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No no, it's only socialism if they've killed over a million people and it's non-western

Universal healthcare for all ~~please~~.

Or else

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

As in, if trump doesn't turn the country into a dictatorship, hopefully we have a future candidate that will treat health care as a human right? 🤞

It's disgusting. There needs to be legal recognition of all that is at stake for patients and their families. The denial of necessary care is structural violence and should be treated as such by everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

In interactions with authoritarians, I'm often reminded of Jean-Paul Sartre's description of anti-semites.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

Tankies follow the same underlying basis for their justifications of authoritarianism as every other stripe.

What he's selling isn't socialism, it's authoritarianism. Socialist ideals are already prominent here and his apologia for brutally oppressive regimes does the opposite of fostering a less toxic or less divisive environment.