• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    14 days ago

    Going to school in Ohio, we never even learned “communism bad because once a bunch of people in a communist country starved”

    We simply learned “communism bad” and that was that.

    Never directly stated, of course, just constantly informed that the “governments of the world needed to stop its spread” and anything bad that boomers didn’t like was called “communism” so it basically just became synonymous with “bad”

    Crazy how the capitalists in charge of things and who had a huge capitalist financial incentive to say " anything other than capitalism is bad" would do such a thing… Real “we’ve tried nothing to help you and we’re all out of ideas” energy.