Subj : Re: Communism
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Nov 06 2022 08:51:00

>  MP> If the Summer of 2020, or 1/6, had happened in a Communist country, the
>  MP> government would have very quickly turned on the protesters.  The leaders
>  MP> would have been killed or "disappeared," and hundreds others would have
>  MP> been killed or banished to some labor camp.  There are plenty of
>  MP> historical events to support this, while there are very, very few that
>  MP> support a "no they wouldn't" point of view.

> Trump is documented as asking why the BLM protesters couldn't be shot in the
> legs.

If we were a Communist country, it would not have been just the legs and
the answer would have been "yes, we can."

>  MP> Yes, those things can happen in other types of governments, but they are
>  MP> very close to a given in a Communist one.
>
> Not necessarily. It's more a function of how corrupt the government is.

So all Communist governments are/have been corrupt.  I can live with that.


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