• Ivysaur
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    24 days ago

    You only have to look around anywhere else in the world to see that better systems have been tried, and the better systems work. They don’t work for all of the people, though, and those people are very loud, very violent, and have very big wallets. Whenever we try these better systems here or abroad, people get disappeared. Russia hasn’t been communist for decades and we still don’t shut the fuck up about them. We are terrified of them. Only about 15 years ago Obama was speaking favorably of China- no matter where that motivation came from. But we’re terrified of them now, too, and they’ve become public enemy number one. China, the place people made fun of for making cheap knockoffs or whatever! Now they’re the big bad, all of a sudden. I wonder why that is. Don’t you? It’s not hard to use your noggin, fella. The answer is and always has been that a better world is possible, but its opponents exist in the highest places, ruthless and without mercy, and they will prevent a better world from happening for anybody else by any means necessary.