And if you’re in the imperial core, the immigrants you meet that “fled communism” are generally from ruling families and affiliated class traitors deposed in communist revolutions
For example, in the DC area, there’s a large Vietnamese shopping center called Eden Center in Falls Church, founded by people from the former Republic of Vietnam (they even have a RoV flag flying there). Hyper-conservative and anti-communist af. MAGA hats are proudly worn there. Also considerable organized crime behind the scenes
Coincidentally the largest center of human trafficking in the area after Dulles airport
One of my socialist Vietnamese friends just can’t go there anymore, just comprehending the background conversation is stressful enough. We both find it regrettable, because the food is amazing
In discussing the poll about Romania here (in fact it’s two polls by two different research companies(1)) which display an outright majority of Romanians saying in 2010 and 2015 that life was better under socialism I had someone respond to me saying that it wasn’t true and his friend laughed so hard when Ceaucescu was shot
He proceeded to tell me people who spoke Hungarian were executed so I pointed out that Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian were recognised languages in Romania
I laughed then asked this guy if his friend was an emigree
To which he said yes, to the US into the tech industry and it’s always the same story lol
I then supplied the link with the polls and he said “it’s only a poll of 1000 in a country of 22 million” to which I pointed out 1000 is the gold standard and provides only a margin of error of 2.2
If you were to poll 10,000 for instance you only bring the margin of error down to 1.0
It is funny seeing shitlibs become as brainwashed as they think communists are and the mental gymnastics they have to do daily to defend this fuckin awful system
And if you’re in the imperial core, the immigrants you meet that “fled communism” are generally from ruling families and affiliated class traitors deposed in communist revolutions
For example, in the DC area, there’s a large Vietnamese shopping center called Eden Center in Falls Church, founded by people from the former Republic of Vietnam (they even have a RoV flag flying there). Hyper-conservative and anti-communist af. MAGA hats are proudly worn there. Also considerable organized crime behind the scenes
Coincidentally the largest center of human trafficking in the area after Dulles airport
One of my socialist Vietnamese friends just can’t go there anymore, just comprehending the background conversation is stressful enough. We both find it regrettable, because the food is amazing
100% this.
In discussing the poll about Romania here (in fact it’s two polls by two different research companies(1)) which display an outright majority of Romanians saying in 2010 and 2015 that life was better under socialism I had someone respond to me saying that it wasn’t true and his friend laughed so hard when Ceaucescu was shot
He proceeded to tell me people who spoke Hungarian were executed so I pointed out that Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian were recognised languages in Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania
I laughed then asked this guy if his friend was an emigree
To which he said yes, to the US into the tech industry and it’s always the same story lol
I then supplied the link with the polls and he said “it’s only a poll of 1000 in a country of 22 million” to which I pointed out 1000 is the gold standard and provides only a margin of error of 2.2
If you were to poll 10,000 for instance you only bring the margin of error down to 1.0
It is funny seeing shitlibs become as brainwashed as they think communists are and the mental gymnastics they have to do daily to defend this fuckin awful system
(1) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/communist-nostalgia-in-romania/
(2) https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/sample-size-surveys