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[–] Tja@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No. My impressions are based on having lived it before the iron curtain fell.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unless you're over a 100 years old you lived in a totalitarian system masquerading as Communism.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But prepare for a 25 year old who lives in his mom's garage in rural Indiana to try to debate you on the subject anyway.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He lives in his mother's garage because he can't afford to move out on the pittance he makes at work. It sure wasn't communism that put him there

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Says the balding neckbeard living in Brexit-land.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Bald, not balding.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Tja@programming.dev -4 points 2 years ago

See how most of those polls are from 2009-2011, in the middle of the worst economic crisis in Europe in a century?

And they weren't thrown in jail for saying it?

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean the impressions of having lived in a dictatorship which discarded the idea of progressing towards communism? How is that relevant?

[–] Tja@programming.dev -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See how you didn't even have to ask which country it was? Because a 100% of communist countries became dictatorships ridden with poverty for the working class and gold plated luxury for the ruling class.

I'm happy now somewhere in the middle in this terrible, terrible capitalism. Oh, and I'm free to leave anytime I want, if I don't like it.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Grade-school level history: I didn't need to ask which country because all of the possible countries were puppet states of a single other country...

Because a 100% of communist countries became dictatorships [...]

There are a total of 0 communist countries throughout history. Your lack of very basic knowledge is starting to make me cringe.

I’m happy now somewhere in the middle in this terrible, terrible capitalism.

That's irrelevant. If you're happy while I'm driving a nail through your eyes, does that make driving a nail through someone's eyes a good thing? The fact that you are privileged doesn't make a difference.

Oh, and I’m free to leave anytime I want

No, you're not. Your statement is so completely uneducated, I couldn't even guess where to begin dismantling it.