• Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    China is the number one greenhouse gas contributor, Russia is near the top of the list as well. Fuck off tankies.

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      Those 2 are literally capitalist countries. Also tankies are the ones who commonly say China is not capitalist.

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            What makes me think that two countries that have never identified as capitalist and have never been identified as capitalist anywhere except for this crazy ass community where you just go ahead and label anything you don’t like simply as “capitalism”? Oh I don’t know, just a hunch I guess!

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              Well if you think ‘because they say so’ is reason enough there’s not really any further to go here I don’t think. I was hoping you’d have a more interesting answer about how the economy is structured or how resources are distributed. It looks more like an authoritarian flavour of capitalism to me but I’m no politics expert so I only have a layman’s view, more than happy to be corrected.

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                Dude, the reason you think they’re capitalist is because someone on Lemmy said so, I’m not going to put effort into correcting something that didn’t have evidence behind it to begin with. I’m not going to sit here and try to prove a negative to correct your layman’s view, that’s not how conversation works.

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                  They have private companies and a market economy, how is that a communist economy exactly ?

                  If your only argument for saying they’re communist is because they said so, then you must also believe that north korea is a democracy right ?

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                    You’re correct. China, I believe I heard, also has more billionaires per capita than the US. Don’t quote me on that, I’m not entirely sure.

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              What makes me think that two countries that have never identified as capitalist

              The DPRK “identifies” as “democratic” - so by your logic you should just swallow that hook, line and sinker, too, eh?

              have never been identified as capitalist anywhere except

              Oh, boy… are you in for a surprise - Lenin himself dubbed the fledgling USSR as “state capitalist”.

              Nothing new about it, Clyde.

              Every one of your arguments have been blown out of the water with next-to zero effort… and yet you still pretend you’re in the game.

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      China is the number one

      Sooo… a capitalist state?

      Russia is near the top

      Sooo… another capitalist state?

      Fuck off tankies.

      You don’t know what a tankie is, do you?

      I knew it was a bad day when we allowed liberals access to that word.

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          You walked blindly into this argument with absolutely zero understanding of the subject matter at hand, didn’t you?

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            Users are attributing climate change to “capitalism” with no evidence or reasoning to back it up. You’ve made assertions that countries that political experts don’t consider primarily capitalist countries are actually capitalist countries with no evidence to back them up. I don’t have to waste my time disproving your flaky nonsense, calling it out is good enough for me.

            And what part of this conversation makes you feel like the intelligent subject matter expert here? The part where you said liberals shouldn’t use certain words? Keep it up bud, appreciate you helping me decide which communities to filter out here.

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              Users are attributing climate change to “capitalism”

              Lol! It’s aliens, right? Climate change is caused by aliens? Is that your angle here?

              I don’t have to waste my time

              I agree… you don’t have to flail blindly and ignorantly because you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. You can get a clue any time you feel like.

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                Yes of course, the only two super specific variables that exist, capitalism and aliens.

                Would you waste your time talking to you?

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                  Your claims are so ridiculous I wouldn’t be surprised if you were to start whining about aliens or the earth being flat.

                  Like I said… you don’t have to flail blindly and ignorantly. You can come back to reality any time you feel like.

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                    Nice, got any more strawmans you wanna throw out there?

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          Do you think a tankie would say China is a capitalist nation? Liberalism really is worse than brain cancer. They are either an anarchist or some other shit, you just see the names of the enemies of the empire and scream, you poor ignorant Gringo.