• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It actually wasn’t. The comment I responded to was posing socialism as being at the root of these issues. It’s hardly the cause of any of these, much like how capitalism itself also isn’t the cause of toppling foreign democracies or threatening thermonuclear annihilation, which is what I was contrasting.

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        1 day ago
        1. Not Socialism, I specifically said tbe USSR in this example.

        2. I didn’t call it the root, I don’t think Joseph Stalin invented being a King, I just think he has forever stained the word Socialism.

        3. When people talk about an apple that is rotten because somebody specifically asked about it, talking about all the rotten oranges and pears in the world is top of the line whataboutism.

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          1 day ago

          You mean to say you weren’t actually talking about socialism, just like I wasn’t actually talking about capitalism, but instead the US hegemony in particular? 😝

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            1 day ago

            I mean to say you’re talking about shit that nobody asked about and saying I made claims which I clearly didn’t.