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9/10 times, there's your problem right there... (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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[–] -1 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Because it's too left wing for the western redditers who are used to Scandinavia being the end of the political spectrum.

Also, the admins of .world want to consolidate the fediverse under their own instance, hence the constant firehose of rhetoric from .world trying to drive people away from rival instances.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    If you define Left Wing as concentrating all political power in the hands of a narrow elite. The rest of the us have more egalitarian definitions of The Left.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Your view of reality isn't materialist. You can't explain why standards of life have been massively boosted in actually existing socialist countries and inequality rates have been the lowest recorded in history.

    The only explanation possible in your view, would be that, for example, 5 different benevolent dictators have succeeded each other over 70 years in the USSR maintaining world class healthcare, education, access to housing, pensions and job security. But these things don't happen in countries with dictators such as Saudi Arabia or fascist Spain.

    How is it possible that there are only "good dictators" in communist countries?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    You can’t explain why standards of life have been massively boosted in actually existing socialist countries

    You can't explain why the same thing happened in Capitalist countries and doesn't appear unique to "socialism".

    How is it possible that there are only “good dictators” in communist countries?

    Most outright dictators in communist countries were shitheads. After Stalin died, the USSR had the secret speech. After Mao died, the Chinese communist party made it a high priority to prevent any one person from ever gaining that much power again (which fell apart with Xi Jinping). Ceaușescu was more interested in a life of luxury than in the working class. Most communist countries at most times had a political elite that ruled, not an individual with singular authority over the nation.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    You can't explain why the same thing happened in Capitalist countries

    This is false, though. a few capitalist countries, particularly in western Europe and in North America, industrialized at the expense of the rest of the world through colonialism and imperialism since the 1800s, but since the end of WW1, only a minority of capitalist states have actually developed and industrialized, most of them being small European nations still. No fast industrialization with massive life quality boosts happened anywhere in Latin America or Africa, and in Asia only in US puppet regimes utilized as weapons against China. If India had applied the policies that China or the USSR did, hundreds of millions of lives would have been saved from disease and starvation over the past 100 years.

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