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tacosplease ,

Prager U is Christian propaganda masquerading as a school. It's the opposite of a school.

Iron_Lynx ,

Christian conservative ancap propaganda to be more precise. The guy behind it was once recorded saying "Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem."

irmoz ,

Christian propaganda approved by the state of Florida to teach in schools

HornyOnMain ,
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Socialism is when the government does stuff and everyone is poor!
And when everyone has nothing, it's communism!

Robot rock starts playing

irmoz ,

Lol, "socialism is when capitalism" strikes again

BurgerPunk ,

Every accusation a confession. Anti-communist propaganda is projection all the way down

drbluefall ,
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Always gotta remember:

Ask a socialist why they hate capitalism and they'll give you a dozen reasons.

Ask a capitalist why they hate socialism and they'll describe capitalism.

ZILtoid1991 ,
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And when the capitalism resembles the lower one, then "it's not real capitalism", "we need shock therapy", "there's too much regulation", "um, ackchually, the rich person doesn't hate minorities, thus they're socialist", and so on...

UltimateBlackComrade OP ,

Yep, all that stems from lack of class awareness and lack of the study of Marxism

Dasnap ,
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They made a graphic for it so it must be true!

Grayox ,
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PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
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Capitalists: Communism is when no phone

Communism:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b4e71232-cef7-46c0-82d6-94554cacfdf2.png

taanegl ,

If it were up to the lawyers and capitalists and not open source responding to it you'd still be paying to copy files. Imagine that? A subscription for basic utility, and removing it did not "impede competition" or "remove incentive".

But hey, if you want to, I could rig your phone and computer to pay me a dollar every time you copy or move a file, ya'know, since you're in to that stuff.

Vitaly ,
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I prefer capitalism

UltimateBlackComrade OP ,

Why?

Vitaly ,
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Because I'm from a country where people know what communism is in practice, and I hate it

UltimateBlackComrade OP ,

Communism has never been implemented

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

So how do you know if it's going to be good/effective?

UltimateBlackComrade OP ,

Because it is scientific and follows materialistic analysis? Whereas capitalism is an idealistic religion.

Vitaly ,
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Every country that was touched by communism is extremely poor or corrupt, on the other hand all people I know including me want to live in places like USA or in European Union

ThereRisesARedStar ,

Cuba has higher living standards than the US under a 60 year siege lmao

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

Never heard that someone want to live in Cuba really

ThereRisesARedStar ,

Weird, it is almost like you're in an anti-communist media ecosystem that doesn't broadcast it.

Vitaly ,
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According to a 2022 report from the Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH), 72 percent of Cubans live below the poverty line. 21 percent of Cubans who live below the poverty line frequently go without breakfast, lunch or dinner due to a lack of money. Pensions are among the smallest in the Americas at $9.50/month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba#Wages,_development,_and_pensions

ThereRisesARedStar ,

Wow it is almost like when Trump put them on the state sponsor of terror list for literally no reason and Biden kept them there their standard of living has gone down. Shocking.

BurgerPunk ,

I wonder what happened to all those former Eastern Bloc countries that might have made them poor and corrupt.

Could have anything with US backed color revolutions and the neoliberal looting of their societies?

Nah. Probably socialisms fault

420blazeit69 ,

Socialism took the USSR from a late-feudal backwater that just lost the most destructive war in history (to that point) to the first man in space, and it did so in one generation and in spite of two subsequent invasions.

Socialism took China from a bunch of squabbling warlords dominated by foreign empires, where famines were regular and severe enough that people regularly sold their own children to survive, to a modern economic powerhouse, lifting a billion people out of poverty along the way.

Socialism took Cuba from a plantation run by foreign gangsters to cutting-edge medicine and higher life expectancy than the U.S., all while fending off a low-intensity war the most powerful empire in the world has waged against it for the entirety of its existence.

AOCapitulator ,
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What things do you like about capitalism exactly

axont ,

Oh cool, that's neat. Wow. Personally I'm only socially communist. But in terms of economics I'm radically communist cat-com

ekZepp ,
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Empricorn ,

Sure, now draw the stacks of coins to-scale, Prager-U, I dare you!

They're obviously taking advantage of the fact that the average person doesn't realize how wide the wealth inequality gap has gotten. Or, to put it another way, they don't realize how badly they've been, and continue to be, exploited by the rich and powerful...

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