1. Scottty

    On the net, do you believe that Communism was a good deal or a bad deal for Eastern Europe, excluding the former Soviet space?

    And where is this fence, and who decided that's where it would be? Not saying this to you personally, but the problem I have with the "stay in your lane" rhetoric is that the sort of people who use it tend in my experience to be non-agreement-capable on where the lanes are supposed to be, and...
  2. Scottty

    On the net, do you believe that Communism was a good deal or a bad deal for Eastern Europe, excluding the former Soviet space?

    I hear you, but unlike the Left, the Right is seldom if ever motivated by Envy. This is not about coveting the wealth of others, it's about defending our civilization and culture, and even our physical existence, against the people who would gleefully burn everything down in a fit of...
  3. Scottty

    On the net, do you believe that Communism was a good deal or a bad deal for Eastern Europe, excluding the former Soviet space?

    I don't have time this morning to make an image, but I'm imagining a psychologist holding up two pictures: one of them is Happy Merchant in a monocle and top-hat, and the other is of Leon Trotsky. Hitler looks at the two pictures and says: "They are both the same picture!" Joking apart, the...
  4. Scottty

    On the net, do you believe that Communism was a good deal or a bad deal for Eastern Europe, excluding the former Soviet space?

    Much earlier than that. Communism in the simple sense of abolition of private property (usually meaning other people's property, of course!) goes back a long way. The essence of Leftism is an extreme, out-of-control egalitarianism, usually as a smokescreen for their own group taking everything...
  5. Scottty

    On the net, do you believe that Communism was a good deal or a bad deal for Eastern Europe, excluding the former Soviet space?

    I think that Communism being imposed on much of Europe by the Soviets is a huge butterfly. Remove that, and you can't assume that Western progressive wokery would still be there. A timeline in which Leftism got discredited much earlier might well have less of that nonsense all round.
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