This is a subverse designed to encourage adult discussion spanning the entirety of the political spectrum. All are welcome, from Libertarians to Authoritarians, Democrats to Republicans, An Caps to Anarchists, Socialists to Fascists to Communists, Green, Blue, Black, White, Purple with Yellow Polka dots, whatever color, persuasion, or affiliation, this is a place for you to post your thoughts, articles, and engage in discussion meant to foster understanding.
Politics is best when we try to avoid personal attacks, limits on discussion, censorship, trolling, shilling, racism, homophobia, antisemitism, or any other forms of bigotry and malfeasance.
Election 2020 Politics Sticky
Politics 2017 Christmas Theme sticky
Nov 2016 sticky on new CSS
This subverse belongs to the community of users. Users are invited to post meta-threads about v/politics and I will gladly sticky them. @flyawayhigh
Use the "Report Spam" link to report spam and someone will review the report. J-mods have the ability to remove duplicate noncommercial spam.
v/politics is for all politics.
v/uspolitics is for US politics only.
v/worldpolitics is for international or non-US politics.
v/politicalnews is dedicated to virtually censor-free politics and news
v/news is for news around the world.
v/usnews is for domestic news only.
view the rest of the comments →
[–] Horrux ago
There are many actually socialist countries where the happy and prosperous, educated and safe people look down on the USA and its economic system. Only it's not what your meme says "socialism" is.
[–] lettersofmarque [S] ago
I wouldn't consider a capitalist society with some business regulation to be socialist but I respect your interpretation of it. I consider socialist to be where most contributors to gdp are operated by the state and that was my reference for the meme.
[–] Horrux ago (edited ago)
Well this isn't about what YOU or I consider to be this or that. It's about WHAT WORDS MEAN. You can't change the meaning of a word and then use it seriously.
As such, ANY kind of regulation of business or capitalism that seeks to curtail inequity IS A SOCIALIST POLICY. <--- PERIOD! That's what it means!
Does it mean "it's a purely socialist country"? Well no, obviously. It's like the people in the USA have been brainwashed that "socialism = bad" so any mention of "socialist" seems to mean to them "EXTREME ABSOLUTE FANATICAL SOCIALISM". Black or white but grey doesn't exist.