I'd rather live in a small, no frills apartment with only the most basic of rent prices to help cover repairs in a socialist economy over being homeless in a capitalist one.

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I totally agree...

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Lol, what the fuck?

Why would anyone not? Are you high?

No, I'm sorry... Everyone who upvoted this. You get this is stupid, right?

In one scenario, they have a home. In another they don't. They picked the home scenario. Is that clapping I hear? This makes you clap?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

The problem is that socialist systems do have higher access to housing, but proponents of capitalism see the system through the eyes of those privledged under it.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, there's people who would not because they've been trained to knee jerk to socialism being evil. The argument as well is that I'd rather live in a society where I have my needs met over one where I have a .0001% chance of being extravagantly rich.

Feel you're missing the forest for the trees here.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why most reactionaries desperately cling to the idea that what they’re experiencing is secretly socialism. They literally do the joke “socialism is when bad thing happens” to circle the square.

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

"But with socialized medicine there will be government death panels deciding who does or doesn't get life saving care."

We literally have corporate death panels at insurance companies deciding who does or doesn't get life saving care. Hell, most of the time its not even a panel. Its one sleazy sadistic doctor who is paid lots of money to deny everything he can.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.

And you will like it.

[–] Salomon@mander.xyz 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Under socialism, your video games WILL be woke, chuds.

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Always learning more praxis from Lenin

[–] Salomon@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

And those that haven't, have been thrown onto the shoulders of the global south for them to suffer and be robbed. Capitalism has never worked.

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Lenin approved.

[+] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub -5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know this has been driven home before, but the idea that socialism is just spending other's money is absurd.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem with pissing all over Thatcher's grave is that you eventually run out of piss.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Round the clock organization of workers to continually piss of Thatcher's grave. Add Reagan's to that as well.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually the trouble with capitalism is that the capitalists never run out of your money

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Actually they do. It is called an overproduction crisis. Under capitalism it can be solved only through wars.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, that's the problem with capitalism.

The only problem that socialism ever had is that you could run out of money from capitalist nations trying to overthrow your government while the best resource to generate energy and therefore money is coal, which most socialist nations don't have in abundance but settler-colonial capitalists ones do from it's imperialist run during colonial times.

But we don't live in those times anymore. It's the 21st century, solar and wind is gaining ground, and therefore China is rising, which it already was because its inferior coal became affordable somewhere during the 20th century.

It's actually amazing that no new socialist revolution has happened yet and yet plenty of nations tried to and even succeeded in going further to the right, going neo-liberal, neo-conservative or even fascist, and that include attempted or succesful coups, even in China itself.
And this is all happening during a complete socio-economic meltdown,
that should be ushering in socialist nations into becoming full communist.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

They did the meme!