• basmati@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Nothing makes you understand why capitalism does not work in reality than living in the US for any amount of time while making less than 8 figures a year.

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          That’s the thing you people don’t seem to understand, I’d rather live here but in a country that’s actually based on a logical system of resource distribution. Only cowards like capitalists flee instead of improve things.

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            3 months ago

            Ah… so let me get this straight. So instead of being poor in a capitalist country, you’d rather be poor in a communist country?

            Edit: JFC dude. Why are there so many of these types on Lemmy

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              Yes, absolutely I’d rather be poor in a country that does not criminalize poverty.

              And I stand by the fact the unlawful military attacks by the US caused 9/11 as a rational response.

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              Save your mental health, just block them once they are clearly identified, it’s not worth the effort at all.

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                But there’s so many of them lol. It’s exhausting. I don’t know what’s worse, the far left or the far right. They’re both incredibly annoying

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                  Truth. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see a society where nobody lords over anybody, but I’m not crazy enough to think I can achieve that by burning everything down or putting a dictator in charge.

                  On the contrary, I consider a classless society to be the social Holy Grail that’s probably only achievable with Star Trek-tier technology. I’m sure it’ll happen eventually, but not today, and that’s okay.

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                    Much easier to pull off government like that with a smaller population. Things get a bit more complicated with several hundreds of millions or billions.

                    People would also have to be altruistic by nature as well but just go to a grocery store and see how many shopping carts are not put back!

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                All he’s saying is “America bad” and then saying he wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. You should look up what whataboutism is

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          Really? Are you really genuinely ignorant or you simply can’t fathom that non-US people not only exist but also lead happier lives?

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            No, he’s not. He’s talking about supposedly-socialist people in the USA who idealize vaguely socialism related countries like Russia or China, and think they would have a better life in these countries.

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              vaguely socialism related countries like Russia or China

              The Russian Federation isn’t socialist in any way. China has a Socialist Market Economy, that’s true, but nobody idolizes Russia nor do they believe they would live a better life there.

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                I agree, but I believe they don’t like being called like that and they think they are defending socialism.

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      Most of the world’s commies actually live in China, strangely enough.