Hacker News Reader

Maybe not, but please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I mean when there is mass embargoes against your country so much so that normal everyday things we take for grated are hard to get things can become tough.

But we could also just say "lamo commy dont werk" without understanding the geopolitical reasons for why a country might be struggling.

china's doing good.

or is china not doing good, somehow?

or are they not communist, somehow?

meanwhile, america is a farce...

Their system is quite capitalist since Deng, and they're not doing that well compared to Taiwan which is as close to an A/B test as you'll get.

> or are they not communist, somehow?

How are they? They have a market economy. Plus, the US has greater government spending (as % of GDP) than China.

Everything is a farce.

Everything is made up.

People in power are always just the most high functioning sociopaths that clamor for it, communism or not.

Neither does capitalism

[flagged]

it would help a lot if you all stopped calling the mess implemented in practice without any ideology behind it by a theoretical model name.

Ah, yes: "nothing can be known; words don't mean things, and things don't have names."

But enough about communism! /s