Oh, huh! I didn't know it worked like that! If I had, I could've just pointed out that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about and have a cartoonish worldview, and I could have avoided all the trouble of making actual arguments. That's so much easier!
India and Colombia are both in the northern hemisphere. Anyway, they're not exactly enthusiastic capitalists.
Western empires weren't even really capitalist at the point that they colonized Colombia or India. And they've been gone for ages (nearly a century in India, much more for Colombia)...you think the wealth of the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, etc, are all being extracted somehow from India and Colombia and the rest of the Global South? By what mechanism? They don't export a lot aside from raw materials, and even there they're not exactly top of the list. So...how are capitalist countries living on extracted labor and resources? Are they piped through secret underground pipelines?
Bad things happened in the past. Some continue to happen. That's true. Doesn't change the fact that communism is a stupid system.
What free shit? You mean, we should stop letting them keep so much of their own shit? I mean, I'm okay with that, but it's got basically nothing to do with the presented problems. More people using more shit is not going to cool the globe.
So, you're saying that the Global South (either Africa or South America) has made major, concerted attempts at creating effective capitalist states?
There's a few examples. Australia, of course, though Leftists will obviously discount it.
Chile very deliberately adopted capitalism, though it was under an oppressive dictator. Even so, it's #3 on the list of South American countries for per-capita GDP these days, and is topping the list for political freedoms.
Uruguay, with it's famously beige recent politics, is #1.
Of course, you have Indonesia, which has been doing pretty well recently. I wonder why? (/s)
Malaysia and Singapore are technically in the northern hemisphere, so they don't count I guess...
Most of South America has historically swung radically back and forth between left and right (yes, in part due to US pressure). There's a leftward swing again. Let's see how it goes this time! Good news is that if it fails, they can just blame external forces yet again.
I think free speech and availability of platform for the average person has unquestionably never been better in history (though there may have been some points where a certain segment, that is reporters, had slightly more leeway).
Don't compare the present against some idealized utopia. Relative to, uhh, reality, things are pretty good.
Back when I was in high school (in public school), chess caught on in a big way. Chess. It was the weirdest thing. It was a public school in a small farming town, and pre-Nerd Renaissance, so picture a stereotypical 80s or 90s school where jocks were top of the food chain--and then picture those same jocks in their letter jackets rushing to the library on their free periods to take turns playing chess. They set up tournaments and kept track of win/loss ratios and talked about chess strategies in the hallways.
So obviously something had to be done...I guess? The school started making rules and posting them around the school: one game per student per day. One game at a time in the lounge. No chess in classrooms or in the library! The chess board must be returned to the lounge supervisor between games, then signed out by the next person wanting to play--not just passed willy-nilly from one student to another! No outside chess boards allowed!
That pretty much strangled the chess fad. The jocks went back to stuffing nerds in lockers and sneaking out to smoke behind the school, and the chess boards returned to the shelf by the lounge supervisor, where they collected dust.
Problem...solved? The whole thing was pretty surreal.
Nah, I'm sure it hasn't. It just seems like it has.
Part of it is the fact that it's easier for people speak freely to an audience, and...maybe some of them shouldn't...
There's also the fact that it's a lot easier to consider oneself an expert. For better or worse, respect for authority has plummeted, and there's so much information that anybody can find citations for just about any claim.
If you don't believe me, I can link you to some articles about it...
What I would dearly like is an SSO system that can also act as a drop-in replacement for Kerberos. Existing krb5 servers (on Linux) are ancient, quirky, and underdocumented, but kerberos is so useful at a CLI level. I've always maintained separate LDAP & Kerberos instances, and the thing stopping me from moving to something more modern is that I'm holding out for that kerberos feature...
Oh, huh! I didn't know it worked like that! If I had, I could've just pointed out that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about and have a cartoonish worldview, and I could have avoided all the trouble of making actual arguments. That's so much easier!