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Being socialist.

The US can’t let socialist countries thrive. Or people would realize that a better system is possible. It would destroy the current narrative that “capitalism might be bad, but it’s the only possible system”.

Most things that people use to criticize countries like Cuba or NK aren’t their fault or even their choice.

When people talk about socialist countries, they don’t mention its positives like good education, affordable housing, safety, employment rates, etc.

They say things like “Cuba has old cars and slow internet” or “In North Korea most people can’t have cars and even lack vitamin C”. But all of that is because of the blockade, not because socialism causes that.

And if you dare to be socialist, the US will do everything it can to sabotage the country, no matter how many people will suffer because of that.

There’s been decades of US propaganda against any socialist country. It makes people delusional.

It gets even stronger in countries that have been occupied by the US military, like South Korea. When you’re born to that, you start seeing that as normal. You start to think it’s okay that most of the sovereignty of your country has been taken away. Most people in SK have never lived in a sovereign country that can make its own decisions.

They normalize that. And they start to sound delusional to others. But it’s not their fault.

North Koreans can cross the border. The US have been feeding you too much propaganda.

When my cousin was there, he took a train from North Korea to China, along with several other Koreans. It’s a regular train between the two countries. I can link to his YouTube video (it’s in Portuguese, can at least you can see the train even if you don’t understand what he’s saying).

The only border they can’t cross is to South Korea. But that’s because they’re at war, not because of fear they won’t come back.

What’s a “home muffin”?

I never said all Koreans. Or even most Koreans.

The US has occupied your country for so long that their propaganda got too strong in SK. The younger you are, the higher the chances of you seeing the world their way.

And the higher the chances you’re not asking them to leave.

If there wasn’t a commercial blockade fucking up with their resources, I’d definitely be trying to move there. Lots of people would.

Free housing? Safe neighborhoods? Guaranteed employment and living near your job? Good education?

That’s the dream!

North and South Korea aren’t rivals. North Korea has been trying to free South Korea for decades.

Lots of Koreans don’t even consider them different countries.

But one day the US military will leave South Korea and leave these people alone.

It has nine political parties, not one. But also, political parties work differently in a socialist country. You can’t expect other systems to be a 1-to-1 mapping of what you have in your country.

Even in a socialist country with a single party (which is not the case of China), there is competition for leadership.

The leader of China is elected. Really elected, without rigged elections like you see in countries like Russia. That effectively makes it not a dictatorship.

All this talk of China being a dictatorship comes from US propaganda.

So let me try and break a few of the misconceptions created by the US propaganda machine: the leader is elected. People can complain about the government, and they do. Not only that, but the government is regularly reading criticism and using that to make things better. There is no social credit score.

Edit: Actually, the US propaganda is weird. China has been getting flak for its social credit system for years, but they don't have a social credit system. On the other hand, Italy DOES HAVE a social credit system, but since it's a western country nobody talks about it.

It’s as good a take as some news in the US saying everyone in Scandinavian countries are unemployed and lazy, collecting welfare money while doing nothing other than selling cupcakes.

That was an actual (fake) news published in the US. And cupcakes aren’t even a thing in these countries. The person creating the fake news didn’t even research local sweets. They just used whatever they know from the US, because they don’t care to make it look real, just want to spread lies.

The same is true for most things you read about China/Cuba/Korea/etc in the US and similar countries.

Everything. Its fully loaded with fake news from the biggest propaganda machine in the world: the US.

There’s no dictatorship in China. But the US spends A LOT of money to make every socialist country look bad, because if people knew there was an alternative to capitalism, most of the ruling class in the US would fall. They can’t let that happen.

There are multiple parties in China.

But political parties play a different role in socialist/communist countries. It’s not similar to how it works in most western countries.

What a weird take.

As someone not from the US, the idea of non-walkable cities is so alien to me.

Before learning to speak English and reading about the US, I wouldn’t even imagine it’s a thing.

Let’s go further. Let’s have worker-owned everything.

Worker-owned factories, stores, restaurants, etc. Worker-owned government!

Let’s cut out the people that do not work but take 90% of the revenue.

Just because CO announced, a few days early, that they were releasing an unoptimized mess, shouldn’t people complain about it being an unoptimized mess?

We should never think it’s okay for companies to release underdeveloped, unfinished games.

I don’t think anyone would overlook one of the most mentioned features everywhere for the past three months.

They’re the ones that make the games!

If it was me talking about Pikachu games, I could talk about chance. But them? They decide if there will be a new game or not.

Making games is always complicated. If you “release and forget” people complain. If you keep supporting a game for a decade people complain.

To be honest, I’d prefer for them to keep expanding a game I like. That’s what kept me playing SC1 for the past 65 years (or however long it has been since the game has been released).

My experience is the opposite. While there were bad DLCs, most of them were awesome.