Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Caller Has a Problem with Some Left-Wingers" video.

  1. Maybe a model of mine helps. Until some years ago I saw politics as a half-circle or a line with left and right. But I found that model inadequat and changed it. Now for me politics is a circle with Freedom/Democracy at the Top and Control/Autocracy at the bottom. Starting on the top you can go left or go right on the circle but the more you move on the circle the more you move to the bottom and evtually you end up in the same place down below no matter if you move via the left or the right side. According to this model Dictatorship-Mode Communism and Facism are actually close neighbours and check the society of those political system from history, they are very much alike.
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  2. What I criticise is trying to insinuate Russia or China are "communistic" or "socialistic". Russia was communistic encomically and politically until the Cold War ended but that was 30 years ago. China calls itself "communistic" but since the 90'ties the country adopted capitalist policies and turned into a One-Party Capitalistic Autocracy there is nothing left of Mao's communism. Admittingly the current leader Xi Jingping comes from the more communistic wing of the party more aligned to Mao and even tries to push to go back to Mao-Era more these days, but ironically what they actually do is moving even more to Facism or a distorted form of Stalinism. Are Russia's or China's government any good? Hell no! They have a ton of problems and only maintaining power and control over the people by censorship, massive propaganda, violence and bullying and choke on corruption.
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  3. China has a shortage of coal. It is usually delivered from Australia in gigantic amounts. But China started a punitive Trade War with Australia this year for political reasons. Result: Coal Price exploded and is rationed. And since China made a lot of power by coal, power is shut off in less dense area of parts of the week and sometimes even in denser regions leading to production outages which have effects on the whole world economy since we were so stupid and let them do the manufacturing ... just because it's a bit cheaper.
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  4. ​ @anmolt3840051  No I said a circle. Not a half-circle. Please read before you answer.
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  5.  @anmolt3840051  Like I thought. It has two lower ends which are not all close to each other. - Not my model.
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  6.  @anmolt3840051  * rolleyes *
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