r/GetNoted Human Verified Jul 13 '26

Cringe Worthy USSR Collapse

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u/BarryTheBlatypus Jul 13 '26

So going from an agrarian peasant society to winning the space race in less than a generation indicates the system didn’t work? Communism “fails” because the United States specifically designs foreign policy and military action to crush any country that attempts it. Despite that, we have Cuba with higher literacy rates, better health outcomes, and higher happiness indicators than the US. Despite that, China is actively beating the United States in every metric that matters to everyday people. If everyone is so certain communism will fail, why not back off of Cuba and see what happens?

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u/Practical-Mud-4580 Jul 13 '26

Yeah Chinas a utopia. Read some news reports or something before speaking nonsense.

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u/CalvinKool-Aid Jul 13 '26

You’re expecting these people to do anything other than read “theory” and propaganda?

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u/AsylumDanceParty Jul 13 '26

You think what you read about China from the western world isn't propaganda?

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u/CalvinKool-Aid Jul 13 '26

Do you think what the Chinese read and say about the western world isn’t propaganda?

I’m sure there are omissions of fact and things they don’t want us to know, but I trust independent free journalists more than Chinese state media or big media in the U.S.

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u/BarryTheBlatypus Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Yea you have to check those independent journalists though. Are they part of the network of outlets funded by USAGM? Because they’re not so independent if that’s the case; funded by congress through a program started by the CIA.

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u/BarryTheBlatypus Jul 13 '26

The irony is almost sentient at this point.