I also wonder if these people would use Ceaușescu as an example, but most of them probably don't know who he is, let alone how badly he fucked up Romania.
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> "B-but dat wuzn't DA REAL COMMUNISM! The people like Pol Pot were just le bad!"
But then, as I said, they'll bring up Cuba with "muh Fidel Castro."
I mean, this is from Fidel Castro's mouth. Anyone following either side with political extremes is bound to talk almost exactly like this.
And I've seen idiots on TikTok going "people who got kicked out of communist countries have been kicked out for a "good" reason" and then comments went "when I see some Cuban immigrants, I realize why Fidel Castro was beating yo ass up." Well, that's because Communism requires EVERYONE, the WHOLE DAMN POPULATION to be generous. Lefties need to face the fact that people are going to be selfish at some point, even the kindest, sweetest person on Earth - it can't be helped; like being social, being self-serving to some degree is also a human survival instinct. Sure, communism/socialism/whatever leftist bullshit can work but only in small towns and building complexes (I think this happened in Canada), but with billions and millions of people in a country in large groups? It won't work, unless you get violent. Never underestimate the power of a group, and that's what Ceaucescu and Mussolini, as some examples, failed to do.
And they're also very retarded when it comes to George Orwell. When they found out George Orwell worked for the British le evil colonizer secret police, THEY SHIT THEMSELVES. They began acting as if George Orwell was Satan's incarnation when back then, one of the few ways to earn a proper living with positive recognition from your society was to serve in the armed forces of your motherland. Whether Orwell regretted it and wrote the books as a warning based on his experiences and mistakes or not is on him. Back to the topic, their extremism is something Orwell would condemn because I saw a comment "There is no shades of grey everything is black and white there is no time to learn or reflect the damage has been done REEEE" and I'm like, "WTF nigga you just proved Orwell right - extremism at its finest!" Mind you, this is the man they use as a source for their arguments and complaints.
Christ, I would consider myself somewhat left-leaning to some degree, but these people are so insufferable.