Comments by "ItCouldBe Lupus" (@itcouldbelupus2842) on "Hakim" channel.

  1.  @futurewarlord99  Also no, efficiency is not the goal of Capitalist Industry, profit is. Efficiency is only a goal when it serves to increase profits, but it doesn't always. I think my example of food distribution made that pretty clear. I have been talking about industry being sustainable anyway, efficiency isn't the main point, and you're the one who brought it up. Industry is unsustainable and that is the main issue. I think a socialist government has a better chance of distributing food based on need on account of a Socialist governments priorities being the wellbeing of the people, evidenced by the quality of life improving in every country that elects a socialist government, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Vietnam, Russia. Food security is generally better in Socialist countries than in Capitalist ones. A Capitalist neoliberal government will never eliminate world hunger because it isn't trying to, after 60 years of global capitalism that should be obvious. The goals of a neoliberal government is to serve corporate interests and let the free market solve any societal problems, under the misguided belief that valuing profit over all else will lead to economic prosperity for everyone. But it quite obviously hasn't.
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  2.  @futurewarlord99  so is this conversation over? I was quite enjoying having an intelligent argument with someone who can actually put a decent argument together, most people can't.
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  3.  @futurewarlord99  And Capitalism has killed far, far more. https://youtu.be/MAT65U3MkQU
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  4. To second another comment, I would love to see a video about your opinions on free speech.
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  5.  @gnas1897  What do you mean by this? I know who Allende is but I don't know what you are implying.
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  6.  @gnas1897  Gotcha. Yeah well, most people don't know that because their opinions on Socialism are very rarely based on actual history.
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  7.  @andrewspeers4018  nope, I don't think you hit anything, you missed completely. Do you want to try again?
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  8.  @andrewspeers4018  How am I acting like one? You're the one calling me names, do you think you are conducting yourself like a mature adult right now? Can you honestly say that?
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  9.  @nocarrotjuststick3375  He's a con man targeting the most insecure demographic, disenfranchised young white men.
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  10.  @nocarrotjuststick3375  I think you need a hug.
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  11.  @breeie9900  You know that half the country was destroyed defeating the Nazis right? The equivalent to if the entire east coast of the united states was destroyed along with most of the middle of the country, that was the state of Russia after the war. The fact they managed to bounce back enough to win the space race is incredible. Yes, you're absolutely correct that every other major country was in debt and had their centers of production destroyed, look you already answered your second question with your first. The United States was in a very good position like I already described and was able to capitalize on the situation for their own gain, exploiting the suffering of others for their benefit is one of the only things the United States is truly great at, other than genocide. There was no one thing that made the United States a free market in the 70s, individual policies were introduced over time, regulations were cut back, the military economy was slowly privatized. You don't think the United States in the 20s was a free market? That's literally what led to the great depression. It seems we've come full circle a century later.
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  12. Can you cite a single point in this video that was kinda shit? Feels like you maybe just didn't understand the video and decided you like the other one better, because you've heard your entire life that the USSR was a mess so you believe that must be true even though you could never articulate why.
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  13. Glad to see this channel continuing to grow.
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  14.  @Callistemon  That's complete bullshit, without those rich people hoarding wealth and eroding democracy the world would be better. Jeff Bezos is exactly like those kings of old. You have NO idea what you are saying, just stop. It's sad.
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  15.  @mandywhorwal642  So when people starve to death in a socialist country it's the fault of socialism, but when people starve to death in a Capitalist country we blame it on the human condition? Curious double standard there. I call bullshit on your statements that capitalism is better than the other systems. Just because one person successfully beats someone else to death with a stick doesn't make them a better person, just better at violence and subjugation. Capitalism just outsources it's violence and subjugation so you can believe it provides freedom and prosperity when in reality for most people living in this earth under capitalism, it provides the exact opposite.
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  16. This was brilliant. Ben actually is that ridiculous.
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  17. Your friend is a centrist huh? One who thinks he's apolitical.
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  18. @Santa D Nope, poverty and wealth inequality has increased in every Capitalist country over the past 40 years, your comment is in fact, the idiotic argument. Please show me why you believe that capitalism has lifted people out of poverty, where are you sourcing that information from? What are the stats?
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  19.  @epix4300  name a single lie.
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  20.  @epix4300 How is it dangerous?
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  21.  @epix4300  Why do you care? You don't follow Islam.
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  22.  @epix4300  are you against all organizations that kill people?
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  23.  @epix4300  So you're against the United States military and the Pentagon for murdering children then?
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  24.  @epix4300  But can you admit that the United States is evil? They've killed more people than Islam has. It's not a fallacy, I'm seeing if you have a double standard, and it seems like you do. Considering there are hundreds of millions of Muslims and the vast majority of them don't kill people, I think it's fair to say that Islam itself isn't evil, it is used by a small minority to excuse acts of evil, but 5he religion itself is not evil. Can't say the same for the United States.
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  25.  @epix4300  The United States drone killed like 12 civilians in August, 7 of them were children. They lied about it then said sorry. Maybe should look into it. No, I don't think the Quran is anymore evil than the bible, both are open to interpretation and contain some messed up shit. The fact that the vast majority of Muslims are not violent is the most salient evidence that Islam itself isn't evil. All religions have been used to perpetrate evil. But most of them preach peace and non violence over all else.
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  26.  @epix4300  Not going on your profile dude, you've just spammed a lot of dumb comments on videos I happen to be watching. I understand your point, I just disagree that the Quran is evil.
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  27.  @epix4300  How many people are killed every year for leaving Islam? Do you have any figures on that? Show me some evidence that it's a real problem and I'll concede it's been used to perpetrate evil. But if you are calling the Quran evil for theoretically leading to deaths but you won't call the United States evil for actually killing millions of people then I can't accept you are arguing in good faith. But I'm open minded, show me evidence that it's a major problem and I'll concede that you are correct.
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  28.  @epix4300  Oi, you're the one who stopped responding on this thread.
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  29.  @epix4300  How many people are killed every year for leaving the religion? How many people are actually killed? I'm aware of what the book says, how much real world violence does it actually cause?
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  30.  @epix4300  You struggling to find any stats on how many people are killed for leaving Islam? If the problem is as bad as you say it is then it shouldn't be hard to find some stats.
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  31.  @epix4300  Okay bud. So are you actually going to look into whether socialism works or are you planning on just carrying on living in ignorance?
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  32.  @epix4300  No country has ever socialized everything full on, you can't say it's never worked, it's never been done. We've given this Capitalism thing a good go, things are bad and are getting worse, they have been for a long time. Let's give socialism a proper go. It took Russia from a preindustrialized feudal nation to a space faring one in a few decades, that sort of economic, technological, and cultural advancement in that short of amount of time has never been done before or since.
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  33.  @epix4300  I was talking about the Soviet union, not modern day Russia. You should slow down and read more carefully, think about what is acting being said. My point was that Russia went from a backwards shit hole to a world superpower and their greatest time of prosperity while socialism was implemented, once the Soviet union was disbanded and Russia became a neoliberal Capitalist country everything got worse. That is literally my point. I'm 27 btw, and yeah I'm ignoring the Quran debate, because it's ultimately semantics, you aren't arguing against something that causes real world harm to people that you want to see stop, seems like you don't know or even care enough to learn about it, you're just deeming an old religions text evil to win a debate in a comment section. It's hyperbolic and devoid of any real world meaning, the Quran is no more evil than the bible which discuses buying, owning and beating siaves, I honestly don't care what the old book says. I care about what the actual human beings who follow the religion do, and most of them live peaceful and loving lives and don't murder anybody. The fact that you are so determined to prove the Quran is theoretically evil but your response to the United States killing children this year is something like "oh I'll have to look into that" says so much about you. I'd rather debate things that matter, ideas that will lead to material change to the world, making it better. You're commenting on videos that you aren't even watching like a child, "leftist lies" "imagine being a socialist", things dripping with smug immaturity and utter ignorance. You're damn right I'm on the far left, that's literally where all the best ideas, philosophy, science, music and art come from. Haven't you noticed that things get better when progressives are in charge, that's when things, you know, progress.
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  34.  @epix4300  Sure thing. Honestly, not having the attention span to read a couple of paragraphs doesn't leave the best leaving impression, you're really one to talk about ignorance man. You're obviously a smart guy, but seem to be lacking self awareness. Nice talking to you.
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  35.  @fater8711  are you totally unaware that the CIA has admitted to commiting over 50 operations in Latin America to overthrow or undermine democratically elected socialist governments? You know nothing about Chile thriving under a socialist government that the United States then overthrew and installed Pinochet, a puppet dictator who brutality subjugated his people and was supported by the United States for nearly 20 years? The GDP of Chile increased under him thanks to his free market ideas fed to him by Milton Friedman and the USA but wealth inequality and poverty also increased.
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  36.  @fater8711  This program. https://youtu.be/cEqD7pRthOI
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  37.  @helldeirch  Then why did the USSR go from a backwards preindustrialized nation to a world superpower in a few decades that competed with the United States for 4 decades? First country to achieve space travel, no one else managed the same for another 10 years. Sorry, your "summing up" is an ahistorical oversimplification that isn't based in reality or context, when you have to ignore decades of achievement and progress just to push a narrative it shows you aren't engaging in good faith. You're regurgitating cold war propoganda that you've been fed your whole life and haven't actually researched this. Not much of a free thinker huh, you don't even question the narrative your governments tells you? Wild.
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  38.  @helldeirch  No response? I guess it's hard to reconcile the many successes of the USSR with the narrative you've been fed that socialism is a terrible system that only leads to misery and magically fails on its own.
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  39.  @helldeirch  Was Rome not a successful city and empire because it no longer exists? Is that the logic you're going with? Wow dude, you really thought about that argument for less than 30 seconds. I guess all the accomplishments of the ancient Romans and Greeks are considered null because they no longer exist. Nothing to be learned from the past obviously, the only things we can call successful are things that still exist. Brilliant. C'mon dude, just because you are uneducated on the things that the USSR did successfully doesn't mean they didn't happen or that we can't learn from them now. Be rational man. I'm not trying to recreate the USSR or defend any of the atrocities they committed, I'm just taking an honest look at history and saying there are things we could learn.
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  40.  @helldeirch  how did democracy replace monarchy? What was the process that led from one system to the other? Do systems just magically become different systems because they are inherently better? You're simplifying things beyond any logic.
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  41.  @helldeirch  No, I'm not arguing that monarchy was actually better. But it was better for the monarchs. Just like capitalism is better for the capitalists. The transition wasn't from monarchy to democracy by the way, the fact that you think it was is very telling on just how uneducated you are on history. No wonder you are so ignorant of all the successes of the USSR, history is obviously not your strong suit. The monarchs didn't just decide one day to disband monarchy in favour of feudalism because it's better for everyone, systems of power don't automatically change because one is better than the other, we have to make it change. So your assertion that if Socialism was better than capitalism then it would have automatically replaced it is stupid, the dominant system isn't there because it's the best system but because it serves the people in power. There needs to be an organized movement or revolution to change a system. And that hasn't happened yet for overthrowing capitalism. But that doesn't prove capitalism is the best system, only that it's a difficult system to change or overthrow, because those in power have a lot of control, and they've convinced lemmings like yourself to turn your brain off and declare this system the best system because it's the one you happen to be in. And like a lemming you posit that if there was a better system then the world would just change around you and you wouldn't have to do anything. But that's not how the world works. Superior systems don't just replace inferior ones if the inferior system suits the needs of those in power better than the other systems, like how monarchy suited the needs of the monarchs despite it's inferiority as a system compared to those which came after it. We have to make things change. Capitalism is a terrible system that benefits the few at the cost of the many. It's better than monarchy but it isn't actually democratic, the same power structures exist, they just have different names. Socialism is a better system, and the movement supporting it is growing. The world needs to change and it can be better. You can ignore all the problems in the world because the current system is working fine for you, but don't tell others they should move somewhere else because there are those of us who care about things outside of ourselves and want to change the world for the better not because it would be better for us personally, but better for everyone. Except for the capitalists, but fuck em. Like the monarchs who lost everything when monarchy was violently replaced with feudalism, the capitalists will have to get a real job and contribute something meaningful to society rather than living like kings because they own things and can pay other people to work for them.
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  42.  @OMGUKILLKENNY2  You know that's not what socialists believe though right? Socialism isn't about getting something for nothing.
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  43. It's crazy to me that there are still working class people who defend capitalism and don't want to move on to something better.
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  44. Exactly.
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  45.  @rowmin6433  Countries fail for a myriad of different reasons, mostly through illegal CIA intervention, the fact that you don't know how any of them failed and you think all communist countries magically fail on their own show you haven't looked into it, at all. You're the one lying, you think you know everything you need to know about communism but you only know the lies you've been fed by the rich and powerful. Everyone doesn't want to live in a free market country, the majority of people in communist countries are in favour of the system, that's why they vote for it. Most socialist governments are elected through the democratic process, they improve the quality of life in their country, and then American tax dollars are spent undermining democracy in other countries and actively making life worse. Look at what the US did in Chile, they overthrew the democratically elected government and installed a puppet dictatorship that killed people and favoured US hegemony over the lives of it's people. The United States govt abd the CIA have openly admitted to interfering in Latin American countries over 50 times, they tried to assassinate Fidel Castro over 600 times, everyone knows this. Think about it for a moment, if communism always fails then why does the United States waste billions trying to sabotage it while their own country turns to shit?
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  46.  @epix4300  is this an example of socialism not working? https://youtu.be/LVuCZMLeWko
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  47.  @epix4300  Burkina Faso.
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  48.  @epix4300  The lefts PragerU, except, based on facts, not lies or misrepresentations.
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  49.  @epix4300  PragerU videos are easily debunked. Try and do that for the one I shared, name one thing in it you think is a lie. It's only like 4 minutes. Shouldn't be hard for a smart guy like you.
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  50.  @epix4300  It's literally a video talking about a specific instance in history where a socialist policy worked perfectly, better than any Capitalist solutions to the housing crisis. If you disagree then tell me what you dispute, don't dismiss the information outright because "leftist PragerU", that's just a lazy excuse to try and avoid dealing with actual facts, you just want to argue against rhetorical arguments. I'm trying to discuss aspects of history, of reality that prove that socialism works. You are just as biased as I am, everyone is biased. I'm suggesting we both analyze our bias when discussing specific examples of history. Isn't that just what most educated adults do?
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