• smol_beans@lemmy.world
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    Cuba, Vietnam, China, Venezuela, the USSR. These are some examples of a lefty functional model of government.

    but your gonna say “those governments did bad things”

    And I’m gonna say “not as many bad things as the capitalist US of A”

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      the USSR was really only successful during it’s period of industrialization, past that they didn’t advance much and really only coasted on oil until that started to crash and basically killed them. Stalin also had some, interesting ideas of leadership.

      China is an authoritarian state, has been for a long time, mao was, arguably one of the worst leaders ever. Created a massive famine that killed millions just so he could make a single nuclear bomb.

      I’m not particularly familiar with the rest, so i can’t really comment. I guess you could argue that the US has done bad things, but so has basically every super power. It’s not really anything new. The primary thing is that the US still exists, china also does, but they’re also having domestic issues as well.

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        56 minutes ago

        The argument is whether “lefties” have a functional model of government and they objectively do, contrary to your claim.

        As for superpowers all doing bad things, I’m arguing specifically that the US does and has done significantly MORE bad things than other big countries like China or the USSR.

        also I listed 5 countries and 4 of them still exist. You skipped over 3 of them because you realized how weak your argument was