• hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Wait… when the government gives people money… that sounds like… SOCIALISM.

    This is to point out his hypocrisy, not even to note that this is a stupid way of distributing money (it just goes into the hands of middle men) and only intends to generate some good sounding news instead of actually solving a problem

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      4 hours ago

      I can’t tell if this is sarcastic, but I’ll respond the same way regardless.

      This is not socialism. Government provided social programs or financial assistance are a basic function of governance. Virtually every government on Earth does this, whether democratic, authoritarian, or communist.