Originally by: Darius JOHNSON

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You're still speaking about things you don't know about. See this very forum for an example of that change re: rotating moderators.

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Originally by: Semkhet

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Originally by: Willford Bremly

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Silencing people you don't agree with is communism. Thats not communication.

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LMAO

Actually I must be among the few ones here who, as westerner, experienced a frontal clash with communism, having to fight the general mindset & bureaucracy of a former Varsaw Pact member country when attempting to secure the relocation of a "communist" lady who became my wife, all this years before Glasnost & Perestroika kicked in and the wall finally fell.

Had to stay there over a year and ended learning the language (required if you really want to get things done).

And you know what ? I've moved my ass through enough countries to loose count, but I will not forget that except for stupid civil servants, I've never interacted with such humane individuals like citizens of these ex-WAPA nations.

It's that simple. When the system puts you in deep poo, you help each other. No money will ever compensate lost social brotherhood despite my fat wallet and I've since long learned that finances only allow you to fool yourself by buying delusions. If you're not wise enough to be happy with what you have, big or small, no amount of money will do it.

All that to say that most peeps have not the shadow of a clue when they talk about communism. Was communism bad ? Yes, in the way it was implemented. Could communism be a good thing ? Maybe, if individuals were advanced enough not to fall in the trap of replacing the influence of money with the mixed weight of a party affiliation card and a specific position. Where did I encounter the most genuinely happy people ? In these poor countries. Never found in the USA, Europe or the ME educated individuals who were simultaneously so sincerely aware about the mechanisms governing their societies, the limits that were artificially imposed to their development, and yet enjoyed their lives.

I've risked jail when smuggling PC's & modems at cost for students in order to enable a few of them to open a window to the outer world and get aware. It was my way of fighting communism. Now in the retrospective, all what capitalism brought there are a few guys who became stinking rich (all former exponents of the communist apparatus btw), and the rest is not only poorer than ever, but also struggling with an exponential criminality that didn't exist before.

So idiots can continue to ********** with their empty rhetoric & theories. I'll stand by my actions, RL experience, and regrets that I actively fought a system which, at the end, wasn't half so bad as the pro-capitalist lobby would let you believe.

Got that from a 70-years old farmer whose parents were executed by russians at the end of WW2 because they refused to have their land nationalized: "Before, I could talk and everybody would listen. Now I can scream and nobody pays attention".

And when talking about "Jade's controversial personality", well, at least he has one

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