• Actionschnils@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    You lecture people on the other side of the world about theire life by quoting a statistic from a relativly unfree and authocratic state …

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      I have spoken with several people from post-soviet states who lived during Socialism as well, and speak of it fondly. When all they have is anecdotes and all I have are statistics and data I can find, I end up agreeing more with the people whose opinions align with the material reality of the facts at hand.

      If I were from another country, I wouldn’t care much for.the opinion of a US Trump supporter who thinks Biden is a Communist.