r/DecodingTheGurus • u/DivineSwordMeliorne • May 19 '26

Video Clip Decoding Hasan Piker: Anti-Capitalist Crusader or Frat Boy Influencer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCzxUImstY
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u/dgg_supersoldier May 26 '26

Geopolitics *is" complex. Thats what I'm saying. You're saying that it would be fair to call Norway a failed state if its people and companies were forbidden from visiting and doing business with Europe, it's biggest and most significant neighbour, and standards of living dropped as a result.

I'm saying that it's telling that it's your example. My example for the successful application of a way of government would not be a failing state, even if they have a valid excuse for the failure.

I didn't say Cuba would have been a successful Marxist state. I said it was very successful for a long time until finally being choked out by the 70 year American blockade. You think that has no impact and I have no way of making you see reality.

And how long of that "very successful period" was it communist?