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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So it’s about communism? No the other guys wanted that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Communism is exactly the opposite of that. You're thinking of late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Stealing wealth and creating a slave class is what happens in communism. Every. Single. Time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sounds like US capitalism in 2025… tax the poor (slave class) to give more money to the rich.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody needs to learn to use Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Someone needs to learn not to blindly believe Wikipedia.

Which communist countries/states is this not the case btw?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Somebody needs to learn not to blindly believe a century of capitalist propaganda. At least Wikipedia cites sources.

You made the claim. You said every single time. Citation required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Which communist countries aren’t like I said? I’m saying they all are. If you disagree, name one that isn’t.

Which communist countries have an even distribution of wealth and no ruling class?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope… you make the claim, you present the evidence to back your claim or you fuck right off back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

My evidence is literally every time throughout history that any country has gone communist.

You just have to show me one time when it hasn’t happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you had ever done a modest amount of the hard, actual, honest work of examining positions other than the standard one issued by your government, you would already be asking better, more interesting questions. You think that's the only one you need to ask, don't you?

I know you haven't put the work in, because I have. I don't owe you a debate. I doubt you have ever even changed your mind. So why should I give you the fruits of my labor? They wrote books, after all. Have you got the guts to read them?

Every single time, you claimed. Cite your sources. Do the work or fuck off, lazy-ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My sources are every single time communism has been attempted by a country lol.

Can you provide an example where it has worked and hasn’t resulted in extreme wealth inequality and a rich ruling class and slave-level working class?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not good enough. You haven't even wondered why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s “not good enough” for someone that wants to pretend communism works, while being unable to give a single example of a country where it has worked lol.

My evidence of communism ending in extreme wealth inequality and a ruling class is every single time any country has attempted communism. There are zero communist countries that don’t have extreme wealth inequality and a wealthy ruling class. That’s my evidence. You haven’t, and seemingly can’t, provide any contrary evidence.

Again - which communist countries don’t have extreme wealth inequality and a ruling class?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's not good enough to get me interested discussing it further with you. You just keep repeating the same dumb, boring question. You think it's a gotcha, but you haven't thought about it even slightly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep repeating it because you keep avoiding answering it, because you don’t like the answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't care. You can have that last word you so desperately crave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Still waiting on that answer. I hope it’s coming soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yea I’ll share some down votes. I was laughing because the president was just threatening an American company yesterday, telling it how to operate. Telling it where to operate. Like isn’t this what they screeched legendary communist Obama would do? We just switched to a centralized planned economy over night. Welcome to USSR2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Remember the slaves with 12+ public holidays a year, 20+ vacation days, free healthcare, free education, free child care and price controls for rent and food and no billionaires and job security?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

East Germany and pretty much all other eastern block countries till ~1990.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So they're still communist countries? No? Why not? Sounds like it was a utopia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which other guys? The couple thousand people who voted third party because they didn't view Harris as an acceptable compromise between fascism and humanity?