Joe B

24 | Catholic | Mechanical Design Engineer | RPI ‘24 | Former @LucyMission Intern | STEM Communicator | All Opinions my Own 🇺🇸🇻🇦

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

Not only will religion never fade away, there will one day be Cathedrals on Mars. We will continue to praise the Lord as we explore His creation.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence. It will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

[𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬 🦇 @Nyct0phil3_x]

I'm really not enjoying the way people are talking about disabled children and I'm going to remind you that your perfectly healthy kid could become disabled at any moment, literally overnight, and no amount of NIPTs or screenings could've predicted it, and then what will you do?

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

“Killing for eugenic purposes is fine when I, personally, agree with it”

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@maendlii I didn’t say America had more culture than Greece, I’m saying it has vastly more reach than people realize. Now don’t get me wrong, we do, but that’s not what I was saying.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

A fish doesn’t know it’s in water

[G-Man @EaterOfRats102]

@Player0129876 American culture doesnt exist

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@fruitattack3 Your claim was that they had a centrally planned economy, but their turning point was literally the move away from central planning.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

Ironically enough, capitalism feeds plenty of people who don’t work, while communism could barely feed the people who did

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

They can’t keep letting this happen.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@fruitattack3 They literally made a turn for the better after shifting to a more market-oriented economy. Seems to also be the only communist country to have people who became billionaires through corporations they own. Weird.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@fruitattack3 Alright, now I know that talking to you is gonna be a waste of time

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@fruitattack3 Yes, China is communist in the same way the North Korea is democratic (in name only)

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@fruitattack3 That last one is extra funny because you commies actually can’t comprehend the difference between people simply dying under capitalism as opposed to being killed/genocided under communism.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@Zombi3Pharaoh I never said it did. Did I? There isn’t a system on Earth that literally feeds all, but capitalism comes pretty darn close!

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 Honestly the only point I was trying to make in my original post is that capitalism has brought substantially more people out of poverty than communism has or will. It set an absurdly high standard of living never before seen in history.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 Generally speaking, yes you’re right. The issue is that the definition of malnutrition used in that paper is significantly broader than that. I’m basing this solely off of the definition that they used.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 The issue is that “death from malnutrition” is too broad based on what you’re trying to argue. Someone could get sick, be unable to eat, and die of malnutrition. This says nothing about food availability or even food insecurity. It’s just the wrong stat for what you’re arguing

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 Additionally, I never implied that the Holodomor was due to natural scarcity.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 Using “malnutrition” is not intellectually honest. This says absolutely nothing about food availability or people starving. Malnutrition ≠ starvation due to lack of food availability.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@Zombi3Pharaoh In a perfect world, it could feed all. It feeds a lot more than communism does though!

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@LT0771 Their food distribution system was so good that it caused several man-made famines? I guess they were good at distributing it away from the people who needed it, sure.

I’d also like to see a source for your second claim.

[Joe B @AstroJoeB]

@CowardsofUvalde Of course not, but that isn’t my point. No such thing as a system without any abuse. My point is that capitalism clearly wins over communism any day, because it’s substantially better.