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Fairy tales? Your imaginarium is reeking of brain with long covid...

I am quite confident that you never lived in a socialist / communist country, plus, you would not be able to differentiate between cultural aspect of a society, coming from way back, and ideological impositions of the day. No stone left unturned for you to see the bad, the ugly, and the horrible.

I was born and grew up in a socialist country of ill repute and I know that the life was not only not as bad as presented in the west, and definitely worth living. I remember clearly that on the times Harlan County miners were striking for a better contract https://archive.org/details/harlan.county.usa.1977

you could not see such levels of social destitution in my part of the world.

As for China, Kathine seems to contradict you at every step she takes in her great journey to the east: https://www.youtube.com/@kats_journey_east

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Kouros you never respond to anyone's criticisms directly. You are an intellectual coward. As best I can discern from the shambolic reflexive propaganda spew you regurgitate you expect the State to coddle you from cradle to grave. News-flash, in the Economic Realm, neither, the State, the World, the Universe, the rest of us, owe you anything that you don't 'contractually' earn first, once you attain the age of majority. So please, while you still have time, grow-up. Become an adult.

That Kouros posts often are at the top of the comment stack suggests his mouth is on fully-automatic long before his brain engages, if it ever does. His post above follows the usual pattern as evidenced in the first paragraph. A craven attempt to ingratiate himself with his host that is really just a cynical ploy to advance his real agenda. The agenda appears to be nothing more than to broadcast his logorrhea's completely mental excrement. Pathetic, an organic bot-mind with Stockholm Syndrome. 30 million dead with Mao in just a few years. The communists in Russia murdered how many? 20 million in not many more years? Who are you going to champion next bot-brain-boy? Pol-Pot perhaps? In that cesspool of nightmares there is plenty of blame to go around before, during and long after, but, Man is a violent Primate, so get over it. Learn to put the atrocities on a scale so that you might weigh them appropriately and maybe you'll, or your programmers, will attain some sense of proportionality regarding Man's crimes against Man. Why? So you can make better choices choosing sides next time around. In the meantime, pull your plug Bot-brain and die like a Man.

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Your prozody with invectives is fascinating in its fluidity, but besides that you do not add anything of substance, beside old tropes about the evil communism/totalitarianism. Which is standing on a lot of clouds, since no westerner had access to "vital statistics" data during those times and places.

The civil war in Russia led to lots of people dying, and if I take Mike Duncan's analysis, it looked like the Bolsheviks had something more to offer to the population than the old regime, so they emerged on top. Drought did more after. Same way the blight, and the "liberal" ideology and the feeling of racial superiority of the Englished led to millions dying and emigrating from Ireland. More millions died under the good eye of the Brits in India as well:

https://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-newsletter-100-amateurs-talk-cancel-pros-talk-silence/

You are a willing carrier of water of systems that in fact are full fledged oligarchies/plutocracies, and I prefer the alliance between tyranny & demos to full fledged plutocracy or what the UK has, an alliance between oligarchy and monarchy. Magna Carta was written for the lords only.

The corruption of US plutocracy has been properly described and analyzed by researchers and there is no denial of this fact - "democracy" there is just a circus. Zephyr Teachout has a full volume on American corruption, which pervades every oligarchic network, fully intertwined with the state aparatus. And calculations have been made on premature deaths in the US due to lack of medical care, etc, etc, etc, numbers that would thwart anything Stalin and Mao have done.

You forgot to mention that Pol Pot was supported by both the US and the Chinese and it was another communist country that took him out. I bet you and him would have gotten along handsomly...

And while the Chinese have no problem fighting against corruption, that is impossible in the US: https://www.unz.com/article/corruption-in-china/

So go and spew your bile and venom and impotence wherever you want, it only

reinforces the perception of you being unhinged.

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