• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    I hold the positions I do because I learn from history. Here are some sources on what you call “crazy:”

    Life expectancy from birth, Russia

    Life expectancy from birth, China

    Death rate and birth rate in Russia, before, during, and after socialism

    Wealth inequality in Russia, before, during, and after socialism

    US vs. Chinese vs. Cuban life expectancy

    Unequal exchange, graphed

    The truth is that socialism works remarkably well, and I only came to this position after studying socialism in theory and practice. Same with analyzing the downfall of capitalism and imperialism, and the failures of social democracy in Europe to pivot away from imperialism.

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      2 days ago

      Ffs if birth rates went up in the third reich then people should be thankful for fascism and hitler? Was west germany a poor amd depressing dictatorship and east germany a free and prosperous country, or the other way around? Blocking.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        In the case of Germany, Eastern Germany was made to pay war reparations for the incredible damages dealt to the soviet peoples, and the 27 million people they murdered. Western Germany slapped the Nazis on their wrists, and was flooded with western cash. The social safety nets in Eastern Germany were more developed and robust, while the west had more money. West Germany was indeed a dictatorship, and certainly not free and prosperous, though it had money. Eastern Germany was poor, but had much better social care, social progressivism, and more.

        Go ahead, block easily verifiable facts and statistics, I’m sure that will end up helping you.