traveler01
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- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Socialism is what social democracies do.
You’re now following in the most common argument fallacy between socialists/communists, called No true Scotsman.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
They are social democracies. Even Wikipedia makes it clear.
Dunno where people got the idea these countries where socialist.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
The data shows it’s stagnated. It’s a common symptom between western european economies. The more they lean left, the worse their economy gets:
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Capitalism with strong regulation is so good that the Soviet Union used it; China uses it
Capitalism with strong regulation… the best example would be the nordic countries you believe are socialist.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
I understand your point, that’s why I consider that the state should be an independent regulator. What’s happening right now is that due to corruption the state is failing to do it so.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
When you’re so poor that you don’t know what you’re going to eat tomorrow, or if the money of your wage may run out until the end of the month, will you care much about that?
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Is the US the only example of a capitalist country you know about?
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Jeez a communist disliking such an article, what a surprise.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
French economy is not a good example, as far as I know it’s stagnated.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Having social welfare doesn’t make a country socialist.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Nordic countries are not socialist.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
The US is a bad example, and still is a greater example than the communist/socialist countries provided.
These nordic countries are pretty good example of how you can have capitalism with a great welfare state, without going socialist/communist. My guess is their main difference is that they don’t allow the richer companies to lobby on politicians, or at-least not as much as the US does.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
They refer to Venezuela which is a socialist country, and of course not the greenest country in the world.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
There’s tons of data showing that capitalism actually makes the average joe a lot richer.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Do you have any example of a country with socialism that successfully made it?
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
But of course capitalism breed oligarchs and oligarchy and thus markets were deformed to benefit the oligarchs (and socialise risks while privatising profits).
In my opinion when you start having oligarchs and this amount of wealth inequality, it’s only a symptom that the state is failing to do what was created to do, at-least in theory.
The state should be only a regulator, more like a referee in the market. Currently everywhere in western democracies the state is failing to do it. We have the lower income people getting taxed to hell, either directly or by proxy while the uber-rich are influencing the state regulation directly.
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- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
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- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
I mean that’s is just to show how much of a reform the American system actually needs. Lobbying should be forbidden for instance.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Honestly there’s the political compass (example here) that can sum up better political views for what matters. Though the left and right specter should be considered more regarding the economy, you have communists and nazis which in the freedoms are pretty much in the same place, while economy-wise they’re different.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
That’s honestly the state of the world. Left: good, right wing is somehow fascist. Will sound like some QANON shit but this is probably what Putin and others want, to divide and conquer. While we’re arguing about shit that in the end doesn’t really matter, The US dollar is going downhill together with western democracies.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Pretty much sums up the nowadays discussions. If you’re a commie/socialist you’re good, if you even dare to defend the free market you’re a shit asshole.
Everyone who defends a free market will like Lemmy since it’s pretty much adding a competitor (or a ton of them if you count it as instances) to the market. If the instance owner wants profit or not I don’t know, but these type of servers does not run themselves for free.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
The extremes are similars in various ways.
