CarlMarks

Be ready to board a plane and get out early enough.

The first is about having money. Easier said than done, of course. If you want to be particularly secure, you'd consider having enough gold for it, as it's an inflation hedge and I would not be surprised if hyperinflation coincided with these things. Yes I know that buying gold sounds silly lol.

The second is about deciding when to fight and when to run. Not easy and a personal decision, but people who stay too long if we lose will be in a bad situation.

You're not knocking down propaganda, you're just being selectively gullible and letting absurd weirdos control your beliefs without investigating them. Adrian Zenz, breathless and inconsistent BBC videos, "medua bias fact check" that's a ridiculous politically one-dimensional "centrism is facts" website with no consistent methodology by people you should have no reason to trust.

Personally, I try to not unquestioningly accept state department propaganda directed at a perceived enemy state from 3 years ago, and then when challenged hastily google until my biases are confirmed, but you do you.

Yes, this is a good idea. You could also focus on the community-building aspect: these are our neighbors, capitalism has done huge violence to them, and we need to take care of each other because nobody else will. Whatever aid you focus on will likely be useful for more people than just the unhoused, which is ahain good community building.

Choose the right community to start in, too. Suburbsn rich crackerville will probably dehumanize the people you're helping and see it as harmful. I wouldn't do my first action there.

Tie your work to a larger project as well. Build a list of supporters with contact info so you can push a local electoral campaign, hold rallies to pressure politicians, etc. This will help justify and offset costs, as aid $$$ quickly adds up and you will need donations and all opportunities to build power.

Hilarious

Nostalgic nationalism

Red alert! We have an advanced history understander here.

Please notice me

The key is to make fun of them. They are not serious people deserving of respect and they don't respond to argument or fact.

When things ramp up, socialists may need to flee (or get jailed/killed).

It's happened many times before. Also, the fash don't understand our divisions so they'll go after everyone vaguely left. Example: Indonesian DemSocs thought they'd be spared under Suharto since they persued 100% legal and "friendly" means. They were very wrong.

Spend time with comrades, get organized, agitate, snd have an exit plan.

There's nothing to debunk because the claim itself is based on an absurd level of ignorance, they don't even know what they mean by the word communism, and it makes no sense for it to be "tried". The only consistent references that could almost make sense are these

• Communism as a theoretical state of being (classless etc society) posed by ~~me~~ Marx (and some others) as the eventual project and outcome of the dictatorship of the proletariat. As such, it has never been "tried", it can't be "tried", it is more of a goal or state of being rather than a strategy you can adopt. Plus, that project requires that the capitalist class be deposed by the working class such that efforts in that direction could be enacted, which unfortunately has been limited by the extreme and violent reactions of imperialists. It's difficult to do that project when you're just trying to survive the sanctions and wars.

• Communism as in a country run by a communist party. This has been tried, and to great success, with fantastic improvements in quality of life for those living there. What failures we do identify largely fall into two buckets: (1) targeted for destruction by imperialists and they were forced to succumb or (2) fell apart through the former and internal failures to build a robust political system, e.g. someone like Gorbachev should never have even been near the reins of power. Both can be criticized, but neither can be chalked up to, "oh dang commies can't run countries". Alsi, the largest real economy on the planet is run by a communist party and overcame over a century of colonialism and then industrialization to do it.

But really, someone saying this isn't even speaking the same language as us. It's really a conversation between two clueless liberals: one that simplistically craps on "communism" and it "failing" (without pointing to anything concrete) and the other liberal trying to say things like, "well real communism has never been tried".

In both cases, they're in need of a basic education, starting with, "what is a communist?"

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