• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    They call themselves socialist.

    They promote socialism.

    They were praised as being fine examples of socialism and progress when things were going well

    Get out of the cope copter.

    • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Outside of having socialist as an adjective, none of that is true.

      You’ll be shocked to discover the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is a dictatorship and neither democratic nor a republic.

      Oh, and the insurrectionists that attacked the Capital who call themselves Patriots, aren’t that either.

      Words have definitions. When you ignore the definitions it shows you’ve no idea what you are talking about.

    • joelimgu@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sure, but the fact that no one knows what socialism is doesn’t mean that the definition of socialism changes. Argentina is an example of socialdemocracy with too much interventionist, nothing to do with socialism.

      But again, even if the new guy has good ideas nobody should support him insulting to make a campaign, this just makes discussion counterproductive, and its the base of a democratic society