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> has always been underfunded to make it look bad. I

Yes, the "secret capitalists hiding in the woodpile" theory of why communism sucks.

You, of course, are immune to the other side's propaganda, and your own brain is a perfect simulator of the real world so you've run mental experiments that prove to you irrefutably how awesome it would be. If only other people paid for it for you.

> That's why it happens, outside of the US.

This is shit throughout all of western civilization. Go check out Ireland, or any place in Europe right now. It's shit everywhere.



> Yes, the "secret capitalists hiding in the woodpile" theory of why communism sucks.

As I specified in my previous post, I was talking about public housing in the US.

> This is shit throughout all of western civilization. Go check out Ireland, or any place in Europe right now. It's shit everywhere.

The poster child counterpoint is Austria, proving it's possible. Hard to do? Mostly on a political front.

Anyway, I apologize for escalating the tone of the conversation.


I've met Austria, and, trust me [America], you're no Austria.

The other day, this happened: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/portland-area-mom-gets-...

That doesn't happen in Austria.

That happens in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4d6aPhbHo


What the hell are you saying?


> Yes, the "secret capitalists hiding in the woodpile" theory of why communism sucks.

Are you saying the United States is secretly ran by communists, and that there is a conspiracy theory that those secret communists are secretly ran by secret capitalists?


He's saying that. His contention was the projects looks bad because "has always been underfunded to make it look bad."

Ignoring, of course, that there are so many other factors that make those look bad, that would continue to make them look bad even if they were properly funded (whatever that absurd number might be).

I just summarized what he was saying.




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