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A communist country has never existed and never will so we will never know. Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia due to human nature. We a
by prmoustache 10mo ago
A communist country has never existed and never will so we will never know.
Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia due to human nature. We are nearly all motherfuckers who if given the chance will try to obtain more power or more wealth than our peers in a group of any size. Thus you can't have all citizens of a given country agree on abandoning private ownership and sharing wealth, work and power in equal terms. Any government that pretended to do that was just faking it and forced their citizens to pretend.
- echelon_musk 10mo ago> Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia dystopia ?
- immibis 10mo agoCommunism is the idea of "can't we all just get along?" which is obviously not something you can actually implement, but is easily used as a buzzword by evil regimes. Remember, H-tl-r called his regime "socialist", much the same way N-rth K-rea calls itself "democratic"
- _ink_ 10mo agoYou can spell out Hitler and North Korea here. Meta has no power here.
- immibis 10mo agoIncorrect. Users are running autoflag bots.
- ranger_danger 10mo agoEvery day you make comments that are downvoted (and probably flagged) by several people... I think it's quite possible that the real issue is not "other people." Usually people who feel (or are) targeted are not 100% innocent.
- immibis 10mo agoThere's a clear pattern where comments containing certain words are flagged much more often than comments containing mildly cens-red versions of those words. Could be HN itself but if we assume HN isn't lying about how its algorithm works (a big assumption) then it must be user flag bots. It's not just my comments - you see something similar with headlines on the front page that contain certain names like El-n M-sk. They will accumulate hundreds of points and comments and then be cens-red.
- tirant 10mo agoThat’s not the idea of communism. That’s actually the point of libertarianism, anarchism: do what you want, but you will only do well if you get along with the rest of the society by providing something helpful to them, as no one is forced to help you. And that’s why free market capitalism works. Even the most selfish individuals have needed to cooperate, work for others or open businesses with useful products for society in order to be able to accumulate wealth.