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  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zipOPtoLefty MemesCommunism is when Capitalism
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    25 days ago
    1. You have no idea what communism means. It is not anarchy, but mainly due to the difference in the way and not the goal. Saying communism requires a state is like saying water atoms require more than one proton and electron. It is literally the definition of what communism isn’t is.

    2.1 The USSR had economic problems, especially near the end, but it also had achieved great economic progress. If you consider the full existence of USSR it’s economy grew equally to that of the West. The USSR however had a way worse start as it inherited a feudal society that had just lost a war and was attacked immediately by capitalist nations such as the USA. Other countries that had similar starting conditions grew significantly less than the West or USSR in the same time period. The USSR saw a significant increase in life expectancy: Graph showing the life expectancy in Russia from 1900-2020. It’s economy later declined due to mismanaged and a expenditure for the military that wasn’t feasable, but all in all I don’t think it’s fair to call the USSR a economic failure.


  • Honestly, I don’t really like physical games as they are currently. Physical PC games died a while ago so the only ones are console games. And console games are tied to a specific console that you don’t control. You can’t just decide what software to have on it, you need to keep the device around or be locked into a ecosystem and hope that the next generation will be backwards compatible and if the game discs break (which they will do) the game is gone. If you buy games DRM like on GOG or sometimes on Steam the game is in your control. You can play it on any PC, devices like the Steam deck or via something like gamenative. You don’t have to worry about incompatibility to much as in the worst case you can just spin up a old Windows version in a VM, not even counting that Wine basically supports games no matter how old. If you want to make sure you don’t lose the game: just make a copy. Want to give it to a friend? Copy it to a USB stick and give it to them. Heck, you could even setup something like Kazeta and get the full physical game experience. Console games haven’t been your since you weren’t in control of devices that can play them. And while the extras are neat, they are mostly nothing more than neat and don’t justify the recourse use for a one time ‘neat’.


  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zipOPtoLefty MemesCommunism is when Capitalism
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    26 days ago
    1. Saying today is oligarchy not capitalism is like saying you don’t have cancer you have stage four cancer

    2. Communism is by definition a stateless society, not sure where you are getting those ideas about a communist government. Define “didn’t work well”. Nations such as Cuba have not achieved a communist utopia, but they did significantly improve the lives of their citizens in pretty much every way compared to pre revolutionary Cuba. Those states are obviously not communist and it is debatable to what extent they are socialist and not state capitalist.

    3. Almost all European countries are currently in the process of removing as much of those social guarantees, which is a logically process that pretty inevitably happens as long capitalism exists.