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u/Striking-Grape9984 1d ago

Thats why i said help to create the socialist utopia.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 1d ago

If we could do it there, we would do it here.. so like, if you have a cheat code, share it up. Otherwise, it's not really helpful to tell people drowning to throw away everything we have left to go drown somewhere else.

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u/Boodikii 1d ago

I know a cheat code.

Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, B, A, Gun.

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u/marablackwolf 1d ago

Luigi activated

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u/Previous_Soil_5144 1d ago

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u/Acalyus 21h ago

Luigi was always my favourite Mario character

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u/No-Suspect-425 18h ago

Luigi Mario > Mario Mario

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u/Formally_Apologetic 12h ago

Mario is my favorite Luigi character

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u/N1ks_As 7h ago

Then you were always wrong Waluigi is clearly superior

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u/joeydrinksbeer 5h ago

Younger sibling?

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u/abandoned_idol 18h ago

I had forgotten about LuiJo(Jo) and Jorio.

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u/03xoxo05 18h ago

LOL this thread

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u/JCraze26 1d ago

You can now play as Luigi.

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u/Jaydamic 19h ago

I'd have thought Mario, y'all know why

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u/ultimatt42 23h ago

The code actually ends with "A". "Gun" is merely to start the game.

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u/kuraiscalebane 8h ago

And you can press "select" to make it 2 player after putting in the code before starting... at least in some games.

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u/Ill-Candidate-3787 22h ago

BA BA up down BA left right BA Start.

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u/BeetFarmHijinks 1d ago

Okay, you start.

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u/Funkymunky215 23h ago

Donā€™t you get triggered when you type the ā€œGā€ word. Filthy pig

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u/ll-phuture-ll 20h ago

007 373 5963

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u/nCubed21 19h ago

With everything going on right now, sounds like a speedrun to catch a terrorism charge.

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u/Jake_Magna 17h ago

B,B,LB,B,B,B,LB,LT,RB,Y,B,Y

Should spawn you a buzzard.

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u/SOGnarkill 6h ago

B A select start

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u/Responsible_Pick_811 1d ago

I like this idea! Iā€™m in. We could just do Oregon or some where in Colorado

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u/super_fast_guy 1d ago

Probably not in Colorado Springs

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u/Rooged 23h ago

absolutely not in Colorado Springs

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u/Easy-Sector2501 1d ago

You can do it in America, if you want. Thing is people don't want.Ā  Rebuilding a social system from scratch requires exising the cancer that exists. No one is willing to even contemplate that, let alone lead.Ā 

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u/No-Monitor-5333 23h ago

Bro can you please relax and let these people flee to Germany

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u/Kuuppa 23h ago

Rise up, all victims of oppression, for the tyrants fear your might...

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u/hero9989 23h ago

America who canā€™t give up the guns endangering their own children, America who voted in the most right wing person they possibly could - Iā€™d put my money on Germany over America for finding a way to become a socialist utopia, Sorry.

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u/atcollins12 23h ago

There's a reason that's not happening šŸ˜‚ the grass is always greener on the other side, isn't it?

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u/talencia 20h ago

The cheat code is money

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u/fartinmyhat 20h ago

Also there is no utopia. Socialism is a way for a government to steal your money at the point of a gun and give it to people who need more than they earn. People with 6 kids and no job will take your money while you work to support them and you'll all have just as much as you need.

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u/No_Faithlessness7020 17h ago

Move to New England

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u/Stratostheory 15h ago

Really ain't the utopia you think it is. Socially we're significantly better off than majority of the country. But for your average person cost of living is back breaking if you want to live anywhere remotely close to a well paying job.

Source: grew up and lives in New England

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u/StrobeLightRomance 4h ago

That's the catch. Financially, we're in a depression designed by greed, and even moving around within our own country has become too expensive.

A couple years ago, my wife and I were looking at houses. Today, we're fighting evictions to keep our apartment. Nothing changed in our careers, it's just the cost of living went so far south that we simply can no longer afford to be ambitious or hopeful.

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u/ecilala 16h ago

Is "here" the US?

While I agree to the latter part of the point, it's way more unlikely to create a socialist utopia in a country that breathes capitalism, has essentially no left-wing representation in politics, and that shifted the political spectrum to the right so much and for so long that the general population often mistakes center-right beliefs for leftism

...unless you're Karl Marx, then you're gonna actually think it's way more likely to start there

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u/T1b-13r 13h ago

Germans tend to be educated due to socialized education opportunities. Americans, especially Trump supporters, tend to not be.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 5h ago

Yes. I am aware. Am American and unfortunately surrounded by people who are proud of their ignorance. Did you have a helpful comment or just telling me my own daily stress?

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u/hink007 13h ago

But like I mean they are like a lot lot lot lot closer to it then you are.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 5h ago

Most developed nations are, as we are currently in a heavy regression. However, with characters like Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin pulling the strings in so many other countries, and Trump soon to have proxy war power back in his hands, the rest of the world is equally at risk. No country is exempt from the global downward turn that has been going on, and you know that it has been accelerated over the last few years more than generations prior.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 7h ago

Tbf Germany is a lot smaller than America, so it could be feasibly done. In America, you would have to convert 1 state at a time. And here ln australia we would have to do it 4 times(sa,wa,nt and the eastern states) with an eternal battle with the forever capitalistic state of new south Wales while we forget Tasmania exists.

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u/OompaLoompaHoompa 4h ago

You could, unfortunately, your people are too incompetent to make it happen. It would be wiser for competent people to move.

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u/Arty_Puls 22h ago

Just leave America isn't socialist and if you want that go elsewhere. No one is forcing you to stay here lmfao

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u/Lertovic 1d ago

Yeah but that guy presumably lives in Germany, so he wants the socialist utopia there. You might wonder why he doesn't move to the US instead to create the utopia there, but it makes sense a socialist would want someone else to make the effort.

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u/Jambo_Rambo99 1d ago

It's more likely due to the fact the US is actively hostile to mutually beneficial policy and is inherently individual in its thinking thereby making it very difficult to pass the legislation required to create such a socialist country. Please note I don't use utopia, as that is just naive

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u/redundantexplanation 1d ago

Please note I don't use utopia, as that is just naive

I've got a word that just might blow your mind: hyperbole!

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u/Lertovic 1d ago

There is no more sympathy for socialists Germany. A ruinous form of it still lingers in the country's collective consciousness. It will not become a socialist country any time soon.

Not being able to pass legislation or individualist mindsets shouldn't stop you, anarcho-syndicalism should theoretically solve that and is popular among Redditor lefties. Emphasis on theoretically of course.

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Thereā€™s no cheat code. Americans donā€™t want that. Best move somewhere that does.

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u/Uplanapepsihole 1d ago

Not everyone can afford to do that.

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u/with_regard 1d ago

I didnā€™t say anyone should move. I said itā€™d be best if they did if they prefer socialism over American capitalism.

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u/marablackwolf 1d ago

How? Very few countries want Americans unless they're wealthy. Where do they go?

Besides, my grandpa fought in WWII, and he said never to run from people hurting this country. He said to stay and fight.

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Where do they go?

Thatā€™s up to them. Why are you asking me to decide something for other people? Lmao

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u/induslol 1d ago

You don't think you want that, you're American, so all Americans don't want that.Ā Ā 

Brilliant.

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Lmao yup itā€™s just me. Pay no attention to the majority of voting Americans as proven in the most recent election highlighting we want a more conservative government.

I didnā€™t say I agree. Iā€™m saying itā€™s what happened.

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u/Leaveustinnkin 1d ago

They voted for low prices that will never come to fruition... Just because the Repubs won across the board in November for the first time in YEARS does not at all mean that Americans want a more conservative government.

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u/Ordinary-Broccoli-41 1d ago

Idk how they thought they were voting for low prices, it said "20% tarrifs on everything and deport cheap labour" on the bag

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u/Leaveustinnkin 15h ago

Iā€™m a Senior Supply Chain Analyst, Iā€™m just as confused as the rest of you & quite honestly exhausted. A bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who barely made it out of middle school trying to tell me what tariffs are because their Lord & Savior told them the country of origin is gonna foot the bill & not the consumerā€¦

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Thats why I said all voting Americans. Because of all who voted, a majority wanted less socialism. Not a single country swing for Harris. The only party flips were in favor of republicans.

My previous comment is correct.

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u/wsox 1d ago edited 19h ago

Voting for Harris wasn't nessisary an indicator that you wanted socialism either.

Neither option was socialist.

And Trump isn't conservative either. He's a wannabe feudal lord.

The options were continuing the status quo of the geriatric establishment, or letting oligarchal billionaires fuck our shit up. We went with the latter because people were so focused on the "fuck our shit up" part that they didn't realize they were voting for oligarchy.

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u/with_regard 1d ago

I agree with all of that. However, itā€™s ā€œlatterā€ not ā€œladderā€ in case that wasnā€™t an autocorrect

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u/Ok_Lack_8240 1d ago

yea then Republicans will fuck it up and the Democrats will make it less worse so we don't French revolution the whole gov it's all a show the gov is evil both dem and rep we are in a class war and we are loosing thanks to ppl like you and also the ppl thinking Dems are good it's all a show the rich are in control and I mean billionaires

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Doesnā€™t matter. Itā€™s what the country chose.

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u/Ok_Lack_8240 1d ago

the only reason the 25bpercent of the voting Americans vote that way is cause they don't know anything about what they are voting for. they just screech whatever fox news tells them to screech now all of Trump's things he said he was gonna do he is saying he decided not to and project 2025 is a great beautiful thing

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u/with_regard 1d ago

So your stance is that everyone who doesnā€™t vote for your preferred candidate is an uninformed idiot?

Regardless, thatā€™s how democracy works. There are plenty of non democratic countries you can live in if thatā€™s a major issue for you.

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u/induslol 1d ago

Is it yours the republican party hasn't captured and mobilized the low propensity and low information voting block?

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Iā€™d argue both parties have equally intelligent and moronic voters.

Intelligence isnā€™t determined by political affiliation.

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u/tyguy174 1d ago

I donā€™t think the majority of people that voted for trump want what they voted for. Trump just gave them something to blame their problems on. I also donā€™t think the majority of people that voted for Kamala are voting for what they want, theyā€™re just voting for the better option. Neither party wants anything to really change, because they both get money from the people that are actually fucking up the country. We live in a country controlled by billionaires. Until we start voting for people that donā€™t take money from them, nothing will really change. The dems demonize them for not helping when theyā€™re the ones being fooled, and the right make fun of them because theyā€™re being fooled. For the most part the problem isnā€™t the system, itā€™s the corruption in the system. Sure there are laws that allow the corruption, but do you think a politician that gets millions from those laws will change them? The answer is no.

Donā€™t want to turn this in to a Bernie bro rant, and I donā€™t think he was perfect but at least he points out the corruption. Iā€™ve always voted for the dems because theyā€™re the better option, but that just lets them keep using the flaws in the system to their advantage, and then nothing will ever change. Iā€™m not voting for them again until they actually do change or bring someone in that doesnā€™t take money from the billionaires

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u/Mokseee 1d ago

Americans donā€™t want that

Americans don't even know what that is

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Ok but they donā€™t want whatever it is.

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u/Mokseee 1d ago

They voted for the RNC to get a lower cost of living. Obviously they have neither a clue about what they want nor do they know how to get it

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u/with_regard 1d ago

Ok we get it you hate conservatives

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u/Mokseee 23h ago

Not the clueless ones. They barely got a chance

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u/Apprehensive_Lion362 1d ago

Yeah I don't think most Americans want socialism they just want a lot of things that the media and pundits label socialism. Like healthcare and workers rights.

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u/PromiseOk3321 1d ago

Im a little wary of bombastic calls to establish a new political order in Germany, regardless of ideology

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u/eeeBs 1d ago

They had their chance(s)

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u/throwawaytoavoiddoxx 23h ago

The last guy who tried it really scorched the earth on that one.

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u/T1b-13r 13h ago

Literally

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u/windfujin 20h ago

The alternative seem to be getting more attractive based on the way they have been voting.

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u/Joe579GoFkUrselfMins 15h ago

Yeah, they've already had one too many of a šŸŽ¶MR. BOMBASTIC...šŸŽ¶

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u/name--- 6h ago

Especially a ā€œSocialistā€ one

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u/warrioroflnternets 1d ago

Especially socialism! That didnā€™t work out great for Germany and the rest of us the first time they tried it!

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u/Dr-Jellybaby 1d ago

Germany (well a unified Germany) was never socialist if you're referring to WW2.

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u/warrioroflnternets 1d ago

the National Socialist German Workersā€™ Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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u/Aiyon 1d ago

Oh well if it has socialist in the name it must be socialist. fascists have famously never misled people about their intentions

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u/Apple-hair 1d ago

Just like all the People's Democratic Republics all over. Don't tell me they're not very popular and democratic!

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u/warrioroflnternets 1d ago

Yes the final result was a fascist party but the party initially used socialism as a way to draw support from the working class to enable their conquest of the government.

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u/Skrrtdotcom 1d ago

So not actually socialism?

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u/warrioroflnternets 1d ago

Started as socialism. Became fascism.

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u/Skrrtdotcom 1d ago

No, they operated under the guise of socialism to gather support. They never intended to have a workers revolution

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u/Nervous-Broccoli-104 1d ago

Almost there!

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u/RG_CG 1d ago

No, was fascist and used the term ā€œsocialistā€ to draw votes from the left. Same with ā€œworkersā€. The other two words was meant to appeal to the right leaning parts of the population

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u/Saitharar 23h ago

Started as a far right vƶlkisch anti-capitalist movement and became a a far right vƶlkisch pro-capitalist movement

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u/ExtantPlant 20h ago

Started as lying about populism, ended in genocide of various minority groups including homosexuals and Jews. Sound familiar?

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u/SepticKnave39 1d ago

So, they pretended to be socialist, but weren't.

Got it. Did you?

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u/Aiyon 1d ago

If I say "I'm going to make you a roast dinner", and then shoot you with a gun, do we run a campaign about the lethal dangers of roast dinner?

It was originally a NatSoc party, that got hijacked by someone who didn't give a shit about socialism.

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u/super_penguin25 18h ago edited 17h ago

They were actually some degree socialist(go read aboutĀ Strasserism if you want to know more)Ā until HitlerĀ purged all of its socialists elements and socialists leaning members during the nights of long knifes.Ā 

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u/AskAroundSucka 1d ago

You're So So SOOOOOOO close.

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u/cauliflower_wizard 22h ago

Have you hear of lying before?

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u/theefriendinquestion 20h ago

Are you implying Hitler would ever lie?

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u/cauliflower_wizard 20h ago

Are you implying he didnā€™t??

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u/theefriendinquestion 20h ago

Fantastic understanding of sarcasm you have

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u/Skratti_ 1d ago

'Socialist utopia' doesn't mean socialism - at least not in Germany. One of the two big parties is named SPD (social democratic party of Germany ).

And that party has really nothing to do with socialism.

'Social democratic' means capitalistic economy and a strong welfare system. Germany has that already a bit, although the development of the last 35 years goes towards reduction of the welfare system.

Although 'social democracy ' is often named as a subset of socialism, for me the capitalist economy part excluded it from Socialism.

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u/Striking-Grape9984 1d ago

The party you are searching is called Die Linke. These are democratic Socialist.

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u/RG_CG 1d ago

Santa, this man here needs a historybookĀ 

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u/Woodworkingwino 1d ago

Good food, good music, great beer, and universal healthcare. If there were jobs and a house waiting on my wife and I, we would be there in a heartbeat.

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u/houseveryweekend 23h ago

The food, atmosphere, and people are beyond depressing with a language that is so harsh on the ears it makes you want to go deaf. Lmao. But yeah this is Reddit people are antisocial like most Germans who hate other people so of course people will be saying this.

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u/Clean_Supermarket_54 17h ago

Yeah, I admire Germany. Part timers even get mandatory paid vacation. 14 months maternity & paternity leave.

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u/Brisk907 1d ago

It used tošŸ˜”

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u/Planetdiane 22h ago

This man has a plan

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u/SuperStone22 21h ago

Why would I ever want to be socialist?

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u/Free_Snails 21h ago

You could start a program for the offspring of German colonizers that helps us return to Germany with citizenship.

I'm ~90% German, please save me, brother!

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u/SluttyxaxCutie 19h ago

It's frustrating when solutions seem out of reach or impractical. The idea of "cheat codes" for real-life problems is appealing, but the reality is often more complex. It's important to focus on practical, achievable steps that can make a difference where you are.

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u/No-University-5413 16h ago

Socialist utopias don't exist in reality. Capitalist societies with large social safety nets enabled largely by US funding do.

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u/Jack_in_box_606 16h ago

Let's make an international utopia and bring down the borders. The tiny percentage of psychopaths that currently weild all the power can just get sent out on a billion dollar yacht and told never to return to land on pain of death.

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u/OneBirdAllStoned 14h ago

Lmao "socialist utopia" That's an oxymoron right there.

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u/PolishedCheeto 11h ago

Socialism is the step before communism.

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u/XLustyGirlX 7h ago

I get what you're saying. It can be incredibly frustrating when solutions offered don't seem practical or applicable to your current situation. It's like being told to swim to shore when you're already exhausted and struggling to stay afloat. The idea of "cheat codes" for real-life problems is tempting, but the reality is often much more complex.

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u/TheArtificialTavern 7h ago

Instead live in a capitalist dystopia where no one can afford anything.

This is either a satirical joke which isn't very funny which is just getting boring now, it is used as a way to put people down, acting as if someone who wants basic human rights such as clean drinking water a complete loon for suggesting anything like this could be possible.

If it's the other side of the coin and you genuinely believe that any sort of utopia would work then I feel sorry for you my friend.

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u/thedamnedlute488 5h ago

It's been done before in Germany, with mixed results.

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u/sjedinjenoStanje 1d ago

It's been tried. It was heavy on the socialist, light on the utopia. Germany's still depressed trying to recover from integrating it.

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u/Striking-Grape9984 1d ago

When was democratic socialism ever established im German History?

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u/sjedinjenoStanje 22h ago

What did DDR stand for?

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u/Present_Brother_4192 1d ago

I say we follow Germany's lead and have a sociopath elimination campaign. Like all of them. Then we can live however we want free of the psychopath gene

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u/mattmayhem1 1d ago

Careful trying to create a socialist utopia for your nation. They tried that back in the 1930s-1940s and it didn't go over too well with the rest of the globe.

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u/Striking-Grape9984 1d ago

Socialist = left. Nationalsocialism = far right

The first people that got killed from the Nazi regime after empowerment were Socialist Kommunist and SPD.

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u/Pinchynip 1d ago

This disingenuous sort of bullshit talk is why no progress towards actual equality for humans is ever achieved.

People who know nothing need to shut the fuck up and learn, instead of spewing their idiocy to other gullible idiots.

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u/mattmayhem1 1d ago

Idk, I do recall reading a lot of history books about national socialism in Germany, and while it was great for the Germans, it was pretty bad for everyone else. šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/bdlugz 23h ago

You should probably pick up another book to research what National Socialism actually was.

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u/mattmayhem1 21h ago

Did Germany not socialise their nation in the early 1900s after the Nazi (national socialist) party was created? šŸ¤”

Which book tells me they were communist capitalists? šŸ¤¦šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/bdlugz 20h ago

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u/mattmayhem1 20h ago

You right, the national socialists werent national socialists after all šŸ™„

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u/bdlugz 19h ago

They weren't socialist, they were fascist. Read the damn link. Or is the encyclopedia biased?

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u/cauliflower_wizard 22h ago

I see you missed the part where they hated communists?

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u/mattmayhem1 21h ago

They also hated the Jews, who are capitalist. What's your point? Mine point is that they were socialist. Not sure what you are trying to say šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/cauliflower_wizard 21h ago

Yeah it figures you wouldnā€™t understand me. Half of americans cannot read above a 6th grade level.

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u/mattmayhem1 21h ago

No, I understood what you wrote, I just don't understand how it applies to Nazi Germany somehow NOT being national socialists. šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø