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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are you sure it's possible because of toxic ideology, or despite it? I may want to see the math on that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

The toxicity of the ideology vs the toxicity of users describing or supporting an ideology.

It's like asking if NASA went to the moon because of the NKVD or despite the NKVD.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can't think why people interested in collective benefit and free dissemination of tools, while rejecting free markets and the profit motive, might have some meaningful overlap with believing in socialism?

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

There are endless positive but fundamentally dysfunctional ideologies. Anything which doesn't address how large populations behave is dysfunctional.

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

This is so vague that it’s meaninglessness.

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

That's why a system like China's is the only sensible one for a large country in the present world order - leaving important things up to unregulated markets and media is an abdication of responsibility.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

There are any number of capitalist platforms. Yet here you are on one developed under communist principles. And still too indoctrinated to work out the connection.