Pretty much on point.

I suppose it is a case of projection, since their own countries do it with minorities such as Asians.

It is useful to pretend to be one of them - or at least an “initiate” in their ways.

If they shun you, then they risk looking like they’ll be driving people “to the enemy.” If they try to explain, they’ll sooner or later admit to being bullshitting.

A better one would be “there’s no proof of that, they weren’t, but don’t try and derail the conversation, stay on topic.”

Their most probable answer would be “ooooh, are you trying to deny it?”

In this case, pretend to be a noob with your views akin to theirs. Say something like “fuck no, but I need some proof to smear at my redfash friend/coworker/whatever’s face!”

And watch them try to produce it.

(Edit: Typo)

Short answer: entire year unemployed, then working in healthcare delivering things to folks that had even less than I have.

Skyrim? Morrowind? Bioshock? Fallout 3?

Sometimes, I think conservatives don’t even know what they themselves stand for.

How suspicious!

A mix of unemployment through an entire year (2013), already having similar personal standards, and my aunt marrying a Russian (ironically, he’s now far-right) who said he missed the USSR and how life was there. Also, one of my former bosses gave me a copy of The Communist Manifesto and I liked it. Then I read the first The Capital volume. I suppose it was a gradual proccess and somewhat instinctive in my case - I basically figured out Communism is, logically, the best possible system for people like me.

There’s also the NI Tank of the USSR during WWII - a tractor with naval metal sheets sandwiching sand, concrete and wood with either a heavy machinegun disguised as cannon or a 20mm gun in the turret. There’s the homemade tanks in Middle-East conflicts and, of course, the ever present Techicals.

Ever heard of Lepin?

https://lepinlepin.com/

Probably can run a country just as well as his namesake.

It’s why, before the world Left got defanged, Communists just used to help those people answer the ages-old question: “Is there a god?” - if you know what I mean.

Now a lot of people who call themselves communists or socialists want to do things ‘right’, even if it means being nothing more than doomed moral victors and this allowed the rise of these people.