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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Haha yes! The threehundreth variation of the same joke, feels like the first time I heard it

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I will always find charlie kirk with a small face hilarious and I refuse to apologize.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We all have our guilty pleasures, I enjoy Stalin with a comically large spoon -memes but wouldn't bother others with them.

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    Though that never happened, it's good that it happened. Warm regards from my moms basement.

    I also like pointing out how homosexuals and trans folk have always been the first ones to get camped under communism.

    And that equality is a liberal ideology.

    And that social democracy fixes everything commies claim communism does, except that social democracy works.

    Gets em everytime.

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    LGBT+ people, and haven’t bothered to realize that the nations at the forefront of LGBT rights have never included a socialist nation until last month’s reforms in Cuba (much respect for Cuba in doing this).

    The GDR had more practical rights for lgbt people than the best capitalist countries for most of its history, and Cuba was better on lgbt rights even before the family code. Marriage equality isn't the end all be all, especially in countries where marriage is less institutionalized by the government.

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    I also like pointing out how homosexuals and trans folk have always been the first ones to get camped under communism.

    East Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, filipino maoist insurgent marriages, oh and also all current socialist countries are making massive progress on lgbt issues while the minority of capitalist countries where communist led lgbt movements have succeeded in scoring some victories are backsliding.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    -10,000 social credit. Bing chilling.

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    LOL like I had social credit! I'm an anarchist, typically among the first or second wave of political dissidents executed whenever a communist regime that would impliment such a social credit system takes power. Simply put: by the time that matters I'm already dead and hopefully took a few out omw.

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    Famines were common before the revolution and in fact were one of the main causes of the revolution. Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition: https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf

    Meanwhile, 40 million Americans struggle with food insecurity today https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-insecurity-americans-still-go-hungry-after-a-decade-of-recovery/

    🤡

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    Well I've hit my image limit lol, so unfortunately I can't keep posting pictures of stuff that "never happened and if they did they deserved it," lucky you.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Aww I guess you'll have to get off on gore porn in private now. Neanwhile nobody made that argument at all. The fact that you think posting pictures of bad things that happened under communism to make an argument that communism is bad is a sound argument really highlights the quality of your intellect. I think you've given us sufficient demonstration of that.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Communism objectively failed - the USSR no longer exists and modern Russia is a capitalist oligarchy. The PRC is economically capitalist despite all the hammer-and-sickle flags. Meanwhile, the USA and EU economically and militarily dominate the planet. I'd call that succeeding, dominating in fact.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago

    Communism has not objectively failed. USSR managed to improve lives of millions of people, and the transition to capitalism has been an abject disaster. Claiming that the fact that USSR is no longer around is a failure of communism is a nonsensical argument though. Plenty of capitalist regimes fail, yet we don't see you saying that capitalism failed because of that.

    Meanwhile, saying that PRC is capitalist shows a profound lack of understanding of the subject on your part. If you care to educate yourself on the subject then you could read this book https://redletterspp.com/products/the-east-is-still-red

    USA got in the dominant position after WW2 not because of capitalism, but because it was the only major power that wasn't directly involved in the war and hasn't been destroyed in the process. The world order that US built is collapsing as we speak.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hexbear and lemmygrad make that argument, and as a result they get to confront their own ideals until they block me. Fuck em. Tankies think it's good, here it is.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't make any such argument, but clearly you weren't engaging with what I said and instead decided to fight a straw man being the intellectual giant that you are. The reality is that bad things happen in every human society. The question is whether the terrible things you spammed here are an inherent result of the communist ideology or not. And of course the other question is whether communists managed to create a society that has a positive trajectory and how it compares to other existing societies run by capitalists. Clearly considering such questions is beyond your intellectual ken.

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    Yup, that's me, presumably you have some point you're trying to make there?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    So you support communist China and it's actions?

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    Of course I do, communist China lifted over a billion people out of horrific poverty and has consistently improved the standard of living for its people. Only an absolute imbecile would ignore all that in favor of focusing on tragedies that happened during the revolution.

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