• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      You didn’t read the article, or you didn’t understand it.

      The US Govt would not pay a cent for the shares of these companies.

      It would simply seize them, half-nationalize them.

      That… that is ‘socialism’, a form of it, that’s the government deciding that wealthy private equity/stock owners actually don’t own that stuff, because ‘we are the government and this is ours now.’

      This is… is a form of what the US has previously used the CIA to overthrow a number of other country’s governments for, when they did something like this.