No, I was referring to 20 year-old people as well. The difference is, they were talking about 20 year-olds who falsely claim experience in the old Soviet bloc, and I initially interpreted it as 20 year-olds who glamorize life in the old Soviet bloc against all evidence.
heres a movie about it with real footage, more of a documentary https://youtu.be/sEZikLuqt68 narrated in english
a lot of romanians nowadays think it was a state-sponsored attack by the americans, i don't know what to say but i sure know life is at least a bit better for most people, and for independent people like myself the much increased freedom is invaluable. fuck commies, any flavor of communism is cancer and should be eradicated
Tell us more about those halcyon days of Romanian supremacy, Pawpaw!
Spoiler, it ends with this:
...before the sentences were carried out, Elena CeauÈescu screamed, "You sons of bitches!" as she was led outside and lined up against the wall
Like actual communism ever existed. What we got were authoritarian dictators that basically ran a kleptocracy and slapped a âcommunistâ or âsocialistâ label on it. Facets that looked like the labels were lip service or token at best.
The US supported its economic interests first, its ideals a distant second. If you couldnât support the former you wouldnât have a hope, and you didnât understand the US.
you're NEVER going to get "actual communism" because it's an impossible utopian ideology. here's my ideology: everyone becomes a millionaire and drives lambos and fucks 10/10s every day, no poor people, no orphans, no more suffering
communism comes from a lack of knowledge of basic economic principles that are always valid no matter the ideology
Human history is littered with self interested strongmen who are willing to sacrifice those who disagree with them in their climb to power. More so, there are those who aid and abet them - and we get to experience that in the US now - with reasons varying from prejudice to tribalism to misplaced revenge.
It's a pretty big hint you don't live in commie-topia when the glorious leader is feeding orphans blood transfusions from his mega-palace while Nixon assures everyone he's one of the good ones.
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rustydomino@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
Hooo boy that trigger discipline đŹđŹđŹ
TsarVul@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Considering he means to kill someone, it's sufficient trigger discipline I believe.
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
Warsaw Pact, but yeah. It's astounding how eagerly some people will lick boots if they're painted red.
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml · -7 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
... yeah, Ceausescu's brutality was definitely Westoid propaganda. You caught us.
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml · 0 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
I'm just referring to the inevitable denial and downplaying of the brutality of dictators by tankies claiming it's all anti-Communist propaganda.
Damn, didn't even take a full minute after I posted this for you to start licking boots. Yikes.
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml · 0 pts · 2y
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 2y
Hey it's the pot calling the kettle an "asshlole"
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 0 pts · 2y
[retracted by author]
PugJesus@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
No, I was referring to 20 year-old people as well. The difference is, they were talking about 20 year-olds who falsely claim experience in the old Soviet bloc, and I initially interpreted it as 20 year-olds who glamorize life in the old Soviet bloc against all evidence.
FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
That AK looks tiny! Like those plastic kid toys.....
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Anyone want to do the math and tell us how tall this guy is?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Is that an AK-74 with a folding stock? That's right, I played CoD bitches
Rooty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
A lot of tankie seething ITT, here's a pic of Cauceascu getting BTFO'd for you to take home.
Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml · -2 pts · 2y
naphtha@monero.town · 2 pts · 2y
heres a movie about it with real footage, more of a documentary https://youtu.be/sEZikLuqt68 narrated in english
a lot of romanians nowadays think it was a state-sponsored attack by the americans, i don't know what to say but i sure know life is at least a bit better for most people, and for independent people like myself the much increased freedom is invaluable. fuck commies, any flavor of communism is cancer and should be eradicated
urfavlaura@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
it's so funny that people actually think the USSR was communist. (spoiler: they weren't)
Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml · -4 pts · 2y
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 2y
Tell us more about those halcyon days of Romanian supremacy, Pawpaw!
Spoiler, it ends with this: ...before the sentences were carried out, Elena CeauÈescu screamed, "You sons of bitches!" as she was led outside and lined up against the wall
PugJesus@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Funny enough, one of my history professors was a Romanian who lived through Ceausescu's reign.
She had nothing kind to say about him.
LoafyLemon@kbin.social · -31 pts · 2y
Commies already downvoting. Typical.
hark@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
Why indeed would communists downvote an "anti-communist fighter"? Truly a mystery for the ages!
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Agatha Christie fans upvoting, typical
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
People are going to post FĂ©lix RodrĂguez hagiographies next and then throw a hissy fit if they don't get 100% positive karma.
PugJesus@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Tankies try not to support a brutal and massively corrupt dictator who managed to turn the proletariat against him challenge (NEVER BEEN DONE)
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
... Ceausescu. Who else was dictator of Romania in 1989?
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Ion Iliescu?
PugJesus@kbin.social · -8 pts · 2y
Wasn't dictator, and didn't come into any significant influence until the last week and a half of 1989.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Doubt.jpg
orrk@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 2y
the guy who decided that striking workers should be ground under tanks, the origin of tankies
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
By counterrevolution do you mean the people rising up against an oppressive ruling class that held their country?
orrk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
point is, this applies to basically everyone tankies like
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 0 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · -5 pts · 2y
Big yikes.
Aux@lemmy.world · -30 pts · 2y
It looks like people have forgotten what communism actually is in just 3 decades...
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Like actual communism ever existed. What we got were authoritarian dictators that basically ran a kleptocracy and slapped a âcommunistâ or âsocialistâ label on it. Facets that looked like the labels were lip service or token at best.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 13 pts · 2y
absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml · 12 pts · 2y
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The US supported its economic interests first, its ideals a distant second. If you couldnât support the former you wouldnât have a hope, and you didnât understand the US.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Damn.
Aux@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
No, we had exceptional communism implementation.
naphtha@monero.town · -3 pts · 2y
you're NEVER going to get "actual communism" because it's an impossible utopian ideology. here's my ideology: everyone becomes a millionaire and drives lambos and fucks 10/10s every day, no poor people, no orphans, no more suffering
communism comes from a lack of knowledge of basic economic principles that are always valid no matter the ideology
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 2y
It's a great idea in theory, the problem is for every karl marx you've got 20 stalin wannabes and 200 gavrillo princeps
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Human history is littered with self interested strongmen who are willing to sacrifice those who disagree with them in their climb to power. More so, there are those who aid and abet them - and we get to experience that in the US now - with reasons varying from prejudice to tribalism to misplaced revenge.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · -10 pts · 2y
Not a communist, but like you've ever known lol.
It's a pretty big hint you don't live in commie-topia when the glorious leader is feeding orphans blood transfusions from his mega-palace while Nixon assures everyone he's one of the good ones.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
Trying to tell me Nixon isn't a hero of the proletariat and a generally trustworthy guy??
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 10 pts · 2y
This might be a bold statement, but I'd even go so far as to say I think he might be a crook!
ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz · -36 pts · 2y
ACAB
And C is not for cops
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Edit: @Judge_Jury@hexbear.net has informed me that B is for beast mode. Maybe one day I shall ascend to Padawan in the Way of Chapo-Posting.
sgtlion@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
The C is for counterrevolutionaries, I understand. Of course as a group, it also encompasses cops.
Shapillon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why not both?
The USSR and it's satellite states where heavily policed.
absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y
PugJesus@kbin.social · -4 pts · 2y
That reveals a frightening lack of understanding of Soviet cops.
And that's far from saying American cops are trustworthy.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Are you really suggesting they are trustworthy?!
PugJesus@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
... no, that's literally the opposite of what was said.
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Thatâs good, I was worried there for a second.
Would you mind expanding on this (please include sources)?
PugJesus@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
Considering you're from Lemmygrad, I doubt your sincerity in requesting this.