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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] RegalPotoo 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"full-blown woke communist" is US-speak for "Scandinavian socialist"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

The term you want is social democrat, which isn't socialism but hey, it tries to like, stop people starving to death on the street, if only because it looks ugly.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Nah literally anyone who advocates for basic human rights is a "full blown woke communist".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Scandinavian corporatist-social-democrat*

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Did you know the Scandanavian countries have more economic freedom than the USA! Its their saving grace. They also have many private roads. The early 20th c saw capitalist Nordic countries become very wealthy and store up sovereign funds. These funds were than blown dry in the later half of the century as they became more socialist. They have now abandoned many socialist policies and again adopted freedom. They do however still have high taxation.