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  1. No. Blame rent control and government over-regulation that made Air BnB a thing.
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  2. With the government's permission and approval.
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  3. But in Argentina's case, the common people happily voted for it. Endless welfare. Fiscal sustainability be damned!
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  4. @クリンジー And watch the country go bankrupt due to a lack of tax revenue.
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  5. Exactly.
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  6.  @mucharejo1guacharacas915  No. God first. Everything else second.
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  7. Pretty much.
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  8.  @oasis5683  Venezuelan mismanagement.
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  9. But governments are not stopping it because real estate makes up a good portion of the country's GDP plus they're making money from property taxes, high land values, taxes on housing sales, building permit fees, etc.
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  10.  @kingericson490  Like much of Europe, France lives off of US military largesse.
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  11. Rent control enables Air BnB.
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  12.  Ben Ghazi  This is communism as Karl Marx, an atheist, advocated to bring about "a new man" by wholesale suppression of the individual including his belief in God.
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  13.  PerryViolin  Pretty much.
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  14.  @AH1-sr3bh  But China is no less a colonizer than France. Just ask a Tibetan.
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  15.  @refilweleburu9982  Poverty doesn't cause gullibility. Greed does. The greed to live the easy life.
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  16.  @andrew_owens7680  Short-term rentals being a thing because the governments they voted for made long-term rentals not worth maintaining.
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  17. Not the people protesting who happen to be public-sector workers, welfare-recipients and activists.
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  18.  @wiryantirta  Singapore/Japan: "First time?"
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  19. That's been the legacy of every country ran by Marxists.
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  20. No. We are struggling because we don't know how to live within our means.
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  21.  @SM-ce1uy  And the legacy of communism lives on.
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  22. Because only the rich and privileged could travel.
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  23.  @user-nm1lf6wj3z  Not really. That's of little consequence.
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  24. Because the older generations pissed it all away living the comfortable but unsustainable life.
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  25. Yes they can. They're strong and independent now.
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  26. <the host society should accept the international people with international language instead of forcing them to learn the local language.> For what? Most of the locals don't speak the "international language." And people will be dealing with them a lot.
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  27. Only to be subservient to Russia?
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  28.  mohammed aidara  No. Thanks to the evil Chavista government that destroyed domestic industry reducing Venezuela to being a one-trick pony economy.
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  29.  @georgesikimeti2184  Not really as most of those fellow citizens will just piss it all away and end up right back at square one.
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  30. Vanity, pride and ego.
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  31. <When you tax the rich higher taxes, that money could help provide a livelihood for these poor people.> That is until the money runs out and there are no more rich people to tax. And then what?
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  32. But the French had to go, though.
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  33.  Ben Ghazi  The Kibbutz hardly exist anymore as they abandoned socialism for capitalism.
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  34. Pretty much.
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  35. Exactly.
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  36.  @_-_kevin13905  But India was much poorer before having to rely on foreign aid to feed itself.
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  37. Starting with you. After all, you're richer than the homeless beggars you pass by.
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  38. Venezuela killed off all of its other industries to prop up the oil one.
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  39. <People keep blaming communism because they have been brainwashed by the propeganda.> No. People keep blaming communism, because suppression of religion is what communism have consistently done once it establishes itself as the only game in town like Albania with its banning of religion, the Soviet Union with militant Atheism , etc. What China is doing is just par for the communist course.
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  40. Very much.
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  41. He was the one who allowed Whites to keep the land and wealth despite sharing the same Marxist views as Mugabe who went ahead and took the land and wealth away from Whites.
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  42. The US sanctions started in 2017.
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  43.  @davidz3879  But Japan is disintegrating.
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  44. Exactly.
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  45.  @helenpauls1496  <it’s a choice. > Until you get fired from your job or "canceled" if you dare speak out against it.
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  46. LOL. All skinfolk are not kinfolk.
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  47. It's 9-9-6. Not 5.
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  48. It looks like Tanzania hasn't fully let go of Julius Nyerere's way of doing things.
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  49. It is bad. There's a reason why the Baltics got out as son as they could.
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  50. Because the national government allowed them to. Don't you just love investor immigration?
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  51.  @SFPhilo  And Canada.
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  52. No. And not even close. She migrated to Germany by choice.
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  53. Air BnB wouldn't need to exist if landlords were legally allowed to charge what needs to be charged to maintain a long-term rental.
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  54. LOL. The USSR would like a word with you on that.
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  55.  @vawsonsfurniture  Because you're taking land away from one who knows how to work it and produce something out of it while giving to the other who either don't know or don't care to resulting in that land going to waste due to mismanagement and negligence. And in many countries including Zimbabwe that did exactly that, the results were production declines, shortages and eventual famine.
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  56. I feel sorry for America under Biden.
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  57.  @user-dn3fn3bg4l  And all of them socialists. Don't forget Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha (Albania is the only country in the world that ever banned religion) and Vietnam (a currently state-Atheist communist country)
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  58. Hardly. A lot of the rest condemned themselves to a life of struggle with their instant gratification and inability to manage finances.
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  59. <whilst others are starving to death.> Due to bad food policies of others' local governments.
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  60.  Broskisnowski  And replace them with who? The people themselves are every bit as corrupt.
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  61. Juan Domingo Peron.
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  62. But in all fairness, Lesotho needs South Africa for its survival.
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  63. Fewer people who work and produce and too many people in need of social assistance.
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  64. 2:49 Dos Santos may be gone, but as long as the party he co-founded and led is still in charge, you can pretty much forget about change.
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  65. Working-class Chinese have just entered the chat after finishing their 9-9-6.
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  66.  @prototype6663  LOL. Who exactly wanted the union to stay besides ethnic Russians?
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  67.  @GKP999  The average person is every bit as greedy. Household debt is a thing for a reason.
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  68. All at the expense of average New Yorkers.
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  69. Rest in peace.
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  70.  @samanthaw4955  Because Venezuela destroyed its own local industry and overly depended on outsiders to sustain itself making it farly easy to sanction.
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  71. <Her people are so full of love and happiness.> Not really.
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  72.  @thematic3893  So have Russia and China.
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  73.  @sunkem6417  The US doesn't need to sabotage anything. Venezuela has done a much better job of that through mismanagement and ineptitude.
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  74. The rich save and invest. The poor spend all they have.
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  75. LOL. India maybe. But South Africa got them both beat on inequality and crime.
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  76.  @Omni0404  Step your defense budget up.
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  77.  @margin606  Like they did in 2015. And France eventually repealed the tax-the-rich policy.
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  78. ,< which is why government needs to regulate and penalize this practice.> They already did that. And these are the results. Renovictions, properties sold off to corporations as ordinary owners are driven out, fewer rentals available let alone affordable.
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  79. Like North Korea.
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  80. Exactly.
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  81. Limited economy, high taxes, etc.
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  82. Because women's sports don't generate as much revenue or fanfare and men's sports do. And athletically, women are barely as talented as a high-school boy.
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  83. Your resources that you can't even manage.
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  84. Thanks to greedy governments and their restrictions on supply and production.
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  85.  @nvelsen1975  Also overspending.
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  86. Actually, no. And freedom is destructive when given to ignorant and foolish people.
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  87. And the people are used to doing as they're told by the government in exchange for peace and security.
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  88. Communism and fascism are from the same socialist family tree.
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  89. Not as terrible as pride.
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  90.  @Innocenttazlet  Plus, city-dwellers are not legally allowed by city by-law to set up personal gardens.
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  91.  @putinisbiden8588  In exchange for subjugation to left-wing politics that made India a backwater from 1947 to 1992.
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  92.  @himanshusingh5214  Exactly. In Canada, a doctor would have to be re-trained as foreign credentials are not recognized.
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  93.  @henrihoya6349  Are you an apologist?
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  94. Socialism is great as long as you're the one in charge, not the one subject to it.
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  95. My province in Canada, Quebec, tried that last month only to back down when the few thousand workers they were short by due to the mandates proved way too much to bear.
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  96.  @eljefemaximo5420  And that would be?
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  97.  @dool1002  Portugal already have that.
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  98.  @m.r4841  LOL. No. This is about power consolidation.
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  99.  @magdalenamezydlo1271  All because the Angolan government controls the wealth.
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  100. Anti-imperialist or really Russian-imperialist?
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  101. And then you wonder why some countries have a household debt problem. The US for all of its consumerism is not in the top 10.
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  102.  @4Fox_Shake  Thanks to the whites and coloureds still around.
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  103. Or make more native babies.
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  104.  @anikaitlakhotia8187  Many of those countries you named are racially and ethnically homogeneous by and large. And Canada? There are some First Nations folks who would like a word with you on that.
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  105. No. Thanks to the Portuguese government.
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  106. Actually under Biden.
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  107. No. Bad government policies that restrict new supply and production is what's hurting housing.
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  108. By giving land to those who either don't know or don't care to know how to make good use of it?
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  109. Which only results in 0% vacancies and higher rents on whatever isn't capped.
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  110.  @shawnbell6392  Namely those who work in the industry.
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  111. <If you don't come up with the money you don't get the care.> Actually yes you do. <Healthcare is not a business. Tell that to the German government.
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  112. Whatever!
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  113.  @scottscouter1065  Just ask Puerto Rico.
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  114.  @sunshynff  You know Venezuela has been under sanctions only since 2017, right? Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement.
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  115.  @brybryguy6314  And is just living off of German largesse.
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  116.  @Andrea962nd  But the Canary Islands don't have much else going for it besides tourism to sustain itself.
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  117.  @0130wallace  Or Zimbabwe and South Africa. Both ran by the left.
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  118.  @turbocharge2512  Before 1993, India was in this group.
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  119.  @moa3605  Many African leaders lived out their last days in a foreign hospital despite having had plenty to establish a healthcare system when they ruled. Dos Santos, Mobutu, Mugabe, Toure, Amin, etc.
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  120. What kind of revolution? If it's a socialist one, it's already there.
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  121.  @robb1324  You already did that in 2015. What happened to that?
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  122. Namely Germans.
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  123. No it shouldn't especially in the city where most people tend to move a lot.
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  124.  @Wizreader2828  Most as in those who don't live in the capital.
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  125.  @ministryoftruth1451  Yet they swear they're self-reliant.
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  126. Because your immigration laws allowed them to.
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  127.  @JitzyJT  India got set back by its adoption of socialism post-independence.
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  128.  @njandrews4105  Like the Uyghurs.
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  129. <You have less young people to support the old.> Which is a product of the old foregoing having children in favor of career and lifestyle during their working years.
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  130. How so? Especially when people from developing countries are voluntarily going to developed countries for opportunities.
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  131. Greece ran out of German people's money.
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  132. Too bad communism only benefits the wealthy as well. Namely the political elites.
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  133. No it isn't. Not all countries are dependent on tourism to pay their bills.
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  134. No. That would be Father God.
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  135.  @stormssf8538  Where the state lives in luxury and everyone else live in squalor like Cuba? Eh, no thanks!
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  136.  @stormssf8538  Shortages of basic needs are a feature in every other country that adopted communism/socialism.
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  137. Spanish colonialism, that is.
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  138. Portugal is under socialist leadership.
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  139. And you can tax the rich only so much.
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  140. Like North Korea?
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  141. They already did. The real problem problem is the Argentine political establishment refusing to change their ways because they fear public backlash more than the future of the country.
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  142. Yet have no problem praying to the Supreme Leader, Winnie The Pooh.
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  143.  @user-ov5nd1fb7s  Welfare states have a way of doing that.
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  144. Venezuela was never particularly capitalist.
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  145.  @netiturtle  Not really. This is the same Russia that once had to import grain because it ran into shortages locally.
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  146. That's not a viable long-term solution. Plus, there are not that many rich to begin with and inevitably the middle class and anyone unfortunate enough to own anything of value through years of saving and hard work will be targeted.
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  147.  @milesinnz  Pretty much. And also they're not interested in the history of places that actually did what they're calling for.
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  148. Religion is not the reason for Sudan's current crisis.
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  149. Plus, socialist nations also have rich and poor.
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  150.  @manjelos  Namely Maduro, the Chavez family and Chavista loyalists.
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  151. They already did that tax-the-rich routine in 2015. Only to scrap it when they lost too many of their best and brightest.
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  152. And in turn create shortages.
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  153.  @MrDgo4life  And how are those public hospitals working out for Venezuela?
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  154.  @crazyjackfr  Because of immigrants, not the native French.
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  155. But at least those essential workers will still have a job in 10 years while someone kicking balls most likely won't.
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  156.  @JonasWilms  And it's an even easier decision to pander to the poor. Economic sustainability be damned! See Greece and Venezuela.
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  157. Due to its pride.
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  158. Namely that imposed by Maduro on his own people.
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  159. By what? Making everyone poor? If so, then the government has already lived up to its socialist name.
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  160. <Why is supply not growing? Are investors not willing to make money?> Government meddling making things time-consuming and costly ensuring that only the richest of the rich can supply.
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  161. Better than socialism and being a prisoner in your own country.
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  162.  @snizami  And make the country poorer in the long run. Taxing "the rich" is not a sustainable solution given how wasteful governments and a lot of average people are.
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  163. At future generations' expense.
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  164. Socialism did Greece in.
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  165.  @johney3734  Tell that to the people of Gibraltar.
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  166. No. It's due to political greed and overspending while killing local productivity.
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  167.  @andrevanas85  Like Zimbabwe.
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  168. Miami is in North America.
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  169. That's on the Portuguese government.
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  170.  @SimbaM2kufu  Only 6% of Puerto Ricans even want independence to begin with. And it doesn't help that 51% of the population depend on social assistance from Washington.
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  171. @Tim Turko No. Venezuela needs a change in government and model, because the current socialist one does not work.
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  172.  @henryang8103  There is no such thing as a common good in a democracy where most people vote for their own personal benefit, society and treasury be damned!
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  173.  @keterscp1064  Iif it wasn't for EU membership, Spain would have been on par with its Latin American colonies.
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  174. Sisi? I thought it was Morsi.
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  175. And the country had a woman in charge at the time.
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  176. Its economic reform was capitalist due to Deng.
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  177. High taxes have a weird way of protecting the rich and big business.
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  178. But governments and some locals need that foreign investment.
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  179.  @neverlookback1244  Italy and Spain are among the PIIGS.
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  180. Thank your government for that.
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  181. Exactly.
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  182. @calmMusic Not really. Learn the language of the land or find somewhere else to live and work in.
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  183.  @lewis123417  Exactly.
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  184. Fascism is socialism as well. Peru just ousted one communist for another communist.
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  185.  @rebeccahenderson7761  Follow your own advice.
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  186. LOL. Yes they should and too F---ing bad for Egypt. Let Ethiopia enjoy its dam in peace.
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  187. Sri Lanka is not the EU or USA's problem. Why don't they ask China for help? OH WAIT! They already did with the loans. Who knew that the help wasn't free?
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  188. But there's barely anything capitalist about Portugal, though.
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  189.  @matiasgomez9340  LOL. Nice joke, comrade!
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  190. You have a far-left government in charge now.
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  191.  @hellomycating  First abolish rent control that enabled their existence.
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  192. Pretty much. And they went bankrupt because they couldn't afford the easy life that had to be paid for by debt and German taxpayers to compensate for the lack of local industry.
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  193. With approval of the Portuguese government.
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  194.  @roybatty6857  Also welfare states.
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  195. Extreme rents due to government restrictions on supply while artificially propping demand through lax immigration laws.
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  196.  @nebraskannationalist6363  How do you do that in a one-party state?
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  197.  @prototype6663  If so, then why did Russia have to forcibly annex them?
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  198.  @robb1324  I'm willing to bet a lot of them live beyond their means. Never mind the high taxes.
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  199. Does Sweden, France, UK, Ireland, etc. ring a bell?
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  200. The rich save and (especially) invest while the poor spend all they have.
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  201.  @tslee8236  Lisbon is where all the jobs and opportunities are.
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  202.  @saratemp790  It does not compare to the real thing.
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  203. The Canary Islands don't the land mass or expertise for anything else.
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  204.  @JerzyFeliksKlein  If so, then how did he get replaced with another leftist?
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  205.  @julesjules5439  But Cuba is still very much a command economy.
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  206.  @alexandrucioarec6554  Like a true leftist.
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  207.  @roybatty6857  Or how many of those people sacrificed children and future for career and lifestyle?
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  208.  @captainpawpawchannel  But it was during WW2.
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  209.  @giljimbere6719  <Angola is a capitalist state, where people are allowed to be rich, > Only if you're a foreigner or a government official.
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  210. Originally, it was supposed to be a temporary measure.
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  211. What good? And fascists are from the same family tree as communists.
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  212. But Greece is dealing with the fallout of socialist rule.
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  213. They were thought out with the people of France in mind. Namely to win votes. Sustainability be damned!
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  214. France did taxing the rich years ago with Hollande to negative results.
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  215. The EU was formed precisely because individually the US could easily swallow them up.
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  216. Just 25 years ago it was a vassal to the USSR.
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  217. Exactly. Austerity is the inevitable consequence of economic mismanagement.
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  218.  @nevarran  <They are usually given to some corporation that starts raking in billions in profit while giving pennies to the country and the people.> Better that than give it to the government that will do the same exact thing. Case in point: Venezuela. At least when they didn't mismanage the oil industry.
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  219. What's the point of life if all you do is party and BS?
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  220. Before WW2, income tax didn't exist.
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  221.  @RandomGuy9  Would that be because women are in no position to take a bullet themselves?
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  222. Badly.
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  223. But Greece brought it upon itself with its unsustainable low retirement age and bloated benefits that required outside money to fund it because Greece's economy wasn't big enough to support it.
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  224. That's even less sustainable in the long run even if forced labor is imposed.
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  225. But the current model is just not sustainable.
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  226.  @lg206  <Tourists have an ethical responsibility to also advocate for locals.> No they don't. Locals need to take the issue up with their own government.
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  227.  @batrachian149  Communist.
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  228.  @seanthe100  Exactly. And also, Canada was never anything more than a stepping stone to get into the US.
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  229.  @matthewbaynham6286  But that is negated by fewer jobs and opportunities and a depressed economy.
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  230. But in turn men are to be obeyed and honored.
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  231. <tax billionaires 99% on their pandemic gains> Thanks to government lockdowns on the competition deeming them "non-essential."
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  232. At the expense of the people and the national treasury.
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  233. Would that also include atheism?
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  234.  @Vanessa-ii7cc  To compensate for the lack of competitive domestic industry.
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  235. Greece's birth rate been going down well before this.
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  236.  @stationtavern8527  Because they need the US for their own survival.
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  237.  @scottdavis3571  They pay the most taxes in real numbers.
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  238.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  But in real hard numbers.
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  239. Indeed.
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  240.  @Asadullohs  Not so much that, but you have to have people (often men with weapons and/or brute physical strength) to uphold and enforce your claims.
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  241. Why? Those "greedy" investors are the reason any new housing is even built at all.
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  242. Those people are in the minority, though.
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  243. The people themselves are part of the problem.
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  244.  @denisgorjunov  <Communism and socialism are the future of mankind.> Yeah! Tyranny, economic ruin and civil war. Like every other attempt in the past barring reform. USSR China Vietnam Cambodia India North Korea Mongolia Romania Hungary Bulgaria Poland Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Albania Germany Cuba Guyana Venezuela Nicaragua Tanzania Ethiopia Somalia Madagascar Benin Ghana Angola Equatorial Guinea Zimbabwe Mozambique Congo-Brazzaville Argentina Greece Jamaica Examples of countries that didn't have to be socialist/communist to get destroyed by such via policy and leadership.
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  245. Actually there isn't a shortage of for-the-people politicians. The problem is that those are the kinds of politicians who lead countries to unrest and bankruptcy unless major reforms are implemented for their popular but woefully short-sighted policies. See Argentina and Greece for examples.
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  246. Maybe, but that's for him to decide. Not you.
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  247. FRELIMO is backed by Russia.
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  248. Eastern Europe has every valid reason to hate Russia.
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  249. No. This is the fallout of Greece's living beyond its means for decades under far-left leadership.
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  250. Theocrats and communists get along very well.
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  251. LOL
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  252. Not exactly.
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  253. @Ched Sj Yes there is. It's just that in socialism, government bureaucrat = worker. So does Brazil and Nigeria.
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  254.  @livelaughlovingthroughlife  Um. No it's not.
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  255. @Ched Sj I'm referring to who owns the means of production in Venezuela. That would be the government bureaucrats. Classless, my ****! Socialism always had classes. Namely the political elite and every one else. 1% vs. 99% in real-life application.
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  256. LOL. Only 33% of Canadians voted for Trudeau..
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  257. Which benefits the elite and enemies of the West.
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  258. Better than rampant socialism that made Kenya's neighbor, Somalia, a failed state.
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  259. Saudi Arabia pales in comparison to every socialist/communist regime that ever existed.
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  260.  @thewho5786  And they mismanaged the oil industry, decimated the local economy with "free money," never mind the fact that Venezuela barely had much of a private sector to begin with.
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  261.  Pronto  Or Argentina. Unable to implement any much-needed reforms because the government fears unrest and ouster.
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  262. The US tells the UN what to do, because the US pays the UN's bills.
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  263. <Europeans could work 5 days a week like they did in DDR,> Too bad it didn't last just like its communist model.
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  264. <Is lack of good education> Not in Sweden's case.
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  265.  @fairuzmaileen5691  Compassion and empathy were exactly why Sweden turned into a no-go zone. Open borders and soft on crime. It's a crime what the left did to that country.
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  266. The US executes actual murderers. China mostly executes anyone who dare disagree with the government.
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  267.  @Lwena  The same system that just isn't sustainable. And no, taxing the rich is not going to solve the problem unless you don't mind a stunted economy. You mean future workers footing the bill as current pensioners sacrificed family and future for career and lifestyle during their working years. Hence the low birthrates and the need for mass immigration to compensate for the babies that didn't get born to fund their pensions.
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  268. Austerity is necessary due to decades of left-wing fiscal mismanagement and irresponsibility.
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  269. Austerity is necessary due to decades of left-wing fiscal mismanagement and irresponsibility that the people voted for.
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  270.  @GIedits-vf7re  Due to their own self-indulgence.
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  271. <Perpetual growth is not sustainable and doesn’t make sense. > Better than perpetual stagnation and regression that socialism is known for.
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  272. How can it be when the people are hardly allowed to think for themselves?
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  273. Meh. Most of them voted for it.
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  274. @Richard ASMR English and Dutch are not Latin languages.
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  275.  @twilightstar9973  The WEF.
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  276. You misspelled socialism. And socialism is the reason for Greece's current situation no longer having Germany's money to live off of to pay for its early retirement.
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  277. So, ethnics have no right to autonomy and independence?
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  278. LOL.
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  279. It's not like they were having families anyway when they lived the "good" life at Germany's expense for decades.
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  280.  @TheRapLiker  Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
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  281. LOL. China doesn't have free elections. It is a collectivist totalitarian regime where people are educated to obey and conform. Never mind the culture that values social obedience at all costs.
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  282.  @innocentgoitseone3715  Vietnam ditched French for English.
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  283. Because the rich invest while the poor spend all they have.
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  284. What's so capitalist about high taxes, lavish nut unsustainable social welfare and bureaucracy?
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  285. Germany is no stranger to dictatorships as it had Nazism and the GDR.
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  286.  @ProjectExMachina  It is as the descendants, beneficiaries and ex-members are the leaders in Eastern Europe.
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  287. No. Air BnB is the result of government over-regulation in the housing market.
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  288.  @agustincrispin9421  <In the communist the state dont exist> Like Somalia.
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  289. And end up like Greece with no economy or workforce to sustain it.
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  290. No. The prices being too high is due to government inflation and taxes.
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  291.  @XRPSwan  What's so capitalist about Venezuela? Chavez and Maduro destroyed private enterprise and in turn Venezuela's ability to support itself relying on imports that they can no longer afford because the Bolivar is worthless and the oil industry collapsed not to mention they blew the revenues on buying votes as opposed to infrastructure upkeep.
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  292. Agreed.
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  293. That was the price they paid to have the US rebuild the country after WW2.
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  294.  @MrSteadfast  Shame on you for not having a brain. Why should the rich share their hard-earned money with the poor given that many of the poor will squander that money and return to being broke and hungry in 6 months? Handouts just enable poverty.
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  295.  @madsam0320  There's only so much empathy a person can feel. At some point in time, a person is going to have to wise up and realize it's not worth the time and resources to help those who are lost causes and move on.
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  296.  @Anthrax6989  Exactly.
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  297. No. Learn German or go elsewhere.
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  298.  @davidjacobs8558  Because first you have to purge the government and the model. And second, you have to the people of dependency and helplessness from their hearts and minds.
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  299. Who's we? And Venezuela is far from overpopulated.
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  300. The Spanish government are left-wing.
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  301. The President of China is a billionaire.
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  302. Greece is paying the price for living beyond its means for decades under left-wing uber-socialist governance. Conservative governance is long overdue.
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  303. Why should they? Sri Lanka brought this upon itself. And taking a loan from China didn't do itself any favors.
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  304.  @testicle3182  That's because they have no choice. Otherwise they or their loved ones might get disappeared. Plus, they don't want to mess up their social credit score.
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  305. Wrong! This is state-run healthcare running its natural course.
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  306. Since the much-needed equipment and medicine are held up at the border, that's on Maduro.
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  307. The consequences of voting left.
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  308. It figures why they want him silenced.
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  309.  @duancoviero9759  <Foreign INVESTORS are the biggest reason for the increase in prices. > What about the government regulations and restrictions that jacked up the land values and other costs ensuring that only the richest of the rich can afford to build and own housing?
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  310. That's just English Canada. Quebec doesn't have that kind of problem.
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  311. Not really.
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  312. And have Portugal look like Detroit with all the decay and blight?
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  313. Socialism (both fascism and communism) = atheism.
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  314. But they do work as a power grab.
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  315. Because they sacrificed family and future for career and lifestyle.
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  316. <Companies don't have enough workers because they refuse to raise salaries.> And they refuse to raise salaries, because that = higher operating costs and payroll tax to pay. <Meanwhile, these companies increase their earnings every year and board members raise their salaries all the time. The issue is corporate greed, as in all countries> Most people don't work for corporations. They work for small and mid-level business.
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  317.  @xoanwahn  <which means less money in the pockets of shareholders and board members to spend on their yachts. Poor things. > No. Which means more automation, more layoffs, more people on the dole who were once taxpayers, more debt, borrowing and higher taxes on other workers to make up for that lost tax base.
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  318. Germany can longer support its social welfare state for the poor as it ran out of cheap Russian gas and its industries are getting trounced by China's.
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  319. It's just a small price to pay to live in the big city.
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  320. No. Austerity is the consequence of government mismanagement of finances and nationalization.
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  321.  @drunkensailor112  Or Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan.
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  322. That was the price to pay for letting the US rebuild their countries after WW2.
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  323. LOL
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  324. Wrong country. That's Saudi Arabia.
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  325. LOL. The Security is beholden to the government.
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  326. Who will end up being tomorrow's oppressors.
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  327. <Not because of wages. But because of the greedy energy company's...> Most of which are government-run. <The most expensive energy provider in the UK is owed by a German company!!! Like I said, Germany don't care about people suffering. They only care about money > And apparently neither do the UK as it rather beg another country for energy than produce its own.
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  328. You mean Chinese loans.
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  329. Actually it's underpopulation. Germany has too many old people and they have to be replaced at some point.
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  330. The EU is running out of other people's money, namely the productive to support an ever-burgeoning of people "in need."
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  331.  @SaudiHaramco  But this ain't it, chief!
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  332. All the way to the unemployment line.
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  333. He allowed White to keep the land and wealth in hopes to prevent a civil war. And as Marxist as he was, he wasn't trying to see South Africa become another Zimbabwe.
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  334.  @ShayNoMore1  The party in power is communist by origin.
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  335. And become another Zimbabwe. No thanks!
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  336. In a lot of cases, Atheists worship themselves.
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  337. No. It's shortage because of Venezuela's inhumane nationalization of the economy.
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  338.  You Tube  And your solutions are genocide and destitution?
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  339. Due to those same old pensioners sacrificing the country's future finances for instant gratification during their working years.
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  340. Tax the rich doesn't mean what you think it means.
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  341. @Dill China doesn't have the world's largest population anymore. That's India now,
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  342.  @viciadoEmMMA  <The current situation is perplexing, as individuals with lower incomes often dwell on the outskirts of the city while enduring lengthy commutes ranging from 30 to 50 minutes to reach their downtown workplaces. Unfortunately, their earnings often fall below expected levels, necessitating shared living arrangements or cohabitation with their parents.> That's pretty much every other city in the world. Paris has this.
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  343. The same government that is more or less a reflection of themselves. Greedy, self-indulgent and short-sighted.
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  344. Like Russian puppet states don't?
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  345. What do they have to do with Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka got its loans from China.
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  346. No it can't. And inevitably the middle and poor class will suffer once they become the rich by default.
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  347. I thought Canada was against private healthcare.
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  348. Okay. Now do something about China, North Korea, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Cuba, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Russia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Angola, Vietnam, Laos, etc.
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  349. Iran has little on North Korea. At least the average Iranian is free to leave while the average North Korea risks having self and loved ones jailed and/re executed if they dare do the same.
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  350. As in meet the new boss. Same as the old one.
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  351. You know she got released, right? In exchange for the 2 Canadians sitting in a Chinese jail.
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  352. They're too spoiled for that.
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  353. Who would have thought that socialists would be the biggest capitalists around?
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  354.  @redacted2354  Are you sure?
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  355. <Honestly 30 years is still a short time to fix a civilization > Yet somehow Singapore and South Korea managed to go from poor to rich during that time. Ditto for Botswana.
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  356.  @zeanu2015  You forgot to mention the 10's of millions of hundred-thousandaires that make up the majority of the middle class.
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  357. How do you do that in Venezuela where farming is illegal and it has a water shortage issue?
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  358. Freedom and security cannot co-exist. It's either one or the other.
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  359. No. The Castros have done a much better job at breaking Cuba.
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  360. Maybe so, but even the poorest of capitalist countries have little problem feeding themselves.
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  361. @Teeeheeeteeheee LOL.
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  362. Scandinavia = capitalist welfare state. South Africa is run by the ANC showing its true colors and returning to its Marxist roots as the party was founded by some Soviet __ and was backed by the USSR during the Apartheid years.
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  363. Blame the Portuguese government.
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  364. Just like the Baltics.
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  365. No more than Russia is.
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  366. <China is reaping the benefit and building up Afghanistans infrastructure> Only to claim ownership once Afghanistan is unable to repay the debt just like Sri Lanka.
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  367.  @thelostcosmonaut5555  <housing crisis or ecological disasters brought on by corporate greed> Enabled and facilitated by government greed.
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  368.  @argiberico  And foreign investment.
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  369. Because what they really want is what the old USSR had.
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  370. The rich have nothing to be ashamed of.
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  371.  @KarlSnarks  Okay, grifter!
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  372. No we don't. And the government will just become the landlord in the landlord's place.
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  373. The beliefs of the Khmer Rouge weren't insane. It was just standard communist fare.
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  374. Government intervention enabled investment companies as ordinary people got taxed and regulated out of the market leaving them to fill the void.
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  375. Government regulations actually enabled the crisis as investors are the only entities who can afford to build and own property alongside put up with the government's BS.
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  376.  @yt_nh9347  But at least Texas is solvent and can hold its own economically.
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  377. LOL. It does.
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  378. The rich account for at least 70% of all taxes paid.
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  379. No. The EU and the US do not owe Sri Lanka anything.
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  380. Apartheid haven't been a thing since 1993.
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  381. Bhutan doesn't have an over-population problem. Wrong country!
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  382. So you'd much rather further enrich the Cuban regime with the basic necessities not reaching the people anyway?
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  383.  @julesjules5439  Judging by communism's "flattering" 104-year track record, the US is more than justified in vilifying communism. And not all communist societies were under sanctions or externally meddled with.
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  384. Wrong! That would be China.
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  385. The consequence of rent control.
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  386. Except China and North Korea.
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  387. No. The government that granted them visas are the problem.
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  388.  @livelaughlovingthroughlife  Meh. Talk is cheap. The only thing consistent about socialism is the equality part. That is, equality in poverty and misery for the workers and masses.
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  389. China has just entered the chat.
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  390. And a rather so-so one at that.
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  391. Including Atheism as was the case of Cambodia under Pol Pot.
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  392.  @JohnJaneson2449  Too bad they keep voting for politicians who promise them endless welfare at the expense of economic solvency.
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  393. But public servants are largely beholden to politicians.
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  394. Seychelles. And then they voluntarily abandoned it as soon as the 1990's rolled in.
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  395. Like what Venezuela had? Too bad Chavez and Maduro gutted local industry leaving Venezuela with nothing to fall back on should oil prices drop which it did.
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  396.  @magdalenamezydlo1271  And replaced him with Joker Joe.
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  397. America's hospitals have little on Canada's hospitals when it comes to being at the breaking point. More Canadians go to the US than Americans go to Canada for healthcare.
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  398. That's not a sustainable solution. And the last time France taxed the rich, they had to scrap it because too many of their best and brightest left.
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  399. Like in China and North Korea?
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  400. <They charge extortionate rents and make modern cities unlivable for regular people> Due to extortionate land values, taxes and restrictions imposed on them by the government.
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  401.  @jacqueslee2592  <Only in Western capitalist systems that do not believe in work as a right. > Because employers are well within their rights not to hire anyone.
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  402.  @anacc3257  Well, it's about time Argentina moves on from the high taxes, over-regulation, preference for the public sector and endless welfare at all costs model it has operated on for the past 70 years responsible for all the economic crises it suffered during that time and current dismal state of affairs.
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  403.  @thegreatdane3627  Or get disappeared.
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  404. They tried that in 2015 but scrapped the policy when the best and brightest fled en masse.
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  405. The international left at it again blaming the US for their inability to go on their power-trips. Too obvious.
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  406.  @silentstormstudio4782  Yet account for 45% of all taxes paid.
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  407.  @cac1504  Better than the failure of socialism.
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  408. <If Norway joined the EU, there would be benefit.> Not for Norway as it would its oil and fishing industries.
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  409. No. Corruption is not going anywhere.
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  410. LOL. No.
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  411. Who's we? You're in the minority.
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  412.  @russchamberlain8755  Like I said before, you're in the minority.
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  413.  @russchamberlain8755  Why don't YOU go away? America has spoken. Trump won!
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  414. And be a slave to the Kremlin like it was 25 years ago?
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  415.  @rocksmo3384  Not for as long as humans are in charge as humans are corrupt and corruptible.
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  416. <350 years of colonialism coupled with 48 years of apartheid and 27 years of a corrupt ANC can all coexist as legitimate reasons for economic stagnation> No they can't as SA prospered under the Apartheid regime becoming the wealthiest country in the continent.
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  417. Just like atheism is currently ruining the West.
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  418.  @danielcaldwell1110  Yet it's happening under socialist authority.
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  419. @Filipe Who would have though that socialists be some of the biggest capitalists around?
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  420.  @danielcaldwell1110  Austerity is just one of the end results of socialist policy crippling a country's finances. <which consist in austerity, privatization and bailing out banks with the Portuguese tax payers money while giving support to foreign platforms and not developing their own. Yes, it does not sound like Socialism at all.> It sounds like socialism as bailing out banks is not that far off from bailing out any state-run enterprise that have been mismanaged to ruin. And privatization = business run by family, friends and acquaintances of the government. That's how it's done in China and Russia.
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  421.  @ValhallaTwice  This is socialism. Deal with it!
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  422. The police are part of the public sector.
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  423. Cuba needs the US's permission to trade?
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  424. And being put to work.
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  425. Better than the socialism that has ruled Argentina since Peron.
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  426. <Putin is NOT Stalin> Ukraine says otherwise. From the Holodomor to the current war.
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  427. The state-appointed administrators and bureaucrats.
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  428. LOL. FRELIMO is pro-Russia and China.
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  429. Capitalism is the reason China isn't the basket case its neighbors North Korea and Cambodia are.
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  430.  @johnmanole4779  And the Hong Kongers.
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  431.  @lours6993  Because they were scared of her .
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  432. It is. Looks like Germany's public system ran out of other people's money to fund it.
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  433. Pretty much.
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  434. So were wages.
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  435. She's more the Justin Trudeau of Mexico.
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  436. Better than unfettered socialism that made Portugal part of the PIIGS.
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  437. Why should it be given to the poor? A lot of people are poor for a reason and it has nothing to do with the rich.
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  438. Too bad the country that got nuked was an imperial power.
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  439. No. This is the end result of nationalization. Inefficiency and mismanagement.
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  440.  @FredyGomez-xw1ke  Haiti is anything but capitalist.
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  441.  @user-xr4bo3ln6f  And neither does state-owned media like TeleSUR count.
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  442. No one except child-groomers and alphabet folk leaving Florida.
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  443. As practiced by communists.
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  444. 2014.
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  445. Actually women make up 49.53% of Iran's population.
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  446. End central planning first.
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  447. And one of the first Trans-Atlantic slave traders.
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  448. Too many Karines and Jacques.
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  449. 25 years ago its Eastern half was a vassal state of the USSR.
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  450. LOL
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  451.  @Michaelcj-m2d  No. Left = state power. Plus, the government is the ultimate 1%.
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  452. Cambodia already tried that under Pol Pot.
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  453. No. Subsistence farming doesn't feed whole nations.
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  454. Or de-GDR-fied.
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  455.  @lesliespeaker668  Because the Cuban government is full of hubris.
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  456. And watch society regress in the process as women just simply don't have what it takes to pick up where men left off.
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  457.  @Berlina18  <And there are no alternative options in the system.> Because they're outlawed.
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  458. Including Atheism. By the way, religion cannot be banned as there's always going to something being the default.
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  459. The corruption is just political, it's societal.
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  460.  @laughmore1144  Which was caused by decades of democratic socialism and living the good life at the expense of German taxpayers.
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  461.  @alejandranino5547  While socialism is using global warming as an excuse to strip people of their freedom and livelihoods. After all, can't let a good crisis go to waste.
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  462. No. They have nothing on 3rd-world government officials.
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  463. Like Germany's Eastern half once the USSR collapsed.
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  464. And a willing one just like his father was.
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  465. Left-wing populist politics.
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  466. True. But who's willing to be labeled a racist and xenophobe and in turn canceled?
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  467. Fascism and communism.
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  468. While the Chinese Communist Party only cares about power and maintaining good PR.
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  469. While depriving their own citizens of doctors along with supplies, equipment and half-decent infrastructure.
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  470. <Just look at the US.> No. Look at Sweden.
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  471. Capital control.
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  472. Because many of the names listed were leftist donors and voters.
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  473. Like the ex-Soviet bloc?
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  474.  @mooncake387  Not all human beings are worth empathizing with.
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  475. Only for women.
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  476. Nestle doesn't live in Bhutan.
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  477. Communism. In communism, there is no middle class as they are taxed out of existence if not jailed, killed or exiled with their "means of production" confiscated.
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  478. <7. Cash is still king. > What's the problem with that?
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  479. Maybe because the developed countries do a better job of paying their doctors accordingly in a timely manner?
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  480. Like what was done in Albania?
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  481. Neither does Japan, yet Japan doesn't need a totalitarian regime to achieve that.
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  482.  @greebfewatani  And forced abortions. And is the world's #1 human-trafficker.
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  483. Universal healthcare made possible by US largesse. I fear for Scandinavia should the US decide to stop protecting them and Russia invades.
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  484. And oversized government.
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  485.  @drunkensailor112  It is that. Income inequality is a natural result of economic freedom. Argentina is a relatively closed economy.
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  486. Just Ukraine joining the EU.
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  487. Such as who exactly?
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  488. Only to mismanage them into insolvency and the people end up on the unemployment line.
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  489. Part of the reason why countries with universal healthcare have high taxes. To support bureaucrat and administrator salaries.
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  490.  @pika718l  Pretty much.
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  491. But the money has to come from somewhere to pay for the facilities, supplies, equipment, staff, utility bills, maintenance and repairs, etc.
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  492. LOL. Germany is barely capitalist to begin with and a lot more left-wing than you think.
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  493. For what? Blame the PASOK and anyone who voted for them.
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  494. While most poor people have neither money nor sense.
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  495.  @alireact1827  Even its own Founding Fathers opposed democracy.
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  496. <When we are beholden to generate wealth we then lose the simplicity of our societies intellect to connect and learn about other’s culture.> LOL. Take off the rose-tinted glasses. <Tourism isn’t the problem, capitalism is> And the solution is what?
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  497. Germany is too socialist for its own good.
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  498. As a result of your own economic mismanagement.
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  499. Like wet markets and organ-harvesting?
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  500.  @davidgaines9853  Exactly! Socialism doesn't work even in countries that were left alone or were propped up by the West like: Ethiopia, India, Romania, Yugoslavia, Guyana, etc.
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  501. They'll do that when Cuba decides to pay for all the US-built and funded infrastructure Castro seized.
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  502. LOL. Stop being naive. "Progressive" presidents don't care about helping the people nearly as much as they care about staying in power due to their delusions of grandeur. If they truly cared about the people, they would do actual economic development and teach the people how to help themselves so they can take advantage of said economic development as opposed to throwing money at them and keeping them dependent for votes.
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  503. Austerity is the result of economic mismanagement. And Germany just simply can no longer afford its welfare state.
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  504.  @dwarow2508  Neither do higher taxes.
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  505.  @master8127  An economy that just simply cannot support the social payments.
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  506. Wrong country! This is about Venezuela.
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  507.  @akn650  And re-embrace the clutches of Russia.
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  508. AirBnB is a consequence of landlords recouping all the money they're losing on rent control as they're not allowed to raise the rent to keep up with rising property taxes, land values, insurance premiums and mortgages.
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  509. What opportunities does Russia have?
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  510.  @trinleywangmo  But Germany doesn't owe foreigners anything, though.
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  511. Because tourism is what's keeping their locale afloat.
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  512. Most of the housing in Germany is owned by the government.
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  513. Like every other revolution.
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  514. And how's that working out for North Korea?
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  515. No.
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  516.  @julesjules5439  Or people are intentionally ignoring it, because the embargoes hasn't stopped Cuba from getting food aid by the very same US after Cuba destroyed its own capacity to support itself with the seizing of private factories and farms and letting them crumble and go infertile.
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  517. Chinese-backed.
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  518. They also had ritual rapes and human sacrifices.
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  519. How so? Sri Lanka has been bankrupted by far-left China-loving noobs.
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  520.  @rue2003  So?
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  521.  @matiasgomez9340  LOL
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  522. What world? And Greece is dealing with fallout of left-wing mismanagement.
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  523. Because the current regime are their employers.
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  524.  @opencompare  If that ordinary person voted for that politician who implemented said ridiculous policy, he/she should suffer the consequences.
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  525. Well, the tax hikes have done nothing but further stifle the economy.
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  526. I thought it already did that.
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  527. Nope. And you can tax the rich for only so long.
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  528. Did they procreate when the conditions were better?
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  529.  @amandagrant4331  Yes you can. If you can give up Christianity as you had little problem doing, then you can give up workers' unions.
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  530.  @charliefoxtrot1273  LOL
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  531. This is why they insist on socialism having to be democratic.
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  532.  @spydude38  <The alternative is to reduce government spending, which no government wants to do> Neither do their voter base as spending cuts = less social services and public-sector layoffs
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  533. The price to pay for partying and BS-ing on Germany's dime.
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  534. And living "the good life" at Germany's expense.
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  535. Nah. Someone has to work for the benefits of 50-year-old local pensioners.
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  536. Rooted in pride.
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  537. Can't live off of West Africa and the rich forever.
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  538.  @koushikdas1992  Too much welfare.
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  539. Just like it did 25 years ago.
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  540. Not really. Populist Democratic Socialist governments do a much better job of undermining themselves. No CIA needed.
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  541. No. It's Greece having to pay the price for living beyond its means for decades under left-wing leadership.
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  542. <in time of socialism in our country, there had not been homeless people.> Because they would have been either disappeared and banished to the rural area where they cannot embarrass the socialists in charge.
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  543. The same movement too selfish and hedonistic to have kids.
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  544.  @PauloCarnaxide  Not really. Venezuela is social democracy/democratic socialism in practice.
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  545. Like the West where idolatry, hedonism and debauchery reign supreme?
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  546. The family in the video siphoned nothing.
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  547. Why should they? Pakistan is not their problem.
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  548. Falun Gong would like a word with you on that.
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  549. Mismanagement and neglect of the oil industry infrastructure.
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  550. Yet yes slavery to China.
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  551. Yet the hardest-hit States are ran by the left.
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  552. No. That would be Russia and China.
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  553. Namely resource-rich tax havens.
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  554. Because it's not. And Maduro seems to be doing a much better job of killing children and women all by himself. No outside help needed.
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  555. Yes it does. Austerity is the inevitable consequence of economic mismanagement.
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  556. The strong survive, the weak perish.
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  557. It worked for Stalin.
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  558. The people of Greece got what they voted for. Short-term comfortable living, long-term economic misery.
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  559. Better than being a Russian vassal the Eastern part once was.
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  560. Um. No. Not having children is part of why Germany in this mess. Too many old folks and not enough children to replace them.
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  561. The same 700 billion that protects the likes of Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Persian Gulf and Scandinavia.
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  562. Exactly.
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  563. The government's personal bank accounts.
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  564. Just like only the most naive person defends the poor.
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  565.  @AlexM-t6h  Because they don't produce anything worth trading that could generate revenue to buy said spare parts due to the government's repression of local industry.
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  566. And watch it go bankrupt due to mismanagement and incompetence as the workers have little idea how to run a lemonade stand let alone an enterprise, requiring government subsidies.
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  567. Venezuela was already starving before Trump even decided to run for President. Where were you in 2014 when Venezuela ran out of toilet paper of all things?
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  568. What unregulated capitalism? Socialism and left-wing social spending policies are why Greece has to resort to this to get itself back on its feet.
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  569. You mean indoctrinate yourself as the Cuban government has done way more suppressing of Cuban people than the US.
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  570.  @user-jt3dw6vv4x  Canada is even farther away, yet it boasts the most immigrants per capita.
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  571. Germany should have funded its own rebuilding if they don't like being owned by the US.
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  572. And in turn become the default religion.
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  573. With the rich being your slightly better off neighbors, I presume?
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  574. The management as in union reps and workers themselves.
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  575.  @grantjohnston7148  Not in Canada or the US where leftists run the show.
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  576. Too bad that same CIA made Chile and Ghana better off in the long run when they ousted their socialist leaders. (Allende and Nkrumah).
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  577.  @raymondacbot4007  Napoleon was a religion unto himself, though, and became exactly what he fought against like every other revolutionary freedom-fighter.
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  578. It has everything to do with socialism as Chavez killed off private industry in favor of oil. Not really as a capitalist government wouldn't be dumb enough to rely on one industry to feed itself.
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  579. How so?
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  580. No it isn't. And people tasked with the job of providing housing have the right to tell you NO!
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  581. <There has to be a change, leadership by women is what is needed. They should dress as they please without fear of being mistreated and killed.> Yes, but matriarchy is not a viable solution as it is regressive. Choices = consequences. They should dress as they please, but they shouldn't complain about the unwanted attention that invites. Rules and regulations exist for a reason as unchecked freedom = chaos.
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  582. What privateers? Healthcare in Germany is state-run.
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  583. What did you expect from a country that's barely a generation removed from being a communist Soviet vassal state?
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  584. But they get to suffer from malnutrition and die of starvation like the children in communist Ethiopia and USSR did or like the average North Korean.
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  585. LOL. The US barely has to do anything to make Cuba fail. The Cuban government has done a much better job at that by themselves. It's not the US's fault that Cuba killed off the successful and productive and ever since then is hardly able to support itself requiring outside aid including that from the very same US it sneers at. It's not the US's fault that it's illegal for the average Cuban to farm or make an honest living.
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  586. Blame the government. Who granted them Visas to enter?
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  587. Yet Venezuela has the world's highest crime rate and 3rd highest homicide rate. The US barely cracks the top 50 in crime and is not in the top 50 in homicide rate.
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  588.  @arrowpictures2844  How so? I stated that the US is not in Venezuela's league when it comes to homicide and general crime.
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  589. Ideology? Socialism (fascism and communism) killed millions and bankrupted every other country that adopted it in the 20th century.
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  590. Like what Angola has.
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  591.  @yaadav2102  The poster is right.
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  592.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Like Kim Jong-Un in North Korea?
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  593. No. We need more kids. You can piss away your own future at your own expense.
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  594.  @silasou8572  Florida has a lot of cases, but New York is still #1 in deaths.
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  595. Sounds like Greece 2.0. And it was a socialist government that bankrupted Greece.
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  596. And what do you have against hierarchy?
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  597.  @Commentator488  But they all have hierarchy. Not everyone can be at the top of the pecking order.
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  598. Just like anyone who owns anything made in China.
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  599.  @julesjules5439  Not really. Cuba crippled itself for the past 6 decades. It killed off the successful and productive. It doesn't allow the people to start or run businesses. It doesn't allow the people to farm or make an honest living. It can hardly support itself relying on other countries including the very same US it sneers at for basic necessities.
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  600. Rent control doesn't work as it prevents new renters from getting housing.
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  601.  @KabirChattopadhyay1991  According to who? You?
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  602. What Republican greed? The US's housing crisis is mostly situated in Democratic-ruled cities and states.
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  603. Why is it up to "the rich" to build them?
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  604.  @fernando-loula  <Unfortunately the best ideas and most well intentioned projects that concentrate the money and power to produce a better outcome for everyone has simply never worked.> Because they were never viable let alone sustainable to begin with.
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  605. Germany's healthcare system is government-run.
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  606. Just the PCC elite.
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  607. Easy to achieve that in an uber-dictatorship.
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  608.  @amandagrant4331  So do bosses.
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  609. It's controversial because no one wants to seen as racist by advocacy groups, left-wing media and politicians.
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  610. That's the price to pay for preferring security over freedom. If men are obligated to grant women peace, then men have every right to set the terms and conditions under which that peace will be granted with women obligated to respect it or provide that peace by themselves at their own expense.
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  611.  @julesjules5439  Yet in socialist societies, the government is the 1% and everyone else, at least those who are not relatives or friends of the government, are the 99%.
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  612.  @julesjules5439  <Socialism is the only way to liberate the Cuban people from being exploited by multinationals> By subjecting them to exploitation by their own government. <Lift the embargo and allow their economy to prosper.> First drop the command economy. <The US doesn’t want socialist countries to prosper.> So, how did communist Yugoslavia, socialist Somalia and Guyana manage to get US support?
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  613. With the majority of cases and deaths in states ran by Trump-haters.
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  614. Or China. Or North Korea. Or Singapore.
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  615. @Hatsross12 Actually yes they can. Only 11.4% can't.
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  616. Price control does not work. Venezuela already found out the hard way.
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  617.  @lola1987fudgeyouu  <Communism means freedom.> For government officials and their well-connected relatives and friends to subjugate the same masses they so swear they have solidarity with.
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  618. So they can waste it on partying and BS-ing?
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  619. <France is the country of human rights.> And now it's becoming its undoing. <They want to be able to enjoy life and not live to work. There’s enough work for everyone if work time is shared equitably, they just want to distribute the work fairly, and that everyone can work, but also live with free time. It’s just logic and common sense. And only the French seem to really think and have a minimum of empathy for others people.> LOL. They sacrificed family and future for instant gratification and now it's coming back to bite them in the butt. Empathy? What empathy? All I see is self-indulgence.
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  620.  @manhaj_sunnah20300  Equality doesn't exist. And people should be allowed to develop to their fullest potential. So what if some people end up getting left in the dust in the process?
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  621.  @Delilah-zd3em  Asia lives to work. Africa lives to work. This is more a European thing.
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  622. Only to self-indulgent Westerners who sacrificed their futures for instant gratification.
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  623.  @D-E-S_8559  And the easy welfare recipient votes the Democrats need.
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  624.  @moyndebs6759  Actually he does. Gates is eugenicist.
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  625. I don't. They don't realize that reforms are needed unless they don't mind ending up like Greece.
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  626. Due to high taxes and inflation.
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  627.  @kirayamato7320  And what is communism going to accomplish? Government being the winner and everyone else being the loser?
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  628. No. This is the consequence of socialism. France's system has to reform because it ran out of other people's money to tax.
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  629. Italy hasn't shut down the airports yet. That's how.
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  630. Fighting corruption = silencing political rivals.
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  631. Coupled with too many people in need and not enough people working and paying taxes.
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  632. While socialists always blame capitalism for their largely self-inflicted shortcomings and failings.
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  633.  @cemetry  Pretty much.
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  634. But apparently is running out of other people's money to keep it going.
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  635. Just like socialism and social democracy (a socialist idea by the way).
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  636. And then eat each other.
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  637. How the mighty have fallen. Portugal along with Spain were the original Trans-Atlantic Slave-Traders and colonizers.
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  638. Xiaomi does the same thing and is actually HQ'ed in China.
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  639.  @eisteepfirsich3358  Mostly government and public-sector workers.
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  640. The same can be said about ideology including the one Iran's backer, Russia, used to be the face of.
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  641. Now you know how Iranian women feel as they got the Tiananemen Square treatment from the government.
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  642. Because it's illegal for the average Cuban to farm.
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  643. No. The problem is just Western. Too many old people and not enough babies.
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  644. Plus, most of the citizens go to SA for work.
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  645. Portugal was one of the original PIIGS.
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  646. Not according to the Mayor and Prime Minister.
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  647.  @Waverlyduli  Botswana under Seretse Khama. Rwanda under Paul Kagame.
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  648. Austerity is the result of economic mismanagement and living beyond your means leading to insolvency.
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  649. Exactly.
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  650. No. The love of it is.
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  651. Germany is a social democracy. The real problem is too much bureaucracy.
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  652. Mozambique = another country destroyed by post-independence Marxism.
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  653.  @pavonator7147  And Bill Gates.
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  654. Just like Atheism. China is just a modern-day example of it.
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  655. Start your own business.
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  656. Socialists rule Portugal.
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  657. Just like it used to be a Soviet vassal state and imported a lot to compensate for its own lack of local industry.
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  658.  @First-Last_name  The same Shining Path responsible for terrorizing indigenous into supporting them.
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  659.  @user-gt8fw1uz9v  No. Socialism is destroying Venezuela.
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  660.  @AvelierPlays  South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore say HI!
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  661. Even against their will?
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  662. And citizens would much rather starve than accept reforms.
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  663. Because Germany is a sovereign country and has every right to tell outsiders to learn the language of the land or find another country to immigrate to.
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  664.  @vmoses1979  <Why can't people act decently to care for their fellow citizens?> Because they're not fellows? They don't have much in common with each other despite sharing the same ethnicity, nationality and language.
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  665. Including Atheism.
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  666. Not really. It's not happening in Venezuela or Haiti.
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  667. Nuclear power is not that reliable. Russia found out the hard way in the 1980's.
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  668. Like every other socialist.
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  669. Exactly
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  670. Money is second to the head of the CCP.
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  671. No. The cost of living is too high.
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  672.  @shadowwolfkano  Socialist leaders blaming others for their own incompetence moment.
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  673.  @khayalakhemadlala335  Because the ANC actually are and was once backed by the USSR.
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  674. And you better not complain when that results in higher prices and/or reduced services.
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  675.  @NicholasYarde  Dictatorships are worse.
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  676.  @justso8776  And Putin was part of the old USSR guard.
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  677. The same model that allowed Europe to enjoy its welfare state social democracy.
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  678. It figures being a post-socialist hellhole.
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  679. For what?
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  680. Private donations and out of their own pockets.
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  681.  @anjalicgirl  But democracy doesn't work in societies where most of the people are illiterate and only care about instant gratification.
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  682.  @duancoviero9759  In America, building affordable homes is just simply costly and all but completely illegal. Investors have every good reason to seek profit. They paid a fortune just to get a permit to build.
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  683. Not really.
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  684. Exactly.
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  685. Just ask the people of Myanmar.
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  686. Because some people are just full of envy.
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  687. Also Oliver Stone and Danny Glover.
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  688.  @julesjules5439  Actually it is possible as Cuba gets food aid and remittances from the US. And most of Cuba's miseries are due to the government's command economy and mismanagement.
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  689. Or at least improve your financial situation.
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  690. Then they should be exempt from paying taxes. Why should they pay for what you say they shouldn't be allowed to benefit from?
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  691. Exactly.
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  692.  @samanth.  The white population is already reducing through women's rights and homosexuality. No contraception needed.
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  693. Greece was ruined by socialism. This is just the fallout.
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  694. Mugabe and Mandela were praised by the West once.
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  695. Plus fewer immigrants, women for the most part stayed home, etc.
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  696. There is nothing innocent about police officers. They were the regime's enforcers.
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  697. But in Germany, it's government greed bringing about its downfall.
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  698. Or India's post-independence socialist experiment?
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  699. LOL. Canada did the same thing in 2010. Ditto for Brazil in 2014 and 16. Both under far-left socialist leadership.
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  700. They need a new government and a new economic model since obviously the current socialist one is a failure.
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  701. Germans got way too comfortable to make babies.
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  702. Also promoting and encouraging interracial relationships, homosexuality, bachelordom, etc.
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  703. Only to subjugate Zimbabwe even worse then the British colonizers did.
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  704. Because they make money from property taxes.
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  705.  @tnsocialist1257  Austerity wouldn't have been needed if Argentina's economy was solvent and managed decently. This is what happens when you pander to people "in need" with no viable economy to support it having to rely on outside aid and loans.
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  706. How so? It's wither that or accept mass immigration as Greece don't a sufficient amount of young people to keep the country afloat. Never mind the ridiculously low retirement age.
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  707. There's hardly anything laissez-faire about Argentina. Argentina is a country with a bloated public sector and an economy too overtaxed and regulated to reliably support the model.
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  708. Yeah, but there's one problem. Europe is nothing without the US's financial and military largesse that allows it to have its generous welfare system.
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  709. In other words, self-worship. And that's considering how inherently corrupt the human heart is.
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  710. Namely Russia.
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  711. How is the West draining Africa of its human resources when Africans themselves are going out of their own way to migrate to the West?
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  712.  @docmike8601  Would that also include atheism? After all, atheism brought to the world fascism and communism. And you can add secular humanism that has been destroying the West since the 1960's.
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  713. But it's also underdeveloped.
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  714.  @thodawrice  Yet its life expectancy is 72.47 years.
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  715.  @netiturtle  I mean Netiturtle. I was referring to the Soviet era.
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  716. Because they support Russia and Iran as like Russia and Iran, they despise the West. The US especially.
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  717. LOL
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  718. Very much.
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  719. Something to the tune of 87%.
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  720. But Boston's average worker salary is over $67 000 USD which is about $5583.33 per month.
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  721. LOL.
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  722. Just to pay for its welfare state.
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  723. Where arranged marriage is the rule. LOL
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  724. Pride.
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  725. While until very recently in Canada (Quebec namely), child labor was perfectly legal as there were no minimum age requirements for work.
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  726.  @mikasaackerman7711  Exactly.
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  727. But also too liberal for their own good.
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  728. China has state Atheism.
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  729. Fascist = socialist.
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  730. We already have that.
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  731. EU people are just spoiled.
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  732. DW is German government-funded media outlet. The US has nothing to do with it.
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  733. Pretty much.
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  734.  @rustyshackleford5668  They are.
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  735.  @gordonwilkinson5041  A 6-day work week is standard in most of the world.
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  736. No.
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  737.  @livingfinance  <Even in wealthy countries, healthcare sector is one of the gov largest expense.> Due to having too many elderly people.
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  738. <Its not just appartments the same goes for small shops, thatswhy everything is stellarly expensive, because they have to pay the rent> Real estate speculators hurt nothing. That would be the government with its excessive spending and money-printing, mass immigration, heavy-handed taxes and restrictions on business stifling productivity, etc. hurting the economy.
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  739. No. China lied and people died.
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  740. Wrong! Try 11.4%.
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  741. The ANC is a Marxist party. It figures.
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  742. And domestic corruption.
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  743. Exactly.
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  744. How so?
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  745. Their only solution is tax the rich which really means in practice tax anyone successful and productive.
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  746.  @zerotheliger  So? Straight families are the reason why humanity exist at all.
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  747. You mean pay for more public-sector government workers who barely even show up for work at all and their pensions they get to enjoy at 50.
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  748. And let it go to waste because you don't know how to use it?
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  749. Also North Korea, Singapore, Belarus and USA.
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  750.  @G0nxsf  Workers are free to either start their own businesses or find a supposedly less exploitative company to work for.
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  751.  @patrickstar686  Because the managers happen to be workers themselves?
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  752. Like Sweden?
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  753. Only to be subject to another religion in the form of statism.
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  754. Most Americans are home-owners.
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  755.  @D-E-S_8559  LOL. Cuba's healthcare is nowhere near world class.
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  756. The government licks them, because corporations are the reason why they have a tax base to fund the social programs.
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  757. The habits of their parents. Poor children are in no position to carry their own weight.
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  758. Companies buying homes are a consequence of rent control and taxing and regulating ordinary property-owners out of the market.
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  759. And finding themselves on the unemployment line.
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  760. And even greedier governments. Germans paying over 50-plus % of their earnings in taxes.
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  761.  @braxxian  Ditto for Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean.
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  762.  @wessthemess117  How so? Wealthy tourists bring in the amount needed to keep the local afloat.
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  763. That will only happen when the military and police start getting shortchanged. But the military is the last entity you would want in power as it's every bit as oppressive as the government. Just ask the people of Myanmar.
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  764. Yet you're okay with Atheists imposing their beliefs on others like every other communist regime have done since 1917?
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  765. And expect prices to rise to compensate for the wage increase.
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  766. That's not a real problem. People are not equal. Some have more talent, ambition, smarts, etc. than others.
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  767. Exactly. They're just setting themselves up to be another Greece.
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  768.  @m.m.6670  <EVERYONE'S rights and lives need to be protected.> Including criminals and deviants?
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  769. That's the price tom pay for joining it.
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  770.  @pointbleak-3222  Also willing to work 9-9-6.
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  771. Bureaucracy.
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  772. Don't you just high taxes?
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  773. You mean their entitlements regardless of whether or not the country can afford it.
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  774. Due to being the largest private employers in the country responsible for most of the high-paying jobs created and wealth produced.
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  775. Starting with Ahmed Sekou Toure.
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  776.  @hientrinhle6160  That's just setting the bar low.
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  777.  @pariijat  So that society is easier to control as women are no threat to the regime.
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  778. Greece actually has workers?
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  779. And up with neo-Marxism?
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  780. No. Only in Western countries. Who knew that social democracy wasn't sustainable having and attracting too may freeloaders with not enough contributors?
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  781. Nepal is an under-developed basket case.
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  782.  @tivo3720  Because the poster is envious and entitled.
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  783. Which only means higher taxes and less take-home pay.
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  784. Pretty much.
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  785. What destruction? The destruction of the welfare free stuff culture that has plagued Argentina since Peron? It's long overdue.
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  786. Blame the weak men who allowed them to.
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  787. But what has the proletariat done except keep the Eastern half of Germany a wasteland?
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  788. You know that unions and workers make up some 50% of VW's management, right?
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  789. Nah. The problem with democracy is that most people are ignorant and will happily vote for someone who promises them "free" stuff at the expense of the country's future, solvency and their own neighbors' well-being.
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  790.  @eddieBoxer  Because even Russia wants something of value in return for the help.
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  791. I thought that only existed in Saudi Arabia.
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  792. Why? Those seeking to live in Germany need to up their German game.
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  793. Sri Lanka = democratic socialism in practice.
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  794.  @clipz_e495  Social democrats = socialists and communists rebranded.
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  795. First end the Cuban government tyranny on the Cuban people.
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  796. Say HI to inflation and unemployment.
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  797.  @dnomyarnostaw  That is socialism after Chavez and Maduro went on a wholesale nationalizing spree.
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  798.  @Nata-rp6pf  Except in the capital's outskirts.
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  799. Argentina has the wrong kind of European descendants in charge.
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  800. Why is it up to them?
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  801. <the president of venezueala does not want to be an american puppet.> But a Russian/Chinese puppet.
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  802. Not really. The Venezuelan socialist mismanagement did the most damage as Chavez and Maduro seized and shut down private enterprise reducing Venezuela to being an oil-dependent country effectively unable to support itself.
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  803. Better than socialism. State above people.
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  804.  @Iqranurr  America has nothing on Honduras.
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  805. So do Saudi Arabia and UAE.
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  806. Case in point: the West.
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  807. Like North Korea?
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  808. In all fairness, Greece doesn't have much else going for it economically.
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  809. They're of little consequence as Chavez and Maduro did the most damage.
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  810. All at the expense of the private sector both bosses and workers alike.
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  811. Living in the big city and tourist hotspot in general is expensive.
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  812. The country with the 2nd highest crime rate in the world? LOL
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  813.  @XblazeoneXxxxxxxx  Which is why in Canada, they all but completely legalized MAID. That is, medically assisted death.
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  814. But France is well past the point of no return on women's rights.
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  815. South Africa is prime example of why voting is to be a privilege and not a right.
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  816.  @mistergeopolitics4456  No they need the Cuban government to abandon the command economy. And all lifting the sanctions is going to do is further enrich the regime.
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  817.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  Question: can anyone recall a time when welfare states or better yet any country that prided itself in being socialist had open borders?
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  818. But Germany is barely even capitalist to begin with.
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  819.  @julesjules5439  No. It's the Cuban government preventing them from getting the basic necessities as they refuse US aid.
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  820. Only for that money to become worthless and inevitably you're going to have to work just so you don't starve.
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  821. <.and no, socialist is not communist.> Yet the results are more of the less the same. See Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
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  822. Including the ultimate property-owner, the government.
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  823. And in Germany's case, it ran out of Russia's cheap oil.
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  824. US law is irrelevant in Iran.
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  825. Social democracy is just simply not sustainable.
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  826.  @ChrisTheCringe  LOL.
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  827.  @francisdec1615  No they don't as that money will eventually run out.
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  828. The US has a social safety net and it's more extensive than even the biggest welfare state in Europe.
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  829. How about make Maduro reinstate free market economy?
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  830. But South Korea is in the same boat as Japan. Too many old people and not enough young people to replace them.
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  831. No. Just Venezuelan mismanagement.
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  832. <and when the USSR sent troops there at the request of the Afghan government, > A communist government that no one in Afghanistan, not even the USSR recognized as legitimate.
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  833. Boluarte and her predecessor are both Marxist.
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  834. Why should the rich share with the common person? The rich owe no one except maybe whoever they do business with anything.
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  835. Fixing the problems caused by socialism. Greece was part of the PIIGS for a reason.
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  836. Better than the Soviet vassal state it once was. At least the Eastern half.
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  837. Like the Chavez family.
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  838. <If we can have one world government where everyone can have access to each other without feeling any threats.> LOL. The only one world government you're most likely going to get is just a global version of of what China and Iran currently have.
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  839. With most of those factories owned and operated by friends and family of CCP elites.
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  840. They didn't have children when they lived the good life at Germany's expense.
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  841. And then Juan Domingo Peron came along.
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  842. < It's the same party who bankrupted the state more than a decade ago.> Wrong! It was PASOK, a left-wing party, responsible for Greece's meltdown in 2011. Greece wasn't part of the PIIGS for no reason.
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  843. In response to locals foregoing having children in favor of career and lifestyle thinking they'll forever be 30.
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  844. Because apparently, women cannot protect themselves.
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  845. So are Equatorial Guinea and Angola.
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  846. And make everyone poor in the long run.
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  847.  @Madraxoo  Yet Ethiopia under Mengistu wasn't under sanctions. Neither was Tanzania under Nyerere, yet their economies struggled anyway. Venezuela already hit rock-bottom before any sanction was imposed. North Korea regressed well before the sanctions even with all the Soviet and Chinese help.
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  848. But the water is polluted.
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  849. Exactly.
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  850. They're not legally allowed to complain. LOL
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  851. LOL. There is no freedom in being at the mercy of others for your transportation needs. And this is coming from a public transit user.
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  852. Greece set itself up for that. It's just a small price to pay for the easy life it wanted to enjoy at someone else's expense as it didn't have the means to support it on its own.
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  853. Collectivism in general is oppressive.
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  854. <Example= CHIN to JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA to SINGAPUR , UAE to UK, SWEDEN to SWITZERLAND, germany to france here is peace because here is low child birth rate, thank you.> And now, China is suffering a demographic collapse due to its one-child policy (which got scrapped in 2017) fallout.
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  855. Democrats are even more anti-democracy.
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  856. And toil the fields until you drop dead like the workers in Cambodia under Pol Pot.
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  857.  @zireael5756  French Guiana is nothing to write home about. And the only people living well there are the French mainlanders and those employed by the space industry all subsidized by France.
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  858. Well, the ANC are just rediscovering their Marxist roots.
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  859.  @mariembalo3076  France has disproportionately more old people.
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  860.  Ian from FNQ  Or degrade his social credit score.
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  861. Not as bad as far-left nationalism does. Just ask Venezuela.
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  862. No. Venezuela doesn't have a housing crisis.
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  863.  @m.r4841  Only for tyrants.
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  864.  @m.r4841  LOL.
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  865.  @TheFrenchscot  Well, social democracy is expensive to maintain.
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  866.  @IvarDaigon  <But the reality is that they are.. corporations want to have all of the rights of a human but not pay the same income tax rate as humans. > Yet in real numbers they still pay more than their fair share and then some. The 1% account for at least 70% of all taxes paid.
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  867. It worked for India and the Philippines.
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  868. West vs. Iran, Russia and China.
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  869. LOL.
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  870. Plus, most of their constituents and voters are home-owners.
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  871. While disintegrating with their far-left policies.
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  872. No. No person is worth venerating like that except God.
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  873.  @citizen4321  Sad to see you're blinded by your envy.
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  874. Government is the last entity you would want controlling housing given their stellar track record for shortages and mismanagement.
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  875. According to bitter folks.
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  876. But there are not that many foreign home purchasers to begin with. So however much you can get from them through taxes are minimal at best.
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  877. And not enough young people to pay for said retirees' pensions hence the raising of the retirement age.
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  878. <Think of the lives they could have changed with their money.> They owe those lives nothing.
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  879. It's just the Cuban government and their cheerleaders that blame the US.
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  880. That the people happily voted for sacrificing long-term sustainability for short-term easy living on Germany's dime.
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  881. No they shouldn't. Their existence is justified given how corrupt and wasteful (big) government is.
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  882. How so? It's not like the Greeks bothered to have families when times were good and only had to be 50 to collect pension.
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  883. His party was the reason the regime got into power in the first place. Remember Jimmy Carter?
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  884. Well, it's better than the communism that bankrupted them.
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  885. <Money is of no use if theres nothing to buy.> Just ask the average Romanian during the last years of Ceausescu's rule.
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  886. Maybe so, but that's not a valid excuse for mismanagement, corruption and incompetence.
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  887. Rent control = 0% vacancy rates and eventually higher rents. <Forced higher than minimum wage for hotel workers (and probably higher minimum wage in general).> Resulting in higher operating costs and overall retail prices for goods and services. Also, layoffs, reduced staff and hours and higher unemployment.
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  888. Easy to achieve that in a totalitarian regime.
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  889. For much of Africa and Latin America, they resent the West.
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  890. Yes blame the one in Havana. <Lift the embargo, end the sanctions> And further enrich the regime as they control everything that enters?
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  891. Meh. Argentina brought it upon itself with socialism and the inherent fiscal mismanagement that followed.
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  892. Better than the bloody nasty communism it had a generation ago.
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  893. Military coup.
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  894. Well, these are the consequences of having the left run a country for too long. The free ride is over. Time to pay the piper!
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  895. No. This is what happens when you kill off private enterprise and rely on one industry and a rather shaky one at that to stay afloat.
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  896. Like Teodoro Nguema?
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  897. The police are employed and compensated by the government.
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  898.  @nvmtt  Still beats socialism and autocracy/kleptocracy that has plagued Kenya's neighbors and much of the rest of Africa.
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  899.  @Indresh2468  And then you wonder why no one in the Middle east wants anything to do with them.
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  900. Portugal is more of a socialist hellscape than a capitalist one.
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  901. Like Zambia?
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  902. Human rights is a Western thing. And since when did Iran care about human rights?
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  903.  @SilkyH  Seems, because in practice it's anything but. <than the one currently functioning in the US.> While living off of US largesse.
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  904. To fix the mess left behind by far-left weirdos that made the country insolvent and unproductive.
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  905.  @coke2679  Africa.
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  906. For what? Plus it won't reduce anything as most of it will just go to waste.
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  907. So does ideology.
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  908. Argentina just entered the chat.
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  909. Greece was done in by socialism.
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  910.  @dr.apollo4226  But the US is the biggest contributor of them all.
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  911. <that could have been used to help the poor in India.> By what? Keeping the poor in perpetual need with their begging bowls out? If they truly care about helping the poor, they'd be teaching them how to make, manage and keep money so they no longer have to continue to rely on others just to get by.
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  912.  @zeanu2015  LMAO. Yeah! When wars and colonizations were commonplace.
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  913.  @rosejames5172  Eastern Europe to be exact.
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  914. Exactly.
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  915. So? Germany is a sovereign country and has every right to be "racist."
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  916. Care to name a Western country that jails and executes its own citizens by the 10 000's because they disagreed with the government?
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  917. Not really.
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  918.  @tweetyericsson  Not really. Greece is paying the price for living beyond its means for decades.
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  919. God's 1st commandment is: Thou shall have no other gods before me.
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  920. Exactly.
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  921. Exactly. And yet they have the nerve to claim self-reliant.
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  922. Because they're propped up by Chinese interests like the current president of Zimbabwe.
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  923. Socialism is even more evil.
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  924.  @drunkensailor112  <Just go to your neighbor Uruguay, which is the richest country in Latin America by far and also the most socialist and left wing ruled state for decades...> Actually, Chile is the richest country in Latin America.
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  925. High taxes. That's how. Payroll taxes, business taxes, etc.
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  926. Pretty much.
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  927. The current ruling ANC is far-left.
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  928. No. Mankind is mankind's greatest threat.
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  929.  @Danny-bd1ch  In VW's case, the workers are the management.
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  930.  @amandagrant4331  The workers run the management of the enterprise in VW's case. So the poster is right.
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  931.  @Danny-bd1ch  As if workers can do what's right for workers. Post-Tito Yugoslavia had workers owning and running the means of production only to further hasten the country's economic decline and eventual collapse.
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  932.  @rebeccahenderson7761  LOL! So indoctrinated. Like the typical left-wing troll!
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  933. As long as Portugal is part of the EU, that is just not going to happen.
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  934. Not at all. Men hate other men far more than they hate women.
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  935. Fascism = communism's offspring.
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  936. No they shouldn't. Argentina made its bed and now it must lie in it.
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  937. Coupled with illiterate people being allowed to vote.
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  938. Lest they get infected themselves.
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  939. And how do you expect affordable housing to be available in the face of high building, land and maintenance costs, high demand and inevitably low supply, bureaucracy, etc. ?
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  940. LOL. And replace it with a regressive matriarchy?
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  941. Including the greed of workers themselves. Household debt is a thing for a reason.
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  942.  @scottdavis3571  LOL. While those other people happily accepted the job from the rich at a a set wage as it's much easier to punch a clock, take orders and collect a cheque than take on the responsibilities of running a business like the rich did.
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  943. Which happens to be long overdue after decades of left-wing debt-financing, lavish social spending and economic mismanagement.
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  944. Pretty much.
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  945. The ANC by origin is socialist.
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  946. Not really. They're not responsible for humanity letting its own pride get in the way of following God's guidance.
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  947. Good. Because the poor would have just wasted it anyway.
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  948. Yes you can. Communist countries did it.
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  949. Pretty much.
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  950.  @DgurlSunshine  And then eat each other. That's what the Russians did when Stalin was in charge.
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  951. Eastern Europe is run by ex-members and beneficiaries of the old communist guard.
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  952. And while you're at it, you can refund every single cent they paid into the healthcare system.
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  953. Not really. It's just being replaced with another one. Hedonism, nihilism, statism, etc. being the default.
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  954. And replace it with what? An even more corrupt and psychopathic socialist system?
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  955. Portugal is de-facto socialist with a socialist government in charge.
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  956. A inept corrupt government elected by ignorant people. Sounds about right!
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  957. LOL. No! Government meddling is.
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  958. Very much.
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  959. Equality doesn't exist.
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  960. No. Try North korea.
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  961. Just like Atheism is ruining the West and already ruined every other socialist/communist regime.
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  962. Envy and ego.
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  963.  @peperminth7236  Nah. You got it by extorting your former colonies in West Africa even by Francois Mitterrand's own admission.
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  964. Because Trudeau made it too costly to produce much locally.
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  965.  @nrnar  As is the case with North Korea.
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  966. Yet Brazil and South Africa have the US beat.
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  967. Because the one-child policy massed up their future demographics which is why they ditched it in 2017.
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  968. Exactly.
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  969. @ratthing In which the Cuban government refuse to let in.
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  970.  @dave_riots  Namely government workers.
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  971.  @Spectacurl  No. The biggest problem is the Cuban government.
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  972.  @tonyw2185  Cuba has free elections now? That's news.
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  973. <but leave the rest of us free to live and think in freedom as we wish.> Only to impose your beliefs unto others as you currently do in the West where debauchery and hedonism reign supreme.
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  974. But at this point, democracy is better than what they currently have.
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  975.  @maxrainbow2321  LOL. What free world? The West is not the world.
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  976. Police work for the state, not the people.
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  977. Argentinians voted for it. They don't care about economic sustainability as much as they care about endless welfare.
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  978.  @Ashley-1917  <The capitalists must be expropriated without compensation!> While the communists starve once they run out of other people's money.
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  979.  @maurom9654  And pay 70% of all the taxes. It's a miracle how some countries manage to stay afloat with such a minuscule tax base.
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  980. The last thing South Africa needs is another far-left communist in charge.
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  981. Pretty much.
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  982. Because the government made it too costly to.
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  983. Nah. Humans themselves are their own worst enemies.
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  984. Yet they don't have any problem with West Africa getting exploited to help fund their welfare state and pensions.
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  985. First it was Germany. And now it's younger locals.
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  986. Under socialist leadership.
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  987.  @vawsonsfurniture  Or they got rich by putting those resources to better use.
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  988. Biden = modern-day Carter.
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  989. Not before you refund all the money they paid into propping up the healthcare system.
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  990. Namely those who don't live in the capitol.
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  991. Exactly.
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  992. Homs are affordable in the US. It's just that many refuse to move from the Northeast and West Coast.
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  993. And the UK. Eastern Europe was wise in keeping their borders closed and not being a welfare state.
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  994.  @peterpanini96  But Russia supports Iran.
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  995. And they also scrapped the one-child policy.
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  996.  @nightlightabcd  So you prefer Hillary with an even longer track record of corruption?
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  997. No. They cannot take from you what you never had to begin with or didn't exchange by choice as you went out of your own way to do business with them. Plus, the much of the rest of humanity is generally lousy with money anyway.
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  998. No it doesn't as most places are not dependent on tourism to support themselves.
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  999. <If you are willing to work you should be entitled to a good state pension.> And this is where the problem lies. Entitled to what? Especially when you had more than enough time in your working years to save and invest in your own retirement as the state will never give you more than the bare minimum.
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  1000.  @kay9156  <Also, someone who has less than one who gives more, can be just as meaningful, if not more so, than someone who is abundant.> So why are people waiting on the rich to give?
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  1001. The police are beholden to elites.
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  1002. Yes you can. Matriarchies are regressive for a reason.
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  1003. Because charity has never gotten anybody out of poverty as too much charity encourages dependency and irresponsibility. And many of the poor would have just simply wasted the wealth.
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  1004. The poor, illiterate and under-skilled. Just like Cambodia after Pol Pot was through with the best and brightest.
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  1005. Because the rich are responsible for most of the jobs and revenue created in the country.
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  1006. And that's considering the German government owns most of the housing.
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  1007.  @thelastshallbefirst6531  And gentrification is the answer to blight and decay.
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  1008. France did that in 2015 to no avail.
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  1009.  @okeziechristopher9479  And neither has one-party dictatorships as Zimbabwe, Angola, Ethiopia, Tanzania, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Guinea, Togo, Malawi, etc. have shown.
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  1010.  @franzjoseph1837  They can start their own business and own the means of production. Too bad socialist regulations make it a costly thing to do which probably explains why Argentina barely has a private sector.
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  1011. It has everything to do with socialism as it enables corruption and incompetence. Who's there to hold the government accountable as opposition has been effectively neutralized?
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  1012.  @mfmf100  True. But the problem with Venezuela is the general lack of private enterprise as Chavez and Maduro shut it down. The PDVSA can be state-owned all its wants.
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  1013.  @Balconetti  Maybe not, but one-party rule is standard fare in socialism. Ditto for central planning. And a powerless opposition is as good as no opposition at all. Venezuela's opposition is powerless. Opposition in countries like Cuba, North Korea, China, etc. just plain don't exist.
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  1014. <Few people under 50 give a damn about any alleged gods.> While worshiping money and personal comfort as gods.
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  1015. Because it would have gone to waste. Plus, the "overly" rich don't owe the poor anything.
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  1016. Because it didn't stop Cuba from getting food aid and remittances to keep it afloat?
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  1017. When you have too many people in need and not enough people contributing.
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  1018. The 5-day work week is working pretty fine here in Canada.
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  1019.  @catalina5382  <And no one should have that kind of money to spend on their wedding.> Says who? You sound bitter. <Billionaires with so much money to spend should not exist ,> Yes they should. They're the reason most people have a job and a steady paycheck to begin with. <I can assure they don't work as hard as literally hundreds of millions of people.> Who don't have the foresight to save and invest.
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  1020. Like where?
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  1021. Not according to their government employers.
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  1022. Air BnB is not the problem. Air BnB came to be by government over-regulation of the rental market.
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  1023. Better than unhinged socialism leaving the place a wasteland.
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  1024.  Broski Snowski  And revolution often ending in revolutionaries becoming the very oligarchs they sought to eliminate.
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  1025. These days thanks to the vaccinated themselves.
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  1026. The last thing India needs is more Islam.
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  1027. Austerity is a necessity due to economic mismanagement and living beyond your means.
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  1028.  @Skoda130  And austerity is a consequence of bad economics supported by the ever financially illiterate working class.
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  1029.  @pakabe8774  LOL.
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  1030. LOL. Socialist societies actually allow freedom of association and assembly?
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  1031.  @Trueroot  Because the majority don't have the acumen or wisdom to be one.
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  1032. No. This is just a Western problem. Too liberal for its own good.
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  1033. Obiang Nguema was Macias Nguema's nephew.
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  1034. And become another Albania.
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  1035.  @jati3149  And extorting their former colonies. Like France.
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  1036. Price control will not solve, but exacerbate the problem with supply.
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  1037. That would be the government and ordinary home-owners.
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  1038. Whose party members had ties with far-left terrorist groups that used to terrorize the natives interestingly.
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  1039. The results: North Korea and China.
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  1040. Germany's healthcare is government-run. The only shareholders are bureaucrats and state-appointed administrators.
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  1041.  @moderndemon84  You got it backwards. Greece has been living off of Germany ever since it was admitted into the EU.
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  1042. Namely states run by Democrats.
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  1043. Exactly.
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  1044. Spain is just a couple of generations removed from dictatorship.
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  1045. Another socialist failure.
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  1046. <but it's also true that Germany (much like Japan) has spent almost nothing on its military for decades; > Thanks to the US.
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  1047. Pretty much.
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  1048. Oh yes it is their fault. They voted for that President. Now they're running away from the results of what they voted for. People like them are the reason why the US's Founding Fathers didn't want a democracy.
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  1049. Especially in government and model.
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  1050. Including atheism.
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  1051. That's slowly going bankrupt because they're running out of other people to tax.
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  1052. Maybe it's because they're responsible for most of the food and wealth produced in the country. And the government despite their Marxist views isn't trying to see South Africa become another Zimbabwe.
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  1053.  @Unknown-yv1mw  Not in Ethiopia's case.
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  1054. It can get its ideas from Quebec like the Baltics did.
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  1055. But the problem is that France has too many old people and the workforce is insufficient to pay for everyone's current pensions. Welfare states are just plain unsustainable in the long run.
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  1056. There is no perfect system. And universal healthcare doesn't just suffer from corruption and mismanagement but also shortages be it in funding, staffing or supplies.
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  1057. Supported by far-left atheists?
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  1058. I say every other communist regime of the 20th century.
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  1059. As the state gives, the state takes away.
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  1060. Fascism = communism's offspring.
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  1061. No more wasted than what most poor people do with their money and then wonder why they 're broke and hungry all the time.
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  1062. Just like they hide behind ideology. Stalin was the reason political crimes are not considered crimes against humanity.
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  1063. @D. Engelbrecht Women are weak?
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  1064.  @dnomyarnostaw  Same difference. Communism = dictatorship.
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  1065. Remember the guy who replaced him, Napoleon Bonaparte?
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  1066. They do. The problem is that they risk unrest and ouster if they attempt to make reforms.
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  1067. In all fairness, that's just payback for what Portugal used to do to foreign countries. Sao Tome & Principe, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Brazil, Macau, Cabo Verde and East Timor
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  1068. Also Cuba.
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  1069. While American conservatives are once again proven right. There is no such thing as free stuff.
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  1070.  @GuderII  Just ask Nepal.
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  1071. Like North Korea, but at least the people are allowed to leave.
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  1072. And apparently there's no more German money to subsidize their lifestyles.
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  1073. And neither do you.
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  1074.  @markushaahr9194  Not really. Cuba isolated itself as even its own allies all but completely stopped trading with it due to its chronic inability to pay.
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  1075. And further enrich the Cuban regime as the Cuban government has done a far better job at starving the people?
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  1076. Increase taxes on business = increase costs for consumers and unemployment.
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  1077. Portugal is suffering from over-regulation, not under.
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  1078. No.
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  1079. America made the UN. How can you exclude America from the UN?
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  1080. No. They are desperate because of the PCC tyrants.
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  1081.  @oakridgemall4891  Because everyone with money moved out. Mostly White people.
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  1082. While Russia blames everything on the West still bitter over 1991.
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  1083. But as with every other revolution, the joke will be on the people. They'll eventually eat their own on top of their heroes being the new overlords more brutal than the previous.
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  1084. Germany is more neo-Marxist than neo-Liberal.
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  1085. Venezuela. Cuba. North Korea. Switzerland.
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  1086. <we need to stop with this need to drive exponential capital gain > You prefer what Cuba has with perpetual stagnation and regression?
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  1087. Land is too scarce and expensive for that. Plus, bureaucracy and high building costs don't help matters. And no one's in the business of losing money due to renting places for below basic operating cost.
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  1088. No. Just 21st Century socialism running its course.
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  1089. It does. Only for PCC officials and and tourists like him.
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  1090. Pretty much.
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  1091. They already have equality. Equality under the government's boot.
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  1092. Where can they raise the funds? You can tax "the rich" for only so long.
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  1093. Exactly.
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  1094.  @Based_Is_Best  Agreed.
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  1095.  @aloud9738  South Africa is all but completely another Cuba with its load-shedding.
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  1096.  Pronto  All because the French were sacred of Le Pen.
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  1097. Not quite. They're more power-motivated.
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  1098. Not really as the common people don't produce much worth stealing. Plus, common people were never known for being competent in managing personal finances.
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  1099. No. And not even close. It's just universal healthcare running tis natural course.
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  1100. You mean companies in China.
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  1101. Austerity is the result of economic mismanagement and living beyond your means.
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  1102. Sanctions courtesy of the Venezuelan government.
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  1103. Pretty much.
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  1104. Yet they do because the US is the reason why they can afford their otherwise unsustainable cradle-to-the-grave welfare system.
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  1105.  lionelbmessi  But South Africa is regressing.
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  1106. Or Iran?
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  1107. Botswana.
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  1108.  @Traveler-rf8ye  To make South Africa's problems seem less major.
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  1109.  @seanthe100  That didn't stop Russia from trying to annex them. Finland namely.
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  1110. Yes. Asian countries need to grow a pair and deny Western countries visas.
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