• MdRuckus @lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Seems like the government owning private industry might stray into the socialism thing thy hate. Why not do this with something more important like healthcare? Republicans are hypocrites.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Our healthcare system in the US is Socialism, only the government funds the corporations with subsidies, not paying outright for the citizens. It’s a man in the middle system where they stick a middle finger up your ass to get money from you three times. With taxes, with insurance, and with actual medical care.

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      14 hours ago

      Healthcare could help, that’s good socialism. Intel is profits and power and control for the sake of it. That’s bad socialism.

      That way when things fuck up they can point and go SEE SEE IT DOESNT WORK! WE TRIED IT AND IT MADE THINGS WORSE!!

      and if it somehow does manage to help or improve things they can now claim they did something smart and take all the credit.

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        9 hours ago

        Well, no. In this case it’s probably Intel is collapsing I assume, and they’re the only CPU producer native to the US. It’d be a really bad thing strategically to let them fail, so they should be nationalized.

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      12 hours ago

      If you ask, they’ll tell you it’s different for ‘essential services’. It’s the same excuse they use for the farm handouts.