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by __________ttttt
2780 days ago
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It can be tough to judge by who you stand with. I like socialism and communism. I think it can bring lots of good to the world. But people who propagate it are some of the worst people to have ever walked the earth. I think they were just mistaken. 100 million deaths with errors bars bigger than the number of people killed in the holocaust. I don’t want to be judged for propagating social welfare just because some monsters committed horrendous acts. Similarly in the US, I support left wing and sanders. But I won’t want to be judged as if I stand with cop killers, antifa, the Congress baseball game killer, etc. I don’t think it’s a good idea to use this formula frankly. It’s also easy to manipulate. |
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1) Politicians who are greedy, self-centred and ruthless.
2) Politicians who are liars, greedy, self-centred and ruthless.
The big issue with "I like communism" (for socialism the argument changes) is that any time anyone tries it they try to appoint champions of the people to their ruling class and discover they have actually got liars and monsters. This doesn't happen because they got unlucky - this is because there are no champions of the people at that level of power. There are only people with incentives, and communism really screws up the incentive structure.
The best incentive structure, by far, is free markets and democracy, even if the people who rise to the top are all scum. Somehow, "by luck" (bah, people don't get incentives) it all works really well.