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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

China is as communist as I am a french male model. That said, it is indeed a mistake to allow the "free market" to determine the nation's critical infrastructure. American rail is an absolute joke.

[–] underline960 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I… I already told you.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

muricans calling everything communism that isn't gop cock sucking is getting old

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whos trains are those ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the world may never know

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are they belong to a stateless moneyless society? It would be very embarrassing for you if they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Would it be? True it's not communist but also China doesn't claim to be. They claim it as an aspiration not as a current state of affairs. However we are random internet people. Are we really going to explain to every dumbass how China isn't communist, only a vanguard state hoping to evolve into one in the future according to the chain of events described in the communist manifesto?

No. Cause that's a waste of time. Being angry that all that context wasn't added is pedantic because we ain't operating with strict definitions that everyone agrees to. We are working with cultural vibe checks. And as far as culture is concerned, China is communist.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah we almost got a high speed rail system but some dipshit from south africa decided to build a shitty tunnel instead

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Close. Put the capitalist train on its side, spilling hazardous waste into a community water source.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Communism is when trains run on time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

’Communism is when communal efforts produce results.’

Accidentally correct, you dolt.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Capitalism (good) Vs Capitalism (bad)

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Capitalism with literal slave labor vs capitalism that outsources the literal slave labor or calls them prisoners with jobs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

and I wouldn't want to live in neither the US nor China

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Capitalism with literal slave labor

You're talking about the US prison population, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

prisoners with jobs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Capitalism (with speedy trains) vs capitalism (with slow trains)

FTFY

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