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Man socialism keeps sounding better and better they will even take those pesky wife and kids off my hands/s.

But in serious most Americans don’t know shit about socialism our capitalism they live under. Dumb fucks look at you with surprise when you mention our highway system would be considered socialist program.

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Sounds interesting, what does that mean?

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Roads and streets are funded 100% from taxs which make them a social program. I know not true 100% socialism but it’s as close as the United States will allow.

Also most Americans always going on especially fucking Republicans and their voter base about how the government should be run like a business. But don’t realize the government should never be ran as one.

The corruption already bad enough.

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Yeah, run America like Elon runs Twitter. Absolutely brain dead

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The closest you get in America to socialism is public libraries and free school meals. And they managed to make the latter controversial and, if not, incredibly shitty.

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They should be forced to run their businesses as businesses - no more bailouts

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which make them a social program. I know not true 100% socialism

This is part of the problem of people not knowing what socialism even is. Even the ancient slavery systems could have social programs (for example famed Roman grain handouts in Rome), and the first modern, universal state funded social programs were introduced in 1889 in German Empire. neither of them was by any means socialist because socialism is not when the government does stuff.

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