Ifi crushed by cheap Chinese gear

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5 hours ago, Nordkapp said:

Chinese gear is total crap, toxic and with every purchase you support a communist regime guilty of massive human rights violations.  

The Chinese government is many things, but communist is not one of them.

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3 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

I do not know any government one may call communist, now or then.

The early Soviet years may have come close. Attempts at communism do seem to turn into plain old despotism rather quickly.

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1 minute ago, AnotherSpin said:

The early Soviet years were the time of mass terror and killings, ruin and disorder. If this is communism, than maybe.

The trouble, as it were, with communism is that it has to be maintained by force. Given a choice, people seem to reject it in favour of something less extreme.

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2 minutes ago, firedog said:

You guys are confusing 2 different things: Communism and communism.

The first did and does exist, and is maintained by force, including in China. 

The second also exists, and is maintained by choice among the people who are communing. 

Modern China is the purest market economy this planet has ever seen.

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32 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

The life in USSR had its very clear advantages. To make it simple, one would never worry about tomorrow.

Unless, of course, you dared disagree with the wrong people.

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6 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

Communism is derived from the Sermon of the Mount. As good as it is it never happened in reality. Just look on the guys who claim they did. They never learn New Testament.

I thought it was derived from the writings of Marx and Engels.

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2 minutes ago, Hugo9000 said:

So where is iFi gear made?

China, most likely.

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55 minutes ago, mansr said:

China, most likely.

I just checked mine, says China.

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5 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

Teresa should know better, I guess. As someone who never lived under communism. Ideas looks better from some distance. Again, I take a liberty to repeat, the life in a communist country may be very nice if you pay no attention and do not care much. As I did.

Depends on which (nominally) communist country. The USSR probably wasn't so bad, all things considered. At the other extreme, North Korea seems quite miserable indeed.

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7 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

It doesn't make sense to evaluate from outside. How people feel is the only measure. One may say they are brainwashed. Well, who aren't? Clean and empty brain wouldn't hurt anyway.

Look at the happy, starving people.

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There's a much simpler test. If the government finds it necessary to prevent people leaving the country, it's probably not that great a place to be.

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9 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

The question is would you be happy just because you put your body in a new place.

That should be for me to decide, not the government.

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31 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

The more opportunities you have the more reasons to be un-happy you have.

Prisoners sentenced to life in solitary confinement must be the happiest of all.

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If you're ever in Berlin, I recommend a visit to the Stasi museum, housed in their old HQ.

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4 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

Of course there were couple of so called "dissidents"

A couple of dissidents do not a Gulag camp make.

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4 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

GULAG camps were populated by all Soviet nationalities. 

And that makes them OK?

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18 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

dissidents

A place where "dissident" is a useful term is not a place I want to be.

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8 minutes ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

and then what

End their suffering. Firing squad seems to work well for this purpose.