• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    1 day ago

    Ok, but that seems like a non sequitur. I don’t understand how your metaphor is supposed to help translate “[capitalism] beats communism any day of the week” into “communism isn’t automatically good because capitalism isn’t”. Those are two completely different statements.

    I think it would help me if you connected the dots more when you write things.

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      1 day ago

      I was being sarcastic.

      Meaning:

      Person A thinks capitalism sucks because it has traffic, over saturated consumerism, and healthcare for profit.

      Person B thinks that communism has most of those things as well, and makes a point to insinuate that capitalism, while having those problems- is still better than communism when communism has very few examples of actually being any better.

      To further explain-

      Complaining about something while offering little to remedy the complaint is pointless. Therefore, I simply offered a counter argument that was at least productive.