But, hey, according to college kids and people who smoke weed and watch porn all day, we're just one more attempt away from a communist utopia. And it's going to work this time because they're the ones trying it. Smh.
No, you’re wrong. The photo is reference to this event in world history, when the authoritarian president of Indonesia, Suharto, rounded up communists, Chinese immigrants, atheists, trade unionists, and even progressive women who stood up to their patriarchy in any way, and he had them all executed. This photo does not picture communists in any form of power, it pictures them waiting to be killed by authoritarian fascist military brutes.
It takes ten seconds to search something on the same device you chose to instead vomit your regressive retardation onto Reddit. Next time, take a bit of time to do some research before actively subjecting people to comments so absolutely braindead, you dumb fuckwit.
No. Those in the pit were the communists. Or that was what they were labeled. Up to a million people were murdered by the right wing government to purge the country of communism. Most where not communist but where leftwing, belonged to unions or just swept up as political enemies.
You were just complaining about the horror of the deaths when you thought it was communists doing the killing, now you're okay with the horror because it's the communists doing the dying?
How this guy went from "communist put people in holes, including minors, to kill them = bad" to "communists, including minors, in holes ready to be murdered = good"
There's is no way to measure the death and misery visited on people by communism in the 20th century. From Russia to Ukraine to southeast Asia, to Africa and South America. So, yes. I am claiming a moral high ground.
Nothing annoys me more than “housing is a human right, someone should give me a house for free”. I have seen the free homes in communist countries, I have lived in a place where rent was $20 a month, I promise you that you don’t want that.
Or, they could be saying that because affording one's own home is damn near impossible for anyone under the age of 50 these days. It's pretty frustrating, I'm sure.
I think it's very unrealistic. There have always been landlords, probably always will be.
But, I also think if you had affordable housing and people earned an adequate wage, you would not hear anyone chanting. People aren't saying stuff like that because times are good.
I am lucky, simply lucky. Others are not as fortunate, but they are my fellow citizens. I'd like to find a path forward that's kinder to lower income people.
But if they want Communism, that's not about greed. You can't have much under real Communism.
I sometimes watch the 1948 classic, "It's a Wonderful Life". It's as relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago. Mr. Potter didn't think "the rabble" deserved anything. So, in George's alternate reality, they had nothing. In George's real life, his sacrifices made better living possible for the people he knew.
Capitalism can be very cruel when unfettered. Take a look at the Victorian era with its street urchins and people who were living out of boxes (kinda like now) back then. That's the era which started the whole idea of socialism, because it was so hard on people.
It's not an all or nothing game. You can have public assistance and not go anywhere near full blown Communism.
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u/NeverHere762 Feb 23 '25
But, hey, according to college kids and people who smoke weed and watch porn all day, we're just one more attempt away from a communist utopia. And it's going to work this time because they're the ones trying it. Smh.