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https://x.com/politbureaucrat/status/2053180913006117278

Explaining communism to a Romanian:

“So imagine stealing…”

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[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

me when im taking out a heap of IMF loans like ill never have to repay them blackbeard-writing

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago
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[-] Vostok_@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I am Romanian, and I approve this message

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wikiquote says that this quote comes from "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Mihai Pacepa. ISBN 0895265702"


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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago
[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

It's more that ethical theory has a tenuous grasp on contextual morality, and therefore even systemically ethical actions can contextually be deeply immoral, which is why focusing on writing about and deriving endless hypotheticals and thought experiments to 'determine the truth value between ethical systems' (as the deotologoists and utilitarians of the era were always doing) is an intellectual dead-end, like arguing how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

It's 6, don't @ me.

[-] beanenjoyer@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Ceausescu is a blight on the communist movement and a disgrace.

[-] KelquunDotre@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I went to school with one of the grandkids of the Romanian ruling family.

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