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[–] nomenimion 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Why? How many major countries can you name that have collapsed because their welfare states became too expensive to maintain?

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[–] daskapitalist 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Greece? Soviet Russia? Zimbabwe? Venezuela? I can keep naming socialist hellholes that have de facto collapsed due to their inability to fund their gibs....

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[–] Ah_Pook 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Zimbabwe's socialist now too? hahaha

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[–] nomenimion 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago 

The USSR couldn't sustain its vast military. It wasn't about 'their gibs.'