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Certainly a take
You know what, he makes a good point
Let's start by shuttering one of the biggest expenses to the government, the US military, in order to 'reduce socialism'
New Red Scare but for Fortune 500 CEOs doing government contracts this time
Sitting senators asking Northrop Grumman executives if they're socialist because they take government handouts would at least be funny as fuck if nothing else
"Socialism is when the government does stuff" but without a whiff of irony.
Me turning a giant dial that goes from 'capitalism' to 'socialism'
"Socialism is the post office and roads and capitalism is when I, John Capital, buy a riding lawnmower."
Can't wait until these dipshits "what are we a bunch of asians?!" away the garbage pickup service and now everywhere is overrun by bears.
Socialism is when Lockheed Martin gets a $200 billion contract
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of ~~Capitalism~~ Socialism
I'd say his brain is leaking out of his ears, but his skull has long since run dry
the only surviving brainworms saw the coming dustbowl and had the werewithal to move on to more fertile pastures
The metric of economic organization is just dollars then??
So when the government spends all the money, that's communism?