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Dude. Are you actually stating that the multiple genocides that have been committed in communist countries were fabricated? Downplaying the killing fields or t

Dude. Are you actually stating that the multiple genocides that have been committed in communist countries were fabricated? Downplaying the killing fields or the Holodomor as invented by the media or landlords is incredibly offensive.

pydry 3y ago
Do you call the holocaust a capitalist genocide? What about when my ancestors were exterminated in the Irish potato famine and the free market was used to justify it? Are you downplaying every genocide that took place in a capitalist country? You denied a historic genocide that killed my ancestors. You think you're offended? Well, I'm not. How can I be offended? You're a basic product of your environment. Youre told that genocides that happen under communist systems are de facto communist genocides. Obvioualy. And genocides that happen under capitalist systems happen for, well, entirely different reasons. Obviously. Realistically though, when pol pot, Stalin and Hitler went on extermination binges to kill enemies (real or imagined) their reasons were much the same... the maintenance of their power. Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do.
- Plasmoid 3y ago
  > Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do. No. You explicitly advocated for Communism, not "free houses". A social structure that actively grinds human rights into dust. You don't get the play the "communists just want to give people free houses" card without admitting to being hopelessly naive or actively malicious. Stop carrying water for history's greatest monsters.
  - Gunnerhead 3y ago
    As an onlooker to this comment chain I feel like you completely ignored his entire comment, which I thought was a decent argument, and latched on only to the last sentence.

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Dude. Are you actually stating that the multiple genocides that have been committed in communist countries were fabricated? Downplaying the killing fields or t

by Plasmoid 3y ago

pydry 3y ago
Do you call the holocaust a capitalist genocide? What about when my ancestors were exterminated in the Irish potato famine and the free market was used to justify it? Are you downplaying every genocide that took place in a capitalist country? You denied a historic genocide that killed my ancestors. You think you're offended? Well, I'm not. How can I be offended? You're a basic product of your environment. Youre told that genocides that happen under communist systems are de facto communist genocides. Obvioualy. And genocides that happen under capitalist systems happen for, well, entirely different reasons. Obviously. Realistically though, when pol pot, Stalin and Hitler went on extermination binges to kill enemies (real or imagined) their reasons were much the same... the maintenance of their power. Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do.
- Plasmoid 3y ago
  > Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do. No. You explicitly advocated for Communism, not "free houses". A social structure that actively grinds human rights into dust. You don't get the play the "communists just want to give people free houses" card without admitting to being hopelessly naive or actively malicious. Stop carrying water for history's greatest monsters.
  - Gunnerhead 3y ago
    As an onlooker to this comment chain I feel like you completely ignored his entire comment, which I thought was a decent argument, and latched on only to the last sentence.