Quote (Leevee @ 27 Nov 2018 11:23)
The two bolded lines are a perfect summary of your mindset.
for a guy who talks about comprehensive reading your own "skills" are non existent, which is also why i came to the conclusion, that your soft spot for socialism gets the better of you
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Me potentially criticizing capitalism gets your knickers in a twist so badly, to the point where you bash on me for my ridiculous claims while simultaneous pointing out that my claims are obviously correct.
in your defense, i made a mistake there and forgot "if"
even IF it is true...etc
this might come to mind with some understanding on your end, however i never pointed out that your claim is correct
IF it is correct, its pretty obvious
however i do certainly not think that it is
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If you're so pre-occupied with the urge to criticize me for now swallowing capitalism like you do...
baseless accusation
i dont swallow anything, as a matter of fact its the opposite
if you follow my EU criticism, one major argument of mine is that undermining the national state is opening the door for large corporations to do whatever they want
only strong national states and its societies can keep them in check, because the EU lobbyists certainly will not
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I never said anything about which ideology is more likely to lead to corruption relatively speaking.
In fact, I am pretty convinced that if you were to study it you wouldn't find much of a difference.
i think you would, a socialist state is pretty much an invitation for corruption with its almighty apparatchiks
there is no opposition, no independent controls and how would the controlling mechanisms we have even exist? as a german i can ask a random person, who experienced our socialist eastern german state and they will confirm it
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The bigger issue in this thread is corruption of governments, which is why I brought up that socialism per se is not really Venezuela's problem.
it IS their problem
every single socialist state in history has/had problems with their finances eventually and could never keep up on the market
the oil production in venezuela barely works at all, outdated technology that often doesnt even work anymore, no efficiency
and the result is bankruptcy
venezuelas cities could look like dubai, if they only had some halfway normal politicians and a free market
there is no perfect system as long as humans are around, but some systems are better than others
This post was edited by ampoo on Nov 27 2018 10:19am