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Re:Just Be Rich by eevilspock on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:34PM (#26795964)
Go back in time and most of the US was firmly against something that we today consider morally righteous.

e.g. LGBTQ rights, gender equality, abolition, that whites are not inherently superior to blacks, etc.

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Re:Just Be Rich by plank_time on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:09PM (#26796574)
I disagree with you that socialism will become popular but we will see. I know dozens of people who have lived through socialism and they hate it so much they voted for trump, even though they hate trump. I’m not talking rednecks from the south. I’m talking about Vietnamese, Chinese, Russians, Cubans, etc. I don’t think it’s going to take a foothold in the US but we will see. That’s what voting is for.
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Re:Just Be Rich by eevilspock on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:01PM (#26797365)
That results from a navel-gazing view of history.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590540

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Re:Just Be Rich by plank_time on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:40PM (#26799695)
I think you’re the one navel gazing. Plenty of proof that it fails and you dismiss it with no proof of your own. Sounds about right.

Meanwhile most countries are happily democratic. Nothing is perfect but democracy is about as close as you can get.

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Re:Just Be Rich by adriancr on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:07PM (#26799964)
There's socialism and then there's communism, the difference is night and day.

Only way communism was socialist was that everybody was starving except party elite. Everybody was equal under the watchful eye of big brother... praised dear leader or camps... or both...

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