I laughed after reading Twilight say “your communist ways” XD

@Draco_2k  
Glad I could help.

@Scrounge  
amen

@Scrounge  
Yeah, actually. Odd.

@Draco_2k  

 
You’re a communist and I’m accusatory! XD
 
Feel better with that out of the way?

I have no idea what is happening in this picture.
 
@Mr grump  

 
Funny. People who lived under communism said the same thing about communism.
 
@Mr grump  
From personal experience, most ex-soviet citizens still regret USSR’s passing, and would trade what came after for a communist regime in a heartbeat. Even those who had their family members “disappeared” or who barely earned a living wage. See the rationalization above.
 
inb4 somepony accuses me of being communist even though I fucking hate communism
 
@Scrounge  

@Scrounge  
Savage.

Bullshit, Zeph. Even if literally everywhere was recruiting ponies off the street, they wouldn’t even want you as slave labor. You burned out disastrously in school and ended up dropping out of hairdresser lessons, you got fired from three jobs in one day that you wouldn’t even have gotten if your sister hadn’t kissed flank on your behalf, you’re a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen, and you’re such a lazy, arrogant, obnoxious piece of shit that even your own family wants you gone.

@Pagan  
Drawing parallels and making analogical statements may be a little harder to do than reciting the same crap some other person said but by no means would I ever deem it as hard
 
Now figuring out why someone would give a mouse booty and make mundane pictures like this is a real challenge

@hype  
It’s hard to work ponies into politics in a way that makes sense besides the two really shouldn’t mix.
 
@MrOwen  
I was joking. :p

@Pagan  

 
 
Well, we’re talking about politics, and everyone is trying to be polite and no one started throwing obscenities around yet. So, even if not in discussed topic, the spirit of My Little Pony is still very much present.

@Pagan  
Or I mean you could havejust talked about pony But that’s just my 2 cents

@MadVillan  
Not sure but I find the lack of pony in them disturbing. I should have posted pony reaction pics to offset this problem.

@MadVillan  
Serious buisness, dude.

@MadVillan  
PONY POLITICS

…What is even going on with these comments?

@MrOwen  
Oh now I get ya my bad I retract my previous statement then, sorry for the misunderstanding.

@Pagan
 

 
Please, backtrack the conversation for a moment. You said.
 

 
This has nothing to do with your beliefs if we should switch to communism or not (we kind of do).  
I say the reason that people compare Starlight’s cult to communsim is ignorance, because of the very fact, that it is not even similar to communist system (or socialist, for that matter). I do believe that people who make that sort of comparison are ignorant of what communism is and how it works.
 
Example: the main principle of communism is “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs”; the main principle of socialism is “from each according to their ability, to each according to their work”.  
Starlight’s version was “from each according to average ability, to each according to average needs”. So, it is kind of obvious that comparing her regime to communism can be seen as ignorance.

@Background Pony #BA28  
Actually no I was talking about socialism in the form of healthcare and that’s really it and yes socialist healthcare would be better than what we have now. We have health insurance a thing that some people are turned down for or the insurance simply says they won’t cover the treatment you need whereas universal healthcare is something everyone has you can’t be turned down and if you need treatment you get it, our health insurance costs around $500 for single person coverage and over $1,000 for family coverage and they still don’t always help you, universal healthcare in Britain has a 11% tax that equals only $3,000 for a year for families, so American health insurance costs $12,000 a year and universal costs $3,000 a year and you are fully covered and are guaranteed treatment.
 
A fully national health insurance system, in which all Americans are covered in the same massive group and for-profit insurers and healthcare providers can’t pick and choose who to cover and how much to charge them. This system would effectively extend the current Medicare and Medicaid system to the whole population, and, in so doing, make it even more efficient.
 
People like to say that America currently has “the finest healthcare system in the world” and then cite horror stories about sick people dying in streets because they have to wait so long to get the (terrible) healthcare services available to them under “socialist” healthcare.
 
This horror story, naturally, is presented as the polar opposite of our current system, In fact, in many ways, it’s similar. Today, in America, many people without health insurance spend their lives waiting until they get so sick that they can go wait in emergency rooms. And then our often wildly profitable hospitals pay for their care by, effectively, sending their bills to everyone else.
 
But please do go on and tell me that numbers lie and I’m the one who’s ignorant.

@Pagan  

 
you know who said just this?  
gorbachev  
you know how this ended?  
1991  
alcohol abuse and death  
rising infant deaths  
sell out of russian resources to the west  
homelessness
 
the notion of “combining both” is based on lacked education on what socialism is and the absurd idea of “state doing things is socialism”. i’m sorry, but that’s naive, and you’d agree if you read up on basic theory literature more.

actually, communists are not promoting “everyone the same pay”  
socialism: “to each according to contribution”  
communism: “to each according to need”  
in the early soviet union engineers and workers were getting about the same level of pay as management/bureaucracy  
people who invested their time into studying and becoming engineers and becoming more efficient in work did get a higher pay still. there’s even a speech by stalin available that is adressing the fluctuation of work forces and explains just this.  
which is funny btw considering that western propaganda is claiming workers didn’t have the freedom to choose their work place. this is ridiculous nonsense that might’ve applied during the war time but was never a general rule of how things worked.
 
going a bit off topic:  
later on, quotemining lenin and stalin on the topic, who argued against “equaling pay” in a very specific context, plant managers got higher pay (and more individual “freedom” in organizing the plant, effectively undermining planned economy) which on the long run in the 90s lead to the managers simply claiming the factories. yet even up till the end of the soviet union the level of income never increased as insanely as it did in capitalist countries.

@MrOwen  
If by modern democracies you mean Putins russia then yes

@hype  
I’ll cherish it always. :3

@Pagan  
Hopefully it will influence you in the future

@MrOwen  
So the fact I don’t think we should completely switch to communism despite me saying if the two were mixed in certain aspects things would be better makes me ignorant? Kay I’ll keep that in mind.