• nolikeymachine@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    Oh I know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re just brainwashed. Too far gone for anyone to talk sense into. And if you truly think that the USSR and Cuba didn’t get much aid from other countries including the US, you really are just dumb. I do not have the time nor do I care enough to educate you. All I can say is, you really need to learn how to research FACTS not myths and lies. Also I have one more truth for you. COMMUNISM HAS NEVER WORKED. I know I know, maybe just another 20 or 30 genocides and world wars from now and they’ll get the kinks worked out. But I doubt it. And maybe just maybe one will be able to survive without the help of a capitalist system and not end up being a 3rd world country with a shit economy. I personally have friends who grew up in Russia (it was still the USSR when they were about 10) and China and south Korea and Mexico and Vietnam. Every one of them will tell you how much better the US is than where they grew up. Communism is perfect on paper, but it will never ever work because it requires people to be perfect in order for it to work properly. And people will never be perfect. That’s why capitalism and democracy works better because they at least somewhat keep that in check. My olive branch and honestly my best idea for what the US could become would be a socialist democracy similar to Sweden. That would actually be able to work and would be very beneficial for all the citizens.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      This is another ridiculous comment.

      1. The US being “better” to live in - As I explained, the US is an imperialist country that plunders the world for its resources. It isn’t a closed loop with a system that works, it’s a global parasite.

      2. Surviving without aid - Socialist countries recieve sanctions, embargoes, coup attempts, and genocide from capitalist countries, not aid. The US Empire has committed genocide against Koreans, Vietnamese, and far more to serve its own interests. Socialist countries do often start in the third world, not as imperialist countries, and develop on their own labor and not via imperialism like the US Empire.

      3. Communism on paper - There’s absolutely nothing about communism that requires people to be in perfect order for it to work. I genuinely have no clue what you mean by this, I’ve heard this before but it doesn’t actually make any sense.

      4. Communism and democracy - Communism and socialism are more democratic than capitalism can be, because the working classes are in control, rather than private capitalists.

      5. Sweden - Sweden is a capitalist country that, like the US, depends on imperialism to fund its safety nets. Like the US, Sweden is a dictatorship of capital.

      No, I’m not “brainwashed,” I’ve just done far more research into the subject of socialism and communism both in theory and in practice. It’s like you’re trying to be someone’s hyper-conservative uncle right now, I’ve heard all of these before and none of them are valid.

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      1 hour ago

      genocides

      Big fat 0, unless you mean the genocide communists thwarted in 1945

      World wars

      Holy shit lmao, the sheer desperation and illiteracy it takes to try and pin the world wars on communism when ww1 started before there were any communist countries and ww2 was started by genocidal german capitalists. You are flailing, my guy. Red, mad and nude in the extreme.

      Also, format your shit