[ SECRET POST #2686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Controversial opinions

[dreemyweird]

I don't mind moderate economic/political Socialism as long as it stays realistic. When I start frothing at the mouth a bit is when people behave as if a viable alternative to Western capitalist democracy is a Socialist/Communist society that sounds helluva lot like one of those people already tried to create.

Re: Controversial opinions

[ibbity]

Ah yes, the old "Well all of those communist states that turned out to be terrible dictatorships with ruined economies that people became desperate to escape from, those totes don't count because they weren't REAL communism like what I would implement!" line. So fucking tired of that.

Re: Controversial opinions

[feotakahari]

Reminds me of the people who argue that just because steep import taxes to allow the growth of local industry tend to lead to corruption doesn't mean it can't work if the corruption is somehow prevented*. Or the people who argue that a country can get away with printing more and more money as it pleases, and the countries that saw hyperinflation just did it wrong. Economics is a very good field for claiming your theory works even if it hasn't in the past.

* My economics teacher used the analogy of a four-year-old challenged to fight Chuck Norris. Her father tells Chuck Norris to wait twenty years, then arranges for her to get strength training and protein shakes and so on. She decides she likes not having to fight Chuck Norris, and gets him to keep her in training indefinitely. In the same way, international competitors tend to crush local high-tech industries like software, but tech industries that are government-supported refuse to get off that support and function on their own.