lol, I guess they mean The Nordics, which haven’t even smelled like socialism for years. It was already a neoliberal hellhole when I moved 15-odd years ago.
Bernie really wrecked a lot of Millenials’ minds with that “Scandinavia = Socialism” thing. People still staunchly believe it even after all these years. It’s at times like these I like to remind them that young people in Scandinavia feel stressed and miserable all the time.
Yeah but he popularized it bigtime. I heard it all the time in 2015-6. “Elect Bernie and we can have socialism just like they do!”
young people in Scandinavia feel stressed and miserable all the time.
Because it’s dark all the time, right? Right? :padme:
:brandon: i love capitalism so gosh darn much. I live it. I smell it. I -
:xi-vote: not so fast. I just voted to replace capitalism. It’s over.
:biden-alert: N-no…. How can this be?! I WAS MAKING SO MUCH MONEY UNTIL YOU VOOOTED ME OUT!!
replace capitalism with socialism in the capitalist mode
:dean-smile: Fight it through organizing, strikes and labor actions, civil disobedience
:dean-frown: Replace with Northern European mode