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Then some socialist buds in and says “actually socialism isn’t when the government does stuff!” and then I say “it is if it’s a democratically elected government” and then they say “This isn’t real democracy!” and then I agree and point out that actually the REAL root of all these problems is the lack of democracy, and then they get mad.

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Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Then you met someonw who is socialist and idiot not socialist;

Please don’t lump everyone together, you just look like an idiot if you do so

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- yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I have yet to meet a single self-described socialist willing to admit that welfare programs like universal healthcare in democratic countries are a form of socialism. Will you be my first?
  
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  - Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    That’s a socialist policy implemented in a capitalist system, nothing more
    
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    yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    It’s not a capitalist system or a socialist system, it’s called a mixed economy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy
    
    One could make the same argument about a socialist country forced to coexist and trade with a capitalist world. Absolutism gets us nowhere.
    
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