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462 points JumpCrisscross | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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breadwinner ◴[30 Aug 25 22:33 UTC] No.45078577[source]▶
Trump is even using Tariff threats to strong-arm other countries to retreat on their climate goals [1]. If the Supreme Court agrees that the Trump can do this then that means we have a dictator — one that will do way more harm than the one in North Korea.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate/trump-internation...

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alex1138 ◴[30 Aug 25 23:04 UTC] No.45078784[source]▶
How can you possibly do more harm than the one in NK, literally starving your population?
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FridayoLeary ◴[30 Aug 25 23:20 UTC] No.45078877[source]▶
Also trumps a fascist and NK is communist so the logic is inconsistent.
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AngryData ◴[31 Aug 25 05:52 UTC] No.45080679[source]▶
So NK workers own or control the means of production?
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FridayoLeary ◴[31 Aug 25 09:19 UTC] No.45081751[source]▶
That's not communism. They are all oppressed, impoverished and dehumanised by the mechanism of the state. Like China and the Soviet union.
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const_cast ◴[31 Aug 25 16:25 UTC] No.45084408[source]▶
You can't just redefine communism to mean "bad thing" and then say "see? Communism bad!"

Communism has a real definition. NK is not communist. China is not communist either.

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1. FridayoLeary ◴[31 Aug 25 16:39 UTC] No.45084549[source]▶
At this stage communism has been tried and failed so many times that it's silly to conclude that it isn't inherently evil. It's just hubris to think you could do it better yourself.
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2. const_cast ◴[31 Aug 25 16:41 UTC] No.45084564[source]▶
This is a different belief.

You can believe communism is evil. You can't believe communism is evil because you just attribute everything evil to communism.

That's just bad reasoning. Like, really really bad reasoning. Like, I think most small children have higher reasoning capabilities than that.

3. triceratops ◴[01 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45094099[source]▶
There are many bad systems that fail and cause misery and poverty. Communism is one of them but there are others.