• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    two bad examples. The populations of Russia and China were certainly better off after violent revolution. And of course, things got violent in 1776.

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      Objectively untrue for china from every perspective and is only briefly kinda true for russia; as serfs were freed but after Stalins takeover as the lands were took back and people were legally required to work

      And the 1776 revolution would be not comparable in any way for the violence OP called for as the upper class led that revolution!

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        So you think that revolutions are only acceptable when the rich do it? The industrialization of Russia and China were probably the largest movement of impoverished people to relative stability in human history.

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          No, the us revolution resulted in much much different issues many persisting to this day like the inherent undemocratic system your lot clings to! But the power was distributed to the point where not one person could grab for it. Not that some didn’t want to have George Washington as a king…

          Do you guys just make semi random statements? Industrialization did not raise Russian living standard at all! In the short term it decreased it and in the long term, compared to say Taiwan, progressed incomparably worse

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          According to meriam webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objectively) objectively is defined as: “in an objective rather than subjective or biased way : with a basis in observable facts rather than feelings or opinions”; according to which I used the word correctly!

          Kinda sad that after being called out for spouting baseless nonsense you come up with a ‘no you’ with naming your group for their support and apparently randomly picking a word you don’t understand, claiming it to be used wrongly to appear smarter… Kinda sad

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              I know this is going to be hard for you as an American, but words mean things! Try using google, it can explain things you don’t understand!

              And being anti-communist is a compliment in countries where your communism was violently implemented, you know? Like in mine, Hungary :)