When you get to the other end, you'll be able to joke about both sides of the conversation.
[edit] I think it's a healthy thing to not want your mass media to come from one source, whether capitalist or communist, and especially not to be fucked with in terms of basic facts and cause mass panic as a result of capitalists or communists trying to prove a childish point. I'm no slave to either side's propaganda, I just recognize nasty people and nasty power plays disguised as politics when I see them.
Also, if you look at my posts for more than a passing moment, I think it's pretty unfair to say I don't maintain an open or critical mind toward every fucking thing. So snappy, thoughtless (and frankly uncritical) one liners like yours don't deserve the attention I'm giving it. You're welcome.
I dislike communism as much as capitalism, but what I dislike the most is the brainwashed americans who blame everything on the communist boogieman.
> 20-25 years to enjoy living as a communist before you have to make money. Don't believe my experience, it sounds like you're already living it yourself.
haha, really now ?
I'm actually not this, but it is quite specific and telling that you have this American boogieman in your mind. I don't even know any Americans like this... most of them I think died by the early 2000s.
I do have a somewhat clear understanding of living under single-party rule and blanketed by state-controlled media in Vietnam, and can compare and contrast that to the liberal free market of information which you are free to label "capitalist propaganda" in the West. The difference of course is that it's not actually propaganda when it's chaotic and not organized by a state organ - in the capitalist case, it's just advertising. The difference is measured in menace and the threat of personal violence.
