Crime is virtually non-existent, everyone is paid a fair wage, the streets are clean, addiction rates are down, nobody goes bankrupt from medical treatment, and everybody has the option for higher education.

What's so bad about that? Do you like living in a rural area with high rates of alcoholism, property crimes, domestic violence, crumbling infrastructure, and monopolies bankrupting your main street?

Meanwhile I've just walked 2 km from the flat past hundreds of small locally owned businesses on nothing but pedestrian plazas to a small farm to table cafe for brunch.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean Denmark isn't socialist. It's capitalist with sane regulations to protect the people, which is ALSO something that the American right has labeled as communism, despite the fact that you do, in fact, still have a free market economy with plenty of private ownership in these countries. It is IMO the best system we currently have, because it has good elements from both socialism and capitalism. Capitalists can take risks and profit off it, but nobody has to be in poverty.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Right, I agree with you, but these knuckle draggers use Denmark, Norway, and Finland as their primary examples of socialism.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You live there and you're still wrong.

Denmark has a free‑market capitalist economy.

Go learn what socialism is.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Oh thank fuck you know the difference between democratic socialism and actual socialism, now go ahead and tell me what you think countries are truly socialist.