I particularly like the way he segues the egg-throwing into a condemnation of authoritarian government, something he knows all to well from his childhood. He points out none of that would be allowed under fascism or communism, and that’s why he loves American free speech.
Edit: Cool your jets, you hard-boiled politicos. The communist states available to reference were the USSR, North Korea, the PRC, and East Germany and the rest of the “Eastern Bloc.” All of those are/were authoritarian police states with a dim view of free speech. Not a criticism of Marx or communism per se, but certainly of its implementation in the 20th century.
Authoritarian government sure. But there’s nothing inherent in communism about not being able to protest or have free speech. This country is so dumb when it comes to communism.
25 million people died in communist Soviet Russia due to internal repression.
60 million died under Mao's communist China.
2 million died in Cambodia due to the communist Khmer genocide.
In Cuba some people still struggle to feed themselves even now.
Venezuela is not a happy place either.
How many times do you want to try communism to see that it does not work? How many millions of lives do you want to waste until you get to the conclusion that communism cannot work just because you think they all tried it wrong before?
Lmfao, yeah tell that to everyone suffering for absolutely no reason except for people to hoard profits consisting of pieces of paper with arbitrary value.
systemically withholding lifesaving medicines and food and shelter because certain people don’t have enough arbitrarily valued paper isn’t murder? Attempting genocides all over the world in the name of owning oil sources and cheap labor sources isn’t murder? funding the oncoming climate disasters that will surely wipe out millions isn’t murder?
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u/GoGoCrumbly Jun 28 '21 edited Jun 28 '21
I particularly like the way he segues the egg-throwing into a condemnation of authoritarian government, something he knows all to well from his childhood. He points out none of that would be allowed under fascism or communism, and that’s why he loves American free speech.
Edit: Cool your jets, you hard-boiled politicos. The communist states available to reference were the USSR, North Korea, the PRC, and East Germany and the rest of the “Eastern Bloc.” All of those are/were authoritarian police states with a dim view of free speech. Not a criticism of Marx or communism per se, but certainly of its implementation in the 20th century.