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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The real communist solution to homelessness was to put them in jails. True story.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

As someone who has been homeless before, I've never been arrested for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woohoo both systems suck. You can actually believe that just because one system is bad, what is considered the opposite is also bad. Marx was not some omniscient doctor manhattan. He had some ideas. Some were good critiques on capitalist culture. Others were fantasy that do not function in the real world.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Notice how the folks arguing in favor of Communism have sources and receipts, while the folks arguing against it have done nothing but regurgitated Capitalist propaganda. Also note folks who are opposed to Communism and Marx's philosophy are always forced to admit that it only works on paper, because his logic is irrefutable if you address it with a modicum of intellectual honesty...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You link stuff, but ignore the actual accounts of human beings who fucking lived it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bruh, almost every old person I've heard talk about Communism that lived under it talks about it fondly. Lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a whole fucking family, who lived through the USSR. Not a single one of them misses it. Being spied on every step you take, my grandma has the "you never know who's watching" mentality to this day.

That's not to say they don't hate the current regime, but it's nothing compared to the absolute atrocities of the USSR's secret police.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Why are you so aggressive man?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bruh there is a reason Putin is framing his imperialist ideations as a revival of the USSR. Also I've watched a shit ton of bald and bankrupt videos where all the old people he talks to go on and on about how times were better under the Soviet governments. Facts dont care about your feelings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, it's a universal thing. That's what MAGA is about, that's what Hitler pushed. Glorifying distant past no one really remembers, reinventing it, it's fucked up, especially if it's promoted via selective parts of it. You can't use political stunts as a proof of anything. They sell you dreams because they can't show something real, they can't show important systemic improvements. In times of fuck ups, they show you that billboard, shining so bright it's blinding, while bread prices climb 2-3x to what they were a decade ago. And people indulge in that constructed feeling of it being better before, while government can do whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ok, how about people currently living through communism? 83% of Chinese people believe they live in a democracy, more than in the US. Chinese citizens are on average around 4 times wealthier than their parents. Millennials are the first generation in US history to be poorer than their parents. Most of the wealth in the US is held by boomers who lived through the tail end of new deal social democracy.

Do you also disregard these accounts by people who are currently living through communism? Or will you move the goal post again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a reason, it's just not the one you think. Hint; it's about empire, not communism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Things got much worse for most citizens of the USSR after it collapsed and state industry was privatized. Life expectancy dropped pretty severely. It shouldn’t be surpassing that anyone who suffered under that economic collapse would tell you the USSR was better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dude this is pure what aboutism

You're claiming communism is so great and when presented with links you just go "WELL WHAT ABOUT ALL THIS HUH" and then completely ignore the above. It's ridiculous. Actual text book definition of what about ism. Seriously stop and think for yourself for two seconds without restarting to this tribal shit slinging mentality.

Yeah, capitalism is bad, we live in it, we can see that happening around us, but you're eating literal propaganda about communism and ignoring actual verifiable evidence. This isn't a capitalism vs communism debate, there are more than two fucking systems you smooth brain chud

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

So what's your solution? And what verifiable evidence are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Love how all your sources are NATOpedia and all their sources are actual sources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but some guy I once met had a grandpa who lived in Europe for a year, he said Russia was great

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So what? America is a shithole, that's nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's what a lot of red states are doing now. Make homelessness illegal. Arrest the homeless. Make them do slave labor in jail. Profit.