important rulepost(lemmy.world)

posted 1 year ago

dsmaster7173@lemmy.world

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Cowbob45@beehaw.org

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1 year ago

My dude you need to stop right now before you end up saying that genocide isn’t that bad. Because that’s what Pol Pot did.

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proletariatnerd@iusearchlinux.fyi

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1 year ago

Genocide and pol pot is terrible. So is the USA.

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cryball@sopuli.xyz

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1 year ago

Killing millions and being dysfunctional are in a different realm of terrible. I’m sorry, but how did you come to the conclusion that they are even comparable?

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river@lemmy.world

2 points

1 year ago

hm i wonder if theres any capitalist countries with a history of committing genocide…

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cryball@sopuli.xyz

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1 year ago

I’m all ears. Please give me a list so I can expand my understanding.

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river@lemmy.world

2 points

1 year ago

oh dear here we go. off the top of my head, there is of course, canada, usa (native americans), israel (palestinians), nazi germany (jewish people, PoC, queer people, communists, and a whole bunch of others)(it mightve called itself socialist but was still very much capitalist), china (uyghur people) (also might call itself communist but they literally have billionaires and a fucking stock market, cmon)

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cryball@sopuli.xyz

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1 year ago

I view nazi germany and china quite a bit different from real capitalist societies. Simply having a stock market doesn’t mean the markets are free to function as they please.

I also tend to disagree with canada and usa being genocidial at this point in time. For sure they did horrific things, but comparing usa to nazi germany or current day china is delusional, as the US country’s government is not actively killing a part of their own population.

What rubs me the wrong way in these conversations is mentioning capitalism as a system that commits the genocide. Both germany and china are/were state driven, and as such the markets didn’t really have anything to do with the actions. Instead the genocide is driven by the government that is/was authoritarian, and as such the markets aren’t driving the killing.

The one country I agree with being a free market and genocidial is Israel.

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