Comments by "RB 70" (@RB-bd5tz) on "The Truth about Communism, Gulags and the Left with Giles Udy" video.

  1.  @marthas.4456  Interesting points. I've been trying to figure out where we're heading. The cooperation between big companies and governments suggests fascism or nazism. The way people snitched on each other during covid was reminiscent of when I read The Gulag Archipelago, and the stories of my friends from Soviet Russian and Czechosolvakia. Also, it seems like economic and legal trends are aimed at wiping out the middle class, which would be like feudalism. The way people are manipulated by the media to attack, accuse, and cancel each other is like many totalitarian regimes. Not everything about socialism is bad, and I can see that it was better for your family than the poverty they had before. But we've been spoiled in the West: we've had it very, very good - unfortunately, the trend is definitely downward. The end result may have some aspects of each of communism, fascism, nazism, and feudalism. Not looking forward to it ...
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  2. ​ @marthas.4456  Eastern Bloc socialism and wokeness are similar in that they both restrict speech - which translates into restrictions on thought. Any such restriction on people by other people results in the same thing: enslavement. Perhaps socialism wasn't so bad for you ... but you probably didn't know any better? Pacified sheep don't complain; that's just where they want you.
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  3.  @marthas.4456  Thanks; I really appreciate your perspective. Yes, the West is limiting speech, movement, and freedom in general. But why is that? Because they are becoming socialist. I know quite a few people from the former Eastern Bloc, who lived under communism, and they are under no illusions where the West is heading. Socialism is the thin end of the wedge to totalitarianism. Socalism is not about the good of the people; it's about control of the people. There are the privileged few, and the enslaved underclass. Capitalism is THE SAME - except, under capitalism, people can, at least theoretically, improve their lot, with some effort. There is no such option under socialism: everyone must be equal - equally POOR (except those at the top). But you're right: it's all BS, all a show, all controlled by some very rich narcissists who pit the people against each other through ideology.
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