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> That it's borderline "vitriol" or considered offensive says something about culture here in 2019. I'm literally writing this comment from mobile while standi

> That it's borderline "vitriol" or considered offensive says something about culture here in 2019. I'm literally writing this comment from mobile while standing in a crowd near anti-communist protest in Prague. I can't really wrap my mind around this culture change.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
It makes no sense. That's why I'm calling attention to the absurdity of it.
pjc50 8y ago
People are very tired of the mildest bit of social democrat market intervention being denounced as "communism". Like "Nazi" it's a word that has been overused into uselessness, so it gets reflexively downvoted. Besides, communism in the original sense is realistically dead. The Berlin Wall has been down for almost 30 years. So people complaining about it in the present come across as McCarthyite. (I think your original comment would have gone down better if it had been clearer about the past tense - that communism did destroy a lot of small businesses, but this is not an ongoing thing)
- TomMarius 8y ago
  I used have because these businesses remain to be dead, there are not new ones in their place, only a group of shady businessmen that own all the properties and rents them to scam shops. I think that is an important distinction. Today no businesses would be destroyed by them of course, but there is also no business to destroy.
rorykoehler 8y ago
Why is there an anti-communist protest in Prague?
- TomMarius 8y ago
  Because there is a pro-communist protest
  - rorykoehler 8y ago
    You mean there is a labour day march?
    - TomMarius 8y ago
      They don't call it that and don't behave like that, so no. They have anti-NATO, anti-USA and pro-Russia banners (and one pro-China). But there was a march earlier, at another place. I believe the anti-communists were there as well.
      - microtherion 8y ago
        May 1st is Labor Day in most of the world.
        TomMarius 8y ago
        I was born in a communist country, you don't need to tell me. There was Labor day march elsewhere, as I wrote in the previous comment. This was a protest. They did not move and actually did call themselves a protest, not march (if you asked about that, they pointed you to the march that was elsewhere and also at another time later in the day).
        microtherion 8y ago
        > you don't need to tell me All right, but I was saying so from the perspective and for the potential benefit of US readers, who celebrate Labor Day in the fall. As for your other point, at least here in Switzerland, the delineation between "march" and "protest" is not so clear, and May Day usually features both.
        7y ago

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

It makes no sense. That's why I'm calling attention to the absurdity of it.

pjc50 8y ago

People are very tired of the mildest bit of social democrat market intervention being denounced as "communism". Like "Nazi" it's a word that has been overused into uselessness, so it gets reflexively downvoted. Besides, communism in the original sense is realistically dead. The Berlin Wall has been down for almost 30 years. So people complaining about it in the present come across as McCarthyite. (I think your original comment would have gone down better if it had been clearer about the past tense - that communism did destroy a lot of small businesses, but this is not an ongoing thing)

TomMarius 8y ago
I used have because these businesses remain to be dead, there are not new ones in their place, only a group of shady businessmen that own all the properties and rents them to scam shops. I think that is an important distinction. Today no businesses would be destroyed by them of course, but there is also no business to destroy.

rorykoehler 8y ago

Why is there an anti-communist protest in Prague?

TomMarius 8y ago
Because there is a pro-communist protest
- rorykoehler 8y ago
  You mean there is a labour day march?
  - TomMarius 8y ago
    They don't call it that and don't behave like that, so no. They have anti-NATO, anti-USA and pro-Russia banners (and one pro-China). But there was a march earlier, at another place. I believe the anti-communists were there as well.
    - microtherion 8y ago
      May 1st is Labor Day in most of the world.
      - TomMarius 8y ago
        I was born in a communist country, you don't need to tell me. There was Labor day march elsewhere, as I wrote in the previous comment. This was a protest. They did not move and actually did call themselves a protest, not march (if you asked about that, they pointed you to the march that was elsewhere and also at another time later in the day).
        microtherion 8y ago
        > you don't need to tell me All right, but I was saying so from the perspective and for the potential benefit of US readers, who celebrate Labor Day in the fall. As for your other point, at least here in Switzerland, the delineation between "march" and "protest" is not so clear, and May Day usually features both.
        7y ago