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Because central planning of the economy is extremely inefficient even at the local level, but especially at the national level, because even if the planners are upright, incorruptible, and extremely intelligent, they just don't have enough data to manage something as complex as the economy.

The competition between firms, and the laws of supply and demand, and the concept of price are much more efficient at letting the economy manage itself then having government bureaucrats [who are often NONE of the things I mentioned] try their hands at it.

The result is that while the economy of a communist country can 'function' at times, it produces mass shortages [when the bureaucrats underestimate the people's needs and wants] and surpluses [when they overestimate, this causing large amounts of waste].

Capitalism by contrast creates so much wealth that its main inefficiency is it creates large quantities of frivolous bullshit.

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>>3220235
This not stop the neo marxists to believe this is possible with supercomputers and complex cybernetic planning. this pdf is treated like a holy book in leftypol about the matter.

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

>>3220251
How is the concept of supply and demand more efficient?
In planned economies they don't waste resources and workforce as they do in market economy.

>>3220160
We should've thrown our entire might against the Chinese and blow up Beijing into a crater.

>>3220160
>Should we have bombed China's border with Korea?
i thought MacArthur wanted to nuke a couple Chinese cities?

>>3220160
Nah, would have led to a nuclear confrontation. More interesting however is; should the US forces have gone all the way to the Yalu river?

Physiognomy is real. Not only is certain facial morphology indicative of inherent character traits of the person expressing them, but it is a two way street as well, as a person's external appearance also wholly shapes their inner shapes their inner world view.

Nerds think like nerds because they look like nerds and nerds look like nerds because they think like nerds.

>>3220102
The one you posted doesn't look like a nerd at all

>>3220120
found the nerd

>>3220047
I tried to watch. I love russian history and i've read a lot about it, but for some reason i got bored. the concept was really well done though

>>3220183
It's really good. There's a scene where the ambassador from Persia shows up begging for forgiveness. Not an easy film to watch in the era of jump cuts and capeshit though.

>>3219879
>Democratically run the workplace
I don't think you appreciate how much value proper management adds.

>>3219879
That happened in Argentina, some trots took a industry in the 80s an ran it until today

>>3219879
>has never worked at a corporation
>even the mail worker gets equal vote to smartest financial analyst

Because to do anything you listed, you first have to work together with your own people.

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>>3219812
>I'm gonna treat 2nd largest continent as a fucking country and ignore its people invaded and enslaved each other since ever

>>3219812
They've waged a lot of war on each other though.

>>3219793
heh redpill and frog pep is our friend lord kek sjw muslims feminism and whiteness deus vult :)

>>3219793
Who says this?

thread ideas I came up with while taking a phat shit: the thread

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>Market Garden

>>3219782
haha based, what did he mean by this, is he /ourguy/, trigger those ally cucks, based memes

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>>3219688
Iran didn't become majority Muslim until the 11th century, about 4 centuries after the Islamic conquest. Basically, Iranians starting converting to Islam when they were given prestigious positions during the Abbasid era. Iranian aristocrats, wishing to maintain their titles and lands, were incentivized to convert to Islam, and by doing so, many Iranians followed them.

>>3219688
They got Arab'd, but most of Persians were not very religious because zoroastriasnism was like only practiced by the rulers or nobles, made the conversion pretty easy

>>3219688
By the Rashidun and especially Umayyad Caliphates basically enforcing a tax on non-Muslim peoples in their territories and then further escalating the issue on the non-Muslim Iranians by reserving higher paying jobs, better positions, and rights to Muslim ones.

>Scratch the frenchman and he will surrender - Hitler
Can we truly say frenchmen are people?

>>3219694
>Scratch an Englishman and he colonizes your country against your will
Why are Angloes so intrusive?

>>3219730
>Scratch an Italian and he will switch sides
Can we truly say Italians are trustworthy?

>>3219661
Yes. The Soviet Union

>>3219661
It's an ongoing race where the only winner is humanity so it remains to be seen

>>3219672
The Space Race BEGAN with Sputnik.

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Umm...Patterns... Could it mean what it seems?

Almost makes you think that IQ is a matter of nurture, not nature, huh?

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>>3219573
>Modern day Nigeria has the same GDP as WWII Germany
>>WWII whites had lower IQ than modern day african kids
Source?

>>3219409
Fucking Frogs should've won this battle

>>3219409

There wasn't much chivalry on show in the WotR on either side.

>>3219412

Frogs should have won Towton?

>>3219409
I don't see the stakes that would in fact have blocked the cavalry. Where the fuck are they?

>dying from disease
>genocide

Pick one

I wish we had some actual discussions on them instead of this thing all the time. They got fucked in the end - but let's be honest - most tribes were keen on eliminating other tribes too.

>>3219324
Because americans think they are the good guys.

>>3219312
Wow, it's like Conservatism is not a legit ideology. Shocking!

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>>3219312

this is all because of the Reagan Revolution. After Barry Goldwater got BTFO, and the republicans seemed like they were on the ropes, Reagan was able to consolidate ALL conservative types behind him. From fat cat businessmen, to hardcore Libertarians, to cold warriors, to evangelical christians, and even to dixiecrats who didnt like niggers in their neigborhoods. People give credit to Obama for running a good campaign, but hes shit compared to what Reagan was able to do. I mean just look at this shit. He had an even more brutal victory in the 84 election

the result of this though is that American conservatism is this sort of Crimea that you cant really put into one peg like you said, and I think all conservative types realize this, so they are hesitant to break apart and lose their power. But I do see stuff like Libertarians, and bible thumpers, and neocons and paleocons all hating each other

>>3219320
Fuck off
>>3219312
I don't speak for all conservatives (I'm a paleolibertarian) but I believe that government should play as small a role as possible in the everyday lives of people. I believe that social conservatism is the best way to run a society, but a socially conservative one that is forced by the government (Naziism) is one of the worst.

I'd say most conservatives want government out of the economic sense and at least a little government in the social sense, more so than liberals.