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lol, you're joking? The right-wing loves to call liberals "communists" as well as "socialists", as if it's the worst possible thing in the world.

valval 3y ago
It’s not the worst thing in the world, it’s just a way to dismiss someone as being naive and not understanding how the world works.
- hackyhacky 3y ago
  You're aware that by American standards, Finland is a fully socialist state, right?
  - bombolo 3y ago
    Both Sweden and Finland joined NATO with the goal of increasing army spending and reducing it on the social programs. Better to give money to USA to buy one F22 and to complain about darkies being criminals, than to put money to education so that criminality isn't the only route out of poverty right? /s And of course in Sweden the schools where the residents are poor get less money, aren't as good, and it's much more difficult for their students to be accepted into a university.
    - zirgs 3y ago
      The goal was to prevent the streets of Visby from looking like the streets of Bucha.
      - bombolo 3y ago
        By allowing private schools to have no oversight from the government, pocket money and teach (or not teach) whatever they feel like? Did that work?
    - gustavf 3y ago
      What? There's generally an adjustment to the funding for schools in Sweden depending on socio-economic factors, so if anything schools where more residents are poor get more money.
      - bombolo 3y ago
        Try to work as a substitute teacher and see how it's not nearly true.
        themitigating 3y ago
        A substitute teacher isn't an effective way of judging the education system
        bombolo 3y ago
        a comment on ycombinator is better than having been in the schools?
  - valval 3y ago
    Finland is a fully socialist state by my standards as well, and all objective standards, frankly. What are you getting at?
- defrost 3y ago
  It does rather make the person weilding such a dismissal look like an utter fool though. At least to international eyes.
hinkley 3y ago
Can you still use that as saber rattling when your favorite guy is a Putin bootlicker? God. If my grandparents saw what being a republican would become in thirty short years I don’t know if they’d be able to take it. Reagan republicans would probably shoot the lot of them.
- WorldMaker 3y ago
  There seems to be no level of hypocrisy to which they will not rise and claim excuses and conspiratorial reasons for. I have heard from those sorts, among other things that "Putin is a great capitalist".
  - hinkley 3y ago
    I heard the term 'commie pinko sympathizers' a number of times (not at home, in media and public) as a child and only a couple of them were being ironic.
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valval 3y ago

It’s not the worst thing in the world, it’s just a way to dismiss someone as being naive and not understanding how the world works.

hackyhacky 3y ago
You're aware that by American standards, Finland is a fully socialist state, right?
- bombolo 3y ago
  Both Sweden and Finland joined NATO with the goal of increasing army spending and reducing it on the social programs. Better to give money to USA to buy one F22 and to complain about darkies being criminals, than to put money to education so that criminality isn't the only route out of poverty right? /s And of course in Sweden the schools where the residents are poor get less money, aren't as good, and it's much more difficult for their students to be accepted into a university.
  - zirgs 3y ago
    The goal was to prevent the streets of Visby from looking like the streets of Bucha.
    - bombolo 3y ago
      By allowing private schools to have no oversight from the government, pocket money and teach (or not teach) whatever they feel like? Did that work?
  - gustavf 3y ago
    What? There's generally an adjustment to the funding for schools in Sweden depending on socio-economic factors, so if anything schools where more residents are poor get more money.
    - bombolo 3y ago
      Try to work as a substitute teacher and see how it's not nearly true.
      - themitigating 3y ago
        A substitute teacher isn't an effective way of judging the education system
        bombolo 3y ago
        a comment on ycombinator is better than having been in the schools?
- valval 3y ago
  Finland is a fully socialist state by my standards as well, and all objective standards, frankly. What are you getting at?
defrost 3y ago
It does rather make the person weilding such a dismissal look like an utter fool though. At least to international eyes.

hinkley 3y ago

Can you still use that as saber rattling when your favorite guy is a Putin bootlicker? God. If my grandparents saw what being a republican would become in thirty short years I don’t know if they’d be able to take it. Reagan republicans would probably shoot the lot of them.

WorldMaker 3y ago
There seems to be no level of hypocrisy to which they will not rise and claim excuses and conspiratorial reasons for. I have heard from those sorts, among other things that "Putin is a great capitalist".
- hinkley 3y ago
  I heard the term 'commie pinko sympathizers' a number of times (not at home, in media and public) as a child and only a couple of them were being ironic.
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