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		smsm42 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I attended Google's creator conversation event, an... As opposed to value extraction under socialism, also known as "GULAG", "down to countryside", "killing fields", "reeducation camps" and "transitory labor regime". The most prominent feature of all those is how kind, warm blooded, soulful and personable they are. Literally everybody who was there (and came out alive, which wasn't easy) makes sure to point that out.

metadat 10 months ago [–]

You seem really hung up on the other economic structures, which aren't actually relevant to this discussion.

Why is that?

smsm42 9 months ago | [–]

Maybe because they are relevant, but you refuse to admit it because it would reveal your original claim as shallow, lazy and pointless.

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