Clearing up a common confusion
Aug. 21st, 2009 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This is a nation with SOCIALISED medicine:

This is a nation with SOCIALIST medicine:

SOCIALISED =/=SOCIALIST
and, just to be absolutely clear,
SOCIALIZED =/= SOCIALIST
Please feel free to print this out and distribute it if you find yourself listening to the sort of people that have seen me screaming at the news coverage all week.
I swear, if I was an American and some of the Libertarian loonies leading 'community' concerns came to my door, I would scream: 'COMMUNIST CONCERNS?? AIEEEEE! Fetch me the shotgun, Fido! Time to shoot me some trespassing Reds!'
Admittedly, this raises the questions why an American me would have a dog trained in gun fetching, and speak like Christopher Walken taking the piss, but let's just move on.

This is a nation with SOCIALIST medicine:

SOCIALISED =/=SOCIALIST
and, just to be absolutely clear,
SOCIALIZED =/= SOCIALIST
Please feel free to print this out and distribute it if you find yourself listening to the sort of people that have seen me screaming at the news coverage all week.
I swear, if I was an American and some of the Libertarian loonies leading 'community' concerns came to my door, I would scream: 'COMMUNIST CONCERNS?? AIEEEEE! Fetch me the shotgun, Fido! Time to shoot me some trespassing Reds!'
Admittedly, this raises the questions why an American me would have a dog trained in gun fetching, and speak like Christopher Walken taking the piss, but let's just move on.
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Date: 2009-08-21 01:30 pm (UTC)Speaking of cultural idiosyncrasies, Google Translator translates the Finnish word 'rahvaanomainen' (usually translated as common or vulgar) as 'non-U'. LOL! Not, I think a totally mainstream translation :D
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Date: 2009-08-21 01:32 pm (UTC)An American asked me to marry him once. I'm still a wee bit afraid ...
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Date: 2009-08-21 01:32 pm (UTC)Of course, I say that as a diehard socialist who knows what the term means ;-)
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Date: 2009-08-21 01:35 pm (UTC)Where are the intelligent conservatives of yesteryear?
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Date: 2009-08-21 01:59 pm (UTC)Don't you love how we fling around terms we don't understand?
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Date: 2009-08-21 02:04 pm (UTC)Now if we can just convince politicians to turn the bloody television off!
And every country has its morons. Yours just has more cameras to capture them. Still, Barney Frank brought great joy to my week. I'm thinking of sending him a thank you card.
(BTW, *hugs!* OH! And the post office found my package, it is wending its way back here, and I will send it to you again!)
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Date: 2009-08-21 02:19 pm (UTC)Here's the problem for us American's. White, over middle-aged, undereducated sheep posing as conservatives=/=intelligent. Like Barney Frank said; it's like trying to have a conversation with the dining room table.
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Date: 2009-08-21 03:03 pm (UTC)And yes, I notice that Libertarians are more than happy to use roads, the internet and other govt-funded items. Hypocrites!
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Date: 2009-08-21 03:54 pm (UTC)i'd love to link this in my next post if that's okay?
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Date: 2009-08-21 05:02 pm (UTC)we bitch and bitch about how the cost of health care is keeping us from doing anything we enjoy, including eating and when someone wants to do something about it, we start screaming socialism, socialism. Jeez give me a fucking break.
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Date: 2009-08-21 05:28 pm (UTC)But I don't get how people can get the two mixed up.
And even if someone is in favour of socialism or *gasp* communism: we've had communist politicians since forever, and their parties have just as many nutcases as the other ones. One of our biggest party is socialist, they've run the country and didn't do worse than the christian democrats. Different political ideas, but how can one honestly think that those people are automatically evil?
I don't understand it.
My mom believes in God and is a socialist to the core, mixed with a bit of communism. And boy does she have some scary sides to her, but those are not it.
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-21 05:58 pm (UTC)"The Friend speaks my mind"
(thank you fourth_rose, niennas_gift and sarcasticpixie for saving me some typing :-)
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-21 10:21 pm (UTC)Your job, dearest Brammers, doesn't allow you the luxury of head and sand. And your social conscience is a good deal pointier than mine. Poor poppet.
Watch some fire fly, have a cuppa, purl some, plain some.
PS we're coming back to Sinney rool soon now- bring on newtown coffee
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Date: 2009-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-08-22 01:58 am (UTC)Ignorance seems to be contagious.
Sheep. That's what people are. And I pinpoint the ignorance to the moment the republican party hitched their wagons to likes of Jerry Falwell... I suppose that's another argument, but it is the birthplace of blind, uninformed/misinformed outrage from the "regular" folks.
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:30 pm (UTC)Walken is awesome, but I am sure that he would run screaming at me impersonating him.
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:31 pm (UTC)I feel sympathy. We know most Americans are sane, really!
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:43 am (UTC)It's sad how many people don't know this!!
I can't believe how this health care debate has been skewed.
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Date: 2009-08-23 04:32 pm (UTC)Fingers crossed that sane debate soon returns to your public life!
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Date: 2009-08-24 03:52 am (UTC)http://www.theonion.com/content/news/congress_deadlocked_over_how_to
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