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The fact that you lack the ability for creativity and nuance to such a degree that you scream “HAH, Stalin!” anytime someone criticizes the free market says mor
by p_j_w 3y ago
The fact that you lack the ability for creativity and nuance to such a degree that you scream “HAH, Stalin!” anytime someone criticizes the free market says more about you than the point you’re arguing against.
- hef19898 3y agoI actually critized the free market for being totally fine with, e.g., fascism, or any kind of atrocoty as long as profits are to be made...
- fnordpiglet 3y agoSurely you aren’t asserting the Soviet Union committed no atrocities and was an angelic society of benevolent leaders blessing the harmonious proletariat? In any society composed of humans, the shitburgers will find a way to shit on the largest groups of people they can using whatever instrument of power is available. In the US it’s dollars, in the USSR, its influence and power.
- p_j_w 3y agoGP isn’t asserting that. They’re saying that the the western establishment will gladly tolerate right wing authoritarian governments because they allow private companies to run roughshod over everyone in the name of profit.
- p_j_w 3y agoOh I misread, sorry. In that case you’re completely correct. The right holding up dictatorships like Chiang Kai Shek, Pinochet, and Park regimes as being good are all great examples.