Coworker: No way. That’d be socialism.
Me: Socialism isn’t a bad thing. Do you like having a fire department and roads? Those are collective funding of collectively beneficial services through government programs. Socialism.
Coworker: That’s different.
Me: No, it’s not. How is it different?
Coworker: That’s… Socialism is… Um… Yeah, well…
Maybe the solution is to just… stop saying its name?
If the ideas are extremely popular, but the terminology is extremely unpopular, the solution seems obvious. Cut it out with the scary Marxist words and express the ideas in less vilified language.
That’s been my approach with face to face conversations with some of my more right leaning (idiot) coworkers. Never, ever use the word “socialism”. It’ll scare em off. Describe its components and it’s amazing how much of of it they’re just on board with cuz it makes sense.
And that’s usually where I leave it… hopefully the seed takes root and they realize on their own later that all these awesome sounding things wrapped up into one package is socialism, but if it comes from me they’ll reject it immediately.
my more right leaning (idiot) coworkers
Tell em you heard Dump is becoming socialist by collecting money from everyone to support the Epstein class. Actually don’t use his name at first and say you heard politicians are starting a socialist movement to take everyone’s money and redistribute it to the people who own things so it can trickle down again.
I remember long ago when AOC first became talked about by conservatives. Fox News had popped up bullet points on the screen of some of the things she’d been talking about in her message to people, and then quickly removed them when they realized that without a label, even hard core Republicans might be okay with them.
They did the same thing when portraying Mamdani:
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Wait, Fox News framed them as bad things? Jfc I suppose it IS Fox News. Their viewers are stupid as fuck.
What a bunch of dummies. Or maybe an inside plant. lol
Until you say it is name.
How hard can it be learning that “it’s” is the contraction of “it is”?
Also, are these people aware that the word “its” exists in the English language?
We should have never discarded the genitive case.
If you see an apostrophe with a pronoun, it must be part of a contraction.
its—possessive adjective of it
it’s—contraction for “it is”
Its*
The media trains people to respond to words like when I tell my dog to “sit” or “beg”
It’s not even “the media”. It’s the consolidated voice of less then a half dozen of billionaires.
Can you please explain it in detail for us?
I’m not a fan of socialism I think it’s crazy I’d spend money on helping someone else when GoFundMe exists.
To me, that is just an insane take.
Other people are also spending their money to help you. The more you earn the more you contribute.
I like the fact that I can go to my GP whenever I need to, without paying anything. I like that I can buy my medicine without getting ruined. Once your yearly medical bill have reached $200 you get 50 % discount, once you hit $300 it’s 75% discount and once you’ve paid more than about $700, the medicine is free for the rest of the year.
I like the fact that I know people I meet can get the help they need, if they need it. Homeless people can get a place to live, addicts can get free treatment, people with mental issues can get help at a Psychiatric Hospital for free.
Education is free.
American doctors would never work for free though.
Doctors are one of the best paid professions in Denmark.
So how is healthcare free?
You’re not being serious, right?
I have a yearly income of about $120,000 (after about 4 years experience).
So $9900 a month in income, of that I pay $3600 to taxes. Out of the 3600,
$60$580 goes to healthcare each month.If you make $120.00 a year how do you afford $43,200.00 in taxes?
Am I missing a 0 somewhere or do you?
I earn $120,000 a year
Streamlined industry, no bloated insurance midde-man and socialism.
Who pays the doctors?
The people
