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          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

          • oce 🐆
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            13 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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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

              • argv minus one
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                13 months ago

                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!

          • @Valmond
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            Oh the good 'ol whataboutism creeping in.

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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

      • @eskimofry
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        43 months ago

        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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          23 months ago

          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.

          • @Valmond
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            That’s not socialists though. We call them tankies as an umbrella term.

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