• CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I distinctly remember a John Stossel (American libertarian talking head) special about capitalism and socialism, must’ve been close to 20 years ago. But there was this brief segment of it where he interviewed a socialist politician (they didn’t say Kerala specifically but they said “this state has been run by communists for years” so I assume it was Kerala). Stossel said something about you are poor (referring to generalized Indian poverty) because of your “stupid system”. Nice to see another libertarian dummy getting proven wrong yet again. Many such cases.

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      libertarian-approaching: “Hi, I’m a libertarian. I believe in this little something called muh freedumz! Except for abortions, weed, who you can marry, what race or religion you’re allowed to be, what hormones you can put in your body, what you’re allowed to name yourself, what kind of job you’re allowed to have because of your gender, whether or not you want to divorce your abusive husband, whether or not you want the government to spy on you, what you think of our oh so precious corporations, how you feel about a caste system with wasp men at the top wasp women at the bottom and everyone else genocided, a strong military, an omnipresent police force, whether or not you want to subsidize our precious corporations, whether or not you want to buy foreign or domestic products, what kind of language you’re allowed to speak….

      …you know, freedom!”

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      South Indian states are similar to Southeast Asia

      North Indian states are similar to the worst parts of Africa, but without the privilege of just having more land

      The latter is more capitalistic and conservative