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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

socialism is well and alive. Companies' unions are quite strong. Rich business owners collude to keep wages low and prices high while gaslighting labourers using inflation and bigotry. There's comraderie among scoundrels, con-artists and slave owners. They are called rich people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

(This is from diaspora*, btw)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Please tell me he's not running after the NHS to privatize it!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Joe says hi.

(I'm making a joke about how the first names of leaders aren't as familiar outside of the nation it was targeted at, either that or the USA is saying "hi" to the UK, take your pick ⛏️!:-D)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Both Joe and Rishi (and Xi, and Vladimir, and maybe even Ursula and Justin) are known well enough world wide to call them by their first name in a meme.

[–] Nythos 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You say this as if US defaultism isn’t absolutely everywhere on the internet wherever you go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But if you do want to talk about the U.S. and socialism, you could point out that the U.S. government's subsidizing of the military-industrial complex has made it a supreme military power, so you'd think American politicians would argue that government subsidies are a successful way to do things. Weirdly though...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You'd have to be from a pretty ignorant country to not...

Ah right, as you were