Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Front" channel.

  1. Barre was a communist. And the US supporting communists was not a new thing. Remember Josip Broz?
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  2. By subjecting themselves to communism and state-sponsored slavery?
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  3.  @marinblaze  PREACH!
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  4. And then it didn't.
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  5. Barre fled as well and died in exile.
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  6. Yes it did.
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  7.  @machinefannatic99  Put down the Marxist Kool-Aid.
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  8.  @machinefannatic99  And you're so delusional.
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  9.  @br3menPT  But they make up a negligible percentage of the population.
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  10.  @pedroitavo1624  Cuba is literally crumbling. And people of working age are fleeing en masse.
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  11. Fascism and social democracy = communist ideas.
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  12. <the general Mobutu sese Seko.> Who idolized and ran the Congo (then known as Zaire) like a communist. And the country collapsed like communist one would once it ran out of other people's money in the form of foreign aid.
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  13.  @jeremy9416  Right. And a pro-Mao one at that. The US have supported communists before. Remember Josip Broz?
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  14. Exactly.
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  15. Yet 40% of the population live in poverty.
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  16. Yes there have. And Tyranny, poverty, persecution, civil war, etc. are the results communism have consistently produced for 104 years and running.
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  17. So how did communist Somalia manage to get US support?
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  18. Yes it did. Falling out with the USSR and losing the Ogaden War did Somalia and its communism in.
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  19. Who would have thought it would produce 2 poster boys? Ethiopia for famine and Somalia for failed state?
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  20. UNITA was originally Chinese-baced.
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  21.  @jakekaywell5972  Nope. Communism.
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  22. UNITA started out as Chinese-backed.
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  23. Pretty much.
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  24. Pretty much.
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  25. Well, it did.
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  26. Which people? So far it's power to the MPLA elites.
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  27.  @jakekaywell5972  The firing of skilled personnel in favor of political allies in the oil industry, the crippling of the private sector and local industry with price controls and restrictions, the excessive printing of money to compensate for production declines, etc. = capitalist-caused crisis?
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  28. Another post-communist kleptocracy.
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  29. Fascism = socialism. Wasn't its founder a communist?
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  30. Which lasted a grand total of 3 years.
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  31.  @andreinastase1604  Either way, it didn't last very long.
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  32.  @andreinastase1604  Translation: dreaming of a life with themselves as the political class.
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  33. <Angola is one of those rare cases where socialism wasn't that bad and actually helped the country and people to achieve freedom from oppression, first Portuguese and then South African.> By being yet another kleptocracy making a billionaire out of Dos Santos's (one-time head of the current ruling MPLA) daughter.
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