Giving money to Amazon, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google .etc

It’s like, you can’t have an argument for price gouging, when you’re enabling them by spending. If people were smart, they’d stop giving them money 10 - 15 years ago and they’d be right now, trying to reconstruct so they can be more economically friendly than how they are now.

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    They would understand that socialism is not communism. Also you can have capitalism and socialism at the same time, you just have to give and take a little.

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      They would understand that socialism is not communism.

      Socialism has so many definitions that this can be subjectively true or false. This isn’t even some trivial gotcha, the terms were used interchangeably even by significant writers of the 1800s. For another example, a socialist mode of production and a capitalist mode of production are contradictory.

      If one wants to make these kind of broad claims without starting pointless arguments, they’ll need to use a more specific term than ‘socialism’.

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        If you want your contribution to have any weight at all, you’ll elaborate. As it is, it is just worth dismissing

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          As it is, it is just worth dismissing

          If we dismiss dismissals, this will go on looping forever. The person they replied to did not elaborate on some very dubious claims, and as is, are just worth dismissing.

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        Op probably thinks socialism == Scandinavian welfare states. Most online USA midwits don’t know the difference