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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My dad: “Yeah, maybe a good solution to the problem of not being able to pay rent would be government-provided housing”

Also my dad: “Socialism is horrible! If it wasn’t, then why would EVERYONE be trying to leave Communist countries like Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe???”

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I wonder what the modern world would look like had the USSR not been dissolved, and repaired its relationship with the PRC.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To me the biggest hypocracy in general when it came to forms of communism.

It's a failed ideology, it will always collapse in on itself as soon as it grows.

Followed with

We need to destroy it at all costs to keep it from taking hold anywhere in the world.

You don't need to stop something that's self defeating. It's like the tower of babel story in the bible. Mankind was building up a great tower because they thought uniting they would be a powerful as gods, so god knocked over their tower, scrambled their languages to divide and conquer the world.... Isn't that kind of an admission that, God believed without his interference man can be as strong as he is?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

why would EVERYONE be trying to leave Communist countries like Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe???

China is empty. Russia is empty. Cuba is empty. Vietnam is empty. South Africa is empty. They've all been hollowed out by the scourge of Communism. That's why nobody lives there anymore.

Meanwhile, the US is the most populous country on Earth. We have the densest cities. We have the largest apartment towers. We have the most-used transit systems. Our nation is full to bursting thanks to all of the people who want to live here. And the more traditionally conservative, the more flagrantly capitalist, the more Christian and Based and Traditional, the larger the US State. That's right, folks. West Virginia, South Dakota, Utah, and Idaho are the four most densely populated corners of the planet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I didnt know i was living in a communist country

Its also strange that there are anti-communist stickers in a communist country

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Its also strange that there are anti-communist stickers in a communist country

No it isn't. Revolution isn't the rapture. Fascists and liberals don't just cease to exist.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Socialism is the people. If you are afraid of socialism, you're afraid of yourself.

  • Fred Hampton
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The same folks I know who wouldn't even consider a conversation about socialism are not going to be swayed when I quote any black man to them, much less a panther.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Totally fair. The trick is to meet them where they're at, and then work from there. The folks you're thinking about will take a lot of effort, but if union organizers can do it then so can you

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Rest in Power Fred Hampton, a brave Marxist-Leninist that tried to do what was right and got murdered by the US police for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

"but you're gonna take my private property !"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

That's the People's Toothbrush!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"No, no, they tries to tricks us, precious [capitalism]! They wants to take you from us, stop you from helping us, precious, gollum!"

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