this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
35 points (84.3% liked)
Comradeship // Freechat
263 readers
1 users here now
Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Well, it's a word used in ignorance. Kids are told from a young age that murica is the "land of the free". They just regurgitate that when they have an opportunity and have no idea what it really means.
I am very much an America liberal. I also am a gun owner and a veteran. However, I fully understand that the entire constitution does not consist of the 2nd amendment and is just one of many amendments.
Do you even understand where you are? Why would you even use the word “veteran” if you’re a communist. Or are you a proud baby killer?
A fascist gendarme walks into a gulag...
I actually have no issues with communism if it were ever put into solid practice. Sadly, communist startups never tend to break past the dictator stages. For an example of my point of view, I don't consider the USSR or the CCP to even be remotely communist.
And yes, I understand where I am at. I saw the post and saw that generalization and wanted to post a counter point.
Just for your edification, I emphasized my personal history to show that not all 'muricans blast out ignorance of common words even if they check some of the similar boxes.
A proud baby killer? Lol. While I don't disregard my part in several conflicts, I just spent all of my time at sea.
Just so you're aware, you're on a communist instance. We don't really like the US here, or the US military.
But you're absolutely right. It is instilled in children in the US from birth. I've witnessed it first hand. They teach kids about how the pilgrims came to the US to escape persecution. They neglect to teach that the pilgrims left Europe because Britain chose to re-instate the monarchy instead of dealing with any more of their bullshit (those assholes even tried to ban Christmas, because it was too much fun). They teach that "we the people" chose to have freedom from the monarchy. They neglect to teach that "the people" were only white landowning men, and they rebelled because they didn't want to pay taxes. They teach that slavery was banned due to the good will of Abraham Lincoln. They neglect to teach that slavery is still in existence, and Lincoln only banned slavery because it would enrich northern business. He still had indentured servants and was responsible for the largest mass execution in US history. Not of slavers, but of natives who stole food because they were put on worthless land with nothing to eat. They teach to never forget the Alamo. They don't teach that the Alamo happened because a group of American slavers fought for their right to own people. They teach that they triumphed over the nazis. They don't teach that the Soviets largely won the war, and the US took in as many senior nazis as they could. Not to mention that their puppet, West Germany actually re-incarcerated the LGBT people freed from concentration camps.
But congrats on having guns. We tend to like those as well. It might interest you to know that gun control efforts started in the US in response to black communists owning guns with the Mulford Act.