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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

This is such a disengenuous statement dripping with derision. Honestly trotting out this glib phrase is a clear declaration that you’re not interested in a good faith discussion.

Don't pretend you were ever interested in having any sort of good faith discussion here.

The vast majority of people in “shithole western countries” would say that this is true of their government. I’m not sure that’s true for people living in the USSR.

Given the level of discontent in western societies right now, I don't believe you. Meanwhile, as opinion polls show majority of people who lived in USSR now say they prefer the old system after getting a taste of the capitalist paradise.

We have all of those things.

There are literal tent cities of homeless people growing in many G7 countries each and every year:

The idea of a food shortage in Australia is unheard of. Was that true of the USSR?

CIA says that people in USSR ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition: