• BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    My dad: “Yeah, maybe a good solution to the problem of not being able to pay rent would be government-provided housing”

    Also my dad: “Socialism is horrible! If it wasn’t, then why would EVERYONE be trying to leave Communist countries like Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe???”

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      I didnt know i was living in a communist country

      Its also strange that there are anti-communist stickers in a communist country

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      why would EVERYONE be trying to leave Communist countries like Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe???

      China is empty. Russia is empty. Cuba is empty. Vietnam is empty. South Africa is empty. They’ve all been hollowed out by the scourge of Communism. That’s why nobody lives there anymore.

      Meanwhile, the US is the most populous country on Earth. We have the densest cities. We have the largest apartment towers. We have the most-used transit systems. Our nation is full to bursting thanks to all of the people who want to live here. And the more traditionally conservative, the more flagrantly capitalist, the more Christian and Based and Traditional, the larger the US State. That’s right, folks. West Virginia, South Dakota, Utah, and Idaho are the four most densely populated corners of the planet.

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      I wonder what the modern world would look like had the USSR not been dissolved, and repaired its relationship with the PRC.

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        To me the biggest hypocracy in general when it came to forms of communism.

        It’s a failed ideology, it will always collapse in on itself as soon as it grows.

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        We need to destroy it at all costs to keep it from taking hold anywhere in the world.

        You don’t need to stop something that’s self defeating. It’s like the tower of babel story in the bible. Mankind was building up a great tower because they thought uniting they would be a powerful as gods, so god knocked over their tower, scrambled their languages to divide and conquer the world… Isn’t that kind of an admission that, God believed without his interference man can be as strong as he is?

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          Yep, really US foreign policy purely supports that which it can profit from, and it can’t do that if the population starts using its own resources for its own benefit rather than allowing them to be stolen by the US.