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    Socialized system vs capitalized system: The capitalist comes in and uses their venture capital to undercut the socialized system so that people stop using it. Once the socialized system loses interest and funding or are otherwise out of the picture, they they jack their prices up way higher than the original and because they’re the only game in town, they get to keep those record profits in effective perpetuity.

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        Republicans helped the couriers prevent USPS from competing. The 2006 law they passed mandated that USPS had to pre-cover healthcare and retirements for the next 75 years, which no other organization does, and has put USPS in financial trouble.

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          All those moron Boomers relying on the USPS for their medicine delivery were suddenly shocked service to bumfuck Alabama would have to be reduced. Yet they keep voting republican…

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          Average american. Don’t you know? Capitalism is when good and when not good, that’s communism socialism.

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              Socialism is when the government does stuff and the more it does the more socialist it is, and if you do enough of it, that’s communism.

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                Boy, in this thread I really can’t tell where the sarcasm ended and the bad faith began.

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                  I’ll give you a hint. The comment you just responded to is a joke made by actual socialists about what liberals think socialism is.

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                  I make it intentionally hard to tell where I line up politically so people get punished for trying to find out if I’m on their side instead of just addressing the point i’m making.

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          So you didn’t read the meme then? Can’t you see no one specified which postal service vs Uber Eats???