• Wren@lemmy.worldM
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    5 hours ago

    Every shitty neighborhood has that one house that’s juuuuusst a bit less shitty than the rest.

    But it’s still shitty.

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      5 hours ago

      Ok, but that seems like a non sequitur. I don’t understand how your metaphor is supposed to help translate “[capitalism] beats communism any day of the week” into “communism isn’t automatically good because capitalism isn’t”. Those are two completely different statements.

      I think it would help me if you connected the dots more when you write things.

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        5 hours ago

        I was being sarcastic.

        Meaning:

        Person A thinks capitalism sucks because it has traffic, over saturated consumerism, and healthcare for profit.

        Person B thinks that communism has most of those things as well, and makes a point to insinuate that capitalism, while having those problems- is still better than communism when communism has very few examples of actually being any better.

        To further explain-

        Complaining about something while offering little to remedy the complaint is pointless. Therefore, I simply offered a counter argument that was at least productive.