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		SideburnsOfDoom on Oct 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: September was the most anomalously hot month ever If someone says "end of capitalism" and this is assumed to be "about communist countries", because it's binary, what else is there? Then this is precisely the dangerous failure of imagination being pointed to.

qubex on Oct 6, 2023 [–]

I’m quite stunned by the virulence of the responses and how strong the (false) dichotomy between ‘communism’ and ‘capitalism’ is.

SideburnsOfDoom on Oct 6, 2023 | [–]

The knee is jerking for sure. The virulence suggests insecurity.

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