• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
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    Yeah quite a large portion of lemmings are politically insane. It’s either ‘burn the rich, overthrow the government’ or ‘Maybe the windmill party has a valid point’

    Like why can’t people just be chill and get along

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      Hey now, don’t go lumping “eat the rich” in with these crazies. I can hate tankies and hate our growing wealth inequalities

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          God that would be a depressing thought. Thankfully, a tankie’s idea of communism is in fact not the only solution, we need only look at democratic socialist countries like Denmark.

          I think it’s fine for people to be rich. I don’t think it’s fine for that to be at the expense of the poor to such a ridiculous magnitude that the wealth has long become moot for that individual’s quality of life:

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              Thanks for the sauce! The Nordic argument gets used far too often by center-leftists in the core imperial countries because they already assume a level of available wealth which can only be sustained by the exploitation of the colonized rest of the world.

              The greed of the rich will never be sated. They may retreat or bide their time but they will come back for more, until they have sucked every drop of your blood.

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            Just wanted to point out that Denmark is a Social Democracy, not Democratic Socialist. The vast majority of the economy is fully Capitalist, paying for Social Programs isn’t Socialism, Worker Ownership of the Means of Production is.

            If you want to argue for Social Democracy, go for it, but don’t pretend it’s actually Socialism.

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            Denmark

            Only communists in the US are calling for nationalization of oil. About 75% of Denmark’s oil is nationalized and lets them fund social programs. Liberals in the US would never accept that.

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      Well, the people “being chill and getting along” (i.e. just keeping the status quo going) is nowadays supporting a genocide,so…

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      Like why can’t people just be chill and get along

      I think the hurtling toward climate crises has a lot of people desperate for governments to actually do something to help assuage it, not make it worse.

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      Well put! I love this place and have had some good discussions but I’ve also seen a lot of teenage political craziness and had that “oh, I’m talking to a lunatic or a child” sensation more often than I’d have liked to.

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      I suspect we needed a baseline level of insane to not just threaten to jump Reddit, but actually follow through on it.