• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    That really has nothing to do with the comparison at hand between the refusal to pay snap benefits and the massive famines of the 20th centuries that the Stalinist governments created.

    But sure, American imperialism bad. It’s a bit harder to measure all of these separate factors though, and it doesn’t make this campist meme any less dumb.

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      1 hour ago

      It’s fine to discuss one thing at a time, but there is a broader point being made in this post. The missteps of socialism are always taken to show that it could never work, but capitalism is failing and has failed the vast majority of us for hundreds of years now.