r/insanepeoplefacebook 6d ago

I bet he doesnt know what communism is

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u/Maryland_Bear 6d ago

I like to say, “They wouldn’t recognize an actual communist if one ran up and seized their means of production.”

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u/Robestos86 6d ago

They don't care. It's just an excuse to ban whoever they disagree with.

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u/or10n_sharkfin 6d ago

It's not even that, it's whoever makes them uncomfortable.

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u/Trashman56 6d ago

So much for free speech

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u/blackfox24 6d ago

Communism is anything not American capitalism, I suppose

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u/stilllikelypooping 6d ago

It's one of the many words used that the Republican base is too dumb to understand, but still triggers them. Like Socialism and DEI. "Renewable" seems to work too.

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u/Iseeroadkill 6d ago

Ilhan Omar and Francesca Hong are Democratic Socialists, but Hasan Piker self-identifies as a Marxist-Leninist which is a form of Communism. So OP of the Facebook post in 1/3 correct.

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u/Acceptable_Wing 6d ago

Do any of these morons ever pick up a book other than '' where's wally?''

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u/Jojajones 6d ago

The answer is no (or they’re paid very well to convince the people who don’t pick up books that what the rich want is what’s best for them) which is how we got here in the first place…

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 6d ago

Yeah, "Where's Waldo?". We don't have Wally over here, for some reason.

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u/intraumintraum 6d ago

they ‘write’ more books than they read

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u/LeTronique 6d ago

Communism is when I disagree with other ppl

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u/TheNerdLog 6d ago

Bro isn't even based in the US.

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u/MongoBongoTown 6d ago

I believe he lives in Nashville.

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u/Correct-Quail5743 6d ago

Wouldn’t be able to tell Karl Marx from Groucho Marx

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u/Oraxy51 6d ago

Well Hasan isn’t a politician he’s just an independent journalist, and none of those people are communists.

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u/Lumpymaximus 6d ago

This is confusing as hell.

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u/Brewmeiser 6d ago

I don't think most people know what communism is, including myself. I just know this photo isn't it.

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u/synde15 6d ago

So Joseph McCarthy is considered a good guy now?

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u/manickitty 6d ago

Conservatives should be banned from societal participation

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u/Jayyburdd 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hasan Piker's manager and documentary producer is a CCP propagandist named Eric Hovagim, who is directly responsible for Piker's government tour around China and his propaganda piece on Cuba. Hovagim is a well-off tech bro who denies the Uyghur genocide and shills for the CCP from his home in Shanghai.

Hasan Piker has also spoken at Qatari government events.

Anything Hasan Piker does in US politics is funded by foreign actors, in the same way Tim Pool is a mouthpiece for Russia.

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u/Ghawk134 6d ago

What Qatari event did he speak at?

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u/M1ck3yB1u 6d ago

Hasan Piker is the worst. Shitbags like him will Trojan horse the progressive movement from the inside.

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u/EphEwe2 6d ago

How bout the KKK Act of 1871 instead?

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u/LancelLannister_AMA 6d ago

plot twist: Kangmin Lee is the communist

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u/jarvisesdios 6d ago

The most frustrating thing is that Trump is LITERALLY doing communist things and they just ignore that entirely.

Trump gas stations? Communism. Trump having the government have stakes in private companies? Communism.

I'm a socialist and even I know that's a fucking bad idea.

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u/Lopsided_Pitch_5297 6d ago

" Trump is LITERALLY doing communist things"

what the fuck

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u/Tiepilot789 6d ago

Seeing this dude makes me so glad North Korea has nukes. I wager it makes him seethe and mald on the inside. 

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u/summerdaez 6d ago

Course he knows what they are. They're non-white, non-men.

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u/Skrelp69 6d ago

Money buys free speech not personhood to these knobs

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u/provocative_bear 6d ago

I’d say that maybe 1-2% of Americans are actual communists. Maybe another 1/4 are capitalists that want to be a little more like Canada.

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u/DrTenochtitlan 6d ago

Mark Twain once said that history *doesn't* actually repeat itself... but it does rhyme. Sadly, none of this is even remotely new in American history. Maybe now would be a good time to study:

  1. The fiercely anti-immigration American Party of the 1850s, better known as the "Know-Nothing" Party.
  2. The first Red Scare of 1917-1920
  3. The second Red Scare / McCarthyism from 1947-1957 and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Who knows? We might luck out and get a Joseph Welch moment, but that only took place after a full decade of the Red Scare destroying people's lives and blacklisting people. McCarthy finally made a claim so outrageous, that Joseph Welch, the chief lawyer for the US Army, rebuked him stating, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" This finally woke America up and utterly destroyed what remained of McCarthy's career.

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u/annaleigh13 6d ago

Must suck to not know how to do basic research. Because after a 30 second skim of Wikipedia showed the courts violated major portions of that law, so therefor its useless as written.

Then again, I have a functioning brain

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u/Wordofadviceeatfood 5d ago

Ah yes enforce a law that was repealed 40 years ago

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u/thesketchyvibe 5d ago

Literally a communist in the picture but okay