It’s actually quite sad that you’re so passionate about something of which you have very little understanding

It's actually quite sad how predictably you're going around in circles, in a topic you admittedly has no knowledge of.

You think a country is socialist because they have taxes

This man still hasn't told me where he experienced socialism lol

This post clearly shows your lack of reading comprehension.

f*** Life sec was better when this dumbass thread was buried/relegated to General

Are you just going to pretend that I’ve never told you this before? Or do you just have terrible reading comprehension skills.

I was born in Cambodia and grew up in Vietnam

I mean, the evidence of your ignorance is there on the previous page for all to see.

Cambodia and Vietnam haven't been socialist for a good minute my guy.

So unless you're a 40 year old or something, you haven't experienced socialism.

@loner Do you have Asperger's?

If he really grew up in Vietnam, he's even dumber than I thought. He doesn't even know his own country's history.

Vietnam is still socialist

Back to being a coward I see

Socialism is when France's public sector has a larger share in their economy than you.

Socialism is a sweet fairy-tale. I'll never work my ass off to feed the next family, I got my own to look after.

So even the government itself says that it's not a socialist country, but that they're in a transitionary phase towards socialism, and I very much have my doubts about that.

The only country of those three that could be called socialist is Cuba.

That literally says Vietnam isn't socialist

It’s in a transitionary stage towards pure socialism, but it is “socialist” the same way Western countries are considered “capitalist” when none are pure capitalist

I don’t think you know what “literally” means. You make yourself look dumber every time you try to play smart

It literally contradicts your point on Vietnam being socialist, happy now?

It literally doesn’t. Pure capitalism and socialism doesn’t exist in reality. When we refer to capitalist or socialist countries, we are referring to countries that are predominantly capitalist or countries that are predominantly socialist, and Vietnam falls in the latter. I can’t believe I have to elucidate such a simple concept to you but here I am. Trying to convince yourself that a socialist-orientated economy isn’t socialist makes you look like a dumbass lmao

Wonder why loner thinks Vietnam had such a rough time

On what basis are you coming to that conclusion? Using a Marxist framing, Vietnam is economically capitalist with the view of eventually transitioning to socialism. using your framing I might as well declare the Scandinavian countries socialist, America's public sector is proportionally larger than "socialist" Venezuela, why don't we declare America socialist as well?