Yes. Communism works perfectly well "in theory". It just has yet to work in all the thousands of experiments in which it has been tried.

This is the second time this week that a comment I made regarding anything to do with a passing mention of left-wing politics gets a reply like this.

I didn't state at any point anything about communism, I didn't say anywhere I'm a supporter of "Communism™".

Stop chasing ghosts and stop being a fucking bore, you are shoving your words in my mouth and I thoroughly dislike that, it's intellectually disrespectful. This is a fucking dumb comment with no substance and not addressing anything of what I mentioned in my comment.

It's so fucking dumb and tiring to get your kind of knee-jerk red-scare reaction from people like you.

To be extremely clear: I don't support Communism, please point exactly where you believe your comment has anything to do with what I've written there or just shut up, what a fucking bore to keep getting to read this bullshit.

> Stop chasing ghosts and stop being a fucking bore,

Take a break from HN, man. This kind of meltdown isn't a good look for anyone, even if you're right.

When you get the same kind of stupid reply on HN as you see in stupider places of the internet, a place where you come for almost a decade to have some in-depth discussion, it grates on you. Everywhere else on the internet is like this shit, it starting to be more prevalent here is definitely affecting me as I'll have to stick to my own in-person social circle to have some kind of discussion that doesn't devolve into this bullshit. And then I lose access to a plethora of other points of view where those try to at least have some reasonable argumentation.

It's exhausting if you cherished a place for good discussions, yeah, I'm just tired but not really a meltdown, just tired of trying to be somewhat reasonable replying to this bullshit, it's a dumbification of discourse that is hard to stand.

As an example:

> They understand it, but they actively work to undermine it by engineering the human race.

This is just fucking dumb to read.

Edit: but I believe you're right, time to take a long break from HN.

Someone actually wrote "communism works ... in theory" without a hint of irony.

I don't think it was a meltdown but one might be justified.

Failing to understand Supply and Demand law of basic economics is a defining characteristics for left-wing politicians.

Protecting their turfs and their own is quite common across both sides of the spectrum.

They understand it, but they actively work to undermine it by engineering the human race.

They may understand it. It's just inconvenient so its downplayed.

Whether or not you agree with their classification, I'd posit nearly any seated SF politician self-categorizes as "left-leaning." Pretending this isn't the case is what's disingenuous, most Americans I've met don't really care how their politicians compare to ones across the pond, and why should they?. Saying they're not left-wing enough when compared to foreign politicians doesn't really add anything to the discussion.