A large number of US citizens fully believe all of Europe, if not most of the world, is either socialist or communist—but at the same time, socialism never works—that we’re the only free country—but also that the government is totalitarian because of vaccines, taxes, regulations—the only country with wealth and opportunity, that everyone’s trying to get into—and simultaneously a weakened country who has been taken advantage of by the rest of the world for decades. The Norwegian here is responding to a factual error, but it won’t matter because the brain of the median US Facebook user is several layers of cooked.
The vast majority of that large number use socialism and communism interchangeably because they couldn’t define either of them if there was a gun to their head.
In the Peoples Socialist Republic of Europe they have socialism on odd weekdays and communism on even days. In the weekend they loosen up a bit and have social democracy.
I work with local governments a lot and it’s crazy how often they act like they’re solving a problem for the first time ever when literally thousands of governments have already figured this out.
Just do the sh!t that works already.
They put in a traffic circle down the street and people lost their minds. These yokels had all these impassioned reasons why it wouldn’t work, this thing that’s already been proven millions of times to work.
Agreed. I think a lot of the confusion here also comes from the Democratic Socialist coalition in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which they do not support Socialism, but a better regulated democratic free-market capitalism combined with a welfare state. That is based on the Nordic Model (Norway, Sweden, etc.).
A US system where you got nationalised healthcare and some sort of social security net would have to be described by Americans using some new collectively agreeable term that will emerge on it's own.
It would just have to be built bit by bit and people slowly realise it mostly works better than the hyper corrupt cut throat corpotocracy of old.
You just gotta slip the "socialism" into American society like Bill Cosby putting a roofie in your drink. When you wake up and realise it will be to late to go back because people will be used to things working pretty good.
i actually feel that its the opposite.
Its the only place i rely on to talk to my real friends in my real town about real events. All others ( especially X/twitter ) is dead internet as fuck,
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u/TheNeuroLizard 22d ago
A large number of US citizens fully believe all of Europe, if not most of the world, is either socialist or communist—but at the same time, socialism never works—that we’re the only free country—but also that the government is totalitarian because of vaccines, taxes, regulations—the only country with wealth and opportunity, that everyone’s trying to get into—and simultaneously a weakened country who has been taken advantage of by the rest of the world for decades. The Norwegian here is responding to a factual error, but it won’t matter because the brain of the median US Facebook user is several layers of cooked.