the state taking a 10% stake in a company isn’t communism
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ozoned@piefed.social 1 month ago
I thought we disliked communism here? Oh right, when orange man does it, it OK. Unga munga.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 1 month ago
ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 1 month ago
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yozul@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Merging corporate and government power is not at all the same thing as the workers seizing the means of production.
ozoned@piefed.social 1 month ago
I'm also not being serious.
yozul@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Well, obviously. It’s just that a nationalist, authoritarian government led by a populist strongman merging corporate and state power is the primary goal of fascism. We really shouldn’t think it’s hypocritical or surprising when the fascists support fascism. That’s what they do.
ozoned@piefed.social 1 month ago
It's more of a statement on how his followers justify these types of things. Not him. I know he's a wanna be dictator.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This isn’t communism. It’s fascism… and conservatives love fascism.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
But Bernie Sanders supports this initiative, I don’t know if he really follows his ideology or if he’s just a politician who doesn’t follow his principles.
thehill.com/…/5462508-sanders-backs-trump-plan-to…