• AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
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      25 days ago

      Some other literal socialist institutions that are far left:

      • libraries
      • parks
      • postal service
      • public universities
      • museums
      • hospitals
      • healthcare
      • the military

      This isn’t a far-left policy. This is FDR Democrats.

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        The postal service has been turned into a junk mail distribution system and there is nothing citizens can do to stop it. It’s infuriating.

        Oh and do not be fooled into paying $8 to $9 to companies claiming they can stop the junk mail, that’s a HUGE SCAM.

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          The one thing you CAN do, and it’s FREE is to place a FREE freeze on your credit file with the following: Experian Equifax Transunion Chexsystems Lexisnexis

          These leeches are required by law to provide a free method to freeze access to your credit file. They don’t make it easy to find, and bury it under their paid “premium” offers, usually in a plain-text link at the bottom of the page.

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          Do this for your kids’ social security numbers as well. Those are prime for theft.

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        IMHO this makes more a case for socialism than it demonstrates that these things are not socialist.

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          My issue is the classification of these particular items being far-left is a failure of what the far-left. Depending on what you consider socialism, this would be it or a conciliation to the ruling class.

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      It’s not far-left because it does not restrict a citizen’s own right to run a for-profit grocery store. She only wants the state to run its own grocery stores. I hope I’m wording this right.

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      Depending on one’s definition, as the store being owned by the government is still having a state apparatus which isn’t anarchism or communism