has been thoroughly proven to be a scam by the rich to steal from the poor.

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        No you are wrong, when I am become a billionaire I won’t be able to exploit the workers if they have a good safety net. Hence I am against it. Slash S for sEERIOUS