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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

reactionaries say communism always fail while USSR went from a feudal hellhole to a superpower with the lowest inequality on the planet.

meanwhile every time ancaps try to implement their shitty policies the economy instantly collapses.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

capitalism can't fail because it is itself the failure state of communism.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Regardless of how many poor, homeless or incarcerated there are, "capitalism" doesn't fail because its goal doesnt care about those numbers

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Seriously, libertarians couldn't even set up a single town.

Previous attempts involve brilliant moves like building a town in the middle of the dessert where there's no water infrastructure and then refusing tonpay to have water hauled there and trying to set up a town in New Hampshire, literally one of the most easily habitable places on the planet, but refusing to conform to fascist trash disposal policies so the town got taken over by bears.

Every time a libertarian gets free reign to do whatever they want it seems like somebody making fun of libertarians.

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's great because all the Austrian school ghouls are fully delusional about it. "Oh it's just that he removed the fake parts of the economy so obviously it looks smaller now"

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago

Finally. Real capitalism has been tried.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Heeey I remember the "fake economy" buzzword

Amazing how they use it to mean public teachers and doctors and not for fucking stonks

A great phrase completely hijacked by the most repellent dipshits you can find.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

"You obviously can't see the surplus value generated by the Invisible Hand, it's invisible, you dingus!"

[–] worlds_okayest_mech_pilot@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Rollercoaster designs that go hard

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Аргентинские горки

wow im not original and someone already wrote an article with this name.

[–] Harajukum@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

'people' on r/economy consider this a good thing monkey-typewriter

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ghost dog I trust to run our nation's economy has failed me. He has failed us. He is a bad boy.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Wait, you owned that dog. Why'd you let him do it then? boohoo

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He balanced the government budget so its impossible to say if its good or bad.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

[Narrator's voice] "He didn't"

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Turns out if you set government spending on programs to help people to zero you can just give all the tax money to your friends and have a balanced budget.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

This, but in ghost form:

this-is-fine

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Broke: stagflation

Woke: shrinking economy and hyperinflation

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Destroying industrial society by electing libertarians

Ted K was a bit of a libertarian himself iirc

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Destroying your economy to own the "zurdos" stonks-down

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago
[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

capitalism no productivity

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Boris Yeltsin but weird

[–] heyoheyoheyyyy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

they call him wolverine because he's chopping up his country's economic future

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Think he makes it through his entire presidential term?

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I haven't been keeping up, what policies did he actually implement to cause this?

It's surprising to see an economy fall over that fast, even with the catastrophic incompetence I expect from libertarians. I don't know if I could crash an economy that fast without putting in some serious effort.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

It wasn't very good shaped to start with, thanks to the previous neoliberals and inept libs

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Haven't followed it in the last few weeks but I think he like shut down all kinds of shit in the government and has been talking about not having a currency and using the US dollar

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

"Нужно больше пиццахат"

machine translation, its funny though