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Newsflash: communism sucks.
by pnw 5y ago
Newsflash: communism sucks.
- anonu 5y agoWe can also generalize: Dictatorial regimes suck. For all the gnashing, grinding, complaining, partisan politics in the USA over COVID policies, I think the USA came out alright. The detractors will say the USA failed. That 1m people died. A tragedy for sure and maybe a portion of those deaths would have been avoidable had we had better messaging from the Trump regime. But net result we have our freedoms intact. The USA is on a quick road to recovery economically. We've avoided a depression and unemployment is fairly low. It's not perfect... By far. But at least this is not Shanghai.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoUSA: Debian[0] Shanghai: Windows 11 0: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/890219/79e54e3aab20bd87/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/890219/79e54e3aab20bd87/
- briHass 5y agoLet's also not forget the 10 billion dollars the US committed to vaccines (Warp Speed, under Trump) and the obvious promise of massive financial windfalls for the successful pharmaceutical companies from high-paying US citizens through our public/private health insurance. Our HC system is a mess, and expensive, but the rest of the world benefitted massively from our investment.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoIt's not communism, if your charitability/level of interest in politics/economics can afford that pedantry. :p Authoritarian, repressive regimes founded on weak, corruptible institutions with limited regard for human rights which combine the failings of human leadership with poor information and lack of trust from everyone involved indeed suck.