Loremaster Liberaster
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@Sttandifa Yes. The world is a competition. There are winners and losers. We prefer the country where people can achieve their potential, not be condemned to harmless mediocrity
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a country's "succes" is determined by how many billionares opress the country's workers ; a country with more opressors is more sucessful in the capitalist point of view
Poirot@Argenpoirot
Alemania sirvió como el mejor experimento para ver que modelo es exitoso, si la Alemania libre y capitalista o la Alemania oprimida de la URSS. El resultado es claro. No existe el comunismo exitoso.
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@commie_trucker Why do progressives love making normative claims? Can you string together a sentence without the word "should" and maybe build an argument instead of just sharing your wishlist items
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@Altanon @Provokethoughtz Can you genuinely explain the logic behind this? Is this to limit capable people from having better lives than the average?
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@Provokethoughtz There should be a Maximum Wage that can be no more than 20 times the Minimum Wage.
That ought to get Congress off the åsses to raise the Minimum Wage.
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@Provokethoughtz Because nobody has moral or political authority to limit the potential of others?..
This is like deciding for another person if they had enough to eat or want more. Everyone has their own desires, and you don't get to influence other people's economic outcomes. Not your business
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@GuerraenlaUni How is this an interior design under stalinist regime?
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Es sorprendente la transformación semántica de la infravienda. Lo que se veía como distópico bajo el régimen estalinista, se vende como utópico bajo el régimen turbocapitalista.
HOUSE PORN@HOUSEPORN___
A man's perfect home:
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@philosophymeme0 So workers doing stuff for their personal benefit is also bad huh? I'm starting to think progressives are against everyone who prioritizes their own goals
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@TedRall @CricketSurfing Cringe definition. For me a successful country is where I can self actualize and pursue my goals
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@CricketSurfing None of which has zero poverty...thus are failures
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Name a successful capitalist one.
Noah@NoahKingJr
Name me one successful communist society. Lol.
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@liquid2ulu Libertarians is too narrow. Ask any normal person. If you have to use force to defend your stuff, it means that the attacker values your stuff more than their health and wellbeing. They make their choices, we make ours. But stealing is illegal, why are you defending the crime?
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Libertarians believe that it is morally justified to use violence to defend your property.
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@RedAsMarx @AlolanRonin You literally have Stalin on your pfp, bootlicker
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@AlolanRonin Youre obsessed with a little anime girl... Fucking weirdo
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon When you throw away the papers it really becomes easy to write speculative essays and use dialectics to make normative claims. This is far superior to the scientific method because you can't present any empirical evidence to a third party observer
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon Oh, then I guess the "findings" are not bound to real world context either.
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No, Cuba no es pobre por el “bloqueo” (embargo).
Cuba es pobre porque han tomado políticas fracasadas e insistido en sus errores durante décadas.
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ʟᴀɪᴋᴀ ☭@LaikaOrbital
60 años de bloqueo económico.
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@liberaster57149 @CleverMonsterCT @livrexspre I would say at any point in history the human experience was better. Which is real fucked up if you think about it. We are suppose to grow and make our lives easier yet here we are dodging modern slavery.
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon The actual method has value, and the model never build a true claim of rea world context, it's not the purpose. Also a lot for studies are flawed, this just means you can build one them in the future. A bad study would not get published in this type of journal
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon Peer review doesn't automatically guarantee the truth of a claim or the real-world context behind the math. A study can be fundamentally flawed but still get published just because the raw data is valuable.
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@Harold_2036 Okay google how many billionaires does china have
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The biggest cope of the 21st century is either ignoring China or pretending it’s something it isn’t.
Noah@NoahKingJr
Name me one successful communist society. Lol.
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@DanielWafford76 @CleverMonsterCT @livrexspre If you compare the quality of life in that period of time between countries that were building socialism and those with higher inequality, data would show you that despite inequality, workers had more stuff to own and more money to go around. They had a better human experience
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@liberaster57149 @CleverMonsterCT @livrexspre We built the United States in like 100 years once the industrial revolution started. We don’t need billionaires billionaires don’t build anything they just own shit. That’s the way, they control the money. But they cannot control innovation and human progress.
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon It doesn't have to be complicated, but it requires that you understand that there are academic standards in these journals and they wouldn't publish garbage. It's a strictly peer reviewed journal. There is nothing elitist about how academia works, it like that in every field
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon Oh, yes. Back to "this is all very complicated for you muggles".
Again: this is not rocket science.
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@RackhamLeVrai Is it okay that working conditions and standards of living sucked for the workers, and also huge regions of Russia starved in the early 20s? But hey, as long as they industrialized and as long as it wasn't done for profit, it's based🗿 Livelihoods of those people don't matter
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Le communisme a sorti la Russie du sous-développement en un temps record, il a vaincu le nazisme, Il a envoyé le premier homme dans l'espace, il a conquis la Sécurité Sociale et il a porté un coup décisif au colonialisme.
Être communiste sera toujours un honneur.
TwitchDroitard@TwitchDroitard
« On a normalisé le fait qu’on puisse être d'extrême gauche, mais le communisme, c'est plus grave que le n*zisme. » « Les totalitaires c'est LFI, les dangers communistes c'est LFI. Pol Pot, il a été éduqué à Paris. C'est le Parti communiste français qui lui a donné les valeurs qui lui ont permis de tu*r 3 millions de personnes. Aujourd'hui, il y a eu plus de morts à cause du communisme que du que du n*zisme dans les dernières années, largement. » « Dire je suis communiste sur Twitter, ça devrait être aussi grave que de dire je suis n*zi. » - @Sardoche_Lol En plein live sur League of Legends, Sardoche a vivement réagi à la plaisanterie d'un spectateur sur le communisme. Le streamer a affirmé que cette idéologie était, selon lui, bien pire que le n*zisme tout en étant trop banalisée dans le débat public. Il a soutenu que le communisme avait fait plus de victimes que le n*zisme ces dernières années, attribuant notamment la responsabilité de 3 millions de morts aux communistes français. Pour conclure sa démonstration, il a dressé un parallèle direct entre ces régimes et La France Insoumise (LFI), qu'il a qualifiée de danger totalitaire.
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon How are you the source of knowledge on this? Are you qualified to be published in a journal of developmental economics? Have you published or completed any research on econometrics?
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon You can dress this ideological fanfiction up as math all you want, but building 30-year "what-if" projections on a contaminated donor pool isn't serious econometrics.
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon It's ironic the level of intellectual dishonesty you are showing regarding a publication. How does economic populism fry somebody's brain so much? You remind me of Sharikov in Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog" novella, his character is literally a satire of this behavior
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon You just don't know how comparisons work.
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@perretecommie @FranNunesEcon You are literally comparing a published study to a horoscope, ignorance is not a flex
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@liberaster57149 @FranNunesEcon Yeah, that's exactly what fortune tellers say when you question the horoscope.
This might be at the top of your cognitive abilities, but it's not exactly rocket science, buddy.
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