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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think you both missed the "socialized medicine for me, fuck you for thee"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the point is that the government merely offering health insurance isn't socialized medicine. it's just public health insurance. it's not even socialized healthcare if the government provided the healthcare too. socialism is about who controls the government. while it's in bourgeois hands, it's not socialized.

this matters because there's a liberal push to water down what socialism means so they can offer tepid social democracy, call it socialism, and remove the teeth from the groundswell of leftist popularity.

(offer... not grant... there won't be any concessions until the threat of revolution weighs on everyone's minds)