• pneumatron@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Health insurance, ISP, Oil Cos, and utilities should also be nationalized. The US is a weird place where everything is a business. A shithole capitalist hellscape

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      5 hours ago

      Those are different to taking over private companies. The government should, imo, compete against private enterprise in those areas, in turn bringing prices down and making it better for the taxpayers.

      NASA is government owned. Look at the state of it. Do you think the government taking over SpaceX would really be a good thing?

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      5 hours ago

      Tankies live in alternate reality where they think that nationalization is extremely common and is a magical solution to all of societies problems… even though this view is entirely delusional.

      For example, only 3 countries have nationalized the entire ISP industry, and those are Cuba, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. All three of which are horrid tyrannical dictatorships with horrible internet. We should NOT be like them. Even when it comes to health insurance, except for 3 countries I just mentioned, every single country allows private health insurance, even if their system is public. Clearly nationalization is not what you think it is.

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        LOL “We should NOT be like them.”
        And then starts talking about health insurance. What health insurance?
        You can only dream of being like Cuba.
        But your shithole country keeps licking the boots and are good little servants of the oligarch ruling class.
        And that’s great, you deserve all you get, all you do is comlain and cry about it online anyway.

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        5 hours ago

        Tankie your ass. You don’t have to have a shitty dictatorship to have nationalized services. Clearly you don’t know as much as you think you do.

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          4 hours ago

          Most countries have public options for services and private alternatives as either competitors, backups, or complimentary pieces. It’s very rare for countries to completely nationalize sectors, and it’s especially rare for them to national that many sectors.