I thought you said you left? Oh well. It seems you're too childish to actually reply to the thread where I addressed this already, so lets talk here.
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I'll give this maybe three days. A week at most.
Yes, it is. This was discussed in the last thread where you brought up a lot of the same points and didn't refute anything we brought up. This really shouldn't be a discussion tbh because you're just stubbornly refusing to comment on anything we say. You made this very apparent when you said
The best way to create a persuasive argument is to actually refute the counterargument. This is pretty basic stuff they teach on schools, but schools are for capitalist pigs, right
Well, let's deal with these in descending order.
First off: nobody here has said the USSR was the worst country ever made. I'd give that honor to something far predating the USSR. Mesopotamia? If you mean
recent country, in standards of living terms it's still not in the bottom tiers. I'd place it above various african countries. But I digress. You're quoting things that nobody said.
Second: Just because something was said during a time of war/tension doesn't mean it's fake news. If that's true, this whole thread is a lie because I live in the US and the US is at war with Afghanistan, which was NEAR THE SOVIET UNION ERMAGHERD CUE THE ILLUMINATI MUSIC
Third: Claims that the USSR was more developed is pretty bullshit. Here's a graph.
https://ourworldindata.org/human-development-index
OECD stands for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and it includes North America and Europe. I had to google it too, don't worry.
In 1950 the OECD had an average HDI of .42 while eastern europe/russia had .34. That's a stark difference. (For reference, the gap between russia and the next highest region, latin america was also the same size). The gap between the two regions never really got smaller, rather, it stayed about the same for a while before russia began falling due to the collapse of the soviets. As of 2007 the gap was .81 to .54.
At the time, the HDI of .34 was quite good. As of 2015, the lowest HDI of
literally any country in the world is .348, and that's Niger.
In fact, according to the table I found (which I sadly cannot find the link to anymore, but it actually having info ends up beating what you're given us so far), the Russian Federation has an HDI of .798, which ties for 50th with Belarus. As for higher HDIs, well, the U.S. is #8, the UK is #14, Japan is #20, France is #22, and Italy is #27. Interestingly, all three of the Baltic countries have a higher HDI than russia, with the lowest being Latvia at #46 (disclaimer, these numbers were up to date as of 2015). So saying that the USA "lost" the cold war is incorrect at best.
EDIT: I found the video I mentioned in the last thread! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LtQhIQ2AE
Your waffle maker story is great btw, although it's quite irrelevant.
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Well, referring back to the HDI table, china clocks in at #90. The reason China has such high amounts of industry is that it lacks proper education. Most chinese cannot afford to have higher education. Only 27% of chinese citizens actually enroll in tertiary level schooling (think universities) vs the State's 94%.
I found where you got the statement about the Chinese having higher average IQs than Americans, since you didn't actually bother to cite it. While it is true (partially, the average is actually exactly 105, not higher), they're also only #4. The countries they lose to are all Democracies. I think it speaks more to the trend that Asians in general have higher IQ than white-majority countries. But not by a
significant margin as you state. The US has an average IQ of 98, while Russia comes in at 97.
Table found at
https://iq-research.info/en/average-iq-by-country for those who care to check and draw your own conclusions.
The rest of your points aren't even worth responding to.
The acronym is DPRK, not KNDR. Not sure where you heard that.
Your goading comments about the USA not going to war against Korea cannot be answered by me, although my best guess would be the innocent civillians not having actually done anything wrong.
Anyway, I won't even bother answering this portion because
I found an Ask-Me-Anything by a North Korean defector who pretty much says the opposite of every point you bring up here. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...as_trafficked/
Well, if my assumption is right, and that you actually
live in Russia or one of it's neighboring countries (based on your waffle maker story) you might want to take some new English classes but that's beside the point.
The issue is that there really haven't been any "leaders without dirty thoughts" as you so ineloquently put it when it comes to communist countries. Joseph Stalin led a war against Finland (where they actually got slapped around quite a bit lol), Fidel Castro led to the eventual decline of Cuba, the Kim dynasty spreads its own propaganda and is on complete military lockdown, and China has one of the lowest education rates for a country with its HDI.
I actually have no fucking clue where you found any of these facts. Please let me know how you determined Russia to have the 5th worst economy and the USSR to have the 2nd best. Or don't. Some good giggles for me either way.
