• SeeingRed [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    The gun is a metaphor for, among other things, US backed coups. Sanctions against Cuba are another example.

    This is an old meme format where the foreground character shoots the background character, then blames the flaws of the background character on something unrelated to being shot.

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      11 months ago

      The gun is a metaphor for, among other things, US backed coups. Sanctions against Cuba are another example.

      That doesn’t answer the question.

      This is an old meme format

      LOL I know what the meme is.

      • Giyuu
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        11 months ago

        It answers the question if you’re not stupid

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            11 months ago

            It really does, the meme is about how Capitalist countries (namely the US) will sabotage Socialist countries, then use that as proof that “communism doesn’t work”. Such as flattening North Korea in the Korean war, or embargoing Cuba.

            If you understand the meme format, it shouldn’t be hard to understand the implication of the meme.

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              11 months ago

              So capitalist countries harmed other countries and hence in the meme capitalism has a gun. Therefore in the meme, communism should also have a gun.

              I asked:

              “Why does capitalism have a gun but communism doesn’t?”

              That question hasn’t been answered.

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                11 months ago

                Alright, I can see there’s really no point dealing with you then.

                Why doesn’t communism have a gun in the meme? because that’s not the meme. It’s that simple.

                I looked at your other interactions in other places on lemmy federation, and I can see this is a pattern with you. You seem to only be open to your own interpretation of a subject, then you seem to try to force people to use your logic in the conversation. That feels ‘bad faith’ to me, so I’m just gonna go ahead and ban you. You don’t seem to actually want to discuss Socialism in good faith.

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            11 months ago

            My bad I forgot to ask whitey for his opinion