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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (24 children)
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    Replacing a violent country with the system that historically always led to military dictatorships does not sound like a recipe for success.

    You don't need socialism, you need northern European style capitalism

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    This guy doesn't know what socialism is and is too scared of bogeymen to learn.

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    I've been! Met some lovely people. Saw some beautiful places. You should try leaving your home city just once in your sheltered closeted little life.

    The world is not what Fox News is telling you it is.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Lmao, I am European. Wtf would I need to watch Fox news for?

    Sorry bud but painting a stereotype is not really defending your position. Did CNN tell you that that was OK?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Well I figured you were either some dipshit from the flyover counties or, far more likely, an employee of a troll farm. I figured I'd give you the benefit of the doubt.

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    You could argue that they've never been socialist, because like every other attempt it just devolved into military dictatorships. The effects of that attempt are still present today. Take any political or social map of Germany and you can still see where the old borders were

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    Mate, even the majority of socialists disagree with this view, let alone someone who is critical of socialism.

    The USSR was a dictatorship full of nepotism and corruption, where you could get jailed for the dumbest reasons, ranging from being gay to practicing karate. None of these rules were established by workers and all of them were created by the bureaucracy.

    The workers were the people who ended the USSR

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  • [+] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (12 children)
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    Colonialism was not capitalism, there's nothing capitalist about taking prisoners and stealing land for government charted monopolies.

    Meanwhile northern Europe has the highest standard of living, healthcare quality, accessibility and life expectancy. And all of it is being paid for with the spoils of capitalism

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  • [+] [S] 13 points 10 months ago* (6 children)
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    Talk with some actual capitalists, and they'll all tell you that their core values are pretty much the opposite of whatever you're describing here.

    Capitalism is simply the most successful system in the world, so it's an easy target for edgy teens who want something to blame for their failures.

    But please do tell me how I'm exploiting the world, or how I'm violent or racist. Maybe you can call me an fascist incel so the word salad has all the cool things kids say nowadays

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    Y'know, I was expecting a word salad of being called an incel, instead this is just a word salad of calling everything a monopoly. Half of the things you point to here are governmental actions, not capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system, not an ideology, it doesn't control what the government should or shouldn't do. And none of it even relates to the topic at hand, which was colonialism.

    And financial oligarchies are 100% just a hallucination, prettied up in fancy words so it sounds like you're making an argument. You do not need permission from an oligarchy to make financial transactions.

    If the global north would stop trading with the global south, to "fix" this supposed exploitation, people like you would be the first to start crying about how an embargo on the south is preventing them from moving up the value chain in production. There is no logic here, just accusations. You have nothing to show but an attitude

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  • [+] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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    Private property and freedom of association are core aspects of capitalism, colonialism did none of those things. Capitalism didn't arrive in the colonies until the colonists left.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Slaves were considered private property in the USAmerica, right?
    Was USAmerica a colony during their civil war?

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    Private property alone doesn't make capitalism, by that logic the ancient civilzations of egypt and sumer would already be capitalist. Capitalism is a collection of ideas, from the right to own private property to freedom of association, none of which is compatible with slavery.

    Which is a big reason why the capitalist countries were the first to outlaw slavery.

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)
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    just what exactly is liberal about invading foreign countries and submitting them to production quota's at the threat of death?

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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    Please, do tell me more about... let's say... the luxembourgish imperialism. Did they conquer any new nation recently?

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  • [+] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    So imperialism is... not taxing people? That's a very fluid take on it

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    imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

    You know you can just look up these thing right?

    Not taxing your citizens, is not imperialism. Luxembourg is not an imperialist country.

    The process that you're describing is called free trade. As soon as the global south doesn't want to partake in this trade, they can stop. And Luxembourg wouldn't have anything to say on that matter.

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