r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Judge_129 • 8h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/parrote3 6h ago

That’s… also capitalism. I like the model but it’s as much socialism as the fire department.

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u/InternationalLaw8660 6h ago

What isn't socialist about "fire department?"

Your taxes go towards funding the department, you have an emergency, they come save you.

Pretty straightforward; unless you live in one of those "unincorporated" hell-scapes where you have the option of donating to the volunteer department, and if you don't they don't have to help.

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u/BenjaminWah 5h ago

AND...fire departments are unionized and collectively bargain their contracts

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u/Gunmetalstorm 5h ago

Socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lotta stuff, it's communism!

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u/jackpott443 6h ago

That's... what they were saying.

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u/bobbymcpresscot 5h ago

There is always going to be capitalism even in a socialist system.

We’ve unironically coup’d foreign governments(ie Iran) for threatening to do what Norway did with nationalizing their oil reserves. 

It’s insane to me that we sell federal land to private companies to exploit, rape, and pillage for what would be pennies on the dollar for the amount of wealth they extract from it.