Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1.  @Cristobal_Ygnacio_Arriaga  Don't mind him. He's a Hillary-voter still bitter over 2016.
    111
  2. 3:50 Something a Hilary voter would say.
    71
  3.  @pukalo  They're also here in Quebec. Namely Montreal.
    14
  4. Look no further than the Black community to see their policies at work.
    7
  5.  @jbshiva865  Lenin already was Stalin. An absolute tyrant in his own right with his own fair share of atrocities committed against ordinary Russians.
    7
  6. And even if if we did, it would have still collapsed anyway.
    7
  7.  @kostam.1113  At least they practiced what they preached while the West is really about tearing down men in favor of women.
    6
  8.  @SlashinatorZ  LMAO.
    6
  9. @ Blobbejan Blob In the long run it was.
    5
  10.  @SlashinatorZ  You know a lot of those bankers, rich psychopaths and corporate giants are (D) voters, right?
    5
  11. And Russia even more so.
    4
  12. Also royalties.
    3
  13.  @jacobware8661  <although I think the chances of this would be better if workers owned the means of production instead of the state i.e. worker coops.> Like post-Tito Yugoslavia and even that failed due to mismanagement and disorganization and all the subsidies in the world couldn't save them?
    3
  14. Because it adopted some capitalist reforms and spared itself that fate.
    3
  15. Well, forced collectivization of land is part of the abolishment of private property policy all communists and socialists alike follow.
    3
  16. Actually it gained credibility. I guess you were also a fan of the Soviet Union's militant atheism.
    3
  17.  @latinace1981  None of those countries are socialist. They are capitalist welfare states. Scandinavia is every leftist's go-to answer, because they're too embarrassed to admit what they really want is a Soviet Union/Cambodia/China/North Korea/Cuba/Eastern Europe-styled society.
    3
  18.  @vincem4756  Ditto for Winston Churchill.
    3
  19. Somalia after 1991.
    3
  20. Lenin was not any better. All Stalin did was merely pick up where he left off.
    3
  21.  @ozymandiasultor9480  No. It will never happen due to internal corruption, political instability and a culture that does not value success, excellence or innovation.
    3
  22.  @SlashinatorZ  LOL America actually has a middle class whereas the middle class in every socialist country have been killed/jailed/exiled out of existence with everything they worked for seized by the government.
    2
  23. Exactly.
    2
  24. The CIA was a blessing in disguise for that country.
    2
  25. Exactly.
    2
  26. Even an ant's nest have a hierarchy.
    2
  27. Exactly.
    2
  28.  @socksock8538  None of those places were successful. Many of the places you named were regions of countries living off of the rest of their respective countries.
    2
  29.  @ahumanwhodoesntlikenoobs395  No there cannot as no one works for nothing let alone for everyone except their own benefit.
    2
  30. @Joseph McGrath Food and housing alone is just not going to cut it. Slaves were provided food and housing as well. But the rebellions and escapes prove that all the free stuff in the world are not adequate substitutes for freedom.
    2
  31. Not really. It's because most Americans even the well-to-do are are just simply not interested.
    2
  32. With Ukraine forcibly annexed against its will.
    2
  33.  @TheFi0r3  To him, a real Venezuelan is sympathetic to the Chavez/Maduro regime.
    2
  34. The same tribal days when they slept with their cousins to keep their population numbers up.
    2
  35. And also, Denmark has a thriving private sector and is not that reliant on oil whereas Venezuela seized and shut down the private sector. And no, Denmark is not socialist. Social programs =/= socialism.
    2
  36.  @user-vs6oe8fl3m  But the government controls most of the economy.
    2
  37. Just like Greece.
    2
  38. LOL. No. Lenin was every bit like Stalin.
    2
  39. Only for the Pilgrimage.
    2
  40. Exactly.
    2
  41. On top of making a ruling class out of the Allocator as he controls the resources. Communism doesn't work, because it inevitably defeats its own purpose.
    2
  42. Communism like collectivism in general sees individual freedom and personal agency as a threat.
    2
  43. Latin America was never united at any point in time and it had little to do with the US.
    2
  44.  @zuboy4272  Only because of capitalist reforms. Before Mao died and Deng took over, China was on the verge of collapse.
    2
  45. The only guy worse than Stalin is Mao Zedong.
    2
  46.  @aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  And Trinidad & Tobago.
    2
  47. Only to flee it like she did with Puerto Rico after decades of voting for leftists.
    2
  48. LMAO.
    2
  49. Tell that to the countries America had nothing to do with and yet their communism/socialism failed anyway like India, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Eastern Europe and Burma.
    2
  50. China is to North Korea what the Soviet Union was to Cuba.
    2
  51.  @trulsive  Scandinavia = capitalist welfare-state. I don't recall it having a centrally planned economy with a near non-existent private sector.
    2
  52. Did you have to pay the $250/day fee?
    2
  53. The people being government lackeys.
    2
  54. But it doesn't change the fact whatever success Soviet communism did achieve was short-lived.
    2
  55. Actually they did. It's just that the government took the whole cake and left the masses with crumbs otherwise known as rations.
    2
  56.  @luiz918  Exactly.
    2
  57. Namely China, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba.
    2
  58. Central planning? Centralized authority that communism have consistently produced?
    2
  59. No. Communism was corrupt from the beginning.
    2
  60. I was 11 when the USSR collapsed.
    2
  61. Along with naive delusional sycophants living privileged lives in the very capitalist system they denounce.
    2
  62. Hardly. And you probably were a regime stooge. It figures why would say communism was a success.
    2
  63.  @lalnuntluangachhakchhuak5767  Capitalism also built even communist China. If it wasn't for Mao dying off and Deng taking over to implement capitalist reforms, China would have been in the same position as Cambodia, another one-time communist country.
    2
  64. In other words, it worked when it had the previous regime's wealth to live off of alongside foreign aid and then either collapsed or adopted capitalism once that money ran out and was forced to develop a real economy of its own.
    2
  65. @Z J Like Emma Watson and Robert DeNiro.
    2
  66.  @steveclayborn3351  What is there to think through? Hollywood is a die-hard left-wing bastion.
    2
  67. The CIA had nothing to do with most of Eastern Europe collapsing. Take it up with the USSR (Russia) that cut off your funding.
    2
  68. Only thanks to subsidies from the rest of India. Just like Serbia in the old Yugoslavia.
    1
  69. Judging by their track records, indeed.
    1
  70.  @arturoescorcia  Not all socialists are communists (case in point: Nicolas Maduro), but all communists are socialists.
    1
  71. LOL Sure, communism/socialism is the right system. How did that work out for: China North Korea Vietnam Laos Cuba Zimbabwe Somalia Ethiopia Madagascar Ghana Congo Angola Tanzania Romania Albania Bulgaria Hungary Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia (East) Germany Poland Grenada Guyana Nicaragua Cambodia Benin Mongolia India ?
    1
  72. Just like how you failed to mention all of the successful private businesses Venezuela seized and shut down in the process of making itself a one-trick pony economy.
    1
  73. Cuba.
    1
  74. Have to? Foreign interference have nothing to do with price controls these countries voluntarily imposed themselves.
    1
  75.  @wolfgangamadeusmozart4569  That's because the government seized all the industries and killed off the middle class responsible for the funding of of said social programs.
    1
  76. That's largely due to less content and lower development costs (and production values).
    1
  77.  @nvcool1  All because they were too weak to go against Japan.
    1
  78.  @vladimirlenin9120  Wrong, the private sector hardly exists anymore. Venezuela is a functionally socialist country.
    1
  79.  @romeoramirez4980  True.
    1
  80.  @luiz918  Like Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, etc.
    1
  81. Except its enforcers and the well-connected.
    1
  82.  @SlashinatorZ  Nearly all of which have been seized by the government. Socialism/communism in practice.
    1
  83. Or every other socialist regime once the domestic production base is killed off.
    1
  84. Meh. Gaddafi had it coming. He funded terrorist groups in neighboring African countries.
    1
  85. ROFL
    1
  86. That's because all the homeless in the USSR were either jailed or dead.
    1
  87.  @comradeboris167  But humans are not insects. And even the insect colonies have hierarchies.
    1
  88.  @comradeboris167  LOL. Sure the collective cares about me. That is until I hold an idea/opinion in conflict with theirs.
    1
  89. It is socialism. State-controlled economy is its cornerstone.
    1
  90. Exactly.
    1
  91.  @seanbattersby7361  Yes it does.
    1
  92. He's the Supreme Leader.
    1
  93. But you'll be economically and politically 2nd rate just like your former colonizers Spain and Portugal.
    1
  94. So is Laos.
    1
  95. Take that up with the franchise owners and state legislatures.
    1
  96. Exactly. Plus, Marx grew up in the upper class and seldom worked a day in his life as an adult.
    1
  97. Namely between the Kim Jong-Un government and everyone else.
    1
  98. Especially Americans.
    1
  99. But Mongolia was built by the USSR.
    1
  100. But that didn't last as the oil prices dropped and Da Silva and Rousseff got exposed.
    1
  101.  @annonymous1508  LOL. The USSR collapsed. China adopted capitalism to spare itself the fate of its neighbors. Ditto for Vietnam who trades with capitalist America. North Korea is a Chinese client buffer state who only exist to keep America via South Korea at bay. Laos? Another Chinese client state.
    1
  102. Communism earned it bad rep. Plus, Marx came from the bourgeoisie and lived like a lumpen-proletariat while Engels was a business-owning capitalist.
    1
  103. Dependent on oil, because Chavez and Maduro seized and shut down most of the private businesses therefore nothing to fall back on should oil prices drop significantly.
    1
  104.  @derrickchannel1  No it's not. Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
    1
  105. Pretty much.
    1
  106. That's the consequence of losing the war. The losers are always at the winners' mercy.
    1
  107. Because NK chose to close itself off from the rest of the world. And China props it up so to maintain a buffer between itself and US-supported SK.
    1
  108. How about a better idea? Why don't you go talk to people and/or descendants of people who risked their lives to flee from communism? Socialists and anarchists cannot tell you anything as many are just privileged and naive Westerners.
    1
  109.  @justathought973  Wrong! This is communism and socialism. Capitalism doesn't do power-centralization.
    1
  110. It is inherent in communism. This is in line with Marx's call to make "a new kind of man." Communism = collectivism = brutal suppression of the individual required.
    1
  111. Judging by all the labor camps, mass genocides, cult of personalities, famines, state Atheism, etc. both of them left in their wakes, there's hardly any difference. Soviet Union China North Korea Vietnam Cambodia (insert Eastern European country here) Venezuela Nicaragua Guyana Ethiopia Zimbabwe Benin Congo - Brazzeville Angola Mozambique (East) Germany Cuba Laos
    1
  112. They love democracy. As long as it goes their way. When it doesn't, see Trump's presidency.
    1
  113. Not exactly. Lenin was every bit a POS that Stalin was. It's just that he didn't live long enough to carry out his tyranny further. The USSR still would have been badly off.
    1
  114.  @xenahx685  Africa already did socialism to rather unflattering results.
    1
  115. It goes to show that amidst the socialist/communist chaos, capitalism thrives.
    1
  116. Typical tankie response. The USSR collapsed on its own.
    1
  117. Because even the socialism that Marx advocated called for a centralized power committee to oversee his "utopia" along with the wholesale killing of "the bourgeoisie" and any and everything individual to bring about "a whole new man."
    1
  118. And yet under Khrushchev, the USSR prospered.
    1
  119. Just like Cambodia.
    1
  120. Including the greed of communists themselves.
    1
  121. While you're too stupid and cowardly to go live in Cuba. No, not as a tourist or a socialite, but as a citizen.
    1
  122. You, still. If socialism/communism is so great, how come you don't live there already?
    1
  123. Until the US and Soviet aid dried up.
    1
  124. Trump isn't even on Nicolas Maduro's level of cruelty let alone Kim Jong-Un's.
    1
  125. It's to promote digital currency where the government controls you through your finances.
    1
  126. I have that game for the WiiU. LOL
    1
  127. No more than Lenin and Mao did.
    1
  128. Better than Marxist propaganda against capitalism.
    1
  129.  @LosgehtsFCB  Yet you have no problem with Russian/Chinese/North Korean government propaganda?
    1
  130.  @joesmith8701  Angola was 2nd world as it allied with the USSR.
    1
  131. Like socialist Venezuela and totalitarian communist North Korea?
    1
  132. And in the end, she will be a total bust-down that even the most thirstiest of men wouldn't want.
    1
  133. Rigged elections. That's how other socialists like Robert Mugabe and Daniel Ortega managed to stay in power for a long time.
    1
  134.  @gustavoc.621  In your propaganda bubble.
    1
  135. Just ask any Cuban.
    1
  136.  @hircine92h  Mismanagement, incompetence and corruption.
    1
  137.  @JatVik  Benin Mozambique Angola Nicaragua Guyana any Eastern European country Tanzania Ghana Congo Madagascar Laos China Grenada
    1
  138.  @shinoasada2216  Mostly owned by Party members and relatives.
    1
  139.  @TonyEnglandUK  Who adopted capitalism to get out of the gutter Mao put China in.
    1
  140.  @TonyEnglandUK  Oh yes he did which is why Deng had to do away with a lot of his policies.
    1
  141. No. It would have imploded anyway.
    1
  142. <And it's not like Lenin was responsible for the holidomer or anything. He was definitely going for that egalitarian society.> But he was responsible for Red Terror and the introduction of the gulag along with seizing property rightfully owned by the peasants.
    1
  143. Both ran by Marxists.
    1
  144. LOL. Like post-socialist Somalia?
    1
  145.  @alaen2  LOL. Capitalism is natural.
    1
  146. Better than the pro-communist propaganda you're used to.
    1
  147.  Eisenschmidt Proton  Pretty much.
    1
  148. Ethiopia under communism was the poster boy for famine. One of the many results that communism have consistently produced when applied properly.
    1
  149. Like in Pol Pot's Cambodia?
    1
  150. Which is nothing as humans ultimately need to have a purpose for being.
    1
  151. Like Somalia?
    1
  152.  @xenahx685  It has.
    1
  153.  @SeriousCupOfTea  Poor comparison. Actually, America was once a UK colony.
    1
  154. No. Communism was "ruined" from the start. All Stalin did was pick up where Lenin left off.
    1
  155. <Social programs and socialist policies are great, because they empower people;> Social programs =/= socialism. Plus, social programs and socialist policies don't empower anyone but the government as it actually enslaves people enabling dependency and laziness.
    1
  156. The modern-day West.
    1
  157. Nuclear power earned its rejection.
    1
  158.  @hobbitbilbo7255  Since when did Scandinavian countries have state-controlled economies?
    1
  159. Ever been to Vancouver's DTES (Downtown East Side)?
    1
  160. Including the greed of communism's advocates and practitioners.
    1
  161.  @123dan165  Thanks to Deng's free-market reforms and Clinton's outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs.
    1
  162. A Muslim.
    1
  163. No. He's more Pol Pot than Hitler.
    1
  164. In communism, people = government bureaucrats. The average ordinary people are little importance.
    1
  165. Chernobyl was a PR disaster for the Soviet government.
    1
  166.  @SincerelyFromStephen  Thanks to high oil prices. Just like Hugo Chavez who was fortunate enough to die before his model unraveled.
    1
  167. How is the US trying to starve them? North Korea can't produce enough food to feed its people due to the oh-so-typically socialist policy of forced collective farming.
    1
  168. While seizing and shutting down private enterprise.
    1
  169. Maybe in your neck of the woods.
    1
  170. And where are those "better" humans going to come from?
    1
  171. Free doesn't exist. The schools, hospitals, etc. have to be established and maintained with high taxes.
    1
  172.  @somebodyonce5976  Capitalism is natural. Supply and demand is natural.
    1
  173.  @animegamingdude  Exactly.
    1
  174. If communism is so great, why aren't you risking your life to go live in North Korea or Cuba or even Venezuela?
    1
  175.  @rijkersmith3241  It was Russia forcibly annexing the other 13 nations against their will to achieve socialism.
    1
  176.  @Darium147  Or post-Tito Yugoslavia.
    1
  177. And his own delusions of grandeur.
    1
  178. LOL @ Marx and Engels being "true" humanists. Marx came from the upper class and lived like a welfare queen. And Engels was a business-owning capitalist exploiter.
    1
  179.  @SverdlovYakov  No you don't. Especially if "misbehave."
    1
  180. Lenin just had the fortune of dying before he could take his cruelty further.
    1
  181. And is strict on immigration and citizenship.
    1
  182.  @xenahx685  Do you know what it is?
    1
  183. To add to the latter: Mass starvation (often state-imposed) forced labor State Atheism citizens getting treated like illegal immigrants as there's no freedom of movement
    1
  184. Or you would be working a side job to supplement your meager state wages like in Cuba.
    1
  185. Blackrock has nothing on them.
    1
  186. While the ones who did care for the people end up getting ousted by them once the money ran out to fund their free stuff with.
    1
  187. In the case of North Koreans, it's state-imposed.
    1
  188. And human nature is lazy, unambitious, envious and want government or some other centralized power to take care of them for life?
    1
  189.  @xenahx685  LOL
    1
  190. And royalites.
    1
  191. Nepotism and communism goes hand in hand. Cuba is more or less the same way.
    1
  192. You know the Soviet Union was every bit as imperialist as America is, right?
    1
  193. But sure know how to pander to "disadvantaged" groups for votes.
    1
  194. Only for the workers to run it into the ground due to mismanagement and general lack of organizational savvy/acumen/know-how.
    1
  195. No. It was executed correctly. Red Terror was one of its results.
    1
  196.  @a.p3877  Namely everyone who isn't friends or relatives of the regime. Contrary to communist rhetoric, communism has rich and poor.
    1
  197.  @a.p3877  <Under communism everyone gets the same, yes its not the best, but atleast youre not homeless, > In other words, everyone gets to suffer the same while the government gets all the good stuff.
    1
  198.  @ragreff5603  As if communism doesn't do that with government bureaucrats being the bosses.
    1
  199.  @liammcshane7985  Courtesy of the government. .
    1
  200. Lenin was not any better.
    1
  201.  @Red_Angel-dw4cv  LOL. No it couldn't. And any system dependent on people to be "fair and square" is pretty much dead on arrival.
    1
  202.  @SeaDemon25  No. The private sector is barely functional in Venezuela.
    1
  203. Only because of government subsidies. When that ran out, so did the Kibbutz.
    1
  204. And certainly not without capitalism to prop it up even by Marx and Lenin's own admission.
    1
  205. A socialist utopia that people are risking their lives to flee.
    1
  206.  @mathgasm8484  Ordinary middle-class people are millionaires? LOL
    1
  207.  @Anshuwuuu  Communism is trash as it's based on envy and covetousness.
    1
  208. South America got balkanized largely on its own due to the egos of its founders and heroes.
    1
  209. Communism is bad and you don't need to have been taught from early childhood to figure that out. There's a solid amount of immigrants who fled the communism of their home countries who can attest.
    1
  210. @ Matthew Jones In South Africa and Venezuela, those civilians are the majority.
    1
  211.  @chinpan4359  Wrong! And Sweden hasn't done socialism since the 1970's when it went all but completely bankrupt.
    1
  212. It's even worse than Venezuela.
    1
  213.  @torrecillas999  Crime.
    1
  214.  @exoels  Thanks to capitalist reforms undertaken by Deng.
    1
  215. Cambodia says HI!
    1
  216.  @Proxyyy825  <the reforms Gorbachev did> Because the existing model was not sustainable and it started to to become too evident to ignore.
    1
  217. Following losing the Afghanistan War.
    1
  218. @ Robert Suhren And as with the case of all socialist/communist countries, it requires indoctrination and violent suppression of individual freedom.
    1
  219. When China cuts off the aid.
    1
  220. Communism and democracy are enemies of each other.
    1
  221.  @mathisnotforthefaintofheart  Every other time communism implemented democracy, it was the final nail in the coffin for communism and the regime.
    1
  222. And both WW's.
    1
  223.  @LincolnintheAdirondacks  Actually, Canada's minimum wage varies by province as they are set by the provinces. In Quebec, the minimum wage is $12.
    1
  224.  @aidouii  Nah. Blame Harper. It happened at the tail end of his reign.
    1
  225. And apparently, consumers prefer the $60 base game + pay more for extras model over paying more upfront for the full experience.
    1
  226. Meh. Trotsky was even more of a nutjob.
    1
  227. Well, it takes money to make money.
    1
  228. Neither Switzerland or Sweden are democratic socialist but capitalist welfare states. Plus, Sweden hasn't done socialism since the 1970's when the economy collapsed.
    1
  229. Not really.
    1
  230.  @SeriousCupOfTea  And both offspring of socialism.
    1
  231. But he's a relic of the old Soviet regime.
    1
  232. Actually, they take orders from Cuba.
    1
  233. Soviet Union vs. China Vietnam vs. Cambodia Soviet Union vs. Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania Exactly.
    1
  234.  Z'Q  Canada and Scandinavia are capitalist welfare states. And by the way, Scandinavia has private healthcare.
    1
  235. Namely when the USD was in the crapper. The late 2000's early 2010's.
    1
  236. Transnistria is not a country.
    1
  237. You already did that with Maduro years ago. And now, Venezuelans are running to Trinidad & Tobago of all places for food.
    1
  238. That was not the average price of a PS1 game then. You must have bought them at a discount or at the very tail end of its life-cycle.
    1
  239.  @LapisMinecraft  Hardly. Africa is yet another prime example of socialist failure.
    1
  240. Cambodia says HI!
    1
  241. Saudi Arabia doesn't need tourists.
    1
  242. Same here. The US of A and Jamaica.
    1
  243. Simple. America is not responsible for the (outdated and/or failed) economic policies that African countries chose to adopt.
    1
  244. Yes. The US has the world's largest middle class.
    1
  245. Also: Romania Yugoslavia Hungary Bulgaria Albania Ethiopia Somalia Tanzania Mozambique Zimbabwe Benin Venezuela Mongolia Madagascar
    1
  246. Propped up by China serving as a buffer between China and pro-US South Korea.
    1
  247. Except Australians and Brazilians.
    1
  248.  @lovynil  And how did that work out for Somalia?
    1
  249. Not only that but also last longer.
    1
  250. LOL. Only thanks to borrowed money.
    1
  251. Do you have a centrally planned economy?
    1
  252. Steam price =/= standard price.
    1
  253. Plus, no one in Afghanistan recognized the communist government in charge as legitimate, not even their Soviet backers.
    1
  254. And the West in general.
    1
  255. China adopted capitalist reforms. Ditto for Vietnam.
    1
  256. And live there as citizens, not as tourists.
    1
  257. LOL.
    1
  258. <If the world population is reduced to 500 million then it would be a perfect place to be as long as it's not going up again> No it wouldn't. And communism didn't work even in places where overpopulation wasn't a problem such as Cambodia and North Korea.
    1
  259. And what happens when those robots break down and die?
    1
  260.  @xavierrajda933  Pretty much.
    1
  261. Mines are: McDonald's, Wendy's, Subway, Burger King and Domino's Pizza.
    1
  262. Namely by the USSR and their Eastern European puppets.
    1
  263. SJW's and feminazis are useful idiots to communists. It's just that in North Korea, they serve no useful purpose.
    1
  264. North Korea gets its food from China. The sanctions are of little consequence.
    1
  265. If atheists want to see what the world without religion would be like, they can look no further than North Korea.
    1
  266. Marx = upper-class grifter. Engels = bourgeoisie business-owner.
    1
  267.  @snake922  Fascism is a communist idea just like social democracy.
    1
  268.  @fatpenguin7736  And would have turned into Somalia due to that lack of hierarchy.
    1
  269. Anarchy? Like in post-socialist Somalia? LOL
    1
  270. Um. The only sanctions those innocent civilians are suffering from are that of the North Korean government. Foreign countries have no obligation to do business with countries they disagree with.
    1
  271. No they don't.
    1
  272. It figures when he was part of the ruling class.
    1
  273. And dependent on bigger countries for military protection.
    1
  274. Even if there was, few commie-sympathizers would want to live in it anyway. They're too communist to live like the average person subject to it.
    1
  275. And how many more people have to needlessly suffer and die before this communism is achieved?
    1
  276. Not me. I would not want to live in a disaster-prone locale.
    1
  277. Propped up by the rest of India.
    1
  278. But internal turmoil did it in.
    1
  279. Video game prices started rising in Canada at the beginning of 2014. Harper was the PM. I remember when it went from $60 to $65-75. It didn't become $80 until 2016-2017.
    1
  280.  @januaryborn8976  Public is codeword for government. And virtually all socialist countries have public ownership of the means of production.
    1
  281. Communist China adopted capitalist reforms. North Korea is on life-support living off of Chinese aid. Ditto for Laos. Vietnam? See China. Cuba? US remittances and food aid. So much for sanctions holding it back.
    1
  282. Talk is cheap. Stalin was an evil dictator in practice.
    1
  283. Maduro is only popular with the poor and illiterate.
    1
  284. Thanks to the their love for bureaucracy.
    1
  285. Russia hardly had any blacks to begin with.
    1
  286. Unethical, unjust and immoral.
    1
  287. The sanctions were for the nukes. North Korea is yet another reaffirmation of what Margaret Thatcher said about socialism with it running out of Soviet and Chinese money and now is just surviving thanks to the US, China, South Korea and Japan.
    1
  288. Why would the UN do that? The Kims have done much better job of starving the country on their own.
    1
  289. No. The Venezuelan military seizes and destroys them at the border.
    1
  290. Mostly in the form of the black market.
    1
  291.  @abc64pan  Exactly.
    1
  292.  @aquirkymooncake1988  Or if they do admit to it being real communism, they'll blame CIA/US/western sabotage for why it failed.
    1
  293. LOL. Really? So you're saying that before agriculture, we were naturally lazy?
    1
  294. @Mr.Beant Which is what? Playing PS5 games all day?
    1
  295. Don't forget not being legally allowed to move within the country treated like an illegal immigrant.
    1
  296. Exactly. Either that or it hasn't been tried in places like the US or England. So far, the only places that communism has been tried were places that were developmentally backwards. Namely Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In other words,tried by the wrong kind of people.
    1
  297.  @sidnazz5951  Until the money runs out. Just ask Venezuela or Nauru how that worked out.
    1
  298. That's because he runs the show. He doesn't live like the average North Korean.
    1
  299. @ SoyuzNkk A better place for who? The political elite?
    1
  300. @ SoyuzNkk That better place is not going to exist as long as people can think for themselves and act on it in ways that take advantage of others for personal gain. Humans are not going to do just anything if they don't receive some kind of personal benefit. Communism doesn't work, because in essence, it's based on a rather naively optimistic view of humanity which even Karl Marx admitted and advocated its violent suppression to bring about a "new breed of man." That better place, funnily enough, have always resulted in its supporters getting jailed, killed and exiled once they found out that they were expendable.
    1
  301. For what? So the communists can become the new "capitalist" oppressors?
    1
  302. Yet no jobs and the average Cuban monthly salary is $40/month at best.
    1
  303. Neither would local oligarchs and elites.
    1
  304. As in people rendered useless and just existing for the sake of it.
    1
  305. LOL. Stop being naive. In communism, the state is the aristocracy And good luck on being there if you're not friends or relatives of the state.
    1
  306. Namely between the Chinese Communist Party lackeys and the average Chinese person.
    1
  307. Communism made fascism.
    1
  308. AH YES! Anarchy. In a world that proven time after time that when left to their own devices, humans are incapable of self-governance.
    1
  309. Like Haiti, West Africa and Latin America in general?
    1
  310. Pretty much.
    1
  311.  @dlew223  Exactly.
    1
  312. The Soviet Union was communism in practice. It had virtually everything Marx advocated.
    1
  313. Run by descendants of the old communist guard responsible for running those countries into the ground pre-Soviet collapse.
    1
  314.  @AngelINTheMatrix  Yet you have no problem buying a bunch of NK government propaganda.
    1
  315.  @gabk4583  Muslims and Marxists are mutual allies.
    1
  316. Under the guise of social justice.
    1
  317. Socialism doesn't work in practice. It didn't work even in places the West left alone if not actually supported like Tanzania and Somalia.
    1
  318. How come Iran isn't suffering nearly as badly and it's under the very same sanctions?
    1
  319. Mostly Muslims and communists.
    1
  320. Marx refused to work for a living opting to live off of his uncle and Engels, a business-owner.
    1
  321.  @OFFONE  Namely the left-wing media.
    1
  322. It's probably because you're part of the ruling elite and well-connected.
    1
  323.  @seanbattersby7361  Mostly old folks who either worked for or received favors from the regime.
    1
  324. LOL
    1
  325. Social democracy.
    1
  326. Communism earned its demonization.
    1
  327. He has nothing on Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
    1
  328. Yet the results were still the same. Tyranny, economic stagnation and collapse, etc.
    1
  329. Only after Deng implemented capitalist economic reforms to save it from collapse and Clinton shipped out all the American manufacturing jobs there.
    1
  330. Hardly. Africa has been socialist for most of its post-colonial history. Remember Benin, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Ghana, Tanzania and to a lesser extent post-Mandela South Africa?
    1
  331. Only because China adopted capitalism during the Deng years. Sanders didn't make it out of the primaries. By the way, the year was 2016.
    1
  332. Like Lee Kwan Yew?
    1
  333.  @rompevuevitos222  Wrong! Capitalism did that.
    1
  334. Singapore has one-party rule.
    1
  335. Meh. Standard autocrat behavior.
    1
  336. Yet Venezuela has to import oil, because its own refineries are useless due to mismanagement and neglect.
    1
  337. No. Sweden had to undergo free-market reforms after socialism left it near-bankrupt in the 1970's.
    1
  338.  @SlashinatorZ  Like Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general? Hardly any right-wingers there.
    1
  339.  @SlashinatorZ  The same Goldman Sachs that Democrat politicians have the most shares in?
    1
  340.  @soulfreaz  Maybe not, but they have every right to buy it as it's their hard-earned money paying for it. Who are you exactly to decide how they should spend their money?
    1
  341.  @animegamingdude  Any why anyone with some skills and aspirations for better want nothing to do with socialism/communism risking their lives to flee it.
    1
  342.  @mehdihatami3391  Senators have no real power. That would be the Governor.
    1
  343. Hardly. North Korea went from being Russia's dog to China's. China is the reason NK still even exist.
    1
  344. Namely the local business-owners, the skilled personnel who ran the oil industry before Chavez and Maduro ran them out.
    1
  345. India tried socialism once.
    1
  346.  @stoiccrane4259  No more than people all too happy to sacrifice their health to said toxic companies for the sake of convenience.
    1
  347. The only country that has anything close to one is Singapore established by Lee Kuan Yew.
    1
  348. LOL.
    1
  349. Pretty much.
    1
  350. Communism cannot provide any of the basics in an adequate let alone sustainable manner.
    1
  351.  @snake922  Outside threats are not a valid excuse for inside tyranny and ineptitude.
    1
  352. Communism = anti-God, anti-family, anti-individuality/individual
    1
  353. Like the local revolutionaries wouldn't have done the same, no outside help needed, like Robert Mugabe and Forbes Burnham.
    1
  354. Yeah! As a government stooge. Of course communism worked well for you!
    1
  355. Video game prices have been rising since the beginning of 2014, long before Trudeau got elected.
    1
  356. It was, one export notwithstanding.
    1
  357. Define right power.
    1
  358. Like what Somalia had after 1991?
    1
  359. No millionaires except the communist top-brass themselves.
    1
  360. Communism invented fascism. Benito Mussolini, the original fascist, was a card-carrying communist.
    1
  361. They don't have food, because the food supply is state-owned.
    1
  362. But done in by its own delusions of grandeur.
    1
  363. Or non-Americans who had the misfortune of having to live under communism/socialism.
    1
  364. See: any US ghetto.
    1
  365. You mean Gorbachev as he granted the former Bloc political freedom and independence. <I prefer living in USSR or DDR> Most likely because you were a regime loyalist.
    1
  366. New Zealand is a country in the middle of nowhere. You're probably also paying for however much it costs to get the games in the country.
    1
  367. Do those other countries have (de facto) one-party rule and centrally-planned economies?
    1
  368. @ MyMLGshoe The same traditional Soviet communism that produced the Red terror, militant atheism and the original personality cult in the form of Lenin?
    1
  369. Namely Spain and Portugal.
    1
  370. The only authoritarians that prioritize the people first are the ones that prioritize economic development.
    1
  371.  @strafniki1080  But they were less efficient and productive. But that company can seize it should you "get out of line."
    1
  372. As a result of the command economy being no longer viable and public property too costly to maintain.
    1
  373.  @ragreff5603  You know that in capitalism, you're free to start your own business, right? It's not capitalism's fault that you're lazy and ignorant. That's because you have less than a quarter of the responsibilities of your manager.
    1
  374.  @gdlghdghslghsdghksdghk  Yet produced the same results.
    1
  375.  @Red_Angel-dw4cv  Yes it is. <its not even close to what true communism is> Like Somalia after 1991?
    1
  376. Cambodia had Pol Pot Romania had Nicolae Ceausescu East Germany had Erich Honecker
    1
  377.  @supermouse73  He means Fidel.
    1
  378. Yet they all produced the same results of tyranny, mass starvation, genocide, etc. So whatever differences they may have had are irrelevant.
    1
  379. Socialism is the control of the means of production by government bureaucrats. OOPS! I mean, the workers.
    1
  380. Yes it is un-American as equality doesn't exist and is unjust. Why should the successful and brilliant be punished for the sake of not hurting the feelings of the failed mediocre?
    1
  381.  @treebeardtheent2200  Thanks to government meddling in the form of rent control and lopsided tenancy laws in favor of tenants.
    1
  382.  @chippypills  LOL Stephen Harper was the reason why Canada came out unscathed in the recession.
    1
  383. Namely those that never had to live under it.
    1
  384.  @gcb345  Since when Haiti capitalist?
    1
  385. There's nothing safe or clean about nuclear energy.
    1
  386. They are communist just like the ones that didn't last. It's just that aside from North Korea, they adopted capitalism to keep themselves afloat.
    1
  387.  @napoleonibonaparte7198  It is socialism. Land/resource/property/wealth confiscation is part of what it all stands for.
    1
  388. It failed because it needed free-market capitalism to sustain itself.
    1
  389. Namely by the Kims.
    1
  390. Because capitalism's death toll pales in comparison to communism's.
    1
  391. Whatever fallback plan it had went out the window once Chavez and Maduro started seizing and shutting down the private sector.
    1
  392. Which were?
    1
  393. @ TehFlush That's because their neighbors are either monarchies or capitalists.
    1
  394.  Nazbol Miner  That's not saying much when Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc killed more people than Christianity did.
    1
  395. Iran is a theocracy.
    1
  396.  @diegoperezceleste6016  Because there isn't 10 million people interested in buying it. And no company is going sell its game at a loss.
    1
  397. Just like it was in the past.
    1
  398. Which workers? Ordinary people or government bureaucrats?
    1
  399.  @prashanthraghavendran2628  Pinochet was the reason why Chile didn't become a basket case that Allende, the only democratically elected commie, was hell-bent on doing. The CIA was a blessing in disguise.
    1
  400. Communism could never be great. It's the ideology of naive delusional idealists and opportunistic power-mongers.
    1
  401. And expect more willing to do more.
    1
  402. It is, especially in this day and age.
    1
  403. LOL. Guyana is still one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Natural resources alone =/= wealth.
    1
  404. Who knew that democracy, the same democracy communism/socialism is sworn to require for viability, would be socialism/communism's undoing?
    1
  405. Chernobyl.
    1
  406. Yes it is as democracy spelt the end of Yugoslavia and the USSR.
    1
  407. Russia was always an invader. Remember Ukraine, the Baltics, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Afghanistan and Finland?
    1
  408. Or in the case of the Soviet Union, start eating other people.
    1
  409.  @thatweatherman4411  Yes. With charities.
    1
  410.  @thatweatherman4411  I don't need to name them. You're free to establish one and help the poor at your own expense.
    1
  411. Either start paying more upfront for the "full experience" of get used to the current model.
    1