I don't understand why people get so emotional when you mention the word communism

It was a simple comparison point on the previous comment that, by my standard was also wildly off base (given that he said dumb to a whole country basically)

the fact is that the west seems to be so attached (weirdly) to communism despite even those who implemented it already abandoned.

Are you scared of ghosts or what?

Communism is responsible for the deaths of over 100M people. Outside of a few remaining shitholes like Cuba and China we are all fortunate that communism has been tossed into the wastebin of history. We don't exactly have to be scared of it any more, but should be vigilant against any attempt at bringing it back.

https://victimsofcommunism.org/

That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.

>That's nothing compared to the 20 million per year that died under capitalism.

Died at an old age, surrounded by loved ones? In contrast to Gulags, secret executions, and man-caused famines?

I'm glad you mentioned that! Plenty of Wikipedia users much more knowledgable on the topic than you or I had a lengthy discussion on whether it makes sense to try and make such comparisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_commu...

The answer, as one would expect, is that it's an entirely pointless exercise, largely used as a coping mechanism for recovering communists.

What an idiotic question. In my case, the sensitivities are familiar. My ancestors in Ukraine were starved to death by communists during the Holodomor. Is that something you're familiar with?

The West is "weirdly" attached to communism for many reasons, the foremost being that the past 50 years has been spent trying to clean up the mess left by communist regimes.

Do you ever stop and wonder what Russia could have been like had the Bolsheviks not terrorized it? Does it scare you to face just how badly your ideology has globally failed, and will be forever remembered as a point of shame in the grand story of human development?

It's not my ideology! It was an example just chill down instead of implying things that I never said