https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1732627752162095512

add a new one to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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I don’t really know how all of this plays into god’s plan to destroy China, but somehow it must be. It’s probably in the book of revelations somewhere or something.

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well you see, the worker having to continually buy his assured existence is actually a contradiction which, if unresolved, will destroy china

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54 points

So the re-education was teaching them how to attach side view mirrors on an assembly line?

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And they’ll never go back to the way they were

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34 points

They say side view mirror site is 20/20

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“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”

-Michael Parenti Blackshirts and the reds

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We use this one enough around here that we have a bot that gets triggered by “Parenti quοte”. This comment shouldn’t trigger the bot though

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I forgot about the bot, but I remembered having this quote saved on my phone.

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Excellent quote but it’s far too sophisticated for Zenz who doesn’t seem to have the wit to properly turn the facts on their head. He’s like the IKEA flat-pack version of good, handcrafted cold war propaganda.

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14 points

Instead of talking bullshit by either stupidity or intention, Zenz just does both.

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15 points

I really need to read this book.

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12 points

It’s a easy and fun read plus you can get it for free.

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5 points

If you can stand the Text-To-Speech voice, then this may be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTIs268HXA

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73 points

Strong “learning to read is a communist plot” energy.

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“Lmao stupid communists getting taught to read so they can be forced to read propaganda. Now, let me check NextDoor and Facebook for the latest news…”

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nice try adrian, but i’m still not gonna buy a tiguan

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