Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.

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    Call me crazy, but I would be happy to pay extra in taxes to make sure everyone had a roof over their head, healthcare (including dental, vision, mental health care), and their basic needs of life met (including hygiene products). If that comes out of police budgets, so be it.

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          I live in Canada and I want more socialism but our politicians keep destroying the system because they have rich friends that need help getting richer (Doug Ford I’m looking at you)

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        I know this is a joke but we should stop making it. It confuses the dumbasses.

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          Genuine question; How is it a joke? That’s pretty much what we do where I’m from, and we’re generally considered socialists.

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            If you take an industry, and make it owned and run by the workers, take the NHS of the UK for example. It’s paid for by taxes, therefore owned by the public, and is run by the public, that’s socialism. But just paying tax alone to have more services isn’t socialism. Socialism is defined by the ownership and regulation of business and service by the people.

            So paying taxes for the government to pay a private company to do the work is not socialism, for example madicaid in the US.

            It doesn’t seem like a big difference at first but the results are massively different.

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      Yeah but then you’d get people trying to be homeless on purpose

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      This is a joke, please don’t hurt me

      Edit: how the fuck does spoiler text work