• elint@programming.dev
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    3 years ago

    Sure, but the American government’s entire point is to collect American taxes and provide benefits for Americans. To minimize monetary cost and maximize benefit to American lives is exactly what it should be doing.

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      3 years ago

      Wait, are you telling me that nations are oriented around nationalism?

      This is why I’m for stateless global communism

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          It’s only impossible because people like you refuse to see it’s possibility. If enough people see it’s possibility. It becomes not only possible, but inevitable.

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            3 years ago

            You would have to overcome the combined political and military might of every country in the world to enact that system. How about you work on getting basic healthcare to people first. That actually might happen in your lifetime.

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                Because every effort devoted to unobtainable utopias is effort detracted from being politically effective in the current system and erodes the legitimacy of the left wing. And besides, most communists are hoping for revolution, and not actually helping people.

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                    That’s not revolutionary at all though is it. That’s just what normal people do. My local conservative Christians are revolutionary by that definition.