• -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Woah in the post war years anyone who was a suspected anarchist or communist got blacklisted and was unable to work, have a home or live a normal life. Hundreds of thousands of people! Some of whom I know personally in real life!

    So much for that freedom in the West!

    What about Indonesia murdering hundreds of thousands of suspected communists with U.S military and financial support? Where is the freedom there? How did my western freedoms end up in a pile of dead indigenous people? It always seems to happen!

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      3 hours ago

      Oh my God this is the dumbest logic that the rich sponsor to derail any example to meet from the great generation. Because everything was not perfect nothing from that era counts.

      You could not use a single example from history with that logic. You could discredit anything anyone has done ever if there was injustice.

      Give me one example, one historical example that could be used while not being discounted because their society was not perfect?

      And regardless a minimum wage job paid for life, the factory job paid for a downright prosperous life, antitrust laws were enforced, we paid a reasonable amount of money for goods, and so forth.