I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

  • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works
    416·
    11 months ago

    If we count shit like that, Capitalism has killed billions.

    Only if you don’t adjust for functioning existence lmao.

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
      152·
      11 months ago

      functioning existence isn’t counted for Communism in the Black Book, so it shouldn’t be for Capitalism.

      • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        11 months ago

        I’m sorry, remind me which communist shitholes function better than the average modern capitalist democracy?

        • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
          132·
          11 months ago

          I’d sure as shit rather live in China than India. I’d rather live in Cuba than Haiti, I’d rather live in Vietnam than Myanmar, I’d rather have lived in the USSR than the vast majority of Africa.

          Turns out, the only capitalist countries that communist countries didn’t do better than are the ones that got wealthy through centuries of brutal colonialism, exploitation, and slavery. Communist countries managed to develop in a fraction of the time, and with a fraction of the human misery, that it took places like the USA and Britain.

          • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works
            28·
            11 months ago

            Ah yes, India, Haiti, and Myanmar. Definitely what people instantly think of when prompted for the average modern capitalist democracy rather than the us, uk, denmark, sweden, norway, germany, netherlands…cherry pick a bit harder and you might start making sense

            • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
              112·
              11 months ago

              Correct, other than extremely self-absorbed westerners who don’t know that the rest of the world exists and that non-white people are people too.

              Cherry pick a bit harder and you might start making sense

              You’re literally the one demanding that we cherry pick here, man.

              • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works
                27·
                11 months ago

                Those were your picks for the average capitalist democracy but I’m the one cherry picking? Lmao

                  • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works
                    16·
                    11 months ago

                    So Myanmar, really? the country that got coup’d in 2021 is what you think of as a modern democracy? So are you retarded or just bad faith? Maybe both?