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3 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
Socialism 😱 part 1

Stuff Americans say

Social media post: 'Say the US told Europe, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand they must stop giving their subjects free healthcare, education and other communist programs, or else face sanctions. Would these countries listen up and privatise their countries as told?'

Quora-style post. Bold question: "Say the US told Europe, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand they must stop giving their subjects free healthcare, education and other communist programs, or else face sanctions. Would these countries listen up and privatise their countries as told?" Reply (username redacted): "And here we have an example of delusional American exceptionalism. Someone who thinks that the USA only buys goods from these countries as a charity, someone who believes that the USA is the promised land and totally self sufficient in every way, but most obviously, someone who doesn't understand the definition of the word communist. Go ahead my friend, sanction away."

Twitter/X thread. Top tweet (username partially visible): "Universal healthcare in the US would be a death sentence for many." 14:29, 12 May 25. 2 Quotes. Reply (2d, replying to @deaflibertarian): "Universal healthcare means socialism has won."

Reddit comment thread on mobile. Arcturus972 (5h): "Has anyone thought about helping her out with her hospital bills for this? Seeing those bruises makes me cringe for her, and how bad that must have hurt..." Reply (username redacted, 5h): "Australia, no hospital bill..." Reply (username redacted, 4h, -53 downvotes): "But those taxes will make you wish you were dead, amirite? Universal health care is a lying ass bitch." Reply (username redacted, 3h): "Hm, pay into a system with your taxes along with everyone, so that over your life you've paid in to get treatment for a much lesser price (while also helping your whole country) or go millions into debt because of a 5 day stay in a hospital.... Because 'Muh taxes and freedom amirite?'"

Twitter/X thread. Top: partial tweet: "Can someone explain how other countries get free healthcare but we can't". Reply (replying to [redacted] and @POTUS): "talk to someone from one of those countries. Their healthcare is horrible unless you are rich. Most come to America and pay out of pocket because they would die waiting to get surgeries in their own countries. Nothing is free." 23:42, 15 Feb 21.

Reddit comment thread. YouMeAndPooneil (3h, -13 downvotes): "There is no problem with unions. The problem is being forced to join them and pay unwanted dues. If unions would get out of their 1930 socialist mindset and start serving their members better they would do well." Un_Mexicano (1h): "That 1930s socialism fought for and succeeded in getting shorter hours, higher pay, and safety measures for workers. If unions were all bootlickers, they couldn't advocate for anything."

Twitter/X thread. Top tweet (username redacted) sharing a scoop.me article about Finland ending homelessness. Tweet text: "Finland ended homelessness. They provide a small apartment and counseling with no preconditions. 4/5 make their way back into a stable life and guess what - it was CHEAPER than allowing homelessness to continue." Article preview: "Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need" from scoop.me. Photo of a Helsinki street with a green tram. Reply below (username redacted): "Good luck trying to be a billionaire over there." 17:39, 04 Jul 20

Twitter/X post (username redacted). Tweet: "Ask ur hero how Finland is doing during this Wuhan virus. Their 'free' healthcare is failing and bankrupting their country. Lucky us get to watch the country fail to socialism in real time" with facepalm emoji. "#moron". 12:52 PM, Mar 13, 2020

Reddit comment. 126270 (5 hours ago, -3 points): "Europeans could afford bigger apartments and bigger tv's if their government wasn't taxing them 30-60%!! 'Free' Healthcare, 'Affordable' Higher Education, the list goes on.."

Twitter/X thread. Top: AJ+ (@ajplus) post: "Philadelphia's city council voted to apologize for the 1985 bombing of a Black neighborhood. Police dropped combat explosives on members of Black liberation group MOVE, who were living in a row house. 11 people died - including 5 children - and fires left 250 people homeless." 4:28 PM, Nov 13, 2020. Photo of the aftermath/burning buildings. Reply below (username redacted): "Sad but communism must be defeated"

Facebook comment thread. Three comments. First (username redacted, 3d): "Oh my god! Look what socialism has done to my beautiful country! It's preserved our ancient history, given us healthcare and our money is worth more than the US dollar. ITS SO HORRIBLE!!!" with laughing emojis and Italian flag emojis. Photo of Naples cityscape with Mount Vesuvius in the background. Second (username redacted, 3d, "Haha"): "really? Why are thousands of people from your country hopping the border to come into the US?" Third (3d): "Italy?" with laughing emojis. "Are you ok, sir?"

Text excerpt. "In a 1987 survey, nearly half of Americans surveyed believed the phrase 'From each according to ability; To each according to need' came from the U.S. Constitution." with "nearly half of Americans surveyed" underlined

TikTok screenshot. Video showing a speed camera on a tripod beside a motorway with green fields. Text overlay in yellow/white: "In Finland, the cost of a speeding ticket is determined by your income. In 2002, a Nokia executive got a ticket for $103,000 for going 45 in a 30 zone." Comment below (username redacted): "Sounds like socialism to me."

Facebook post screenshot. Shared post from Bernie Sanders (verified, April 24 at 8:08 PM): "What would tuition-free, debt-free higher education mean for you and your family?" 159K reactions. Comment above (username redacted, 9h): "It means more fuckn taxes taken out of my paycheck for soft fuck wads that should have been swallowed. If half your mothers would have stuck with anal we wouldn't be in this mess."

Twitter/X thread. Pope Francis (@Pontifex, verified): "Let us not go back to the 'normality' sick with with injustice, inequality and environmental degradation.The normality to which we are called is that of the Kingdom of God, where there is bread for all and the social organisation is based on contributing, sharing and distributing" 7:55 AM, 9/30/20. Reply (username redacted, 2h, replying to @Pontifex): "I'm Catholic, but this is communist."

Facebook comment (username redacted, 3h, "Haha" reaction). Comment: "If college becomes free the knowledge becomes less valuable and employers will require no longer just a high school diploma as the bare minimum to get hired."

TikTok screenshot. Title: "Before and after photos of Dusseldorf, Germany". Two comparison photos showing Dusseldorf in 1990 (top) and 2019 (bottom) - both showing a modern, prosperous Rhine riverfront with roads and promenades. Comment below (username redacted): "So sad, but a good example of the dangers of communism infecting the West."

Twitter/X thread. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC, verified): "In case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage 'socialism,' a Republican Senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it's a Hallmark card." Two blue down arrow emojis. Below: embedded tweet from Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn, verified): "'We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.' Benito Mussolini" 3:59 PM, 25 Feb 19

Insider (Business Insider) article screenshot. HOME > ECONOMY. Headline: "A Wisconsin school district says students can 'become spoiled' with free meals and opts out of Biden's free-lunch program". Photo of two young children at a school cafeteria table with lunch trays of food

YouTube mobile app screenshot. Video showing a space/astronomy image - a bright point of light with text overlay "6 billion kilometers". Replies section open below. First reply (username redacted, 6 days ago): "Use miles first you communist". Second reply (username redacted, 6 days ago): "Not everyone is an Ameritard"

Facebook comment (username redacted, 15m). Comment: "we need to return the ownership of these huge corporations to everyday folks, the people who do the work. It's the only way to stop their socialist agenda."

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