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Re:Life After Work by xboxnolifes on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:24PM (#45752568)
When people want to introduce Scandinavian-like social programs to the US, it's "socialism doesn't work". When people point out that they work in the Scandinavian countries it's "Those aren't actually socialism".
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Re:Life After Work by DeusExMachina on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:27PM (#45754480)
When people want to claim that socialism works, they point at countries that aren't socialist.

Socialism is very well defined and it's made nebulous only to claim virtues it doesn't have.

Scandinavian countries aren't socialist. They themselves say they are not socialist and a simple google search for "are scandinavian countries socialist?" will show you that the consensus is that they are not.

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Re:Life After Work by bparsons on Sunday November 02, 2025 @12:06PM (#45791738)
Good news. The US can implement universal public healthcare and free university without fear of being socialist.
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