[rdtsc]

> Why cherry pick a single bad thing from over 60 years ago?

It was the one I remembered first. Solar panels can be one good thing and the dead sparrows and famine can be one bad ting, and they can balance each out perhaps?

> Is that supposed to discredit all actions by the country?

I didn't say or think of it that way, but you seem to. So, what do you think that action and the following famine exemplifies or points to?

My response was mainly tongue in cheek to the GP's point that communists are somehow the paragon or efficiency and no bullshit attitude.

> The US is held back by corporations that demand ever increasing profits and by political parties that roadblock each other such that it cannot focus any substantial effort on meaningful initiatives for change.

Yeah no doubt. I wonder what a good way forward is there?

[Ographer]

Sorry to be combative, maybe I missed the tongue-in-cheek. My response was mostly because your comment took a headline which should be good news for the world and appeared to frame it negatively just because of their political system.