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The victory of communism is inevitable

The failure of communism is inevitable and proven by history over and over again.

Þey may have been joking

You know what? If you’re going to deny that socialism actually works because “oh but x socialist country breathed the wrong way once!” Then I ask of you to name one successful capitalist country, on the condition that you consider capitalism’s failures the same way you consider “socialism’s failures”

Under capitalism, the US has moved human civilization forward in so many ways: technology, plentiful and healthy food, social mobility, and personal freedom in general. Why would anyone want breadlines, censorship, and social stagnation?

Almost all of modern technology was state-funded, almost 25% of adults are food insecure, a lot of healthy food is too expensive for the average consumer to add on their grocery list and the cheap food is saturated with seed oils, and wealth inequality has never been higher in America since the gilded age. The only thing that is technically true is personal freedom, but that’s only because the concept is so vague.

Elon Musk? Silicon Valley? Some modern tech research gets started by colleges with government funding, but it is always put to practical use by entrepreneurs and private money. Military tech is the only thing I can think of that is backed completely by the government.

A lot of commodities that is the backbone of Silicon Valley came from state-directed innovation. Such as microprocessors, memory chips, solid state hard drives, liquid crystal displays, lithium batteries and touchscreens. You can’t say the iPhone was entirely made by private entrepreneurs when almost all of its components were made due to either funding or direct involvement from the government in its creative process.

Also you do realize Elon Musk isn’t the person that designs the rockets, right? Even if all these innovations did come from private entities, it’s not like the entrepreneurs themselves are the ones that magically come up with them.

Healthy food and healthy habits can't be dictated by the government. Food deserts are created by lax law enforcement. Stores are closing all over the US because of shoplifting and looting. I do agree that wealth inequality is a problem. Not sure how to fix that. The government is making it worse by colluding with large corporations at the expense of small businesses. Tax laws and labor laws do not favor small businesses.

“I do agree that wealth inequality is a problem. Not sure how to fix that.”

I may just have an idea…

It is true that Capitalism has its faults. Capitalism must be regulated so that the big fish don't eat all the little fish. That is where democracy comes in. Sure it's messy, but it works. But, socialism just doesn't work. It has failed over and over again. Absolute power corrupts. One-party rule always leads to corruption, and no one has the ability to plan and regulate an entire economy.

Compare North Korea with South Korea. It's a no-brainer. USSR and East Europe were all failed states. Western Europe under capitalism prospered. When the Berlin Wall fell, I thought socialism was done.

This is missing so much nuance it’s laughable.

North Korea was bombed so heavily by the U.S. during the 50s that 90% of their infrastructure was decimated and 25% of their population was killed, and that was before they were sanctioned so harshly that they couldn’t even buy medicine from other countries, while South Korea enjoys diplomatic, military and economic support from the U.S. Despite this, there are North Korean defectors wanting to return to their country. No, really, you can easily search this up, though sources that confirm this still has bourgeoisie brain worms.

The USSR failed due to Gorbachev and was the world’s second largest economic superpower with a military even bigger than the U.S.’s by then.

If it is all fair and square that Western Europe under capitalism would prosper while Eastern Europe wouldn’t, why did the U.S. feel the need to act on The Marshall Plan back then?

Both South and North Korea were bombed. Neither had a ton of infrastructure as they were agrarian. South Korea became capitalist and prospered. North Korea can't even feed its people.

“Both South and North Korea were bombed”

I have not ever heard that claim before, let alone having it be substantiated. But let’s say it were true. The U.S. still provides South Korea diplomatic, military and economic support while fiercely embargoing North Korea.

USSR and Eastern Europe failed and collapsed. 2nd largest economy? Please post your sources. Communism, Marxism, Maoism, and Socialism are all failures. History proves it. No one group of people can micromanage an economy. Free markets are messy but they work. One-party rule always leads to corruption no matter what political system (communism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy)

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-worlds-largest-economies-1970-2020/

You know a socialist claim true when even an mfin website named “venture capitalist” says it’s true.

Also I’m not sure how you think socialism works but it’s not when one group of people micromanage an economy. Nor has it ever been. In fact, the logic behind saying the USSR was when a group of people micromanaged an economy could also apply to the U.S.

What, like having the stream creator permanently have owner until they delete, and then a different owner take over when they're deleted?

Yeah, but they can demote themselves from that position if they want to

Yeah, and if they decide to do that's then would they have to choose someone else to take their position?

It would be randomly given to another owner

That could end badly
I feel like it would be better for the head owner to pass it down to someone to make sure that the stream stays in the condition it's in
As an example, on October 9th last year, a user known as Scp.Joe took over the Minecraft stream, removed everyone else's mods, and turned it into another MSMG.
This caused the stream to fall into chaos, and eventually we were given mod rights back and his mod was removed, but that's what could end up happening if it is just randomly assigned

like an executive owner?

thats what you get

heres another view