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Bit of a generalisation right there

Imo nationalisation is a good idea in a lot of sectors like health care and rail but it when you try to apply it to a sector that a free market would work in, that's when it goes wrong

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You implied it

I mean taking an industry into government control and having it controlled by the state

Like the NHS in the UK

Not in trains

For example

If I want to get from London to reading on the british "free market" rail system

How many options of train company do I have

The answer is one, I can only go on south western trains

Which are notorious for ridiculously high ticket prices and Rampant delays all the time

But there's no possibility for a competitor to come in and take their place because there's only one train track and they own all of the trains on it

So unless someone was to come and build new train tracks all around the UK (which would be impossibly expensive) SWT are always going to have a monopoly on the trains in that part of the country

So even if you do have a "free market" there's going to be a natural monopoly

Therefore in this scenario its better to have a state owned monopoly where the people controlling it have to answer to the voting population rather than a company which owns the monopoly which cant be ousted by the people and is only trying to make profit

@TheNobody @Adolf-senpai

Obviously this only works in specific scenarios

Aka why I didn't say it works all the time

It dosen't

And that's why communism fails

Because communism tries to apply that everywhere

But in sectors like water rail and healthcare nationalization can work better

Nationalization works in some areas, a free market works better in others

You can't hold a private monopoly accountable in that situation

Unless you boycott the trains

But in that case millions of commuters can't get around

Who?

Also what grounds do you have to sue them

It's not like they intentionally set up a monopoly

Its the nature of the rail industry

Gov regulations can't stop a monopoly in that sector

As I said

YEah

Those are examples where a free market works

And nationalization

But I'm talking about rail

Did you even read what I said

I said nationalization only works in specific scenarios like heathcare and rail

I'm just saying that's what it sounded like you were saying

Even if you didn't mean it

I mean that's only partly true

It's become more equal in recent years

But I'll agree women still have the worse time

But men often don't get the attention they deserve

Like 3/4 of suicides being men

Prostate cancer getting a fraction of the funding for research that breast cancer gets

Emotional openness and toxic masculinity

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@TheNobody Heard of female genital mutilation?

Massive problem

Especially in africa

Also FGM is worse than circumcision

Depends on the country

Circumcision only happens with Jews and American people

FGM is a huge problem in a lot of countries

Not so much in the west though

No its not

it it gay to have balls?

I mean there isn't really anymore

But there was institutionalised racism in the past which has modern day implications

https://youtu.be/gcvTeRmFsXE

Don't think this stuff gets talked about enough or the Chinese gov gets the criticism it deserves in the west

I'm just a liberal cuck

Fuck off

Literally there are so many cry babies in the west who are like "ohh nooooo the Muslims are replacing us and destroying our culture" while it's completely not true

When for the Uighur Muslims in China

It's called terrorism and extremism (and is illegal) to participate in their culture

1 million of them have been sent to Co centration camps

Han Chinese are being encouraged to move to the region WITH THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of out populating the indigenous Uighur

And then people claim us white people are "being replaced"

Grow up

There's a difference between (what admittedly could be too much) immigration and cultural genocide

@Deleted User I live in London so fuck right off with you're "I live in the UK I know better than you" narrative. Also how the fuck is sharia law forced upon us? No part of sharia law is within the UK's law...

And there are some areas with a lot of muslims but it's been like that for decades and decades now because we've had immigration to this country for quite a while now

And they are still a minority its not like this wave of immigration is going to change that

And we don't have thousands of rape cases

Sure there are cases like the rotheram scandal and they're terrible don't get me wrong but its not like thats thousands of cases like you're trying to suggest

Its not like that's a large proportion of the number of muslims in the uk that are a part of that

Also if we're going to use a small number of rapists to taint an entire religion then can I use priests that fuck the altar boys to say that we should wage against christiantiy? There are some churches etc, I've been to where they literally have to have separate toilets for men and boys because they're so worried about kiddy fiddlers.

You're logic of "there are a few bad Muslims therefore we should get rid of them all" just makes no sense

And don't even get me started on people trying to use terrorism to justify not wanting Muslims

There have been no terror attacks in at least the last year and a half that resulted in a death in the UK

While the number of muslims has stayed the same if not increased

Yea but my point its a small minority of muslims that do terrible shit like that

And there are a small minority of christians who do terrible shit like that

And a small minority of every fucking race and culture that do that because fun fact, the colour of your skin dosen't make you more or less likely to rape someone

2.66 million

In a country of 66 million