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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 4

    Every American should spend some time in communist or (former communist) countries. Having lived in modern China and the former USSR, IMO the tradeoff of authoritarianism for a temporarily economic power just isn’t worth it, and the people that pine for that are naïve.

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      2. @rm0rf‏ @rm0rf Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Who wants that? Communism was even dead in Russia, but has came back under Russian radicals. I think you are conflating things.

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 4
        Replying to @rm0rf

        Ummmm you should try talking to people in eastern Ukraine

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      4. Count. Every. Vote.‏ @rgigger Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred @rm0rf

        Do you know a lot of Americans that pine for that? I have literally never met anyone who wants that.

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      2. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Which just goes to show that the problem isn't being to the left or the right, but in accecpting dictatorships from either direction. As others have noted, there's never been a famine in a country with a democratic government.

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      3. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb Mar 4
        Replying to @alexqgb @AustenAllred

        One of he things that bothers me the most about the WSJ's op-ed page is that way that they use Venezuela to relentlessly attack the idea of democracy, as if healthy democratic institutions *lead* to Venezuelas, not away from them.

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      4. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb Mar 4
        Replying to @alexqgb @AustenAllred

        Few tricks are older or nastier than using the threat (or reality) of authoratarian dictatorship coming from one direction to impose it from the other. This is the fate of most revolutions, and the reason why most revolutions are bad.

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      5. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb Mar 4
        Replying to @alexqgb @AustenAllred

        "Hi, we're quite happy with market-oriented economies and we see they work best when accompanied by healthy social safety nets, like Sweden." "You mean Venezuela?" "No, we mean what we said, Sweden." "Same socialist thing." "That's...what?" "Venazwedland is a commie prison."

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      2. Geoffrey‏ @GarrulousGeoff Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        (Warning: Half baked idea) There might be a weird selection bias though - people who are open minded about other cultures (and wouldnt like a dictatorship) would likely go see a communist country, but people who would resonate with authoritarianism wouldnt?

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      3. Geoffrey‏ @GarrulousGeoff Mar 4
        Replying to @GarrulousGeoff @AustenAllred

        I wonder if I should just start all of my tweets with "warning half baked idea"

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      1. Jorge‏ @jorgepinon Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Yes. As a son of Cuban expats, I cringed when people on the left paid homage to Castro when he died.

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      1. charles mccullagh‏ @ChuckMcCullagh Mar 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I have this thing for Romania.

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      2. Lee Edwards  🏳️‍🌈‏ @terronk Mar 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The only one I’ve been to is Cuba, where it seems they traded it for...no economic power whatsoever. Worst of both worlds.

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      3. Ryan P. McGarvey‏ @RPMcgarvey Mar 4
        Replying to @terronk @AustenAllred

        The blockaid didn't help.

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      4. Lee Edwards  🏳️‍🌈‏ @terronk Mar 4
        Replying to @RPMcgarvey @AustenAllred

        It was a predictable geopolitical consequence that a wiser leader would have anticipated. If Castro had attempted diplomacy with the West instead of slaughtering his own people and attempting to assassinate ours, he might have created a better outcome for Cuba.

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      1. AJ Peck‏ @usacomp2k3 Mar 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I was fortunate enough to visit Estonia, which is one of the more free-market of the ex-SSR’s. It was definitely eye-opening to see how different hat culture was compared to my other international experience in which was living in a 3rd world country for 10 years.

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      1. Prez Cannady‏ @prezcannady Mar 4
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        Never underestimate the resilience of a poverty tourist.

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