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Commentary of PragerU
Lpyaperson did this with Vaush, so i'm going to do the same with PragerU.

They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela
00:17- Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are all not socialist. They're economy is a mix of free-market capitalist, corporatist, and social-democratic/social-liberal. If you define socialism as just when there's a welfare state, then yes, but pretty capitalist overall. Zimbabwe isn't really socialist either. Sure, it has an intensely strong amount of state regulation and state-owned businesses are financially supported while private businesses are very regulated and it's very hard to start a business that's not owned by the state, but they still allow private big corporations, and even the state-owned corporations still function within a market economy and act like private corporations, Which is what state capitalism essentially is, so they're more state capitalist than socialist. Cuba is becoming capitalist, they're allowing private enterprise and property now which is definitely not socialism. As for Venezuela the private sector makes up a large amount of their economy (two-thirds of their economy) so I wouldn't consider them that socialist. I guess their economy is somewhat socialistic in the way their government funds and supports co-ops, but co-ops can exist in a capitalist country so I wouldn't consider consider them socialist. They also have central banking, social programs, and keynesian economics, but the USA has keynesian economics and central banking too, so if you consider that socialist then the USA is socialist. (cry more, american conservatives who think Venezuela is some prime example of socialism or whatever.)

01:04: Ooooh, I thought D'souza was saying the Nordic countries were socialist, (I guess that's kinda the point of the video lmao oops) at least the people at PragerU have common sense concerning economic terms. A welfare state isn't necessarily socialist however (I'm guessing that's what she meant when she said wealth distribution, so they're not "capitalist in wealth creation and socialist in wealth distribution", just capitalist.

01:14: True, they do have no set minimum wage, but not in the same way as what conservatives want. the hypocrisy of this is that PragerU makes a lot of videos attacking unions, but the way the Nordic countries have no set minimum wage is that it would be decided by the workers and the business owners compromising, the workers being represented by guess what? Unions!

02:42: Like I explained in 00:17, Venezuela is a lot less socialist than conservatives think, if not capitalist.

03:41: How does that make them directly taking from the Venezuelan model?

03:55: That's like saying the Republicans are exactly the same thing as the Nazis because both believe in nationalism.

04:08- Ngl, PragerU has a kind of good point regarding self-defense in general, but what's the chance gun control is actually a plot so the people can't be defended from violent government-attorned groups to supress protesters who disagree with the government? Hmm, sounds a lot like certain policies of Trump regarding BLM protests if you ask me..

04:21: Okay, this is stupid. The collectivos were sent from the Venezuelan government. Antifa is a movement that isn't being sent by anyone or isn't even a group for god's sake, just a movement for god's sake.

04:41: Totally not cherry-picked example.

04:56: Nah, not really. The venezuelan chavistas and american left-wing populists are obviously going to have some kind of some policy overlap because they're both socialists, but, by that logic since american conservatives have policy overlap with the alt-right, then they're the same thing.

05:02: Again, very cherry-picked. There are a lot of other problems in Venezuela that are unrelated to their somewhat socialistic economy.