Oddbean new post about login | logout At dinner with some (older) family friends who escaped communism… “Communism taught us to run away from the devil… now we’ve found the devil here as well.” If you are a “westerner” and have not studied communism, you may find this statement strange… “how can the USA be anything like communism?” you ask. But this is what people who escaped communism feel, and I promise you they know better than you what communism feels like; they lived it.
Family member who was on of the children saved in "Operation Peter Pan." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan Sadly, it was basically a precursor to the crap we have now (you can't separate the families!) but I did get to go to Cuba and see her old house. A single family home was divided into FOUR houses for FOUR families. They just tossed up walls in places to make it happen. It's knocking at our door, America. Don't sleep on this.
The United States cannot fall — powered by bitcoin, we will inspire and lead a peaceful and moral revolution of the West, if God wills it.
Every State can and will fall eventually. If something cannot go on forever, then it will stop.
The Moral revolution can begin with dismantling the military industrial complex and ending US involvement in genocide, and mass manipulation of other countries. US foreign policy is a blight on any attempt to establish justice in this country.
From whence did they escape its grasp?
Nice try, spook ;)
Ghosts and spooks need love too 😹
"Old friends who escaped communism": Chinese who lost the war and whose family were cursed to 9 generations, Russians ("good Russians") or eastern Europeans dying for a mcdonalds and reebok shoes. Is there a family who dont know these types of "I know communism bc a lived under it"? Even Brazilian soyboys who run to live in Florida will swear they just escaped from Brazilian authoritarian bloody communism regime 😂
Liberals being liberals realizing their beliefs were always fairy tales. None of your descriptions fit the group I am talking about… I promise you none of the people I am with are “liberals” in the *modern* sense of the word.
C'mon, invite them to the live talk show.
Spot tf on
I have learned more from those who escaped communism than any class in school could ever teach.
agree, i also think when receiving information from a source with direct experience with the topic at hand you’ll always get closer or the whole truth vs one without
I'm a redneck Cuban (Ruban). I also worked with a lot of LATAM and Eastern European countries. We are well into it here. This is no longer incompetence by the ruling class. This is deliberate orchestrated collapse of the nation. And what's messed up is that it's coming from the "Americans". From within. All western nations. Classic communist revolutionary tactics used to bring about communism. It's voted in then enforced through hunger and gov violence.
I hope you are right and Kamala never have a seat at the oval office. That's enough of cultural sh*t being exported from US and EU to the world. BTW, why you guys call them communists? The communists countries I have know are way closer to Trump values than democrats.
Nostr has edits. Also all of those things are features of government, regardless of the party ostensibly running it. Socialists, statists, and republicans are all basically the same thing. Only anarcho capitalists are true Americans.
Sounds like some right-wing fever dream. In reality, the so called “Americans” with “American” values, many who are descendants of the colonizers who originated this violent settler state, are facing a deterioration of their livelihoods. Be it economic or otherwise, I don’t think I will be sad to see the results of institutionalized ignorance and bigotry slowly fade to irrelevancy. It’s not fair that elites lied to people to control them, but it’s also not fair the hateful-spawn and pseudo-Christians and white nationalists get to terrorize people and claim a land their ancestors genocided their way to power in. The American myth needs deconstruction and confrontation with its violent reality, perhaps inflicted upon the true believers, until we as a nation can begin to establish justice, the so-called principles which the Preamble enshrines.