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The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

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Re: The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

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It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.

It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?

Re: The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

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It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.

It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

There are lots of socialist countries in the world that are doing fine.

Re: The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

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It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?

For Americans it is.

Meanwhile, in Europe (I don't know Latin America well enough, although I know a few well-known right-wing leaders that didn't have stellar records) socialist governments consistently have a better record on basically everything from press freedom to economy to public health compared to economically liberal ("centrist") governments. But they're socialist so it doesn't count.

Re: The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

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It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.

It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

Nordic style social democracy works quite well though. Communism sucks, but too much unregulated Capitalism isn't great either, as we can see in USA and many other countries that suffer from extreme inequality.

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It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

There are lots of socialist countries in the world that are doing fine.

Is this where we pretend a bunch of rich market-capitalist European countries are “socialist” or are you talking about China and Vietnam?

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It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?

Well, they share the same core componnent of disregard for property rights and freedom of contract.

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It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.

It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .

Deliberate starvation is more of a capitalist thing. It's not like China or communist parts of India have a big famine problem, while the US and their partners are causing famines in e.g. West Asia right now.

Left wing policies actually work pretty well, this is why the US has spent so much resources undermining movements and states trying to implement them, and this is why the Soviet needed nuclear weapons to survive for as long as it did.

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There are lots of socialist countries in the world that are doing fine.

Is this where we pretend a bunch of rich market-capitalist European countries are “socialist” or are you talking about China and Vietnam?

For some people, even the government interventions by those specific rich market-capitalist European countries are "too socialist" and get the exact same "didn't you realise Stalin killed millions?" kinds of responses.

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It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?

Well, they share the same core componnent of disregard for property rights and freedom of contract.

That doesn't answer my question.
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