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I don't understand why people get so emotional when you mention the word communism It was a simple comparison point on the previous comment that, by my standar

I don't understand why people get so emotional when you mention the word communism It was a simple comparison point on the previous comment that, by my standard was also wildly off base (given that he said dumb to a whole country basically) the fact is that the west seems to be so attached (weirdly) to communism despite even those who implemented it already abandoned. Are you scared of ghosts or what?

nradov 3y ago
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- JuanPosadas 3y ago
  That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.
  - spidersenses 3y ago
    >That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism. Died at an old age, surrounded by loved ones? In contrast to Gulags, secret executions, and man-caused famines?
  - joenot443 3y ago
    I'm glad you mentioned that! Plenty of Wikipedia users much more knowledgable on the topic than you or I had a lengthy discussion on whether it makes sense to try and make such comparisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes#Mass_killings_by_capitalist_authoritarian_governments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_commu... The answer, as one would expect, is that it's an entirely pointless exercise, largely used as a coping mechanism for recovering communists.
joenot443 3y ago
What an idiotic question. In my case, the sensitivities are familiar. My ancestors in Ukraine were starved to death by communists during the Holodomor. Is that something you're familiar with? The West is "weirdly" attached to communism for many reasons, the foremost being that the past 50 years has been spent trying to clean up the mess left by communist regimes. Do you ever stop and wonder what Russia could have been like had the Bolsheviks not terrorized it? Does it scare you to face just how badly your ideology has globally failed, and will be forever remembered as a point of shame in the grand story of human development?
- ausudhz 3y ago
  It's not my ideology! It was an example just chill down instead of implying things that I never said

nradov 3y ago

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JuanPosadas 3y ago
That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.
- spidersenses 3y ago
  >That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism. Died at an old age, surrounded by loved ones? In contrast to Gulags, secret executions, and man-caused famines?
- joenot443 3y ago
  I'm glad you mentioned that! Plenty of Wikipedia users much more knowledgable on the topic than you or I had a lengthy discussion on whether it makes sense to try and make such comparisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes#Mass_killings_by_capitalist_authoritarian_governments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_commu... The answer, as one would expect, is that it's an entirely pointless exercise, largely used as a coping mechanism for recovering communists.

joenot443 3y ago

What an idiotic question. In my case, the sensitivities are familiar. My ancestors in Ukraine were starved to death by communists during the Holodomor. Is that something you're familiar with? The West is "weirdly" attached to communism for many reasons, the foremost being that the past 50 years has been spent trying to clean up the mess left by communist regimes. Do you ever stop and wonder what Russia could have been like had the Bolsheviks not terrorized it? Does it scare you to face just how badly your ideology has globally failed, and will be forever remembered as a point of shame in the grand story of human development?

ausudhz 3y ago
It's not my ideology! It was an example just chill down instead of implying things that I never said