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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

US elects a socialist > the man gets re-elected three times

Lesson learned: We must never get close to implementing social policies!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

FDR wasn't a socialist. He wasn't even a social democrat by any standard but US-brain rot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Government providing jobs to the unemployed, minimum wage, labor laws, social security... Blocked by the Republicans and a bunch of red Democrats when he wanted to do more...

I'm saying he's a socialist as he was in favour of government intervention to help the population, he wasn't a communist and might have been a social-liberal, it's still on the socialist spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Socialism is when the government does stuff after all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When it does stuff like create social programs? Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

That explains the most socialist institution to ever exist, the American military industrial complex. It's a job program!