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> This is like trying to get govt to invent flight

The Soviet Union invented space flight.



They invented rocket propulsion...?

If you can stomach it: https://youtu.be/0Xg4Uq1W4L8

Please don't ignore the thousands and thousands of examples of govt being terrible at this, for the handful of somewhat useful examples of shit sticking to the wall. It's still flinging shit


> government bad

That's mostly just you grandstanding your ideology and not really contributing to a rational discussion.


Yes government bad.

Did Russia invent rocket propulsion?

How many dozens of millions died because of insane huge govt policies, like redistributing from the successful to the unsuccessful ...




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