:AyyyyyOC: "i want the socialism of britain and scandinavia"

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    wait, you guys have public housing and relocation services for immigrants?

    next you'll be telling me that immigrants aren't just held in cages without basic sanitation while a white nationalist "doctor" sterilizes them and until the detention center kingpin brokers some arrangement for transport and sale to human traffickers. because that's how the US is operating.

    you'll have to excuse the occasional starry-eyed look we give to the nordics. for some of us, it's our first look over the wall. like that line from Slaughterhouse Five, when the author describes seeing pre-bombed Dresden for the first time from a POW train car as "Oz", before admitting that the largest city he had seen in his life up until that point was like Topeka, Kansas pop. 40,000.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Don't get me wrong, decaying capitalism with healthcare and social services is a lot more livable than decaying capitalism with a prison-industrial complex. This doesn't mean that there is a fundamental difference of character between the class societies of the US and Denmark. For various reasons Denmark has been more sheltered than the US and usually we're hit later and less intensely by capitalist destruction than you are.

      Denmark is going to be completely fucked up by climate change and capitalist decay, were just a bit further down the line than the US.