Funny how "communism always fails on its own" or "is a failed ideology", yet is/was so significant, that it has to have it own special section.
And also an embargo and constantly plagued by the US.
Exactly and constantly and incessantly propagandized
Or that it has to be taught as an "inherently authoritarian ideology" and/or that it means .
I'm a GenXer and I have literally been fed anti-communist propaganda since I was a very small child. It's only in the last 20 years or so that I finally "woke up" and realized how absolute bullshit it all really is.
I don't think this is necessarily due to age. I think it's just that circumstances have made capitalism look so bad that you realize that the propaganda was exactly that.
Also gen X & I remember always playing as the U.S.S.R. in any game that let me choose because of the absolute banger of a national anthem!
I went to one of the very posh UK universities where they're split into smaller colleges, and my friend's college would play the Soviet National anthem at the end of every big party that was hosted in the college bar. The college student union had even passed a motion mandating that.
It was a surreal experience to see. A large chunk of people loved this tradition, but for very different reasons. There were a decent number who were straight up communists (or at least sufficiently left wing that they loved the political subversiveness of celebrating this song at such a posh university); Some people liked it ironically, for the meme (of the anthem-enjoyers, this faction were typically the poshest of the bunch); meanwhile, some people just thought the song was a banger — in my view, on this matter, these were the most based of them
I already kind of wrote off any kids raised in Florida. It’s like Mississippi or Alabama at this point.
As a Mississippi communist I resemble this statement.
As a Mississippi communist
Damn. Talk about being behind enemy lines! 😬
May you spread the revolution even into your forsaken land
Maybe let them cook, if this is as moronic as it sounds, it could turn out like D.A.R.E.
Remember, kids: if communism is evil and communism is "taking your hard-earned money away and giving it to people who don't work hard enough," then it's your duty to demand the government stops those communist bailouts given to corporations that won't support themselves.
This country hasn't been at risk of going communist in eighty years. The right are such scared fucking babies.
It's just propaganda. It's not anti communist it's pro capitalism/imperialism and ultimately pro fascism.
They want to brand Socialism as Communism so we stay stuck in Tickle Down delusions
Using schools for political indoctrination, misinformation, and propaganda in violation of student and teachers Constitutional rights? Yes, that sounds like Florida.
Had a friend's son tell me, very insistently, that Kim Jong Un convinced everyone in his county that he doesn't poop. Also, that he's planning to nuke South Korea, and we need to do something to stop him.
This was a kid with very liberal parents going to a very liberal middle school.
Red Scare shit is already everywhere. But I guess we've got to keep cranking the hysteria up to 11
The hyper capitalist south is by no means great but I’d rather that than a disappearance state with cardboard walls. Authoritarianism is bad regardless of economic structure.
i heard shit like this in school too. but it wasn't from teachers or adults, just other idiot kids and i wasn't dumb enough to take it as a definite truth, though i did consider it plausible.
Uhh? So, like... Fascism propaganda classes?
Are they located at lake Laogai?
They already do that weird culty "Pledge of Allegiance", the soil is fertile for more brainwashing.
Reminds me of the mandatory classes on Marxism-Leninism that my parents had to take at university in the GDR.

If I'm anti-anti-communist, then I'm a communist.
And by that logic, if you're anti-anti-facsist, the you are a fascist.
If I'm anti-anti-communist, then I'm a communist
Logically, yes, but we both know that "anticommunism" in the US is less about ideology and more about favoring US economic, political, and military imperialism regardless of how.
So even though I'm not a communist, I'm 100% anti-anticommunist.
if you're anti-anti-facsist, the you are a fascist.
That one's true, though.
You can really smell the desperation in the air. The only reason to do this is because they know they're pushing people to their breaking points.
what a shithole
Let's hope it works exactly as well as the state mandated abstinence only sex education, which is to say backfiring due to kids inherent rebelliousness
Just teach history. Teach history, without an agenda. It's history class, not propaganda class. Teach history, not a nationalist narrative.
Alongside "Pedo Worship 101"?
That's the theology class
The kids will be okay. Exposure to the thing will foster critical thinking of the thing.
Death to capitalism and long live communism. Get fcked fascist piece of sht.
These people don't see the evils of indoctrination? Teach history. Teach cause and effect and show the results. Then let people decide for themselves. This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn't helping anyone at all.
Americans think it's normal to pledge allegiance to a flag in school, they thank people for "their service" Indoctrination has been happening the whole time and it works.
They are afraid people will decide they don't really like a .01% hording 50% of the worlds wealth like dragons in their lairs on piles of gold.
For fucks sake.
Guess TikTok really did a number on Western propaganda, at least in a couple of generations, and now America is even more afraid of losing their grip on narratives? Either way, that country is well and truly fucked, they're just preparing for the collapse of the house of cards that is the American economy (people will need to be even more zombified to continue working and consuming). If the reputation of the American military crashes due to the new conflict in Iran (their reach and might have already been neutered in the region with billions in damaged and destroyed facilities), that might happen faster than expected. Hope American Lemmings either have enough money to be part of the new middle class or are seriously considering immigrating.
Hiring people educated in Florida is a liability.
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