whyisitsohardtogetausername
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Sep 10, 2021 6:42 PM
whyisitsohardtogetausername
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TaylorPump42
First political post I could like since I downloaded this app.
DougDeNasty
Reminds me of the Alan Jackson video for Good Time.
KleptoKea
Imagine how much could be achieved if the American People could give enough of a shit and unite like that for even one day.
mittag
I remember an anecdote from these times: "In USSR everyone is equal .. just that .. some people are a bit more equal than others"
967Evil
Bread or toilet paper queue ?
Napukin
This picture looks like it was from the early 60s.
criticalhitkoala
In a way smiling, it's a bunch of people doing things together as one for a common goal and good. How Socialist!
criticalhitkoala
Joke btw, some of the toughest but nicest people I've met and loved are from those countries. I want happiness for them.
woodenrobot
Today in history what? Give us some damn information
makotheshark
Everyone needs to just share a Coke
venomlash
a bepis even
TwitchyEyebrow
US
DrKriegersClone
Surprised the Russians wouldn't have massacred people for this
YeastInfectedWhiskerBiscuit
Oh, look, another attempt to vilify any form of communism/socialism by some right wing conservative.
Asteroidrules
You forgot either the /s or your antipsychotics.
GuestChrist
I remember it.
TheWatermill
Thats an average spacing of 300mm/1ft. Thats awfully cramped.... assuming 600km is the actual distance not "as the crow flies".
MyBigMouth
At one end someone touched a CRT monitor, at the other end someone got zapped.
RevRagnarok
You laugh, but that was an early experiment in electricity. It was static electricity and I don't care enough to look it up right now.
jipopotamus
Restecp
skint42
Beautiful moment when the West and East staines massive came together
Stargrave3000
Gotta love how half the comments here are "bUt Not ReAl CoMmUnIsM." There's a time and place, y'know.
venomlash
It's like when people post about how many people fascists killed and someone's all like "but gommunisum bad too". Touch a nerve, eh?
venomlash
Tankies, like all authoritarians, are incredibly fragile and can't bear to read any criticism of their ideology's fuckups.
Galdrack
I mean tankies are pro-USSR so they aren't really the people stating that it's not true communism. They usually say it wasn't that bad.
Hashtagdelta
I dislike seeing b/w photos from time periods I know had color available. Seems deceptive
digiorno88
This is verbatim from a Facebook post
kenj3814
1989- no need to be in black and white friends.
qbeezy444
How do they do things like this without Internet or beeper. Those Messenger pigeons must have been strong
navagon
The far left keeps banging on about the people this and the people that. The vast majority of the time the people are lying in a mass grave.
Galdrack
The far left are anarchists not Stalinsts. Like the far left and far right aren't equally authoritarian.
navagon
To clarify: I mean actual far left. Not US definition of far left, which is actually decidedly on the right.
verset
It is more impressive when u realise those 2 million are 1/3 of the total population of the Baltics.
Loadie25
Just like "Hands Across America" in the 80's but only completely different
schlami
DannyDoggo
Yeah in different cites, many people were stoned and drunk. We were in Arizona.
ActionJohnnie
ObliqueRay
80s*
ObliqueRay
What's with the downvotes? This is literally correct.
Jayzon01
?
Jayzon01
80's*
cdlong
'80s*
ObliqueRay
Either is correct. 80's is not.
KalleSchnikov
*'80s
uglygiantbagofmostlywater
“Hands across Americaaaaaaaaa!”
jizanthipussss
All I think of is Broken Lizard when I see "Hands across America"
DebonairJayce
Couple breaks in the chain....
MawgSpawn
Haaaands across this land I loooove!
Adester
Please note that they did not protest the communist system, but the corrupt and oppressive goverment.
PhillipJFrey
Please note that the communist system is what allowed the oppressive govt. to be able to do what it did. So redundant
navagon
When you take a look at all 'attempts' at communism you'll realise that corruption and oppression is the frying pan, not the fire.
Galdrack
When you look at the systems in place before them you realise they were mostly less oppressive than those that came before.
ErgoVisaVisConcordantly
bullshirtdetectorinspector
Look out, Putin's coming for you.
karvis
I was there... (Lithuanian here). But I was still a child , don't remember much...
MyNameIsPer
Well done getting rid of your oppressors! Greetings from your neighbors across the Baltic Sea ?????
xcopperx
I upvoted and made comment hit 420 points
Gildy88
There's a huge Lithuanian community where I live in Ireland. You fuckers know how to get creative with cabbage and I love it
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
That's the most Irish thing I've heard. Also, I love cabbage
someflowersneverbloom
Yeah we do :)
TroyLoModel
Another communist success story.
jehone
???️✊✌️
ligmabolz
Flag , hello, I'll punch you, peace out
jehone
Flag , hello, TOGETHER, peace out
ligmabolz
jehone
?️?✌️?
webgambit
Still, that's badass that you were there
ArcadiaBerger
Are you sure it was you, or was it your Tethered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMacZNMYyc
karvis
Damn, now I'm not sure... :/
Unicornzebraunderwear
I visited Vilnius on remembrance day in 2019, had a great time but, fuck the KGB museum was super depressing.
SarcasticComment
Did someone at one of the ends touch an electric fence to create a shock felt around the nation?
SarcasticComment
Does anyone know if it would travel the full length if no one let go? I've seen 12 people experiments. Never 12000+
NeelboBaggins
It would die out eventually, due to energy loss in the form of heat dissipation, etc
Trashpandafan
Crank up the voltage!
Neotic357
Doubt heat would be the cause, you get shocked by the current running through you to the ground, touching someone else makes you a voltage
Neotic357
divider, so the effect would probably decrease exponentially from the voltage drop.
SarcasticComment
Was assuming so. There'd have to be absorption, else migrant children would be used to stabilize the power grid in Texas
ILovedUnicornsFirst
This would’ve been way more funny if I couldn’t see them actually doing it. (I still chuckled. Don’t give them any ideas.)
SarcasticComment
If it works, Republicans will throw human suffering at it.
Apeofdeath
Communism does not equal socialism
Ninjainslippers
Even socialism doesn't equal socialism. Socialism comes in a lot of varieties and is an extremely complex concept.
PhillipJFrey
Starving is the same in every language
WakeUp2Yourself
In capitalism man exploits man. In communism it's the other way around.
sdfsfsfsgs
Socialism is the road to communism. The Soviet Union wasn't "communist".
Highlights333
Lol, both have the same decrepit end of taken far
sparkletempt
No but ussr was a 'socialist' dictatorship, they misused the term socialism in a very bad way
Lierofox
Socioeconomically socialist, politically dictatorship?
ShipOfFate
In general, you are correct. Specifically, all of these countries were socialist. But Imgur loves “democratic socialism” most of the time.
PhillipJFrey
Funny how no one asked but you still felt the need to say that, I wonder why that is
ligmabolz
I knew I'd find a dumb ass at the bottom of this thread
Asteroidrules
BattleBorn84
All of them think of communism as if they would be top bosses, not the ones in the mines or gulags.
Asteroidrules
Too many people fantasize about being a gulag administrator without realizing the prisoners are just as human as they are.
SenfinaZeit
There's never been a Communist true communist state.
PhillipJFrey
I wonder why that is? Coincidence? Maybe we should try it I bet we'd be good at it
SenfinaZeit
Mostly because power corrupts.
ligmabolz
Not in the sense of the ideals they were fighting for. It started as a "socialist " movement but it turned into a dictatorial situation fast
SenfinaZeit
Exactly
interesseret
"BuT ThE OrIgINaL MeAnInG!"
FeedTheRats
Chinese/Soviet communism was proven to be state capitalism. Basically one corporation ruling over society
GondwanaCraton
Communism has never been implemented. The attempts at implementing it have always been replaced by dictators seeking wealth and power.
sagejosh0
Dosnt matter what form of government/ economic policies you have. If your leaders are just corrupt rules then the average person is fucked
rsmgod287
every government will have corruption. The best government can weed out corruption quickly with separation of powers and checks and balances
HoneyBadgersAreBadAsses
Communism and socialism are so good you have to force people into it. So idiots still propagate this shit today
Hereagain
You think you're not forced into capitalism?
edgareplekjekk
Correct. Force was attempted to prevent it.
Hereagain
To prevent what?
edgareplekjekk
Capitalism. The ruling classes put a lot of effort into stopping capitalism being the main economic model in the western world.
edgareplekjekk
Effort as in violence and force.
Hereagain
Yeah, the monarchy didn't want to cede their power to the land/business owners. Not sure how that means you're not forced into capitalism.