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        Remind me, what did they do to indigenous people when they were trying to get uranium for the Manhattan project?

        This nonsense is just western projection.

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        Tbh I’d rather work in a uranium mine, it’s less toxic than lead in the quantities you’d be exposed to

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          If you are not dead by end of month from radiation, you will be executed for failing to mine the required quantity of uranium.

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      Comrade, we all know lead poisoning and the need for safety gear are capitalist propaganda! Now, get back in the mines! Production must increase 50% this year, and your state-appointed union representative says it can!

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          You know, it took until 2003 for Russia to remove leaded gasoline from stations. The Soviets never did it LMFAO

          but nice try

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            And it took the US until 1996 (after fall of USSR)? Not to mention that it was capitalism (General Motors) that spread the hoax about leaded gasoline being safe, under the guise of scientific research in 1921.

            This is not the gotcha you think it is,

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              If it was all an evil capitalist conspiracy, why did the communists go along with it? Hmm?

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            They are not joking. You can see them continuing here: https://lemm.ee/comment/3563759

            And this isn’t whataboutism (not that it matters). The first commenter ridiculed socialism by using a hypothetical scenario. The second commenter showed with evidence this hypothetical scenario is actually real under capitalism.

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              When a liberal loses an argument they yell “whataboutism” it’s their little white flag

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                Marxism is so easy to destroy, but the reality is that modern day Marxism literally cannot exist without fallacies and propaganda. The ideology is so shallow that it can’t stand on its own merits.

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                    Lol Marxists calling anybody an idiot is peak irony. You’re subhuman trash. You’re just as bad, if not worse than nazis. You’re just as hateful, violent, ignorant, extreme, and irrational as nazis. You’re ideology is just as failed, just as murderous, and just as delusional. The scum of the Earth trying claim moral superiority is comical.

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            The first commenter is talking a hypothetical scenario of socialism being bad, so the second commenter (the one you responded to) responded with actual example of that same hypothetical scenario happening, but except by a capitalist power (the US). I don’t think your response makes sense at all here.

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              No, his response is calling out the whataboutism fallacy. The US doing something bad does not in any way, shape, or form make socialism any less shitty. It’s poking fun at the delusional people who still think it’s a good ideology despite the overwhelming evidence.

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                Calling something “Whataboutism” infers a belief in American exceptionalism. You should question that belief.

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        The Glorious Leader has declared that we have too much lead. You’re now reassigned to be in front of the firing squad.