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Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?

 
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All my life, I'm posting from North Korea, I would never want to set foot into capitalistic country, here everything is free
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Cool story bro.
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I have.

It felt far, far less communist (in the negative sense of the word) than either Canada or USA today, however.
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The global tech and corps is a whole different spin on this.
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You had bread lines and low workers wage.
Labor groups and unions were that would fight for higher wages were banned. The government kept wages low.

This is why the Communist Model is attractive to the Bankers and Global Corporations. No pesky worker rights, pollution controls, political representation and so on.

The USA is very similar where the corporations control our government and killed off all the unions.
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Corporations are US version of communism. Behind all political parties are corporations. They kill small businesses.
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Just curious.
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In a certain way, yes. The US military is a very close proxy for Communism. Think about it for a bit and you will realize it is very true. The military sucks ass by the way. It is still better than true Communism though, because it gets an endless supply of money from a larger, healthier economy. If it had to make do for itself, it would be a nightmare.
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Also dont forget the defense industries in the USA.
They take tax payer money to reward themselves and shareholders. They take some of that tax payer money to lobby government with to keep the circle jerk going.

That should be illegal.
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I am and am very proud of that wonderful part of life when almost EVERYTHING was shared!

THouses were not locked, you could sleep wherever you wanted without fear, people were more cultured, respect was greater, solidarity was greater. There were no homeless people and abandoned children

I was a kid, but I remember everything well!

Yugoslavia , today (Croatia and other Balkan countries)...
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I have.

It felt far, far less communist (in the negative sense of the word) than either Canada or USA today, however.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78965170


The global tech and corps is a whole different spin on this.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73265907


You had bread lines and low workers wage.
Labor groups and unions were that would fight for higher wages were banned. The government kept wages low.

This is why the Communist Model is attractive to the Bankers and Global Corporations. No pesky worker rights, pollution controls, political representation and so on.

The USA is very similar where the corporations control our government and killed off all the unions.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79106457


Ludicrous....

How many bankers and billionaires in the USSR? Only after the fall of Communism, and Russia adopted a freemarket democratic model, based on the West, it had billionaires.

Western capitalistic democracies such as the USA, have the HIGHEST number of bankers and billionaires.

Bezos, Gates, the WALMART gang etc...who import and flood the country with cheap 3rd worlders, at the expense of the local White population.

ignoramus!
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Just curious.
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The elite have everything AND THE average joe is dirt poor and treated like a slave..
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Sounds like the direction we are headed in the USA.
People ask why wealth inequality is so bad where you have the small percent rich and the majority getting poorer.
Easy, look at Communist Countries, it does not work.
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I have.

It felt far, far less communist (in the negative sense of the word) than either Canada or USA today, however.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78965170


The global tech and corps is a whole different spin on this.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73265907


You had bread lines and low workers wage.
Labor groups and unions were that would fight for higher wages were banned. The government kept wages low.

This is why the Communist Model is attractive to the Bankers and Global Corporations. No pesky worker rights, pollution controls, political representation and so on.

The USA is very similar where the corporations control our government and killed off all the unions.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79106457


Corporations are US version of communism. Behind all political parties are corporations. They kill small businesses.
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That statement, on its face, is questionable. But facts are facts. Amazon can't make money for its shareholders in the form of a quarterly profit selling junk for MSRP, while mom and pops could and did sell for less than MSRP before they were squeezed out by amazon.

Technically, the market value of millions of small moms and pops selling junk for less than MSRP could have been bigger than the total market capitalization of Amazon. And it is likely that without Amazon, there would have been more employment and lower prices.
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And now you find yourself in a similar situation to the one you left in the early 70s.

What nation were you in?

Do you see many parallels with the current US situation?

Will you leave here too? Where would you go and why?

Since this appears to be the final push in a global communist takeover, is there anywhere left to go?

Sorry for all the questions. Dint mean to come across as rude and I dont expect you'll answer them all. If you answer any, that would be truly appreciated though.
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I don’t generally give out private info on the net but I’ve already let it know I lived in the Cambodia before it went communist. The political situation was very vague but things happened there very very quickly. I would say it was not like the US and not like the Soviet iron bloc either. One minute they had a king and a kind of medieval system, then they passed very quickly through non-communist rule under a leader named Lon Nol, and then suddenly they were communist.

The situation in Cambodia was almost unique because the communist army was very “back woods” uneducated mountain people plus child soldiers...like junior high school kids drinking from toilets because they had never seen one and thought it was a well. They actually blew up the bank and declared no more money; they forced everyone to leave the city until it was abandoned and work in the fields until they dropped dead. Everyone had to wear the same clothes, the plan was for all houses to be identical, communal meals with the work unit, destruction of the family. Anything urban or modern was evil and left abandoned. There was tension betweeen different ethnicities and some parts of the country were worse than others.,Actually it has been compared by scholars to a very strict insane murderous theravada Buddhist discipline system like a kind of national monestary with guns. Fortunately I was long gone by that time. The process was so extreme that the rise and fall happened very quickly compared with USSR or China.

I don’t see Cambodia in America but the “thought reform” and tearing down of any old statue, etc. is frighteningly similar to China and and Cambodian ideals in the 1970s. Of course the scale is weaker in the US but things can quickly escalate. In 2 years Phnom Phen went from being a civilized pleasant city with modern hotels and hospitals to being a ghost city emptied of all urban dwellers on a forced march to turn them into useless farmers.
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Thank you for taking the time to answer. This is interesting stuff. This is what makes GLP worth visiting.
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i have. eastern germany. loads of of the older people wanted back. but probably because they were used to it and ignored all rules they didnt like (like clothing or music rules)
me as a child i remember seeing my first homeless in "the west".
but i also like choice (between products etc) and capitalism. i wouldnt want communism.

goodbye lenin is a cool film to watch in this regard
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Lol USA go in corporation CAPITALISM,

where people will be slaves to the system. The point is to divide the people and rule.

The USA has never had any points of contact with communism and socialism!


Capitalism also has advantages, especially in rewarding capable people, but the problem is that due to excessive greed and arrogance it destroys people, families and above all the SOUL!
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I didn't live there, but I visited the GDR (East-Germany) when I was five in 1990, right after the collapse of the USSR. My grandparents took me there as my grandfather was a local politician and had to attend a jubilee with an Eastern German city.

It was insanely dirty, run-down and just very depressing overall. What I remember most, were the ancient houses in the cities which looked like almost nothing happened to them post WWII apocalypse ... The roofs ... The fucking bloody roofs were still the old, darkened grey and black tiles sometimes with fucking mortar holes in them the size of a cow, patched up here and there, but insanely dangerous and run-down. There were still bullet holes in some façades as well.
As it turns out, GDR citizens had to rebuild the cities on weekends and after work as a " community pass-time" ... THEY had to rebuild that shit, which obviously didn't happen properly or at all ...

The Hotel in Leipzig was filthy as fuck. As if time stood still there in the late '50s, with those dirty emerald green curtains, yellow-stained lace from smoking inside and brownish orange wallpaper ... The bathroom was something straight from a time machine with these crazy old faucets, not antique but just 40 years old and dirty.


This was the GDR, mind you. The most "relax" show piece of the USSR ... Imagine what it must've been like in Romania, Moldova, Poland, Hungaria, Bulgaria and far beyond. Just fucking deranged. A giant hell on earth, bleak, bland, filthy, poor and dangerous as fuck.
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No. However, I have been to a couple. One before the Berlin Wall, one after. Both times, I got the distinct feeling I was being bullshited by the local authorities.

We had escorts. We were taken to the "everyone is happy" places. As a teen, it was quite interesting and reminds a lot of the direction America is headed now.
 Quoting: Mr. Givins


lol...

you're NOT heading for the Communist USSR type model.

They had a good stable life, while it lasted....until the lunatic Ronald Reagan destablized them.

It was also a superpower, with great scientifc acheivements such as space technology and aerospace.


PLUS A LOT OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FANTASTIC WOMEN!

HUMBLE, SUBMISSIVE, and ALSO BEHAVED as WOMEN SHOULD

UNLIKE THE WESTERN CAPITALISTIC-DEMOCRACTIC, GOLD-DIGGING TV and HOLLYWOOD BRAINWASHED WHORES!


You're really heading for a 3rd wolrd sh*thole status,....like Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Bangladesh.


lol
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76980645


Darn right! Women from the former Communist countries are far superior to our American tomboys.
And we're pretty much turning into a sh*thole now. Drugs, crime, gangs, ethnic violence, immigration...a huge cesspool.

hesright
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Just curious.
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In a certain way, yes. The US military is a very close proxy for Communism. Think about it for a bit and you will realize it is very true. The military sucks ass by the way. It is still better than true Communism though, because it gets an endless supply of money from a larger, healthier economy. If it had to make do for itself, it would be a nightmare.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51615758


USA is the perfect Western capitalistic democracy. Nothing to do with Communism.

The pandering of minorities for votes, is a classic sign of Western capitalist democracies.

Ever seen a darkie of 3rd world origin, like Obongo, as the leader of the USSR?

Hordes of ethnics, of 3rd world origins, are on the verge of seizing total countrol of USA. Never happened in USSR.


lmao
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The minority vote does not matter if the choices you are given to vote on are banker and corporate backed puppets.

Obama sided with the bankers corruption and bail outs over protesters that wanted them jailed.

The money changers give you the choices on who to vote on.
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Unlike today life was safe and crime-free, what I miss most especially for children.

But the economy had been stagnating mainly b/c of bureaucracy and the outdated ideology.
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Melania's parents had to flee Yugoslavia because they hated communism and were on Tit's target list, Trumo got them all out, thank god
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That's not true. Melania's parents didn't flee Yugoslavia and they still leave here, have the family house in Slovenia and all. If somebody wanted to leave they just packed and move. You were allowed to leave the country back then. And I'm pretty sure nobody was chasing them out of the country. Yugoslavian regime did not chase people in a form that KGB or stasi did.
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Trump is very shrewd! He blasts Marxism/Communism for political reasons, but his wife is imported form a former Communist country.

He's had enough of the gold-digging, hollywood brainwashed, Western capitalistic-democratic whores. So he got a nice humble, communist-trained, Slavic woman!


cool2
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Ah, you're one of those who looove the president so much...rolleyes

I find Melanija to be a very resourceful woman, specifically if you look at her prenuptial agreement that was renewed right before inauguration. Definitely not an average gold digger as American lefty scum tries to paint her. You fared yourself extremely vile and shameful throughout these four years towards her and she did remarkable job to be neutral and non conflicting.

I tremendously respect Melanija cause of one thing, she teached her son the language of his ancestors, which is one of the main tasks and duties of any mother.
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All my life, I'm posting from North Korea, I would never want to set foot into capitalistic country, here everything is free
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Yes, except people.


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Re: Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?
I have.

It felt far, far less communist (in the negative sense of the word) than either Canada or USA today, however.
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hesright

what people call communism in the west is frighteningly similar to germany in the late 1920s. it is a nightmare.

seems history repeats itself after all.
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Interesting B-word..

Type it in to google to learn the history of our dear leader.

Glp deleted two of my threads.. Nab me twice for this one word? (only conclusion I have come too) no bad words.. no hate rhetoric.. my original thread was called

"GLP in 2020"

NOW... let's do a duckduckgo search on (spell lowercase)

drUGS Pump fREEDOM

(ask yourself why is glp hiding this)
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Of course. Low rank Antifa/BLM. Leaders will get reassigned.


When I arrived to Canada, in school I had to read 1984. There was a unanimous consensus among the students and the teacher the book was about Soviet Union.

I said, well, it is taking place in London not Moscow. The teacher and the students laughed at me. That was 30 years ago.
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Yep you were ahead of your time.
This is the kind of insight I was curious about: what people who had lived under communism think of the Western slide towards leftism today.
I lived in a “pre-communist” nation in the early 1970s and left just before the country went actual-communist. I was very lucky.
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And now you find yourself in a similar situation to the one you left in the early 70s.

What nation were you in?

Do you see many parallels with the current US situation?

Will you leave here too? Where would you go and why?

Since this appears to be the final push in a global communist takeover, is there anywhere left to go?

Sorry for all the questions. Dint mean to come across as rude and I dont expect you'll answer them all. If you answer any, that would be truly appreciated though.
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I don’t generally give out private info on the net but I’ve already let it know I lived in the Cambodia before it went communist. The political situation was very vague but things happened there very very quickly. I would say it was not like the US and not like the Soviet iron bloc either. One minute they had a king and a kind of medieval system, then they passed very quickly through non-communist rule under a leader named Lon Nol, and then suddenly they were communist.

The situation in Cambodia was almost unique because the communist army was very “back woods” uneducated mountain people plus child soldiers...like junior high school kids drinking from toilets because they had never seen one and thought it was a well. They actually blew up the bank and declared no more money; they forced everyone to leave the city until it was abandoned and work in the fields until they dropped dead. Everyone had to wear the same clothes, the plan was for all houses to be identical, communal meals with the work unit, destruction of the family. Anything urban or modern was evil and left abandoned. There was tension betweeen different ethnicities and some parts of the country were worse than others.,Actually it has been compared by scholars to a very strict insane murderous theravada Buddhist discipline system like a kind of national monestary with guns. Fortunately I was long gone by that time. The process was so extreme that the rise and fall happened very quickly compared with USSR or China.

I don’t see Cambodia in America but the “thought reform” and tearing down of any old statue, etc. is frighteningly similar to China and and Cambodian ideals in the 1970s. Of course the scale is weaker in the US but things can quickly escalate. In 2 years Phnom Phen went from being a civilized pleasant city with modern hotels and hospitals to being a ghost city emptied of all urban dwellers on a forced march to turn them into useless farmers.
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There is a difference.
The statues torn down in Communist Countries were done by the state. In the USA, they were torn down by idiot protesters that have been arrested and charged.
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Yes.

Ask me a question. Lol.
Doom mood!
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Re: Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?
No. However, I have been to a couple. One before the Berlin Wall, one after. Both times, I got the distinct feeling I was being bullshited by the local authorities.

We had escorts. We were taken to the "everyone is happy" places. As a teen, it was quite interesting and reminds a lot of the direction America is headed now.
 Quoting: Mr. Givins


lol...

you're NOT heading for the Communist USSR type model.

They had a good stable life, while it lasted....until the lunatic Ronald Reagan destablized them.

It was also a superpower, with great scientifc acheivements such as space technology and aerospace.


PLUS A LOT OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FANTASTIC WOMEN!

HUMBLE, SUBMISSIVE, and ALSO BEHAVED as WOMEN SHOULD

UNLIKE THE WESTERN CAPITALISTIC-DEMOCRACTIC, GOLD-DIGGING TV and HOLLYWOOD BRAINWASHED WHORES!


You're really heading for a 3rd wolrd sh*thole status,....like Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Bangladesh.


lol
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Darn right! Women from the former Communist countries are far superior to our American tomboys.
And we're pretty much turning into a sh*thole now. Drugs, crime, gangs, ethnic violence, immigration...a huge cesspool.

hesright
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Not anymore. They were nice years ago. But all those former ussr countries are Americanized. Drugs, crimes, alcohol, retarded youth are the problem now in those countries. You are not going to find nice, loyal women there anymore.
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"evil" socialism and communism

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Looks like we're all gonna find out aren't we ? Real soon.
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No. However, I have been to a couple. One before the Berlin Wall, one after. Both times, I got the distinct feeling I was being bullshited by the local authorities.

We had escorts. We were taken to the "everyone is happy" places. As a teen, it was quite interesting and reminds a lot of the direction America is headed now.
 Quoting: Mr. Givins


lol...

you're NOT heading for the Communist USSR type model.

They had a good stable life, while it lasted....until the lunatic Ronald Reagan destablized them.

It was also a superpower, with great scientifc acheivements such as space technology and aerospace.


PLUS A LOT OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FANTASTIC WOMEN!

HUMBLE, SUBMISSIVE, and ALSO BEHAVED as WOMEN SHOULD

UNLIKE THE WESTERN CAPITALISTIC-DEMOCRACTIC, GOLD-DIGGING TV and HOLLYWOOD BRAINWASHED WHORES!


You're really heading for a 3rd wolrd sh*thole status,....like Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Bangladesh.


lol
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The USA will be worst than a third world or Communist Country with the direction we are headed.

They money changers have taken the benefits of capitalism, communism, and dictatorships all rolled into one.

They love Communism for cheap labor, capitalism for its profit system and bail outs from socialism.
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some what the last almost four years.
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I didn't live there, but I visited the GDR (East-Germany) when I was five in 1990, right after the collapse of the USSR. My grandparents took me there as my grandfather was a local politician and had to attend a jubilee with an Eastern German city.

It was insanely dirty, run-down and just very depressing overall. What I remember most, were the ancient houses in the cities which looked like almost nothing happened to them post WWII apocalypse ... The roofs ... The fucking bloody roofs were still the old, darkened grey and black tiles sometimes with fucking mortar holes in them the size of a cow, patched up here and there, but insanely dangerous and run-down. There were still bullet holes in some façades as well.
As it turns out, GDR citizens had to rebuild the cities on weekends and after work as a " community pass-time" ... THEY had to rebuild that shit, which obviously didn't happen properly or at all ...

The Hotel in Leipzig was filthy as fuck. As if time stood still there in the late '50s, with those dirty emerald green curtains, yellow-stained lace from smoking inside and brownish orange wallpaper ... The bathroom was something straight from a time machine with these crazy old faucets, not antique but just 40 years old and dirty.


This was the GDR, mind you. The most "relax" show piece of the USSR ... Imagine what it must've been like in Romania, Moldova, Poland, Hungaria, Bulgaria and far beyond. Just fucking deranged. A giant hell on earth, bleak, bland, filthy, poor and dangerous as fuck.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78036093


Funny...you seem to have never been outta your basement!
When I visted the GDR, a few years before the Berlin wall fell, the place was much cleaner than many parts of America.
In fact a lot of Texas, especially around the El Paso area, is now as bad Mexico.
Not to mention Chicago, New York and California. With all those street sh*tters and pavement dwellers.
Yeah, I'm Mexican, and I worked in America before. My family is still over there and I visit occasionally.
You see Gringo, the US is like Mexico in many places already, the rest will become in due course. Its Aztlan destiny!
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I have.

It felt far, far less communist (in the negative sense of the word) than either Canada or USA today, however.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78965170


The global tech and corps is a whole different spin on this.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73265907


You had bread lines and low workers wage.
Labor groups and unions were that would fight for higher wages were banned. The government kept wages low.

This is why the Communist Model is attractive to the Bankers and Global Corporations. No pesky worker rights, pollution controls, political representation and so on.

The USA is very similar where the corporations control our government and killed off all the unions.
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Ludicrous....

How many bankers and billionaires in the USSR? Only after the fall of Communism, and Russia adopted a freemarket democratic model, based on the West, it had billionaires.

Western capitalistic democracies such as the USA, have the HIGHEST number of bankers and billionaires.

Bezos, Gates, the WALMART gang etc...who import and flood the country with cheap 3rd worlders, at the expense of the local White population.

ignoramus!
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I said the bankers and billionaires living in the USA are attracted to workers under Communism and Slave Labor Countries.

Now the longterm effect from that on them they do not care about since they only think short term in quarterly profits.
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Lol USA go in corporation CAPITALISM,

where people will be slaves to the system. The point is to divide the people and rule.

The USA has never had any points of contact with communism and socialism!


Capitalism also has advantages, especially in rewarding capable people, but the problem is that due to excessive greed and arrogance it destroys people, families and above all the SOUL!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79142706


So the US is forced to choose between Crony Capitalism & Democratic Socialism.

Either way the end result is Global Corporate Fascism.

Buy local, live local.

We all may be forced to share a planet, but we certainly dont share ideas on how societies should be run.

China, N. Korea Saudi Arabia and Iran, etc. can keep their philosophies to themselves.

I'll choose the American model. At least there's a chance for a large degree of freedom in this model. If that is, the globalists dont have their way.

And for those who think "globalism" equates to some veiled anti semitic concept..it doesnt. Not by my definition anyway.

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Yes, I am polish and I did live in a communist country.

Fuck communism.
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Lol USA go in corporation CAPITALISM,

where people will be slaves to the system. The point is to divide the people and rule.

The USA has never had any points of contact with communism and socialism!


Capitalism also has advantages, especially in rewarding capable people, but the problem is that due to excessive greed and arrogance it destroys people, families and above all the SOUL!
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So the US is forced to choose between Crony Capitalism & Democratic Socialism.

Either way the end result is Global Corporate Fascism.

Buy local, live local.

We all may be forced to share a planet, but we certainly dont share ideas on how societies should be run.

China, N. Korea Saudi Arabia and Iran, etc. can keep their philosophies to themselves.

I'll choose the American model. At least there's a chance for a large degree of freedom in this model. If that is, the globalists dont have their way.

And for those who think "globalism" equates to some veiled anti semitic concept..it doesnt. Not by my definition anyway.
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Buy local, live local - great idea. I was thinking about it 2. Imagine if everyone worked and cared about their counties or neighborhood. If we had local farmers and family operated businesses. Instead of caring about big system, and people we never see or know.
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Re: Has anyone here ever actually lived in a communist country?
Yes....I lived in Commiefornia for six months. It was terrifying!!!

George Deukmejian was dicktater at the time....what memories!!!





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