Tbh it probably does suck to live somewhere like Cuba whose economy has been strangled by blockades, but it's a "stop hitting yourself" sort of logic to blame it on communism.

Everyone please, stop scratching the liberals. We can't handle any more fascists

Whispering in ear

Wait, really?

Whispering in ear

The whole time?

Maybe your family should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and choose not to suffer under communism then.

I think state instruments of power will make mistakes and cause undue harm if they exist, and yet we need them to exist to fight a literal war with the most powerful military force in human history, by several orders of magnitude. I think there are genuine issues that arise there. I just don’t think the vast majority of people raising concerns about the harms of communism are worried about the specific errors that have actually occurred and were unforced. They’re too busy repeating talking points about how cruel Castro was to the slave owners.

No my family should be allowed to own serfs, plantations and call on the police to disappear any local who looks at the pater familia wrong

My prefered counter is "my family suffered under capitalism"

GOOD post

The Bolsheviks shot and bayonetted my entire family in a basement in 1918

Stalin shot my great-grandfather.

is a gusano.

This isn’t very accurate. Plenty of people suffer under communism, or at least nominally communist governments. I mean, are we gonna pretend post-Stalin leadership was good? Or citizen sin AES that have to allow free market policies in their countries to survive are 100% happy?

Half the time the "suffering" is just being demoted from being a landlord to being normal and having to get a job.

My peepaw deserved that egg monopoly because he told me