• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Tankies live in alternate reality where they think that nationalization is extremely common and is a magical solution to all of societies problems… even though this view is entirely delusional.

    For example, only 3 countries have nationalized the entire ISP industry, and those are Cuba, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. All three of which are horrid tyrannical dictatorships with horrible internet. We should NOT be like them. Even when it comes to health insurance, except for 3 countries I just mentioned, every single country allows private health insurance, even if their system is public. Clearly nationalization is not what you think it is.

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      7 hours ago

      I hate tankies, but not as much as I hate Nazis. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We’re losing 100 years of social advancement. But here you are telling us to protect the fucking corporations that are sucking them up.

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      9 hours ago

      LOL “We should NOT be like them.”
      And then starts talking about health insurance. What health insurance?
      You can only dream of being like Cuba.
      But your shithole country keeps licking the boots and are good little servants of the oligarch ruling class.
      And that’s great, you deserve all you get, all you do is comlain and cry about it online anyway.

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      13 hours ago

      Tankie your ass. You don’t have to have a shitty dictatorship to have nationalized services. Clearly you don’t know as much as you think you do.

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        12 hours ago

        Most countries have public options for services and private alternatives as either competitors, backups, or complimentary pieces. It’s very rare for countries to completely nationalize sectors, and it’s especially rare for them to national that many sectors.

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            7 hours ago

            Allowing government to compete with business creates better outcomes in both. There is certainly something to be said about a more involved government. It’s really silly to allow big business or the government to have a monopoly on critical services.