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this is historically illiterate, and frankly insulting. if there is any starry eyed idealist here it's.. you.
by your-nanny 8y ago
this is historically illiterate, and frankly insulting. if there is any starry eyed idealist here it's.. you.
- throwawy3589 8y agoI don't recall the Soviet Union creating many new drugs when they were following Lysenkoism and denying genetics for ideological reasons. The result was 50 million people dying in China alone. But I'm sure that was just the evil imperialists fault. The US adopting universal health care would be a waste of trillions of dollars and arguably the dumbest, most selfish, and most deadly decision in human history when accounting for the much better way those trillions could be spent.
- kzzzznot 8y agoThe Soviet Union and taxpayer funded healthcare in capitalist systems are very different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
- dang 8y agoPlease don't violate the site guidelines regardless of how bad another comment is. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html