Lol, I gotta start checking the instance before responding. I didn't realize I was off in dreamland.
yiliu
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The two largest economics in the world. One starts a trade war, the other enthusiastically joins in. One economy booms, regardless...the other starts to implode. Doesn't that suggest that maybe the latter had some deeper issues?
I think the trade war was stupid. But it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. China's issues are much more fundamental and systemic than just a decrease in trade with America.
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It's still got the problem of being repetitive.
I've been reading and studying for decades, and yet somehow your worldview remains inconsistent and incoherent to me.
I'm sure it's my fault.
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!
You called me clueless based on a single sentence in an attempt to dismiss what I said. I didn't use 'ad hominem' wrong, lol.
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.
Leftists and ad-hominem attacks, name a more iconic duo
The Global South should give capitalism a try one of these decades. It paid off for Asia and Europe...
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.
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