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          Ah… so let me get this straight. So instead of being poor in a capitalist country, you’d rather be poor in a communist country?

          Edit: JFC dude. Why are there so many of these types on Lemmy

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            Save your mental health, just block them once they are clearly identified, it’s not worth the effort at all.

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              But there’s so many of them lol. It’s exhausting. I don’t know what’s worse, the far left or the far right. They’re both incredibly annoying

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                Truth. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see a society where nobody lords over anybody, but I’m not crazy enough to think I can achieve that by burning everything down or putting a dictator in charge.

                On the contrary, I consider a classless society to be the social Holy Grail that’s probably only achievable with Star Trek-tier technology. I’m sure it’ll happen eventually, but not today, and that’s okay.

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                  Much easier to pull off government like that with a smaller population. Things get a bit more complicated with several hundreds of millions or billions.

                  People would also have to be altruistic by nature as well but just go to a grocery store and see how many shopping carts are not put back!

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        Really? Are you really genuinely ignorant or you simply can’t fathom that non-US people not only exist but also lead happier lives?

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          Please don’t forget that the vast majority of non-US people lead significantly sadder lives.

          The two most populous countries in the world are China and India, in that order, and I haven’t heard many good things about the standard of living in either of them.

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          No, he’s not. He’s talking about supposedly-socialist people in the USA who idealize vaguely socialism related countries like Russia or China, and think they would have a better life in these countries.

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              I agree, but I believe they don’t like being called like that and they think they are defending socialism.