Memes

It must rule being a liberal. Just being able to say whatever, talk out your ass like you're an expert on a subject you don't even understand, be completely submerged in the capitalist cultural ooze and somehow think people who disagree with you don't know shit.
I long for a world where I can be as blissfully ignorant as a communist as you can be currently as a liberal.

Liberal democracies use actual slave labour, not to mention the colonial horrors still being carried out - and I'm not going to waste my time trying to explain imperialism to you, because I know there's a whole other thing we'd have to educate you on first.
The USSR had a lower recidivism rate, lower death rate and higher QoL for inmates in the gulag system from 1952 onwards than the US has in its current system to this day.
We are infinitely more surveilled than any communist scare-story. You only don't notice political repression because you stay within what is acceptable. We coup, cheat elections, kidnap and kill to our hearts desire in the west - and not just brown people! We have black sites where police can take you, we have bullshit charges and violent cops.

But despite liberal democracy creating a violent all-surveilleing repressive police state dedicated to extracting wealth from the poor and giving it to the rich, it is somehow communism that is fascism. I assume this is because of "authoritarianism"? The idea that a state exerting power is bad in and of itself, no matter on behalf of whom and to what end said power is used, is fucking ridiculous. Cooked up by Hannah Arendt - an actual antisemite - in order to make Hitler an equal to Stalin. The concept is meaningless, any definition is either so broad as to encompass all states or so narrow as to just mean "enemy of the US"

You should read Blackshirts and Reds, it deals with the many differences between the two.

No? Communism is a movement towards abolishing class society, via collectivizing production and distribution. Fascism is a violent reaction to capitalist decay, employed to retain bourgeois property ownership and break up labor organizing. They are diametric opposites, which is why they have historically bitterly hated each other.

Not all communism is authoritarian