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Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the Space Race. Something that was famously only participated in by capitalist countries.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world -2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The USSR never put a man on the moon. And what your implying here is that the USSR was communism? If so the genocides and mass starvation it caused should be enough evidence against communism.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m asserting that capitalism didn’t do that on its own. The USSR is not a good example of communism, no, but it’s certainly not capitalist, and if they hadn’t provided competition at every step of the space race, beating the US out most of the time, the US wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If only their was a system that incentivised competition and used that as a power to drive innovation and progress.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

A free market can be implemented in many economic systems.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, here we go with the "little black book of communism" bullshit.

Gods, you guys are so predictable.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

60million dead people is bullshit hey? That's 10x what Hitler did in the holocaust. Being predictable doesn't change the facts that your supporting and pushing an ideology responsible for 60million dead people. That's literally 10times as bad as supporting Nazism if we are going by human lives taken.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

[citations needed]