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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] wischi@programming.dev 60 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Probably US-Americans confusing anything that's not predatory capitalism with Russia and China.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Confusing or deliberately conflating, depending on whether they're the fraudster or the mark.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 hours ago

And unfortunately this conflation was also exploited by the Soviet Union and CCP to point their state capitalism as the only alternative to (neo)liberal capitalism.