• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I had this experience growing up. People in the US kept telling me communism was bad without ever substantiating why. It just is!

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      A famous alt-right politician in Brazil was in a podcast once and said the quiet part out loud. He’s one of the main “next generation right wing” representatives and he said, live:

      “… you know we are lucky the average Brazilian is too dumb, if they started reading and thinking they’d vote for the left, God blessed us with this idiocy”

      His voters couldn’t parse this sentence and understand what he is saying.

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      “Communism has killed trillions of people!”

      Meanwhile… in an American tent city or under your nearest American freeway…