• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    Capitalist: No no, what you really hate is socialism.

    Citizen: Why do I hate socialism?

    Capitalist: Because socialism causes [lists problems created by capitalism].

    Citizen: Wow, I sure do hate socialism.

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      1 month ago

      But also,

      Citizen 2: [lists actual socialist policies while avoiding certain key words]

      Capitalists: I can get behind that.

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        You’d have to refute the points, not saying “noooooo it’s wrong” without bringing up a discourse. Until you don’t do it, it remains valid.

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    Capitalism is the only economic model that consistently works.

    Every time socialism/communism fails everyone is making excuses why but capitalism keeps moving along making people’s lives better.

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      Dude, I am fully and thoroughly committed to hating communism with a deep and heartfelt passion, but capitalism absolutely can be a nightmare if abused, and right now it absolutely fucking is. This level of income inequality is like capitalism laced with meth, rat poison and literal shit.

      So, yea, I guess “consistently” is the only word in your comment I disagree with.

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          You know, if you’re trying to satirize the actual SatansMaggotyCumFart, you can’t do it by being so over the top when you say things to his left.

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              You’re just upset that you’re not as smart or hard working as someone like Elon Musk or Trump.

              This comment is way further to the left than the SatansMaggotyCumFart I’m used to. Like, comically so.

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                  This is a satire account meant to mock SatansMaggotyCumFart, isn’t it?

                  Because SMCF is way further to the right than the obsequious simping for trump and musk that you posted. Satire needs to be at least slightly hyperbolic in order to work. Not restrained like what you posted.

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          That was a “common” experience of a small percentage of people. The rest of the world was heavily exploited.

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              So after a global war destroyed every other country, the only place whose industry and infrastructure wasn’t in ruins, whose cities were intact, whose population wasn’t murdered by bombing, some of those people did pretty well.

              US of A is about 4% of the world. And I’m pretty sure not everyone in US wasn’t equally well off.