alexei_1917

This, for sure. At least the commie posters aren't blatantly sexist, and often advocate for the equality of the systematically oppressed.

This is what I mean when I say I like 1950s aesthetics. Well, that and the Cold War. Not that I miss Western views of communists being even worse than present day, but, I do miss "The Commies" having some power and cultural impact.

Western liberals say communist propaganda plastered everywhere in socialist states is dystopian, but I'd massively prefer it over the advertising plastered everywhere in Western capitalist countries. Or better yet, don't cover every square inch of available space with a poster or banner or billboard.

You get what you pay for, and the only people willing to babysit that many toddlers for free are commies!

Red nap mats, and blankets with a Soviet flag design on them! Consistent lessons on sharing the toys! Naptime story each day is read out of Lenin's collected works! Everyone has to do their share cleaning up the toys at end of day! Lots of plush grizzly bears and panda bears, no other plushies in the toy bins! Most of the toys are "roleplay grownup jobs" type playthings, complete with a dress up box full of stereotypical job uniforms! There's a portrait of Stalin hung in every room! The front hallway corkboard decorated with the children's drawings is full of commie symbols and crude crayon depictions of Soviet leaders!

But hey, at least desperate working parents don't have to pay for it! Sure, you have to deal with a baby Red after work, but if you can't afford a daycare that'll teach capitalist propaganda or religious values instead, it might seem worth it!

(Maybe we'd end up with less liberals if the majority of children ended up in places like that because they have two working parents who can't afford pricier childcare.)

But at what cost?

Tbh, a huge commie meetup where a bunch of different leftist groups from all over the world are all converging in one place, and telling the country involved's government and the hotel/conference center we were something incredibly lame and apolitical or obviously liberal, would be pretty funny.

Hopefully we could organise something way better than when Tumblr tried to do a convention, lol.

It is absolutely popular. I know people who've gone. They hate "The Commies", and refuse to support AES states in any way, directly or indirectly, but they've visited resorts in Cuba.

Liberal cognitive dissonance is one hell of a thing.

Oh, that's good.

I do like that we can make Soviet Bear jokes about it, but the true origin is funny too.

What's with the bear theming, anyway? Soviet Bear joke because we're all a bunch of tankies, or more esoteric than that? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it, but I do wonder why?

Of course capitalism can't be at fault for everything, that'd be too obvious! Blame the trans people and the commies, they make you feel icky so they must be the cause of your problems! All the conservative populists say so! It's not class war, it's obviously queer folks who are the dangerous minority, not the top 1%!

In reference to Lenin in the sky...

revisionist CPRF

Man, the Russian commies used to be the cool ones. Never thought I'd be saying I miss the Cold War...