You're Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

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"You think communism is so great? Then why are people fleeing communist countries to live in imperialist nations that became wealthy by generations of mass-scale theft and murder, huh?"

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Saying your economic model is superior to a socialist nation's because you were able to use economic warfare to impoverish that nation is like saying your moral philosophy is better than your neighbor's because you beat the sh*t out of him.

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There's no good reason to let the push for a US military intervention in Cuba turn into an ideological debate about socialism versus capitalism when the far stronger argument to be made is that US interventionism is literally always disastrous and literally never helpful.

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Imagine how pants-on-head f*cking stupid you'd have to be to look at the history of US regime change invasions and then think that would be a wonderful thing for the people of Cuba.

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The answer is never, ever, ever, ever US military intervention. Ever. It's ALWAYS the wrong tool for solving ANY problem. You're never going to make things better using something that literally always makes things worse. Amazing this even needs to be said.

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