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It’s unfortunate that a communist dictator was toppled and killed? Did you ever bother to look into why that happened and all the evils he did? We shouldn’t be
by throwawayfear 3y ago
It’s unfortunate that a communist dictator was toppled and killed? Did you ever bother to look into why that happened and all the evils he did?
We shouldn’t be borrowing from a dead communist dictator’s playbook. Clearly it didn’t work out for him and the vast majority of people didn’t want that.
- achenet 3y agoI suspect the 'unfortunate' in the parent comment was dry irony, not an earnest expression of sadness.
- meindnoch 3y agoIt was irony. It was unfortunate for him, because he couldn't realize his grand vision of communal food distribution: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-romania-hunger-circuses-bucharest/32229040.html https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-romania-hunger-circuses-bucha... I didn't think I needed to elaborate that any idea coming from communist dictators (let alone the self-styled Genius of The Carpathians) should not be the basis of our policies.