AlboTheGuy

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

Ok ok chill you could have made your point with like 30% less angst

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the only one then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Exactly, also electricity from fossil fuels is still cleaner, the process at the plant is way more efficient and way more scrutinized (check every car and every producer and every user or check plants, which works best?)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I want public transport more than anything, but where I live there's little to none, I can't do anything about that other than voting for parties that apparently have little chance to win. What I can do is buy an electric car, sue me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My man the article is behind a brick of cookie permissions and then a paywall. The "What" is more than warranted

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mostly by generational trauma but some get by with fresh trauma

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
  • sweats in old testament*
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm arguing that communism could work and that not working in our world doesn't disprove it, for all that matters.

I also think that the concept of failure needs a little attention, I mean you could argue that democracy failed too, it's supposed to give everyone an equal voice in the system and yet rich people have an incomparably stronger pull on elections and therefore decisions.

I would argue that humans value collectivism more than individualism, the last few centuries would see to go against this notion but for most of humanity we have lived in close knitted communities and valued our dépendance on each others. Even now the most individualist and powerful human would die in matter of months without help from the community (think of the water distribution and sanitation, no water = no food = death).

Thank you for arguing your point though, I appreciate it and it gave me very much food for thought, I'm not even denying that communism failed, it did, it has had its successes but it mostly failed it's purpose, as did democracy. One of them pulled it off better though, of course democracy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (7 children)

That doesn't feel like a good argument, there are many reasons why a government descends into any of those, for one the CIA is known to disrupt any socialist/communist attempt at government and that can and did cause brutalism.

I mean if any attempt to give an alternative to the suffocating order of power is going to have to survive against the pressure of such power of course the only "successful" ones will have traits of authoritarism and strict even violent control of power itself.

Now don't misunderstand me I'm not saying that authoritarism is good or even that communism would certainly be able to lead to a better rule, I'm arguing that we don't know that because there are many other factors that can lead to the failures of a system.

Also really a blanket statement followed by generic stereotypes meant to undermine any other opinion will not lead to any intelligent discussion and betterment of any of the sides, we can do so much better.

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