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      I have been to a communist country. It is exactly what you would expect. Malnourished people, everyone is sad looking and everything is run down. I had many friends who, luckily, were able to escape from communism. Multiple families living in unheated homes, lack of food, everything was garbage. I asked one of them what made their parents defect. It was when her father came to America for an exchange program. He went into a grocery store. A grocery store is what made him defect.

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    3 months ago

    That’s how I fixed some of my kids friends. They started to talk about communism as if was a good idea and not really something worse than Nazis.

    So I had a zoom meeting with my friends who survived communism and the young kids.

    That’s the best cure for communism. Talk to people who survived it.

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      So lying, basically.

      Editi : ok sorry, I obviously made assumption w/o information. You had the kids talk to someone who lived in a kibbutz?

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          I see. Was that really communism, following communist principles? Seems like they just called it that as an excuse to steal farms and change the ruling class to themselves.

          Anyway I have also been fortunate enough to meet people from all around the world, including someone from North Korea and someone from Congo. They told me how bad democratic republics are.

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            Was that really communism, following communist principles? Yes. lol, yes it was. I get the whole it’s not real communism. Yet every country that goes down that path does the exact same thing.

            Well good for them, they shouldn’t move here then.