I was making this and my friend asked what it was and I said “the emblem of the Communist Party of China.” And he said “Aren’t communists bad?-like Nazis or something?” I said “No, Communists are people who want a stateless and classless society, where everyone’s needs are met. And they have always been strongly opposed to fascists. In fact Stalin wanted to go war with the Nazis years before WWII started.” He said “you clearly know a lot about this.” I said “I read and listen to a lot about such things.”

It’s really nice when people whose default is anticommunist admit they don’t know anything about it.

  • The Free Penguin
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    141 year ago

    surprising that they didn’t pull the muh 99999 uyghurs tinyman square card

    • KiG V2
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      121 year ago

      Luckily most apolitical people I talk to (easily a third or even half of most Americans IMO) haven’t heard a single thing about Xinjiang, as well as many other popular anticommunist myths.

      • QueerCommieOP
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        111 year ago

        I was surprised how little my conservative swing voter grandparents knew the classic arguments. They basically just said there is some altruism within capitalism, and change could be bad.