Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Trabant Was an Awful Car Made By Communists" video.

  1. ITmage I'm not American. Yes, you are free to speak, but we are also free to criticize your speech. The problem isn't that you think that the author sucks, the problem is that you're taking personally legitimate criticisms of a vehicle. I admit that I like bad movies, and bad music, the criticism doesn't reflect itself on me, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that schlock movies or uninspired pop music have great artistic value. Your argument is like liking Britney Spears' music, hearing someone using his knowledge of music theory to explain why her songs aren't very good, and you'll sit here and argue that her songs have artistic value and are masterfully composed. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy Britney Spears, it doesn't mean you can't have fond memories of listening to her, and it doesn't mean Britney Spears is a bad person.
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  2. ITmage offense isn't given, it's taken. If you think jokes are disrespectful I'm afraid that's your problem.
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  3. ITmage Okay, feel free to go away and watch something else. I didn't know that calling out the flaws in a motor vehicle is lack of education because someone may have owned the vehicle and for some reason it's a personal insult to them. But man, you must have a life that's hard to live if you get that easily offended.
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  4. "Some places were better in communist days" - not necessarily due to communism being better, but because communism itself left the country crippled and miserable for future generations. I'm also from Europe and many people say we had it better back when we had Fascism. Except it was a lie. Everyone was poorer, everyone was less educated and there's also the disadvantage that if you attempted to live freely the secret police would snatch you. Yes, banks went bankrupt, people lost their jobs etc but back then there was famine and illiteracy. Things are better now, but appear worse. Things were worse then, but nostalgia and the government propaganda made Fascism appealing. Same with communism. Like Putin said, if you don't miss the Soviet Union you have no heart, if you want the Soviet Union back you have no brain.
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  5. +ITmage communism has no good sides.
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  6. look, I hear the same things. But people working blue collar jobs are now able to afford plane tickets and cars. Back in the old days a lot of people working white collar jobs couldn't. What you're seeing is an effect of market economies, commodities produced in relatively competitive markets had their prices plummet and so we can literally buy phones which are pocket computers with cameras, but we're spending more on things like rent because real estate development is stagnating. But that's another topic. There's a problem with "literally everyone having a job" - most likely such jobs were unecessary/inefficient but because keeping people in line with the regime meant hiding the problems under the rug, they still existed. I can go to a construction site and create jobs on the spot - replace every shovel by a plastic spoon, and more people will be necessary to dig. However, was the construction site meant to construct something, or to create jobs? In my effort to create jobs I put a strain on society, the construction will cost more and take longer to build, and that cost will be passed on to society.
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  7. +ITmage "So, i guess China is crippled country? Oh no... its worlds second economy..." The moment I mention the Great Leap Forward you'll switch gears and then claim that China was never in real communism, and that it's state capitalism or some shit. It's a superpower thanks to all the jobs that were outsourced to China. You claim communism is so great because everyone has jobs, look at the jobs they got! Slave sweat shop labour. Thankfully capitalism is pulling China out of the gutter, it's becoming a tech giant, people have more money, in fact standards of living improving has lead to many sweat shops being relocated to Pakistan or Bangladesh because Chinese labour is becoming too expensive. The good things from China are all due to the Communist-in-name-only ruling party opening itself to capitalism, and the bad things stem from government corruption and their authoritarian rule stealing their people's freedoms.
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