But curious, thoughtful conversation on topics with political overlap is ok on HN [3], and always has been [4].
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
ed25519FUUU:
"Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?"
- there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals
- some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism"
- some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful
(none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)
In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.
I agree with you. However, Nintendo has/makes more money than many countries. I'm sure it's entirely justified in their eyes.
The better topic would be a discussion on how to change our various cultures to act in the greater good first and profits second. Even as I write that, I laugh at the impossibility of it.