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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8903024" data-attributes="member: 7023887">We cannot know that, because all attempts at an alternative have been sabotaged. We don't know what would have happened in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" target="_blank">Guatemala</a> if the CIA hadn't intervened to overthrow their democratically elected leader and replace them with a dictator. We also don't know what the Earth would be like if the asteroid hadn't killed all of the non-avian dinosaurs. But the fact that the non-avian dinosaurs are extinct doesn't mean that they were doomed to die out or evolutionarily inferior to mammals or birds. It just means that an outside force altered the course of history. Capitalism is failing now. The wealth disparity between the ruling class and the working class is worse than it was during the French Revolution. Short-term profits are destroying the world, because trying to prevent the worst effects of climate change doesn't make money in the short-term. DuPont and other corporations have poisoned the planet. Everyone on the planet has a dangerous level of microplastics and forever chemicals inside them. Acid rain is (thankfully) gone and replaced with <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/rainwater-cause-cancer-forever-chemicals-pfas-b2137020.html" target="_blank">cancer rain</a>. In the USA, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood" target="_blank">corporations are people</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC" target="_blank">money is speech</a>, but companies cannot be held accountable for slavery, mass starvation, fueling the opioid crisis, and other crimes against humanity that they commit. We're in late-stage capitalism, and it's ruining the planet. We can't have the foresight to say "socialism/communism is a good idea in theory, but never works in practice" because the attempts by foreign countries to try out other socioeconomic systems is always sabotaged by the people that want to protect capitalism. It might be true that socialism and communism never work, but we cannot know for sure because of the CIA. But we do know that our current version of capitalism is ruining the planet (or, at least, our ability to live on it).</blockquote>

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