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There are 2 Communisms -- one is a romantic fable that has seduced countless Useful Idiots (some otherwise quite intelligent). The other is some psychopathic movement to destroy Christianity and remake Mankind.

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You are the very poster child of everything I said about Hollywood warping your perceptions of reality..you have red scare deep in your brain stem..what you don't see or understand is the mind control through ideology and indoctrination of mythology you succumbed to left vrs right paradigms of pick a team and fight. The woke crowd gets fed it and your side gets fed it. Plenty of democrats now believe in red scare too..

You are existential scared of comi sleeper cells hiding under your bed poised to steal the patriotic lint.

Hollywood used BOTH mindsets to make you pick a team and fight..and yet you are still sauntering up their slaughterhouse ramp arguing who is first to face the blades...your level of blind fear induced ignorance is the real problem with all you neocon useful idiots. Same as the neolibersl woke crowd and neither if you can see how you have been emotionally played like cheap violins.

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It's not an even split 50/50. The side that minimizes the Red Scare enjoys the massive cultural & sociopolitical support of the entire Western Mainstream and has enjoyed that support since the 1940s. I was surprised to learn that in fact the Mainstream already in the 1950s was anti-McCarthy. Indeed, the Democrat who preceded him in the Congressional investigation committee to ferret out Communist saboteurs, Martin Dies, when he passed the HUAC baton onto Joe, warned him to watch his back, because already in the 1940s they had been attacking Dies for his efforts.

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"Quite intelligent people understand something I do not, ergo they're actually useful idiots, because it's not possible I MUST BE THE ONE NOT UNDERSTANDING A SIMPLE CONCEPT..."

Oh wow, I hadn't gotten to the "destroy Christianity" part! You're really just a lunatic, nvm.

Btw: Christ was a proto-socialist. HE SAYS SO IN HIS BOOKS, READ THEM.

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Jesus Christ didn't have any books, if by "his books" you mean books he wrote. However, there are the New Testament books which record & discuss his advent, ministry, and teachings. For example, pertinent to your claim,

https://substack.com/profile/25949243-hesperado/note/c-45630248

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Strawman. I never mentioned "capitalism". The romantic fable type Communism tries to concoct a bogey man Marx and his pal Engels called "Capital" but what they were really aiming at was the West itself (which Marx ostensibly reduced to economics).

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This kind of argument can go on forever with a true believer -- much like trying to discuss theology with a Fundie Protestant.

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you're a true believer. capitalism good communism bad.

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ChazLB's avatar

The 50 50 is only on some things and not others but over all both are manipulated.. Like theirs your perceptions are distorted from belief not fact..The theists tend to drown themselves in all manors of fantasy imaginings thus they tend to be self dishonest thus they tend to fall for all kinds of false notions as long as they appease the original fantasy ideals they need to never let go of the hierarchy fallacy of appron strings they have to hold onto from the parental transference into man's invented deities..it's your need for some cathartic emotional attachment to the fantasy that drives and motivated you to cherry pick your beliefs and fall victims to the necon red scare McCarthyism propaganda and see everyone else as pushing a propaganda alternatives.

You are a polarised unbalanced individual that can only see one narrow side and incapable of letting go of those apron strings.

You are the perfect patsy of the establishment just like the woke crowd. No offence but that's my opinion when I hear you type start to prattle off all those typical by write talking points yet again to my eye rolling.

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