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[โ€“] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fire departments aren't socialism, they're social services. Socialism is when the whole economy is social services. Social-ism. A capitalist economy with lots of social services (like Norway) is called a social democracy.