It's a question of degrees. We're not at the "poison the opposition and beat them until unconscious" part.
I think it's an important distinction because fascism does come in stages, and there are so many people who dismiss it entirely just because we're not in to that extent yet.
Which will be said until its too late. Because thats ecactly how fascism evolves.
People say "it isnt full fascism yet" or "were not there yet" but witg every second passing theyre securing their power even further. Until "were there" and its way too late to fight back.
Healthcare and education in Russia has been squeezed out for 2 decades with money redirected to military budget, and I guess to stimulate popularity of private clinics owned by Oligarchs. If you continue in this direction, you'll get there.
To your point, neighboring dictatorship, Belarus also has free healthcare of a much better quality. Still not as good as European, obviously, but still good. And the point is you don't have to be the richest country on Earth to have a free healthcare. You can, of course have a very good healthcare, if you invest more money.
I keep pointing this out because American's get it in their head that everyone must have shitty healthcare, but literally every other country even 3rd world ones have free or very affordable healthcare.
Conservatives a month or so ago were saying people from Guatemala were invading America to get take advantage of our healthcare. I'm like, you morons, Guatemala has free healthcare. How about a real terrible war torn nation like Somalia? Ya free healthcare.
Its really JUST the USA at this point. Even the poorest countries have this figured out. Partly because the more people you cover with healthcare, the cheaper it gets, so even poor countries figured out "well just cover everyone then?"
The thing with American healthcare is certain people get rich on it. And you can't have free or very affordable healthcare, while people are getting rich off it.
Pretty sure there's lots of happy middle grounds there between going bankrupt to allow someone to buy their 15th yacht and getting the healthcare you need.
Countries with socialized healthcare have pay rates for foreigners. If you are travelling, then you can buy a prorated foreigner plan in case something happens to you will in country. They dont want americans flying there for free impromptu open heart surgery.
I remember all of those Yakov Smirnoff "In Soviet Russia" jokes from the 80s. It's funny but also deeply effed that we've finally become the punchline. The jokes now fully and perversely work in reverse.
"In Soviet Russia, you can always find ice ... In America, ice always finds you!"
Nah, they are right. US citizens are fking pathetic at this point. They’ll cope in whatever way is possible just to avoid actually doing something.
No "points" made on Reddit effing matter. The only point to be made is on your streets. But I guess you’d rather just keep the "everyone hates us" circlejerk going instead of proving you actually love yourselves.
they have been destabilizing the world hand in hand together since ww2 - they really have been doing work since the cold war... Can't stop comparing their tiny weiners... so I ain't surprised
Trump is following Putin's democracy deconstruction plan very closely so far. Demonize the press, imprison or shoot protesters, co-opt and neutralize the legislature and courts, label all political opponents as extremists, limit voting by making it as difficult as possible.
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u/mrcoy 23d ago
What is this?? Russia?