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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Americans education system has failed them.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends. Americans are not taught what actual socialism is, by design.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Socialism is when a group of hypocrites at the top pretend they're bound by the same rules as everyone else, hide behind the bureaucracy they created, squeeze as much as possible out of the working class, and horde the wealth while everyone else struggles to get by, right?

Oh wait no, that's capitalism...

[–] awnery@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] awnery@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

please stop forcing sugar and fat on our children

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

OK, but the important thing is that our schools make more profit than anywhere else on earth!

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

China is a state controlled ultracapitalist authoritarian nation. It is the wet dream of every American megacorp, in which the State and Corporation is one and the same. It is everything but socialist.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

More like the nightmare of every American megacorp.

[–] swayevenly@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,347 U.S. adult citizens interviewed online between December 3 – 4, 2019.

The actual graph is more nuanced.

Which countries do Americans think are socialist?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, it terrified me even more.

[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No kidding. That is wild. It’s all scary, but one really stood out to me: there is a question on whether respondents thought that healthcare provided by the government and paid for by the government is (a) socialist, (b)not socialist, or (c) I don’t know. The percentage of respondents that said “not socialist” and “I don’t know” is baffling. Although, I guess I can take some solace in a large number of people being self aware enough to pick “I don’t know.”

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. If you actually know the definition of socialism, most of the questions don’t make sense.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I fucking wish...

[–] tissek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Whoo! Another win over Denmark!

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cuba is basically a tiny speck that remained from the past. Even I got surprised when I found out that the Cold War is still technically active thanks to cuba

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] awnery@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

cuba apparently is a decaying political football. nevermind this trash could have been over with ages ago.

cuba libre

[–] awnery@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that contains misrepresentations and lies

[–] awnery@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] awnery@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

look that i never said that and this is a scam

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

I can’t since I found out we’re in a Cold War with Cuba.