Hooverx

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So communist democracy is the solution?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

What is the context of the phrase "Heil Hitler" now? Context is everything and you can't just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.

Languages change and morph over time. They always have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

why is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.

the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what's left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

seizing their assets will

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The real boost is SOEs. Competition is good, it just needs a single large-scale player more concerned about the public good than private profits to push the industry in the right direction. There's a reason SWCC works so well while the Soviet system failed. Deng Xiaoping was a genius.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn't the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?

in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn't more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

yes but my freedum

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yes but political pandering

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that's the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yes but see china bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock

turns out that when profit isn't the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what's best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what's best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)

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