the state taking a 10% stake in a company isn’t communism
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ozoned@piefed.social 5 months ago
I thought we disliked communism here? Oh right, when orange man does it, it OK. Unga munga.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 months ago
ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 months ago
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 months ago
yozul@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Merging corporate and government power is not at all the same thing as the workers seizing the means of production.
ozoned@piefed.social 5 months ago
I'm also not being serious.
yozul@beehaw.org 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
This isn’t communism. It’s fascism… and conservatives love fascism.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 5 months 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…