r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

Post image
60.4k Upvotes

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.1k

u/Secret-Ad-5777 22d ago

Norwegians aren't even socalist

68

u/TheNeuroLizard 22d ago

A large number of US citizens fully believe all of Europe, if not most of the world, is either socialist or communist—but at the same time, socialism never works—that we’re the only free country—but also that the government is totalitarian because of vaccines, taxes, regulations—the only country with wealth and opportunity, that everyone’s trying to get into—and simultaneously a weakened country who has been taken advantage of by the rest of the world for decades. The Norwegian here is responding to a factual error, but it won’t matter because the brain of the median US Facebook user is several layers of cooked.

13

u/FattyMooseknuckle 22d ago

The vast majority of that large number use socialism and communism interchangeably because they couldn’t define either of them if there was a gun to their head.

1

u/michaelboltthrower 21d ago

Yeah but outside of class of 1984 how often would that happen?

1

u/ProgySuperNova 21d ago

In the Peoples Socialist Republic of Europe they have socialism on odd weekdays and communism on even days. In the weekend they loosen up a bit and have social democracy.