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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes and the US is much more socialist than the pure capitalist hell people claim it to be, while Europe’s great social democracies still run on capitalism.

There’s NO exemplar of pure capitalism or pure socialism to point to. Anything worth having is a blend of the two, and 99.99% of what is needed on this topic is to figure out how to move the US from 12% socialist to 18% socialist, while Europe contends with how it’s going to pay for 22% socialism.

Any actually helpful words on that? Anybody?! … Back to arguing about ridiculous ideals then.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's a little funny that you're arguing for percentages while claiming we already have that and look how great that is.

A key element that makes it socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, we don't have close to that in any of the countries you're talking about. Social programs are not socialism

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Did you really just make a purist gripe in a comment thread about how people deal too much in the extreme forms of these concepts? Funny, indeed.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

No that's not what happened

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you're complaining about people only wanting pure water when you prefer spring water and then someone brings you pure alcohol, you're still within your rights to point out that the glass doesn't contain any water.