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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdsobjp wrote

Except for it hasn't. Andrew Cuomo, a true cog in the Democrat establishment machine, was ousted and investigated by his own party in his own state for sexual harassment. You didn't see Dems in Congress calling Tish to get involved and interfere. Dems trip over themselves to call each other out and punish each other, to the point where it's a little embarrassing and I wish they'd let some things slide because we're pushing out good people for small affronts (looking at Al Franken here). This isn't a both sides issue. Dems fuck each other up for even minor things, Reps are supporting literal fucking traitors.

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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdnihkc wrote

I mean, yes. Facebook was a "socialistic" enterprise until the IPO. That's not inconsistent with any definitions. Afterwards, Zuckerberg only has around 13.4% of the economic interests, and the other employees have far, far less than that. And what do you know, Facebook's influence and nefariousness have only grown as the corporate ownership becomes less connected to the people that actually work there.

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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmhik6 wrote

No I would call this socialism. The workers own the means of production and are able to keep the surplus value produced by their labor. It's great. That's how it should be. They can decide for themselves what hours they work, what tasks they perform, how profits are divided, etc., instead of the owner dictating all of that to them and keeping the profits for himself. A lot of people don't realize how much socialism we already have in the US. I would describe every mom-and-pop store, sole proprietorship, credit union, worker co-op, etc., as socialism. It's already here in some places and works great. We just need more of it.

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Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmg1la wrote

Same thing happened after the Civil War. Hardly anybody was actually punished, and Confederates quietly went back to their cities and became Mayor, Sheriff, Chairman of the School Board, etc. Jim Crow laws and the Klan really took off from there, and by the mid-1920s it had an estimated peak membership of 6 million. Eugenicists also got super popular at the time, and hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly sterilized under laws that we'd call proto-Nazi. And they literally were, because the Nazis copied some of these 1920s eugenics laws almost word for word when they took power in the 1930s.

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