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Bulletins and News Discussion from November 27th to December 3rd, 2023 - Pain in the ASS - COTW: Burkina Faso
  • Yeah it's a drug like coffee is a drug, technically true but that characterisation is racist (not saying you are but people educated about khat and equating with stimulants like meth are, see the 'i am the captain now' movie for reference)

  • Communism bad
  • Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were supported by the US as the legitimate holder of Cambodias UN seat(in opposition to actually communist government that came to power after he was deposed by the actually communist Vietnamese) until 1993

  • “Communism doesn’t work”
  • I'm not going to get into a pedantic debate with you about the exact labelling of the ideology of these states, what is important and you're intentionally being obtuse about is that these systems differ(ed) from bourgeois western liberal 'democracy' and is the subject of the meme being discussed

  • “Communism doesn’t work”
  • My bad you're correct I accidentally pasted the paragraphs out of order

    Here you go;

    According to a recent poll, many Romanians remain nostalgic for communism, over two decades after dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown. The INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism, 15.6 said that they had stayed the same, while only 33.6 claimed that life was worse back then. When asked about dictator Ceausescu, 47.5 of the respondents claimed that he had a relatively positive role in Romania’s recent history, while 46.9 said that his role was rather negative. The recent poll was conducted between November 7 and 14, 2014, on a sample of 1,055 participants, with a 3 percent margin of error at the 95 percent confidence level.

    A 2010 poll conducted by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy provided similar results. Of the 1,460 respondents, 54 percent claimed that they had better living standards during communism, while 16 percent said that they were worse. Moreover, 49 percent claimed that Ceausescu was a good leader, 30 percent believed he was neither good nor bad, while 15 said he was bad. The survey has a 2.7 percent margin of error at the 95 percent confidence level.

    How does that change the point made and the actual Romanian people's experience living under communism?

  • “Communism doesn’t work”
  • Communism has never been realized,

    Exactly, hence why those making 'cOmMuNiSm oNlY wOrKs On PaPeR' arguments and this meme are actually about socialist states which is what I am defending in my first comment, that is blatantly clear from context

  • “Communism doesn’t work”
  • We're fully aware that DoTP is a transitory step in the path to full stateless classless communism, I'm just engaging with conceit the meme makes to dispute the point those who make 'cOmMuNiSm oNlY wOrKs On PaPeR' arguments think they're making

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