this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
930 points (97.4% liked)

Political Memes

9105 readers
4250 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Well yeah I can agree here, USA is a fucked up country. I'm not from it. They aren't good example of neither capitalism, nor democracy (two parties on a country of the size of EU lol).

This "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" rhetoric clearly doesn't work for people in capitalist developing countries.

Why? I am from capitalist developing county, from rather poor (but sane) family. Those, who try, find the options.

USSR went from literal feudalism to competing in the space race

USSR was the fucking feudalism. My grandma didn't have her passport till 80s. Without it she wasn't allowed to move from the region, while forced to work at kolgosp.

USSR took the already wealthy state, with factories and all, and brought it into chaos, murdering people for the ideals of the revolution. And before you say "well they were killing wealthy capitalists so it's OK", ...they even murdered anarchists, also lefties.

Then they disarmed people. Then they did the literal fucking genocide of Holodomor, stockpiling food that was rotting in the hangars trying to sell it to the West while the people had nothing to eat, and they were executing them for "stealing food".

But hey, free housing. They were also offering poets free apartments. The catch? The whole building was wiretaped. Half of the residents were 3-letter agencies that monitored all contacts inside the building. And while they were doing genocide, they were forcing local poets to write stuff to glorify the regime, and tortured/sent to camps ones who didn't bend.

And yeah lol space race. Aka guide to lose your empire without any war. Even USA wasn't ready to this turn of events. The fuckers tried to save USSR from collapse.

All in all, nothing did as much damage to my people as the fucking commies. And nazies tried their best.