Because comrade Hakim knows his audience and their great literacy.
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Communist apologists ignore any evidence that contradicts them.
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>Name is Hakim (wise) >Claims to believe in God >Defends an atheistic ideology where being wise or critical is frowned upon
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communists tend not to think through the whole sequence of events most times, the ideology kinda relies on it
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In a response to Mentiswave, BadEmpanada claimed that Applebaum (source Mentiswave used) wasn’t a real academic according to the study he was using, despite the first sentence of the study he used acknowledged that Applebaum was an accomplished academic. Communists don’t read the sources they “use”.
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"Gulags were just like, summer camps you went to until you learned to be a good comrade, man."
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Soviets criticize Americans for slavery, proceed to enslave said Americans
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A tankie lying to cover up communist regime crimes, shocker
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There's a local history museum not too far away with a small exhibit about a Finnish family that immigrated to the US back in the 20s. Back then, representatives from the USSR would travel around the US trying to convince people to move to the USSR, saying it was a "workers paradise" and everything was better there, but if you wanted to leave, they'd let you after 2 years. Well, this family bought that sales pitch, and moved to Russia. But when they found it wasn't all it was cracked up to be, they weren't allowed to leave. It took something like 5+ years and a story about a dying family member before they were allowed to "visit" the US, but the entire family (parents plus multiple kids) could only bring one trunk along for luggage, so they couldn't bring all of their belongings. And keep in mind this was for months worth of travel, so they brought little more than a couple changes of clothes and whatever valuables they couldn't afford to leave behind. They eventually resettled in the town they initially moved to when first coming to America, and stayed with the father's former boss until they could afford they're own place.
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If they were capable of thinking they wouldn’t be commies.
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"Muh Media Literacy" the nerds will say as they proceed to not read any books longer than the ingredients list on a jar of pickles or even entertain a viewpoint that is antithetical to their own.
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"They weren't enslaved because Stalin believed in small government" - Infrared Khan, probably
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he did think it through. hes banking on the average person NOT knowing this. which is a decent bet for him to take tbh. most people dont know about any part of this.
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I listened to a reading of a US citizens journal of how he was living in the USSR either during the Great Depression or the 1920s to work in a factory. I think he stayed there for maybe five years. I don’t remember it mentioning a confiscated passport, but I do remember the conditions sounding absolutely miserable, barely a step above slavery. Whether this stolen passport stuff is true or not, emigrating to the USSR for work in manual labor as a US citizen of all people was one of the dumbest things you could’ve done, even during the Great Depression. I feel like back then though with information being so closed to most outside audiences, it must’ve been a lot easier to fall for those traps
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Hakim's clearly got a agenda for his communist fantasy if not already noticed
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Additionally, please accept a sincere Thank You. I first heard about the approximately 20k Americans that went to the USSR during the depression in the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast a few months ago back. You are the only one to have supplied me with the source. Just got done purchasing the book.
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"Enslaved" doesn't need quotations. Everyone in the USSR was enslaved.
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When I'm in an intellectual dishonesty competition and my opponents are slopulist political commentators that fetishize third-world dictatorships.
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So I am preparing a new Hakim response video, and Hakim started citing a book on how the Soviets were wholesome chungus and accepted American workers during the Great Depression and gave them jobs.
But then there is literally an entire chapter about how the Americans would get their passports stolen or confiscated after arriving, literally getting stuck in the USSR with no means of escape and becoming "enslaved", then the Soviets would buy up stolen passports and give them to agents to infiltrate the United States.
The book is literally titled "The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia.”, how the hell did he not think this through?
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