Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1.  @haruruben  In other words, North Korea ran out of other people's money.
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  2.  @tekinet7958  Like every other country that adopted socialism/communism.
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  3. Actually, it should be how capitalism saved Vietnam from being like its neighbor, Cambodia.
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  4.  @mrmakhno3030  In other words, communism cannot work without tyranny.
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  5. And once upon a time in the late 1980's, Nintendo had an actual monopoly on the video game market.
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  6. In other words, if only humans were robots without individuality or agency and easy to control.
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  7.  @mrmakhno3030  With brutal suppression of individual liberty and agency.
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  8. Yet the loss of Soviet aid coupled with its inefficient central planning did far more damage.
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  9. Hard to do that in a centralized power structure in which freedom including that of thought is suppressed.
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  10.  @socalpumpballer  It figures why Pol Pot killed off anyone who looked the slightest bit educated and Cambodia is still dealing with the fallout as its current leader was once a card-carrying Khmer Rouge member.
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  11. No. That would be the Democratic Party.
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  12.  @MinhPnh  The US had nothing to do with the Holodomor, Year Zero or the Great Leap Forward.
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  13. YIKES!
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  14. Courtesy of Kim Jong-un.
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  15. Chinese aid, human and drug trafficking, etc.
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  16.  @polygentle5679  Most people don't work for corporations. And it's certainly not their fault if you don't have the skills, smarts or ambition to get something better.
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  17.  @dzanderallison  Just ask Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
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  18. Who knew that communists were every bit as wasteful?
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  19.  @MASJYT  Also many of the USSR's vassal states fell once the USSR stopped supporting them. East Germany, North Korea and Cuba among others.
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  20. And then they regressed even with all the Soviet help they got.
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  21. Venezuela: Hold my toilet paper.
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  22. Tankie, please! Your isolation was by choice. After all, you said you were self-reliant.
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  23. Except the elite.
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  24. Pretty much.
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  25. And becoming the monopoly you replaced.
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  26. LOL. Russia was always backwards.
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  27.  @djriqky9581  But not on a consistent basis.
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  28. And mismanaged them to ruin as always.
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  29. Case in point: Venezuela.
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  30. Because capitalism for all of its flaws is still the better system and is the reason China and Vietnam are no longer basket-cases or in the same position as North Korea and Cambodia.
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  31. Hoxha was a religion unto itself.
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  32.  @snowdog03  Poorer than the Philippines. Only richer than ex-communist Cambodia and still-communist Laos.
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  33.  @esbenm6544  Not really. Even Marx admitted that communism needed capitalism to make his dream come true.
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  34. @Armament Armed Arm No it wasn't. North Korea's pathetic state is of its own making.
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  35. UGH!
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  36.  @rendarecorrentecomopcoes2336  On life-support, that is. North Korea is alive only because of Chinese aid. Cuba? US remittances and Venezuelan oil.
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  37. Stockholm syndrome and nostalgia.
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  38. 3rd poorest in Europe.
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  39. The USSR treated Central Asia and Eastern Europe like France treats Western Africa.
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  40. Actually, it's not that hard. See Ethiopia.
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  41.  @johnnynick3621  Especially freedom.
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  42. Yet socialism did plenty to stifle India's development having to rely on Soviet and US aid to stay afloat.
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  43. Communism/socialism becomes exactly what capitalism is accused of and then some.
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  44. Communism doesn't work anywhere. Not even in the same continent it was founded which is Europe.
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  45. Stop lying, tankie.
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  46.  @DMM1840  Only because WW2 happened.
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  47. Or any communist regime for that matter.
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  48. Yet no real economy to sustain all that. Never mind the political repression which makes the "free" stuff trivial. Even slaves in the Antebellum US South had free education, healthcare, housing, food, jobs, etc.
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  49. Only to a tankie.
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  50. Case(s) in point: Venezuela and Nauru.
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