Nothing. That’s why they are asking. Because they don’t know what would happen. A lot of people go out of their way to avoid making assumptions about things they don’t know.

No stupid questions. That means don’t be snarky.

Nobody said anything about claiming the Soviet Union was a peachy clean state. You are throwing your own presumptions in and arguing with yourself. All we are saying is that the state isn’t like how you thought it was. But you’d rather double down then consider a slight change to your perception.

Enjoy battling yourself. I am done talking to a man who talks past me.

“I spoke to locals”. And so have sociologists. Most Soviet states have around a 60% regret for the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It has its evils. A state is bount to rack them up. But the Soviet Union was better for its people before it and it’s people wishes it never went away.

This doesn’t absolve it of it’s crimes. But why does it’s crimes need to be brought up every time in the same breath? Imagine every time you talked about America that someone just shit canned you for every crime of its state. It’s infuriating, and allows for no actual conversation.

But sure, keep pretending like you don’t weight them differently.

Very rich to talk about gulags and KGB when America has the largest prison population in the world, legal slavery and the CIA, NSA and ICE.

Everything your bitching about exists here in the good old USA. You just ain’t any of the targets. But let’s ask Fred Hampton what it’s like to be one hmm?

You’re never going to believe it, but the answer was more complicated than the cold war propaganda told you. Shocker.

Thank you

Yeah. You are on a communist majority platform. That’ll happen. Welcome to Lemmy noobie.

Man living in city thinks humans can’t cooperate.

You wanna start counting bodies? That doesn’t end well for the economic system that birthed the trans Atlantic slave trade, and currently provides the economic incentives for slavery systems to continue in 3rd world countries. But go off about 1500 prison sentences. Meanwhile I’ll Google the current American prison population, all of which are subject to slavery.

Fair enough brother.

No one but you thought that

And that is not a valid reason to make art. That’s not how we should determine success.