• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    [off topic?]

    A while back, someone posted a question, 'why do all Socialist countries fail?"

    I pointed out that Canada seemed to be robust. He shot back a message that the Right Wing Heritage Foundation had deemed Canada freer than the United States.

    I then asked why we couldn’t have Canadian style healthcare in the USA, since Canada wasn’t a Socialist country?

    He never got back to me.

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      11 months ago

      Just to be clear, Canada is definitely not a socialist country. If your tactic was just to bait him into the Healthcare pill that’s cool and all but misusing terms to make points tends to backfire in the end.

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        11 months ago

        If you think about it, my correspondent was the one misusing terms. He could have said that Obama’s ACA was based on a plan GOP Mitt Romney introduced. He was so scared of the Socialist boogeyman that he couldn’t handle the idea that a capitalist country could have laws to help the citizens.