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Honesty (lemmy.ml)
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[+] -11 points 1 month ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    don't forget DPRK and Laos

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Certainly the DPRK, I am not very well read on Laos however.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 month ago

    Laos doesn't get much attention because they haven't had much chance to develop after the US razed the whole country to the ground and left a bunch of mines and unexploded ordinance that are still being removed to this day. But they do have a communist party in charge, and China has been actively helping them recently.

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    By almost every metric they were massively successful seeing some of the largest leaps in life expectancy in history side by side with the largest strides in poverty alleviation, infant mortality and more.

    If you exclude just China alone from global poverty statistics global poverty by headcount is worse today than in 1981.

    Not that you really care you just want to pontificate from your soapbox about "the silly Marxists" who dare to actually wish for and push for better.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Americans care about freedom. You should probably learn this

    So we've moved from most people to Americans. Interesting. Also given America has the largest prison population in the world in raw numbers not even per capita I'm not sure that's particularly true, especially when American prisons are by design essentially slavery.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Americans care about freedom

    Yes the freedom to be free to be terrible and racist to others, or be free to appear to get the chance to be extraordinarily wealthy not anything related to actual freedom

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    "Uhh sure peoples lives got twice as long and they went from feudalism to space in one lifetime and are now the dominant world power but OH THE NONSPECIFIC COMMUNIST HORRORS, OHHH HOW TERRIBLY COMMUNISM HAS FAILED."

    TheFinn

    Proud Axis power doomily vagueposting about socialism. Fork found in kitchen.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    and by most people you mean most liberals whose brains haven't yet developed capacity for critical thinking

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Other people have talked about socialist revolutions, which are indeed great examples. But we can't forget the global bourgeois revolutions that lead to capitalism throughout the world. Without those we would still be stuck in feudalism. While capitalism has many flaws it's much better than feudalism in many ways.

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