• Wren@lemmy.world
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    China doesn’t even allow its citizens to freely discuss their opinions on its historical military operations.

    So unless you only mean they are doing pretty OK by a financial standard, that is NOT okay from the perspective of a citizen that would like to publicly say that do not support what happened at Tiananmen Square, The Great Leap Forward, and other “speak-nots”

    They are essentially exempt from even being considered as examples.

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      Do you know what mercantilism is and why it’s working well for China? Nothing you said has anything to do with mercantilism.

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        Do you always insert irrelevant shit into discussions to distract from the topic?

        The discussion is how both communism and capitalism are ineffective forms of socioeconomic policy and that both seem to only benefit those that enforce them.

        China won’t even be considered until its citizens are free to disagree with their current dictator. So for now it’s:

        • Capitalism/Communism
        • everything else



        • China.

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          I’m talking about mercantilism. China just happens to be the biggest country that does it. Just like the US is the biggest one doing capitalism. Communism isn’t really even on the board so not sure why people like you keep bringing it up.

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            Okay. Well. When someone posts about mercantilism, you’re free to discuss it there. But injecting it into a discussion specifically about capitalism vs communism?

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              But injecting it into a discussion specifically about capitalism vs communism?

              A hugely ironic comment from the person who injected talk about communism into a discussion of capitalism.

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              Because in the modern world it’s really a competition between capitalism and mercantilism, and self congratulating the capitalist nations on beating communism seems like masturbation to me.

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                Constantly trying to inject a topic into a discussion that it doesn’t belong in comes of as far more masturbatory to me. It’s almost like you just learned what it means and you want to talk about it with anyone willing to listen.