• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    You’ve never heard of Social Security?

    Oh, you’ve never heard of the The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? As you can see from the name, they’re definitely democratic.

    The US social security is a bad joke compared to other developed nations.

    To say “USA has been championing socialist policies for 100 years” is on the same level as saying “China has been championing personal freedom for 100 years”.

    The US doesn’t even have direct presidential elections, which by the standard of developed democratic nations is extremely weird.

    There’s a lot there I don’t need to comment on. I’m challenging you on your “America has been championing socialist policies for 100 years” comment.

    Compared to European social security and labour laws, US socialist policies and labour laws are pretty much on the level of developing nations — if that.

    Case in point; Among 41 countries, only U.S. lacks paid parental leave

    Are you honestly trying to use public roads as an example of “having championed socialist policies”? Not exactly the most novel or progressive policy, I would say.

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-paradigm-shift-in-social-policy-how-finland-conquered-homelessness-a-ba1a531e-8129-4c71-94fc-7268c5b109d9

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Homelessness

    https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-security-benefits-are-modest

    Social Security benefits in the United States are lower than many other developed countries.

    You have people who are employed full time, some even in two jobs, who still have to live and shit on the street.

    “Championing socialist policies” lol

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      I also said a century. I mean when was Social Security setup in your country? I don’t think you understand the ideological war being fought in America.

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      Literal strawman nonsense, look at this man go. I think you should understand that America is attempting to erode a woman’s right to vote. That’s what I’m saying. That all these people that think America should continue down the path of abandoning modern democracy should look into Americas past and understand the points in time in which it has championed for rights.

      Thats the way you use that word. You’re literally admitting you’re ESL and can’t use English as well as I can. You’ve built a massive strawman on this simple fact. Other commentors can see my point. You can’t. Sorry.

      Like I actually can’t believe you’ve built this massive of a strawman, it’s incredible. All because you don’t know the definition of a word. That’s literally all you go back to, as well. Nothing else I say matters. You just masturbate to your strawman, Mr Fin.