this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Socialism is when the government does stuff. The more stuff it does, the more socialist it is. And if it does a real lot of stuff, it's communism"

Please do correct me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And if it does everything, it's communist-er.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the user above would benefit from a first degree response

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i googled it, i'm helpless. Whats a first degree response?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess it doesn't translate as well as I thought it would. I mean a response in good faith. French calls those first-degree, as opposed to sarcasm which would be second-degree

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

probably i'll have to study french, so thanks for the teaching :)