When companies maximize profits they call it smart and good business. When employees try to increase their wages they call it greedy and bad business.
I wouldn't even call unions socialist, I think they're more like a capitalist tool for workers, so those that are already rich get to benefit from capitalism and socialism while workers benefit from neither.
I wonder if calling unions socialist is a deliberate union busting tactic since socialism is a dirty word in the US.
Why wonder? It's obviously true
unions are absolutely socialist (specifically syndicalist) and that's why they are based
Socialism for me rugged individualist capitalism for thee!
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X/Twitter post by user Justin Kanew @Kanew reading:
'They didn't call the trillion-dollar Wall St. bailouts "socialism"
They don't call nearly $1 Trillion in oil & gas subsidies "socialism"
They don't call the billions in farmer bailouts "socialism"
But health care, wages, food for poor people? "SOCIALISM."'
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I've been with conservatives all my life it's easy to understand their faulty logic, their logic is: poor people are poor because they are lazy so they don't deserve help. Part of the money = intelligence / success stupid mentality
They want privatized gains and socialized losses.
Liberals need to get it through their heads that socialism for the rich is just capitalism. That's how it has always been. That's what capitalism actually is, the free market is propaganda that they feed to liberals to keep you from realizing capitalism is inherently bad.
its why people say "fascism is capitalism in decline", germany and italy saw massive government involvement in businesses: not to control or regulate them, but to bail them out.
i just started listening to blackshirts and reds so i wanted to butt in lol
And 98% of America votes for it, because all team blue cares about is the mean stuff someone somewhere said the other day, and all team red cares about is guns and abortion. (Team red just kind of ignores that they've already won on both of those issues.)
So we're screwed.
Ah yea, "both sides". Like one isn't constantly doing it's level best (worst) to fuck over, marginalize, take away rights, discourage or straight-up pass laws to limit voting access... But yeah - "both sides".
Now if you want to expand that a bit to say that the founders didn't want a bicameral system, I'd agree.
Democrats voted for the bailouts. So literally "both sides"
50% of america doesn't vote at all. we are a huge contributor to our own mess
They can't afford to miss a day of work, and for most that's through no fault if their own.
America is socialist if you're a billionaire, can't have billionaires losing any money buying things. only they poor should pay for things. America is run by mentally healthy people. /s I fucking hate this country so much
That’s not what socialism is.
Why do you all insist on using words you have no idea the meaning behind?
Posts like these demonstrates how little people understand socialism.
Nothing you listed so far is “socialism”.
you're missing the entire point
No, it's shit. Period.
Replace "socialism" with "handout(s)," and it works. "It's never called a handout when giving billions to banks. But it's handouts when ever poor people receive money." Or "Bailout == Good; Handout == Evil".
But calling it "socialism" makes zero sense. Making matters worse, it continues the myth that socialism is about government handouts, instead of workplace democratisation, and worker control over the means of production.
The point is lost because OP is spewing hot garbage
That last paragraph (though it's missing say, free school lunches for kids as an example) is what the far right screams about daily as these wild socialist adgendas that will cripple the US.
Far right screams about a lot of stupid shit. They lost their credibility a long time ago. I don’t listen.
BUT DEY MAEK ER JERBS!!
Actually a ton of people did call all of those things socialism.
Yeah, sure, some people who know fuck all about anything, and who's only ability seems to be making ludicrous statements online, might have made that idiotic connection. But, saying a "ton of people" is stretching it a bit.
Well some notable examples are people like Milton Friedman
Well, they are right somehow: socialism is when you also give money to the poor, and they want none of this shit! All the money must go the rich because they "deserve" it.
"You will be receiving health care by FORCE.."
Aren't "bailouts" usually just loans? 2008 housing crisis springs to front of mind.
It's not only for poor people
