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Victims of Communism Museum in Washington DC right in front of ACTUAL victims of Capitalism
Victims of Communism Museum in Washington DC right in front of the actual victims of Capitalism.
blamiesnotfree
Damn!! how many tens of millions died in all those government created capitalism famines??
SanderLember
Please don't compare a 100 million people shot, starved or forced to work is Siberia to death to people living in tents.
thatwoodguy
Any system that allows wealth to accumulate in just a few hands without real limits is inherently unfair.
ahbrannon1
This short clip would be lost on all Republicans.
InnsmouthTourist
That reminds me, I should buy a tent
DesignIsVeryHuman
That's a pretty nice tent tho...just /Sayin...
scoutMoonDiver
bnuihj
It's not me! It's the system!
ConfusedConda
Someone should make up a banner is the same style and put it on the fence. Victims of Capitalism Museum.
KiwiGameDev
This is the kinda environmental storytelling that your editor says is too on the nose
gtferrari
live art installation
iusedtodream
Fun fact: the entire country looks like this now. People made homeless by unaffordable housing.
awkwardbeautiful
And wage theft/ stagnant wages, and for profit health care, & opioid crisis that the pill pushers started…
SomeDetroitGuy
Big-C Communism was authoritarianism and anti-intellectualism packaged into Socialist terminology. It killed tens of millions.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
No. Sad, disappointing, infuriating, unfortunate, inexcusable, ridiculous, etc..... but not ironic.
TrilithonStone
I get it, honestly, I do. But you wanna remember that Russia murdered between 50 and 80 million of their own citizens in last 100 years. 1
TrilithonStone
And a high % of those murders included systematic, state-sanctioned, institutional torture sessions for the sake of torture prior to...so...
michaelfire
1980 Reaganomics following 1971 Powell memo-conspiracy to overturn New Deal, restore unrestrained capitalism
LovelyMover
Capitalism could work if it was used for the betterment of all rather than a few psychopathic cunts
zFUBARz
but that would make it not capitalism
blamiesnotfree
Wrong!
LovelyMover
Well I wasn't gonna make up new mame...but as you ask(ish) how about, Co-opitalism? Nomoredikalism?
IdaSpear
No, it would be capitalism. What we have now is neo-liberalism and consumerism. If interested watch 'the four horsemen' on youtube.
zFUBARz
But capitalism is meant to be for profit. If it's for the people, it's not for profit. I didn't say what exists now is capitalism either.
adamrac
Difference is the victims of communism are buried in unmarked mass graves, the 'victims' of capitalism are homeless with cell phones.
MouseDenton
Lotta dead strikers who never got that cell phone, bud.
ChristopherHallett
ElRigs83
You don't read history books and it shows
Botticelliii
AlecCorvander
The reason they don't think capitalism has any victims is because they've been tricked into thinking it's the natural order.
AlecCorvander
Systemic failures are always turned into individual failures.
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IdaSpear
You already are re; climate crisis and there are countless ways that it's negatively impacting on you.
bnuihj
be careful what you wish for
ChristopherHallett
The "victims of communism museum" is fucking hilarious.
DdCno1
Tell that to the people who died in the Holodomor, as part of Lenin's cleaning up or Stalin's purges, to those who were forcibly resettled.
ChristopherHallett
DdCno1
How intelligent and insightful, and by that I mean inhuman and disgustingly callous.
ChristopherHallett
I bet your monocle popped right out, didn't it? Quick question, do you check for the reds under your bed every night?
DdCno1
Do you enjoy making fun of the victims of genocide? In case you're curious, I consider myself a green social-democrat, most likely at least.
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
I found an image that shows every victim of capitalism.
It's earth. It's all of us.
Abraxaz777
Make Earth Great Again
aCoolBreezeOnAHotSummerDay
Ehh, nah
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Wow so not only did you feel the need to give us your opinion, you didn't even have one! Amazing.
AgainstMethod
Eh, it's done right by a lot of us. That's what's tough about it is convincing economically comfortable people to care about the destruction
patotheduck
Have you got a loicense for that pic?
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
I found it on imgur searching for "planet earth" If we have to license images we link FROM imgur we're all in a lot of trouble.
BillyM00n
The pale blue dot
NZSheeps
What about the people on the ISS?
AgainstMethod
They're definitely close enough that they're in this picture.
FreshBundleOfStick
At least they're not losers that never went to space
windtunnelscienceguy
thats deep man
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
Ya, the depth of OC's thought was truly... provoking. The now-dead 13yo in me thought it's 'hella edgy, bruh'
windtunnelscienceguy
never let the 13 y/o die! haha
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
How is pointing out we're all trapped in the same sinking ship "hella edgy"? I feel like you kids today have no idea what "edgy" even means.
brianingram
25k people die of starvation everyday because no one has figured out a profitable way to feed everyone.
blamiesnotfree
Is that in exclusively developed capitalist countries?
brianingram
Why should that matter? (Careful you don't go ahead and make my point)
blamiesnotfree
Because I think as far as starving to death competitions go, communism wins, and continues to win non stop back to back.
brianingram
Nope ... people starve to death in Capitalist, Anarchist, Communist, etm. Maybe the issue is authoritarian rule?
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blamiesnotfree
Lol, You are ducking delusional if you think communism can ever happen without authoritarianism.
Dapperworth
Maybe basing your economic system on infinite growth in a world of finite resources was a mistake
NaughtButOne
Hey, hey. It was never about *infinite* growth. Just, growth until *I* die. I don't really care what happens to *you*.
Flodos
Bah humbug, humans are infinitely exploitable!
whatmakesushuman
And the exploitation of labour. It’s a two plank platform.
Myrealnameisunusual
Imma gonna be that guy... econ 101. Resources aren't finite or infinite. They are elastic.
AgainstMethod
Eh, modern economic growth is more often about finding ways to do more with less than about finding new natural resources to exploit.
AgainstMethod
This is the basic point that de-growth bros miss. Growth isn't just pulling stuff from the ground. There's no obvious limit to innovation.
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TZO2k15
The Netherlands would like a word…
boardsofcanada1
So you agree, we need to pass laws which prohibit selfish greed and ensure the welfare of the greater good?
JaromirAzarov
Unregulated capitalism leads to similiarily shitty societies as communism
FetaForMoses
We can still hope to just discover yet another continent.
zFUBARz
They're working real hard to dry and defrost Antartica.
122andan8th
I sometimes wonder what would happen, genuinely, if there was magically another modestly sized continent in the middle of the pacific.
bestness
WAR
Gargwill
I mean that's basically 'Jingo' by Sir Terry Pratchett
bnuihj
It's a thematic street: you can see the worst of both worlds in a single place.
AgainstMethod
And a block down the street from that is the White House. A lot going on over there.
blamiesnotfree
I mean some homeless people in the tens of thousands or some famine deaths in the tens of millions? You really have to be delusional 1/
blamiesnotfree
To know a single thing about real examples of communism and still chose it over the worst real examples of capitalism.
WarlockSniper
The aim of capitalism is everyine in perpetual poverty on the brink of starvation, with all the wealth and food in the paws of a grubby 0.1%
AgainstMethod
People all define "capitalism" differently, but the ones who think it's good are often well-meaning people who think it has good outcomes.
blamiesnotfree
It's not the aim, and it's only the result in a couple of cases. In every case of communism the same thing happens
blamiesnotfree
With 100 times the death.
AgainstMethod
I agree with some of what you're saying here, but it's very clearly not right to say that every case of communism has had the same outcome.