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Look at the history of every communist nation. In the USA our main problem is that poor people get too many calories without enough vegetables.
by Firmwarrior 4y ago
Look at the history of every communist nation. In the USA our main problem is that poor people get too many calories without enough vegetables.
- kadoban 4y agoOr the lack of effective healthcare, lack of affordable housing, lack of jobs that pay enough to live or any way to escape these destructive cycles. But if you ignore that, then obesity is a problem I guess.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoLook at any communist country in history, dude. They've all been flaming hellholes at best, even compared to their peer nations at the time. And yeah, I get it, "no true Scotsman". The problem is that Real Communism™ requires perfect dictatorial control and we don't have a perfect dictator to run it. edit: this sibling comment explains things a lot more eloquently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523261
- kadoban 4y agoI'm not particularly defending Communism. I'm just pointing out that "Capitalism has made everyone rich" is batshit insanity.