• 挂路灯人@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    By almost every metric they were massively successful seeing some of the largest leaps in life expectancy in history side by side with the largest strides in poverty alleviation, infant mortality and more.

    If you exclude just China alone from global poverty statistics global poverty by headcount is worse today than in 1981.

    Not that you really care you just want to pontificate from your soapbox about “the silly Marxists” who dare to actually wish for and push for better.

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      7 hours ago

      Americans care about freedom. You should probably learn this…

      If you can’t guarantee the same level of freedom to someone, they won’t care if you’ll meet their needs or not.

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        Americans care about freedom. You should probably learn this

        So we’ve moved from most people to Americans. Interesting. Also given America has the largest prison population in the world in raw numbers not even per capita I’m not sure that’s particularly true, especially when American prisons are by design essentially slavery.

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Americans care about freedom

        Yes the freedom to be free to be terrible and racist to others, or be free to appear to get the chance to be extraordinarily wealthy not anything related to actual freedom