Post #2739722
2026-05-21 14:17 UTC
Replies (4)
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@IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2026-05-21 14:41
You can’t have opinions like that. You have to choose sides. /S
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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 15:16
We can draw numbers from countries that lived both. How about… Russia? Yeah, the numbers don’t look good.
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@Egriaga@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 17:31
Fair point, but capitalism is broad and includes actions done in the 1600s by groups such as the East India Company. While communism is a small group of 20th/21st century countries
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@Kynsey@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 18:21
Currently 18.75% of the world population lives in a communist country. (China, Vietnam, The DPRK, Laos, and Cuba.) Shall we compare how many people have died to preventable causes in these countries in the last 10 years to the United States alone? Which has a vastly smaller populaton? Take covid for example. China: 13,524 confirmed COVID deaths. Vietnam: 43,383 confirmed COVID deaths. DPRK: 0 reported confirmed COVID deaths (no official reporting to WHO). Laos: 4,327 confirmed COVID deaths. Cuba: 11,777 confirmed COVID deaths. United States: 1,191,000 confirmed COVID deaths. (Accusations of underreporting and categorizing them as “pneumonia” in some states to improve numbers.) It’s not even fucking close. The US by comparison is around 4% of the world population. So even with 6x more people to protect, much less funds and resources to do so, and a geographic disadvantage (The US has 2 oceans next to it to make controlling movement easier), the communist nations protected their people, and the US let hundreds of thousands of its own people die. Simply because maintaining commerce and profit margins was more important than protecting its people.