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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well I'm glad capitalism works well for you. But it doesn't work well for the 99% of the population in capitalist countries where they can't make ends meet while capitalists hold all the money in the world.

Under capitalism, people are sleeping in tents in parks and on the side of the road, freezing to death or dying of heat strokes. People are lining up to food banks which can't even supply everyone because of how much demand has increased, while grocery stores are stocked to the brim, but the food is unaffordable. People suffer health issues and die of preventable causes because healthcare is becoming less accessible or is just too expensive. Even education is unaccessible in a few places because of the costs. And for what? So a few corporations can make even more profit than they already are?

At least under communism, everyone has a roof over their head. Everyone has food on their table. Everyone has healthcare. Everyone has a job or at least a purpose in society. And communist countries seem to progress much faster than capitalist countries as well. The Soviet Union initiated the space race. They've always kept the pace with the rest of the world in technology and innovation. And if you look at China now, they're essentially the world leader at this point.

You wanna talk about authoritarianism? Look in the U.S. The moment you start to criticize anything, you either get a visit from the cops, or if you protest you get beat up by an army of police officers. U.S. democracy is a sham. Otherwise you wouldn't have had people like the Clintons, the Bush or Trump as presidents. These people are put there by the billionaire elites, then they manipulate the population into electing them through the media that they own.

For the record, I'm not saying China is any better in that regard. Freedom of expression is not exactly their thing. There's a lot of things to look up to with China, but human rights and freedom of expression are not any of them. But, the U.S. aren't any better.

Communism has a bad rap because U.S. imperialism never allowed it to flourish and reach it's potential anywhere. It's been stigmatized and portrayed in such a way that it made people scared of it.

I'm confident that if we allowed communism to enter our democracies it would be for the best. Because, for once, the government would start taking care of its people and its workers instead of the corporate leeches.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm confident that if we allowed communism to enter our democracies it would be for the best.

Because it worked so well for...?

Because, for once, the government would start taking care of its people and its workers instead of the corporate leeches.

Because that happened in...?

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're being dishonest and obtuse on purpose here. 

Even Cuba has better access to education and health-care and shelter than in it US. Every other challenges they're facing is because of the US and their sanctions. 

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Every other challenge? Are you sure? Seems mighty convenient.

With how the U.S. has been apply economic sanctions against Cuba since the 60's it's pretty obvious. Anybody who's been doing trade with the U.S. has been forbidden to doing any trade with Cuba. Their only economic partners have been Russia, China and Venezuela.

More recently, Venezuela was the only supplier of oil to Cuba, and now the U.S. attacked Venezuela and gained control of their oil, and stopped al shipping to Cuba. Because of this, Cuba can't even produce electricity because their power stations ran on oil.

Ever heard of US imperialism? And how it affects the world negatively?