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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 13:22:02 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.

   There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.

   I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.

   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 20:51:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • wladimir

     @nucholab I’ve literally started a business both in Austria (it took one hour) and in the US (it took weeks).

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     wladimir (nucholab@genomic.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 20:51:11 JST wladimir

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     @thomasfuchs I gotta disagree with the start-a-business thing but otherwise, yeah