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@lxo

This is the Communist Gish Gallop.

1. Norway is a socialist success!

2. Ok, Norway’s not socialist, but socialism has never been tried.

3. Fine, it was tried in Cuba and failed, but that doesn’t count because the capitalist nations didn’t help communism succeed.

I addressed this in that blog post you didn’t read, where I included the cartoon at the bottom of this toot. Read the post for more.

Anyhow, it turns out that the answer to regulating international corporations is to control what they do on your soil. If they want to make money in your country, they have to follow your rules, and those rules can extend to other countries.

For example, America can reject imports that come from places with poor labor practice and bad pollution.