Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
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I've also heard of such a "conservative" calling for the nationalisation of Google in order to save it from socialism.
...wh...what? What are the inner workings of that person's brain...
If you look at it very superficially, the "logic" is not actually that hard to follow:
As long as you're unburdened by the slightest inkling of what socialism actually is, this line of "logic" makes some sort of sense.
Because they legitimately don't know what they're saying. They're just saying "them big college-soundin' words" without any clue to their meaning.
You're giving them too much credit already
I think there was a movie called Red Zone Cuba where the moral was everyone had to give their money and businesses to the US Government in order to stop communism.
Never heard of it, but i see it has a whopping 1.6/10 on IMDB. Must be a gem.
But yes, that sounds like exactly the same sort of logic.