• DudeBoy
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    632 years ago

    Communism’s solution to homelessness is mass starvation.

    • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      152 years ago

      And also just homelessness. It’s pretty amusing that people believe there are no homeless people in Russia or China. China in particular is amusing because they have massive empty apartment blocks, but they still have homeless people because the hukou caste system means they aren’t allowed to live outside their birth city.

      • @SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
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        72 years ago

        Its pretty amusing that people still believe Russia and China are communist. Next your going to tell me the Nazi’s were socialist and North Korea is a Democratic Republic, just because it’s in their name.

        • DudeBoy
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          32 years ago

          Ah, the classic “THOSE ARENT REAL COMMUNISTS” arguments. And Jeff Bezos isn’t a real capitalist.

      • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        It is a historical fact that communist countries typically go through one last famine on their way to ending periodic famines in the country forever, and sometimes they’re worse than normal due to the kinks being ironed out and social unrest.

        • How is that not a valid critique? I despise Apple as a company. As a result I refuse to purchase any of their products or use any of their services. To this day I have never purchased a single Apple product. I do this because I have conviction and standards.

          1st world communists like to denigrate capitalism, yet live comfortable lives because of it. That shows zero conviction or standards.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        72 years ago

        If any bad thing that happens under a nominally communist system is the fault of communism, then any bad thing that happens in a nominally capitalist system must be the fault of capitalism, right? Capitalism has an awful lot of slavery, genocide, apartheid, coloialism, wars of choice, and other evils to answer for, then.

        • DudeBoy
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          22 years ago

          Yes. Concentration of power is bad no matter the economic system.

        • All typed on a device and shared over a network designed and facilitated by capitalism.

          It would be a whole lot easier for me to take you seriously if you actually lived what you preach.

          • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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            52 years ago

            What a convenient way for you to deflect any opinion you disagree with, “you criticize society yet you participate in it”

          • @thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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            42 years ago

            This is not a valid argument ecause everything surrounding us is designed and facilitated by capitalism, and certainly all our electronics, there’s no such thing as computers independent from capitalism. There weren’t even in the soviet union. So it’s not possible for this anon to actually live what they preach unless they went full anarcho-primitivism.

            Not that it would matter anyway, because you’re allowed to criticize a system that you participate in.

    • GreenM
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      I’d say that I’m rather anti communistic but one thing that has never happened in used-to-be communist country i have experience with is starvation.
      Actually they solved starvation, built fcking appartments for everyone to live in and gave them to people for free. They also made sure every forgotten village had drinakble water, electricity , gas, shop, train station and bus stop.

      Reason why people overthrown them was humans rights repression like taking away people’s businesses to make them state companies. It was not poor the living conditions (for the time).