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thetepes · 2 days ago

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I'm gonna yap in here for a sec, cuz honest to god I feel you're one of the few people whom I can have a nuanced convo about this in this damned website

I REALLY havent been vibing with the glorification of people like stalin and mao here. Like, I too hate the current wild and unregulated capitalistic system we have in place, but to go and defend men who killed so fucking many is wrong as fuck.

I get wanting to question things reported by the US and th US military, that is a good instinct (as someone whose country has been negatively affected by US intervention, I dont trust the US and the military) and i also think its good to not paint everyone living in china or north korea as mindless, unemotional drones, these people lived there their whole lives and have families and emotions and bla bla. But. To go on and say that both of those govts have done nothing wrong is like ??? (And denying the ongoing uyghur genocide is also scummy as fuck)

I am also very iffed that people say that everyone who left cuba had family members that owned plantations and shit, i think the castros suck but i also think it was shitty that it was a US playground for a long time.

Sorry for the extended yapping

Yapping is always welcome.

I feel the reaction is similar to... well, any standard in the west? Christianity is king so we have to swing the total opposite and be anti-theist, ignoring how that can be deeply antisemitic, belittling, and harms minorities more than anyone else. They just see themselves as taking a swing at their oppressors, but like a kid at a party having a go at a piñata, there's other kids standing behind them that just got cracked over the dome they have no idea about.

They've been hurt by republican politics so they defensively swing so far left they to say they're democrats is an insult. Now all republicans are evil, they support Trump, don't they? They support all this evil so they're evil. These people have completely lost sight of the human condition. We aren't all knowing. We aren't all understanding. We aren't a hive mind, perception rules us and there will simply be people who see things as better another way.

Nevermind that, let's face it, people in America voted red this time because a gallon of milk costs 5$ now in a lot of places. Inflation is killing people as fast as the complete lack of healthcare and on top of it, no one is hiring. Insurance rates are insane. Housing, car, and health. Unaffordable. The wages haven't gone up since the 70s and they aren't hiring anyone. Everyone 20 to 40 is just getting fucked around. Biden did nothing to help, he got lost walking to the podium multiple times.

That's why they voted red.

These people are not online. They don't know about the insane racist bullshit. I don't know how to delicately explain that everyone I know in real life doesn't have time for the internet and has no idea what a proud boy is or what white privilege is or what's going on in California, Boston, or New York. I barely do. I worked three jobs last year and did under the table work for a few places. I have bills to pay. I have to make money to send home. My family lives in a country that couldn't even afford to be in Eurovision last year, I have 14 siblings - some of which are minors - and we are hosting people fleeing the war with Russia.

We live in one of the richest most advanced countries in the world and we can't afford to enjoy it. People see two options. Red and blue. Your third party candidate doesn't mean shit. It's red or blue. That's how America works and if you don't vote because you see yourself as above the system, oh enlightened soul, you're just giving your vote to whatever evil you see as worse.

Red promised to lower the cost of living. Blue banked on women's rights. They lost. Women voted red. They voted red the same reason countries like mine accepted communism at one point. Freedom for security.

That's the cost of communism.

Hell, that's the cost of socialism in a lot of ways. Socialized medicine sounds so good until you look at your taxes. Where do you think that free education and healthcare comes from? It all sounds like a fairytale until you've sat waiting months to see a general practitioner. Want to see a specialist? Good luck. You need a referral then you're put on a list. How long's the wait? Well, it depends. On what? If someone else gets tired of waiting. It could be months. It could be longer. Suddenly just being able to go get same day xrays starts looking good.

You couldn't pay me to go back to Europe just based on healthcare alone. I'd die. I have chronic issues, are you kidding me? You need referrals in America for some doctors, but the longest I've waited is about two weeks. You can just pay to go see a guy. You can just walk in any ol' place. I've gone in and been asked if I have a referral, said no, and seen the doctor anyway because at the time I could afford it because I was married.

I'm sorry, but Americans are so privileged. I'm staggered every day I'm here by just how oblivious you all are about being so comfortable with how terrible you all treat one another. Not saying there aren't good people, but you all get away with dog shit that would get you completely iced out of any other community in any other country and you think you can handle communism? HAH!

You can't even effectively communicate with people in your own discord servers.

Free living sounds so damn good until you get in that block, your room is the size of a prison cell, there's over 50 of you in one building and your whole floor is sharing one bathroom. You do not get to choose who you live with. If you get lucky, you might get one with multiple stalls. You have to clean it. There's no janitor that comes in and cleans the building. That's you. You and your neighbors have to clean and keep your building . The government isn't going to come cut the grass for you. They aren't going to fix your sink. You'll be put on a list for repairs. It will not be a short list.

Block living is shit I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy and these people have no concept of it.

The food is rationed. Comparable to food stamps. You only get as much as the government allows. You pay for that, it comes out of your taxes. Want to grow your own? You can't. There's no community garden in a block and you can't own land for you and your friends to start one. You can ask. You'll be put on a list. They'll get back to you. If you do manage to get that garden, you have to clean and keep it. If it gets trashy they'll take it from you. There's no "Well my chronic issues" The government does not care.

This isn't even getting into the construction of the place. That there would be multiple blocks in one place and the actual reality of overcrowding or having a job the government picks for you that you get no say in. This isn't getting into being completely out of control when it comes to your own country. Not knowing what evil is happening because they control television, radio, newspaper, books, everything. It just keeps going and going and they put up Eastern Europeans DNI because when we try to tell them they can't listen because the opposite of capitalism can't be bad.

Communism isn't the opposite of capitalism. It is it's equally fascist cousin and it has a body count just as high as any capitalist nation.

Those mass graves are deep and some people just disappeared. Work camps aren't summer camps where you ride horses and play in the streams. The Nazis and Ceaușescu are Romania's two greatest evils and the body count is something I can't even truly begin to explain. We, my people, my family, we're just gone and no one talks about it. We never got answers. "Where is our loved one" Just gone. "Where is our home?" Just gone. Our culture has to be kept so fucking secret for our own safety. We can't practice it openly still because it isn't safe and then I come online and see people say tarot is Romani culture and I just want to scream.

The west is so disconnected. Reading it in a book will never do it justice and these tankies prove it. Imagine thinking Stalin is worth following? The man who let Nazis kill his own son in a camp. Mao, with at least 80 million deaths to his name.

You can't trust what America says. You can't trust the American military about ANYTHING. The American military is a horrible dog owned by a cruel master. They abuse and kill and leech then send those people home completely unsupported and loose them on the civilian population to figure out the toll of that evil for themselves. It's inhumane. Do not trust America about these places, but why wouldn't you trust the people who suffered there? The people who survived and told what happened? Sometimes a fact is just a fact, but they don't care about that.

They only care about "the right side of history". They don't know the history. They care about social credit. They care about optics. They can't do an evil because they are so obsessed with black and white that the fact they're actively supporting a machine that's just like the one they hate so much is something they can't stomach. They can't see it because they'd be wrong. And being wrong is bad. Being bad is evil and evil is unforgivable. There is only good and evil to them. And people like you and I who don't fall into that thinking are unforgivable evil people, but they want us to believe their way of thinking is the way things should be.

They don't know what happened to people who communism found evil. The death means nothing to these people because if you disagree with them you deserve it.

They don't care about disabled people. They don't care about minorities. They themselves might be those things and yet somehow it doesn't get through they'd be seen as not worth keeping housed, healthy, and fed and end up in the same place I would. They don't care about anything, but themselves and all they see is free housing, free food, free healthcare. They see security. They don't care about the cost.

#There #I out yapped you #This isn't...my most poetic post but it felt nice to say #I hope youre having a nice day anon and feel a little less alone with this stuff #I know it can feel very isolating and scary

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