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

  1.  @afaxmachine5045  But Mugabe was a socialist.
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  2. No they're not as the need grows and donations stagnate or dwindle.
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  3. McDonald's is in the real estate business.
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  4.  @ninamartin1084  Ditto for Japan.
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  5. Zimbabwe is landlocked. What sea is there for them to throw the money out to?
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  6. No. Eastern Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc. are losing population.
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  7. To their own future detriment once they find out the hard way it never was the government's job to take care of them in old age.
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  8. They are. Some having more than other beats everyone (except friends, acquaintances and family of the government) having nothing any day of the week.
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  9. Chavez and Maduro's policies did far more damage than any US sanction.
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  10.  @abs2ray  <you have clearly bought the narrative.> How so? This is how virtually all socialist land reforms play out. And Zimbabwe was no exception. Take from the successful and productive, give to political loyalists and those not up to the task often resulting in production declines, shortages, eventual famine and having to import. <As for Venezuela they were crushed due to their popular socialist policies which lifted perhaps millions out of poverty into the middle class.> LOL. While destroying the private sector in the process of having to import most of their goods as barely anything was produced locally anymore. Besides, Chavez lifted no one out of poverty. All he just did was throw money at the problem and buy votes. Chavez was popular namely with the poor and illiterate who are easy to get approval from.
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  11. Case in point: the USSR.
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  12. Venezuela = bigger Cuba.
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  13. Zimbabwe was prosperous at the time Mugabe took over.
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  14.  @sxli3340  Cuba is a crumbling skid row masquerading as a country.
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  15. No. The Soviet Union went bankrupt and collapsed.
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  16. Biden has nothing to do with this. 1) Chavez did a much better job of that by firing all the skilled and experienced personnel in favor of political friends. While Venezuela's oil industry was always state-run, it wasn't nearly as mismanaged as it became under Chavez.
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  17. Compassionate socialism or really just perpetual vote-buying?
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  18. Not really.
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  19. At least fascists know to run an economy.
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  20. And many of the poor countries in question already did socialism and still somewhat operate on central planning.
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  21. <Also what nation has as many billionaires as the US?> China.
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  22. <We're inclined towards socialism,> Because you were indoctrinated by your White Liberal overlords. <we're peaceful,> Not according to national crime statistics.
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  23. <Wealth nowadays amounts to natural resources and military might, and maybe Intellectual value if you have neither one of those things.> Which is how the world has always operated more or less since forever.
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  24. I guess it's because iPhones are meant to be the Jack of all trades while the MacBook is a standalone laptop.
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  25. China doesn't do that anymore.
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  26. Not really.
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  27. @Alen D Fair as in whatever benefits whoever become the new ruling class.
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  28. Just ask South Africa.
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  29. Because Russia doesn't have a pension system.
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  30. @Oliver Ridderstolpe Or have a useful job skill.
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  31. Isn't Puerto Rico a US Territory?
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  32. Like in 2014 and 15?
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  33. Not only designed to fail, but also unrepairable.
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  34. The US has this in the form of "eminent domain."
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  35. Very much.
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  36. Russia barely ever had that to begin with.
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  37. Or a tundra in Russia case.
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  38.  @asheru9254  Dying out due to 50+ years of Marxist social conditioning.
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  39. Due to feminism, Marxism and being too prosperous for its own good.
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  40. Exactly. Along with Bhutan, Nepal and Ethiopia.
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  41. No. They opted for career and lifestyle convenience over children and future.
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  42. How come Iran didn't get destroyed?
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  43. Venezuela collapsed 3 years before any sanction was imposed.
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  44. <The only way any country to succeed is to have competent nationalistic governments that genuinely care for their own people. > That doesn't really exist. Just competent nationalist governments maybe, but not ones that genuinely care for their own people unless it's to feed their egos and power-hunger.
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  45. LOL. It was only a tragedy to those who either worked for or received favors from the regime.
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  46. You mean Lenin as the kulaks were victims of his Red Terror campaigns.
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  47.  @carlossaraiva8213  The only immigration Russia gets is from the ex-Soviet Bloc Central Asian countries.
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  48. Exactly.
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  49. Marxists and SJW's are just using the people for their own selfish ends.
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  50. And drug-traffickers are executed.
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