[two characters are talking]
Vaccines have saved millions of lives you know
[a blue character points at them proudly]
Heh, look at those idiots over there, they believe in the most obvious propaganda
[the blue character is shown doing various faces]
Anyway, did you know communism killed 100 million people?
I’ve seen that 20% of the people commit 80% of the crime
Our military keeps the world a safer place
Everyone starts with opportunities, you have to earn your place in society, work harder
[sixteen variations of the blue character are shown on a multicolored grid]
Crime is out of control and keeps getting worse
Men are natural leaders, women’s nature is to nurture
Billionaires create jobs
Poor people just keep making bad decisions in life
Migrants are taking our jobs
Socialism is when we all share the same paycheck
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear
If minimum wages go up, everyone will get fired, it’s math
We brought modernity to the countries we colonized
The wage gap is a myth you’re just looking at it wrong
Immigration mathematically causes crime
Developing countries are poor because of corruption
We are the good guys
If workers were worth more, they would be paid more
Universal healthcare is communism
Patriotism means supporting the troops
[a large drawing of a serious Garfield is surrounded by the infinitely repeating phrase]
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA
You really could’ve googled that. Just one google!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
On the other hand, you arrived at the correct point that the meme is also propaganda, so IDK, I like you, but listen to your own advice.
Granted, one of the biggest reasons communism is responsible for so many deaths is that it was adopted by high population countries like USSR and China. And of course if you frame it via colonialism, what Communism did is almost exactly what the West did in 1800s.
I think there are better arguments against Communism than the number of deaths. Like the reasons those deaths happened: inefficiency, corruption, working against human nature and centralization of power.
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic, right?
How very Stalinist of you.
Or maybe it wasn’t Stalin that said that, but it’s definitely the mindset of a psychopath.
Every death is a funeral, a family grieving. One million deaths in a population of a billion doesn’t change that. It’s a million times the tragedy of one death, not 1/100 of the tragedy.
Also, the point of the black book of capitalism is to prove, that how misleading the stats are and that communsists could also inflate tge same stats for capitalism, but they didn’t (which is probably one of the reasons everything is capitalist now).