• 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    https://mobile.twitter.com/VincentGeloso here's the twitter of one of the authors

    there really isn't much to it, hes just a standard issue lib dork. likes Chicago school of economics type loser

    however

    one of the other authors has written a book called Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World

    Do We Have to Say It Again? Socialism Sucks! Apparently we do. Because today millions of Americans—young and old—are flocking to the socialist banner and chanting, “What do we want? Socialism—the economic system that has impoverished people everywhere and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions! And when do we want it? Now!”

    :screm-a:

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      the economic system that has impoverished people everywhere and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions!

      But enough about capitalism.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      impoverished people everywhere

      The adoption of communism in Russia and China alone led to the largest improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty in human history. If Cuba never had a revolution then living conditions for the working class there would certainly be much worse than they are today. Western anti-communists tend to be part of the labor aristocracy or petite bourgeoisie. For those classes, improvement in material conditions for the poor, oppressed, and working classes is entirely irrelevant. They only care about how their own classes were impacted because fundamentally they think they are the only people that matter. And for them, they only see a lack of consumer choices and not being able to live in a level of personal wealth that lets them feel like they're better than most. In fact, they see poverty reduction as a bad thing as those resources could have instead been used on themselves.

    • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "But nazism is good ackyually. Just one more chance. Sure it didn't last long, but it was really really FUNNY!"

      What the hell is wrong with westerners? Do they have a genetic error that leads them to be more likely to have a dark core personality?