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I don’t understand the comparisons people make between OSS and comunism. Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law. OSS’s emhasis on freedom, choice, and the lack of any kind of governing authrorty or social dogma, as well as the inherent trust in the majority public to choose the right (to donate or contribute) has a lot more in common with liberalism than comunism.

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Seems I alerted the hoard, lol

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I don’t understand the comparisons people make between OSS and comunism.

It shows.

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Your understanding of communist ideas are on a par on your spelling of it.

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Just a heads up, you were lied to about what communism means.

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Who lied?

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People richer than you and their useful idiots.

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15 points

Society broadly. 🤷

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heads up, neither USSR nor China were ever communist

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Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law.

You know capitalist nations also have laws, right…?

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It’s a joke because Bill Gates once called it that. Nobody actually thinks that other than some tech bros that are high from huffing their own farts.

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Which is ironic now that they have WSL, And Azure

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Communism is a classless stateless moneyless society based on the principle of “from each according to ability, to each according to need”

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There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.

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If a theory and every attempt at real world application of a theory yield wildly different results, shouldn’t that suggest something in the theory is deeply flawed?

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