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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
How to do Communism
- Thread starter Oler Ted
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It still baffles me that some Americans think communism is better than capitalism. These people have been spoiled by freedom
...and brainwashed by the schools, media, & celebs.
laterallyshaking
Elite
A free and wealthy country is a blessing. It also has a dark underside. Rewind a couple hundred years and a large chunk of people were having to strive and work to live. They toiled long hours on the farm. They fought the elements and the forces of nature. They hunted and gathered and lived hard lives. How prevalent was it then to hear of somebody living such a terrible life because somebody called them the wrong pronoun? Or because they majored in something stupid and have too much student loan debt? Or because so-and-so said something to offend them?
Our free and wealthy society is a blessing and I wouldn’t trade it for another, but it’s important to see the underside and know that it has bred some low-skilled, weak willed individuals who have to make up problems for themselves because they have never had to face true adversity.
