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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 94 points 4 days ago

I used to be like these types, and then I realized a lot of leftists, or more specifically Marxists base their entire political ideology off of theory that’s like 200 years old. Marx was writing at the peak of the Industrial Revolution probably when capitalism was in its most grotesque form (child labour, no regulations etc.) there’s no way in hell Marx could have ever imagined the complex world we live in today.

And also evolution is false because On the Origin of Species was written 200 years ago and there's no way Darwin could've accounted for all the complexities the molecular biology revolution revealed in trait heritability.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 54 points 4 days ago

God can you imagine if we lived in a hellishly cruel and exploitative world of industrial genocides, child labor and deregulation, like in the dirty stinky past? Then those communists might have a point, haha

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago

Nonono neoliberalism fixed all that, look at the global extreme poverty graph, the line is going down! (Please don't look at what happens when you take China out).

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago
[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

There's probably a whole effortpost to be done on the sketchiness that is global extreme poverty headcount measurement. I'll have to add it to my to do list after visualizing per-capita greenhouse gas emissions.

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