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lordhellebore:
shirasade:
kimmycup:
piwnymisiek:
fthgurdy:
420broscope:
miss-paxi:
noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
gill-goo:
Here’s a fun fact and reminder that I am not gonna stop posting about as long as I keep seeing this bullshit:
Dear Americans, identifying as a communist is just as offensive as being a literal nazi in a very big part of the world. The hammer and sickle is an offensive symbol that is banned in many countries, just like the swastika. Likely more people died under communist oppression than nazism, and there are people still alive who can tell you about it.
And no, don’t come at me with all this “but the core ideology was good!!” or especially “here we do not have this connotation so it’s not offensive!”. Your media, culture and standards are forced on the entirety of the rest of the world, and whatever you post in english is understandable for everyone else, if I am decent enough to care about issues like blackface (that literally have zero history in eg. my entire country which was never a colonizing nation), you should be decent enough and not make a hip cool internet trend about an oppressive ideology whose victims still remember the horrors and still suffer the consequences :)
Thanks and don’t be surprised if you see this reposted by me again, chances are I saw another fucking idiot who thinks communism is cool uwu it was just never done right, Lenin was a bae uwu glitter rainbow hammer and sickle :3
my grandmother fled with her 4 year old and a fistful of jewelry because the communist regime in hungary was literally that bad
“ohhhh but communism is about EVERYONE being able to go to fancy restaurants!” they actually shot a bunch of peaceful student protesters in front of the capital’s university over the living conditions but sure
i don’t have patience for these assholes anymore
The Russian communist party took the entirety of my ethnicity, forced them out of their homes at gunpoint, locked them in unheated train cars in the middle of winter, and forced them to “””resettle””” in Kazakhstan. Between the trip and first few years of starvation and disease, roughly one hundred thousand died, about half of which were children.
They then let us return to our homeland 12 years later….
and treated us like second class citizens; they took our land, our generational wealth, our culture, our freedom, our families, and future economic and educational opportunities.
Fuck commies
People from countries who have not suffered or are currently suffering from real-life communist crimes DO NOT GET TO DECIDE WHETHER COMMUNISM IS REDEEMABLE.1. the irony of these uwu communism claims is that communism as it was seen in practice was always ready to sacrifice any number of individuals for its propaganda, so, congrats, your ‘but the ideology needs to be preserved despite bad things that happened!’ is exactly the attitude that supports communist governments murdering millions ‘for the greater good’.2. ‘We can’t cancel communism just because some communist regimes were bad’ yet you are willing to cancel all of the victims because you want to repackage the ideology to serve your privileged ass’s need for rebellion against the man?You’re literally exploiting the people for your own gain, you selfish fucks. You’re capitalising on victims of communism.Have some self-awareness for fuck’s sakes.
Hey people, if you really want to create a “communist utopia”, don’t try to reinstate communism. Instead learn about it, see the atrocities its adherents committed, and think carefully about what you’re trying to achieve. If it’s still communism, then you better not try it in my part of the world, because we’ve had enough of that shit for over four decades, and we were the lucky ones - we barely managed to remain USSR’s satellite, and not its part.
Don’t come at us about the core ideology being good - so is the idea about world peace. In reality, both are not possible to achieve with a snap of your fingers - take it from the countries who tried - in practice, communism brings nothing but oppression, so kindly fuck off with your theory.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of Americans seem to have no idea what communism actually is. Instead they confuse it with social democracy, which is based on the idea of the common good and the majority looking out for the weaker minority through the means of government intervention (like healthcare or old age pensions).
The commenter above me is right - I’ve noticed that again and again. Lots of US Americans don’t know what communism or socialism even are. (I once had to explain to someone that no, Germany is not “socialist”, but “a social state”, as in, our state is set up in such a way that the stronger members of society can carry the ‘weaker’ ones (welfare, universal healthcare etc.))
And while I’ve luckily never lived in a communist country myself, I’m still angry when people praise a system that’s responsible for my relatives living in a dictatorship for decades where they had to be constantly afraid of being spied on and tortured/imprisoned in case they’d have to be found to voice displeasure with the regime, and where they couldn’t leave the country and any attempt to flee would have got them killed.
There’s also the difference between what is communism on paper over a hundred years ago and what is communism has been in practise. If you got a time machine and pulled Karl Marx into 2019, the country he would say was closest to his communist ideal would probably be France.
lordhellebore:
shirasade:
kimmycup:
piwnymisiek:
fthgurdy:
420broscope:
miss-paxi:
noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
gill-goo:
Here’s a fun fact and reminder that I am not gonna stop posting about as long as I keep seeing this bullshit:
Dear Americans, identifying as a communist is just as offensive as being a literal nazi in a very big part of the world. The hammer and sickle is an offensive symbol that is banned in many countries, just like the swastika. Likely more people died under communist oppression than nazism, and there are people still alive who can tell you about it.
And no, don’t come at me with all this “but the core ideology was good!!” or especially “here we do not have this connotation so it’s not offensive!”. Your media, culture and standards are forced on the entirety of the rest of the world, and whatever you post in english is understandable for everyone else, if I am decent enough to care about issues like blackface (that literally have zero history in eg. my entire country which was never a colonizing nation), you should be decent enough and not make a hip cool internet trend about an oppressive ideology whose victims still remember the horrors and still suffer the consequences :)
Thanks and don’t be surprised if you see this reposted by me again, chances are I saw another fucking idiot who thinks communism is cool uwu it was just never done right, Lenin was a bae uwu glitter rainbow hammer and sickle :3
my grandmother fled with her 4 year old and a fistful of jewelry because the communist regime in hungary was literally that bad
“ohhhh but communism is about EVERYONE being able to go to fancy restaurants!” they actually shot a bunch of peaceful student protesters in front of the capital’s university over the living conditions but sure
i don’t have patience for these assholes anymore
The Russian communist party took the entirety of my ethnicity, forced them out of their homes at gunpoint, locked them in unheated train cars in the middle of winter, and forced them to “””resettle””” in Kazakhstan. Between the trip and first few years of starvation and disease, roughly one hundred thousand died, about half of which were children.
They then let us return to our homeland 12 years later….
and treated us like second class citizens; they took our land, our generational wealth, our culture, our freedom, our families, and future economic and educational opportunities.
Fuck commies
People from countries who have not suffered or are currently suffering from real-life communist crimes DO NOT GET TO DECIDE WHETHER COMMUNISM IS REDEEMABLE.1. the irony of these uwu communism claims is that communism as it was seen in practice was always ready to sacrifice any number of individuals for its propaganda, so, congrats, your ‘but the ideology needs to be preserved despite bad things that happened!’ is exactly the attitude that supports communist governments murdering millions ‘for the greater good’.2. ‘We can’t cancel communism just because some communist regimes were bad’ yet you are willing to cancel all of the victims because you want to repackage the ideology to serve your privileged ass’s need for rebellion against the man?You’re literally exploiting the people for your own gain, you selfish fucks. You’re capitalising on victims of communism.Have some self-awareness for fuck’s sakes.
Hey people, if you really want to create a “communist utopia”, don’t try to reinstate communism. Instead learn about it, see the atrocities its adherents committed, and think carefully about what you’re trying to achieve. If it’s still communism, then you better not try it in my part of the world, because we’ve had enough of that shit for over four decades, and we were the lucky ones - we barely managed to remain USSR’s satellite, and not its part.
Don’t come at us about the core ideology being good - so is the idea about world peace. In reality, both are not possible to achieve with a snap of your fingers - take it from the countries who tried - in practice, communism brings nothing but oppression, so kindly fuck off with your theory.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of Americans seem to have no idea what communism actually is. Instead they confuse it with social democracy, which is based on the idea of the common good and the majority looking out for the weaker minority through the means of government intervention (like healthcare or old age pensions).
The commenter above me is right - I’ve noticed that again and again. Lots of US Americans don’t know what communism or socialism even are. (I once had to explain to someone that no, Germany is not “socialist”, but “a social state”, as in, our state is set up in such a way that the stronger members of society can carry the ‘weaker’ ones (welfare, universal healthcare etc.))
And while I’ve luckily never lived in a communist country myself, I’m still angry when people praise a system that’s responsible for my relatives living in a dictatorship for decades where they had to be constantly afraid of being spied on and tortured/imprisoned in case they’d have to be found to voice displeasure with the regime, and where they couldn’t leave the country and any attempt to flee would have got them killed.
There’s also the difference between what is communism on paper over a hundred years ago and what is communism has been in practise. If you got a time machine and pulled Karl Marx into 2019, the country he would say was closest to his communist ideal would probably be France.
