It’s not the worst thing in the world, it’s just a way to dismiss someone as being naive and not understanding how the world works.

It does rather make the person weilding such a dismissal look like an utter fool though.

At least to international eyes.

You're aware that by American standards, Finland is a fully socialist state, right?

Both Sweden and Finland joined NATO with the goal of increasing army spending and reducing it on the social programs.

Better to give money to USA to buy one F22 and to complain about darkies being criminals, than to put money to education so that criminality isn't the only route out of poverty right? /s

And of course in Sweden the schools where the residents are poor get less money, aren't as good, and it's much more difficult for their students to be accepted into a university.

The goal was to prevent the streets of Visby from looking like the streets of Bucha.

By allowing private schools to have no oversight from the government, pocket money and teach (or not teach) whatever they feel like? Did that work?

What? There's generally an adjustment to the funding for schools in Sweden depending on socio-economic factors, so if anything schools where more residents are poor get more money.

Try to work as a substitute teacher and see how it's not nearly true.

A substitute teacher isn't an effective way of judging the education system

a comment on ycombinator is better than having been in the schools?

Finland is a fully socialist state by my standards as well, and all objective standards, frankly. What are you getting at?

Can you still use that as saber rattling when your favorite guy is a Putin bootlicker?

God. If my grandparents saw what being a republican would become in thirty short years I don’t know if they’d be able to take it. Reagan republicans would probably shoot the lot of them.

There seems to be no level of hypocrisy to which they will not rise and claim excuses and conspiratorial reasons for. I have heard from those sorts, among other things that "Putin is a great capitalist".

I heard the term 'commie pinko sympathizers' a number of times (not at home, in media and public) as a child and only a couple of them were being ironic.