Communism is when Mexico.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
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As refreshing as it is to hear ML keyboards cracking, this is not a meme, nor a shitpost and even being a meme, there is a community for that
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ML can choke on my dick. Fuck autocrats. Your vanguard party are just the next oppressors
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poor country vs rich country
Communist democracy:
All nation states suck!
#nobordersnonations
Tell me you don't know anything about communism without telling me you don't know anything about communism speedrun any%
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If it's a shitpost why do you defend it so much?
It's just a shitpost, bro, don't think about it, let me just make a shitpost covering a political topic, I'm not making a statement just a shitpost, bro.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
I'll take gross reductionisn for 500 Alex
What is this even supposed to mean
communists build walls to keep their people in, and democracies built walls to prevent people from coming in
Communism is a type of government and can be democratic. The better comparison would be dictatorships and democracies. Or capitalism and communism.
It's a dumb meme regardless, tho.
Communism is a type of government and can be democratic.
interesting, do you have a historic example for a democratic communist state?
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Yeah but what is it trying to say? Is it just saying democracy is good because other people want to be a part of it? Why is it even comparing communism and democracy? Why is it using such a terrible example for communism? Why does it think that this observation is useful for making any kind of point even if it were accurate?
The direction of flow does not mitigate the inhumanity or blunt stupidity of the act.
Communism: 2MHz processors
Democracy: 4GHz multicore multithread processors
Tetris
Soviet union: Tetris
Human rights: The legend of Zelda: breath of the wild
they are the same pictures, no differences, and the titles are wrongs ofc.
I wish we had a world where people could cross borders as easily as money does
Now I'm curious on how the correlation actually lies, because it seems like it's actually correlated. When people can't enter, money is usually restricted too and vice versa, just like Russia is now. Of course there is smuggling, but it's for both money and people. Although maybe it shouldn't be money but "trade" in general.
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Not the best description I have seen. Any wall that can keep someone out can keep someone in. Just have to change the system inside. The big problem, however, is that nobody understands the term communism and applies it to lots of things which are not. A totalitarian state is not communism. And a Christian nationalist state is no longer a democracy.
The big problem, however, is that nobody understands the term communism and applies it to lots of things which are not
I think it's because terms used in real life often don't match their definition. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is not democratic or a republic. The National Socialist Party were not socialist. The Chinese Communist Party allows billionaires to privately own the means of production. Capitalist America regulates, subsidizes, and bails out corporations instead of allowing a free market.
The real world is more nuanced than the terms used to describe it. It doesn't help that terms like capitalism, communism, democracy, etc, have gone the way of "literally". It can mean "literally" or it can mean the exact opposite of "literally"; it depends on context.
The idea that the USSR and East Germany were anywhere close to communism is a joke. There were so many offshoots of communism that were just autocracies where the state owned all property that its meaning is pointless now. It's better to describe then as dictatorships.
As much as I agree with your communism comment the same can be said to our democracy. We are a representative democracy and choose people to choose for us.
Only for the presidential election. All the rest are normal. We're definitely a representative democracy. Whereas none of the communist countries are anywhere close to Marxist communism.
Agreed. Most if not all democracies today are severely flawed. I'd also argue that the wall depicted here has more to do with these flaws than with democracy
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
right after starving 20 million Indians kek
Ah yes, communism and democracy, directly comparable and not at all describing totally different things in different categories
It's actually disheartening that all communist countries become authoritarian. Theoretically with flat power structure, they should all become democracies. Maybe they ARE not communists.
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It's economically beneficial to live next to a communist country. They'll build the wall for you.
until it collapses because the wall was too expensive
So the same as contracting to the lowest bidder.