irelephant

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No. Socialism is not when the government does stuff.

Socialism refers to workers owning the means of production. Free education and universal healthcare are not socialist in themselves.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

No, both should work both ways.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

*could still trade their goods in a market.
There's many other forms of socialism, most dont have markets since those are exploitative.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Socialism refers to worker ownership of the means of production, not "when the government does stuff".
While politicians call anything the government does socialism, that doesn't make it so.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Post post hog, ergo propter post hog

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Good ole nakba denial

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

They get donations, and people can just do stuff on the side

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I had guessed it was that. I mean, it was off topic, unless I'm missing something.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Which account was it? All the messages on my lemm.ee one are gone (instance is gone).

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Wait, when was I questioned?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

That was an hours long Amazon/MS teams ad.

If stopping an alien invasion involved teams in any way the aliens would win.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Percy Jackson one is just terrible. They left out so much stuff, like the mist.

Edit; autocorrect

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