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      Christian conservative ancap propaganda to be more precise. The guy behind it was once recorded saying “Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.”

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    Sure, now draw the stacks of coins to-scale, Prager-U, I dare you!

    They’re obviously taking advantage of the fact that the average person doesn’t realize how wide the wealth inequality gap has gotten. Or, to put it another way, they don’t realize how badly they’ve been, and continue to be, exploited by the rich and powerful…

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      Also look at the slight difference in body language. While all blue figures and the big red boss are visaulized authoritative and defiant with their hands on their hips, the equalized red figures all have slumping shoulders showing meekness. I bet even people not actively noting this will still subconciously be influenced by the negative body language of the “communists”.

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    And when the capitalism resembles the lower one, then “it’s not real capitalism”, “we need shock therapy”, “there’s too much regulation”, “um, ackchually, the rich person doesn’t hate minorities, thus they’re socialist”, and so on…

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      Yep, all that stems from lack of class awareness and lack of the study of Marxism

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    Socialism is when the government does stuff and everyone is poor!
    And when everyone has nothing, it’s communism!

    Robot rock starts playing

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    Why not both? Cheer

    A socialist foundation where every member of society has guaranteed means of survival, maybe even thriving so we uplift ourselves as a society…combined with capitalisms incentive for innovation and ambition.

    Imagine what people could do if they were not exhausted by surviving, three jobs, etc. Yes there would be leeches, but that is a minority and a worthwhile sacrifice.

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        Because I’m from a country where people know what communism is in practice, and I hate it

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              Because it is scientific and follows materialistic analysis? Whereas capitalism is an idealistic religion.

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                Every country that was touched by communism is extremely poor or corrupt, on the other hand all people I know including me want to live in places like USA or in European Union

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                  I wonder what happened to all those former Eastern Bloc countries that might have made them poor and corrupt.

                  Could have anything with US backed color revolutions and the neoliberal looting of their societies?

                  Nah. Probably socialisms fault

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                  buddy, trust me, you do not want to live here in the USA. Unless you really love not seeing a doctor or dying in a car accident.

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                  Socialism took the USSR from a late-feudal backwater that just lost the most destructive war in history (to that point) to the first man in space, and it did so in one generation and in spite of two subsequent invasions.

                  Socialism took China from a bunch of squabbling warlords dominated by foreign empires, where famines were regular and severe enough that people regularly sold their own children to survive, to a modern economic powerhouse, lifting a billion people out of poverty along the way.

                  Socialism took Cuba from a plantation run by foreign gangsters to cutting-edge medicine and higher life expectancy than the U.S., all while fending off a low-intensity war the most powerful empire in the world has waged against it for the entirety of its existence.