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It’s unfortunate that a communist dictator was toppled and killed? Did you ever bother to look into why that happened and all the evils he did?

We shouldn’t be borrowing from a dead communist dictator’s playbook. Clearly it didn’t work out for him and the vast majority of people didn’t want that.

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It was irony. It was unfortunate for him, because he couldn't realize his grand vision of communal food distribution: https://www.rferl.org/a/photos-romania-hunger-circuses-bucha...

I didn't think I needed to elaborate that any idea coming from communist dictators (let alone the self-styled Genius of The Carpathians) should not be the basis of our policies.

I suspect the 'unfortunate' in the parent comment was dry irony, not an earnest expression of sadness.

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