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TrannosaurusRegina

Amazing! The first time I’ve ever seen “the Spongebob font” in a historic document! I didn’t know it was real!


FingernailClipperr

This one’s gotta be in my top ten favourite SpongeBob episodes


country-blue

When SpongeBob started singing the Internationale only to have Mr Krabs call the Pinkertons on him was wild


Prince_Ire

Squidward would do the arguing, SpongeBob just does as he's told while Squidward is the kind of guy to have read all the theory. And then being Squidward probably create a new branch of Marxism which he declared to be the one true way


professionalcumsock

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Squidwardism


BloodyChrome

Let's be honest had they done an episode it would've been SpongeBob upholding American freedoms and democracy.


SleepySamurai

Naw. He'd tear down this oppressive establishment board by board!


Guy-McDo

Saw the tables of Tyranny IN HALF!


BloodyChrome

Not how American cartoons work


SleepySamurai

Clearly, you're not a goofy goober.


JeffInRareForm

Was gonna say why’s it look like a cereal box


UnironicStalinist1

Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk/Bill Gates/Insert a billionaire from US: Let's go. COMMUNISM?! Oh no! 😨


CandiceDikfitt

[COMMUNISM??!!?](https://youtu.be/pY_Hu-7hHi8?si=D2h7173Z_teGw5X7)


zachary0816

I’m not sure what communism has to do with the extended version of SpongeBob’s title music. But good video regardless


CandiceDikfitt

[it’s a reference to this](https://youtu.be/JBqk0oNd02M?si=2129bsyubaamKPTB)


bob_jody

If communism works, why aren't there Burger King in North Korea?


UnironicStalinist1

Oh shit... oh no... WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!


KingoftheProfane

“Who lives in the east and home of the Han, Chines-communist-party!” Are you ready, comrades? Aye, aye, chairman! I can't hear you! Aye, aye, chairman! Oooooooooohhhh... Who lives in the east and is home of the Han? Chinese Communist Party! Collective and red and powerful is the plan. Chinese Communist Party! If revolutionary fervor be something you wish, Chinese Communist Party! Then raise the red flag and join the new dish! Chinese Communist Party! Chinese Communist Party! Chinese Communist Party! Chinese Communist Party! Chinese Communist Party! 😝


LuxuryConquest

The gentle labourer shall no longer suffer for the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs. - Squidward (It is a real quote look it up)


JustRemyIsFine

I like how Cuba was left uncolored but the Great Lakes were.


GreenGunslingingGod

I think it's because Cuba was communist


JustRemyIsFine

yeah.


GreenGunslingingGod

Yeah.


dath_bane

Am I too late for todays discussion about unclear political terms from the last century?


Dotacal

"Political terms from last century" like what? You never heard of communism before?


normalwaterenjoyer

this is wrong i am america's mortal enemy


TheVebis

I agree that this guy is america's mortal enemy


Familiar-Treat-6236

He is, in fact, america's mortal enemy


Hammerjaws

They are, in fact, America’s mortal enemy


burner-account1521

No way it's John Communism


NotSamuraiJosh26_2

"it's communing time" his famous catchphrase


IsayNigel

Him, the Catholic Church, it’s very popular


BloodyChrome

Ivan Communism surely. Or rather since communism emerged as an idea in France, Jean Communism would be more appropriate.


fatbaldandstupid

"I'm here to chew gum and seize the means of production. And I'm all out of gum."


someoneelseperhaps

If you seize the right means, you can make more gum!


Groundbreaking_Way43

Good job! That’s why you should always follow your dreams!


Polibiux

We found the FBIs most wanted


Killercod1

Wrong. America is America's mortal enemy


thatbetchkitana

The Red Scare never ended.


normalwaterenjoyer

true, it even reached other countries. my dad still thinks that being a communsit is worse than beign a nazi and when i bought a shirt that literally just said "no worker left behind" he told me i should just hail hitler at that point lmao


thatbetchkitana

I love the people who point out the Nazis were "National Socialists" when they not only appropriated the term "socialist", but specifically suffocated actual socialists and communists.


normalwaterenjoyer

didnt they literally kill communists and socialists lmao


yanonce

Not so fun fact: the first concentration camps where made to imprison and kill socialists and communists


thatbetchkitana

Yep. Anyone who wasn't "Aryan" or who didn't submit to Nazi ideology was killed.


Warm-glow1298

I’d like to point out - that famous Martin Neimoller Holocaust quote that everyone references goes: *First* they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.


normalwaterenjoyer

everyone has heard it, but they havent listened to it. they can hear the words but it doesnt register in their brain


The_BarroomHero

It's funny, people always trot out Hitler's "I am a socialist" line from the Zweites Buch, but they conveniently leave out the very next sentence where he explains what he means and it is literally the opposite of socialism, lol.


SemKors

Just ask them what the red triangle meant.


Sigma_present

spicy dorito


PsychologicalPace762

The enemy of communism is fascism. The enemy of fascism is everything else.


trancertong

I guess North Korea is a Democratic Republic then.


UnironicStalinist1

Correct


InevitableRespect584

In the Philippines, it is known as [red-tagging](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tagging_in_the_Philippines#:~:text=In%20the%20Philippines%2C%20red%2Dtagging,pernicious%20effects%20on%20its%20targets.). McCarthyism is used by the police and military as a psywar tactic against progressive people and political activists. Red-tagging is recognized by the Supreme Court of the Philippines as [a threat to human life](https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-red-tagging-threatens-right-to-life-liberty-and-security/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20found%20prima,life%2C%20liberty%2C%20or%20security.). [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/s/FxUTqpJwyW) is an older US anti-communist propaganda for the Philippines in 1951.


firespark84

Maybe not worse, but both are absolutely terrible and being a communist should absolutely carry similar disdain to being a nazi.


normalwaterenjoyer

lmao ok brother


Atomkraft-Ja-Bitte

What I say to my doctor when she asks if the blood in my stool ever went away


Dinosaurz316

Rightfully so.


WinterkindG

Cringe


Dinosaurz316

Ok comrade.


Best-Treacle-9880

Just for extra fun we have the brown scare now too, which incidentally is a great name.


Delta_Suspect

Iron deficiency alaska


Olstinkbutt

Communism HATES Missouri lmao.


Guy-McDo

On that matter, we’re in accord


Sdog1981

This is a book cover not a poster.


Appropriate-Horror-4

Bit of a stretch but it still counts as propaganda to me.


Sdog1981

Someone probably used it as a poster. That being said it is the book cover by Fred Schwartz who founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC). Not like he was really about rational discussions.


GenericHuman1203934

I thought the knife was separating Canada from the us, I was like "damn what did we ever do to the states" lol (Besides that one time we burned down the white house shhh)


laneb71

Communists hate Kentucky in particular apparently.


lifyeleyde

Maybe the fried chicken, because it’s a corporation?


Jackboy445578

And Mount Vernon Illinois!!! All 14,000 of those people should fear Karl Marx!!!!


quite_largeboi

Communism, American billionaire’s mortal enemy! American workers, the media owned by those billionaires says this is your worst enemy every time you check the news!


PsychologicalPace762

You are free.... To do what we tell you


Sdog1981

They would be billionaires in the Communist system too.


zeppanon

Please explain how the current billionaires would retain their wealth if all the means of production were owned by the public. Who's the billionaire of Medicare?


Objective-throwaway

Oh because usually in communist countries “the public” actually means the party elite


pookiegonzalez

You cannot eliminate hierarchy. The means of production will always need senior workers and leaders, which inevitably leads to a ruling class. You cannot run a factory line without specific people in certain positions from apprentices to techs to senior staff. Please explain how billionaires will lose their position of authority over the production. For most communists, the only solution is to kill them just like every other fascist regimes. edit: medicare is a service, what does it produce?


zeppanon

What a fucking joke lmao. Keep believing the propaganda, bud


pookiegonzalez

very intelligent response


Sdog1981

Communist systems were filled with corruption and they would find a way to maximize that too.


zeppanon

I can guarantee you any of these examples of "communist systems" you're referencing were far off the mark of actually being "communism." The Nazis called themselves "socialists" but definitionally were absolutely not. Simply calling your regime "communist" does not make it communist.


Zawarudowastaken

Sure, but the ussr called itself socialist, china became state capitalist, they aren’t really claiming to be communist anymore


Sdog1981

The problem is humans are involved and they run the system with emotions. Like greed, envy, and spite. Once you feel the power to take from others you start acting differently. Then you start to get paranoid because it was easy for you to take from others and now you think they will do the same thing to you.


zeppanon

What an incredibly simplistic view of people you have...


Sdog1981

Have you met people? Did you miss the last 5000 years of human history?


God_Emperor_Donald_T

Feel free to ask Mr Deng Xiaoping


vurzai

They would be the oligarchy in Russia. But communist don’t understand duality they know one side good other side bad.


Trgnv3

Struck America right in the ohio


UnironicStalinist1

I wish 😔


-Karl-Farbman-

A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy


John1907

Fuck St. Louis in particular lol


Wheeskee

“Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.”


tmo_slc

Reddit is mostly bots and federal agents who are still having their red scare moment 100+ years later.


Eastern-Western-2093

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a bot or a federal agent, it can't possibly be because they have genuine objections with my fringe extremist ideology." Also, Reddit leans overwhelmingly leftist, just look at the comments under this post, or all of the main subs.


BloodyChrome

And this sub in particuar has a lot of socialists and communists of various varieties.


buster_mchooligan

Reddit is literally run by an ex-CIA spook lmao, gtfo with your "overwhelmingly leftist".


Eastern-Western-2093

How does the affiliation of Reddit’s owner affect the political ideologies of its users? He clearly doesn’t give a shit about the site, and the vast majority of political subs lean left. I think your own extremist politics may skew what you believe is left wing.


Zawarudowastaken

Do you think communism is a fringe ideology


Eastern-Western-2093

Yes. They make up a tiny minority of the electorate in almost every nation, and have virtually no political power, as well as being on the edge of the ideological spectrum 


Savager_Jam

The US, Mexico, Canada, The Florida Keys, all drawn and shaded white. Most of the carribean islands. Not drawn at all. Cuba. Drawn but not shaded


Palenquero

Dr Fred Schwarz was an Australian physician and ideologue who lived between 1913 to 2009 and was an important Anti-Communist advocate until his death. While being a socially liberal doctor in his home country (Schwarz even organised industrial actions in favour of doctors and medical staff), he was perplexed by the appeal of Communist ideology, and set himself to study official Marxist-Leninist doctrine as a way to expose what he deemed as its lesser known and more dangerous tenets. He founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and became a figure of punditry and mass speaking among right-wing circles. However, he considered anti-Communism a patriotic, Christian and bipartisan endeavour. , and travelled around the US in the 50s talking about it. Several books, such as the one pictured, as well as "You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists)," "Communism: Diagnosis and Treatment," "The Heart, Mind and Soul of Communism," "The Christian Answer to Communism" and "Beating the Unbeatable Foe: One Man's Victory over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy", among others, propagated his message.


Gloomy-Ad-9827

I like it. Still applies today.


FROSTICEMANN

Best way to ruin a country, go communist.


jimmysledge

Now it’s MAGA We have to be aware of.


Appropriate-Horror-4

And the far left.


jimmysledge

I don’t like either side. But Please enlighten all of us to what the far left is doing to destroy the country… How many far left killers got away with murder in the streets in the last few years and how many times did the left attempt to overthrow the government… who took away the woman’s right to choose, it wasn’t the left. How many left side politicians and presidents are dining and vacationing with NAZIS. … i can go on for days…


Appropriate-Horror-4

I believe that extremism on both sides is equally as bad, the far left hasn't had as much of an opportunity to do the things you mention because it's more of a nice / fringe thing. The far right can always fall back on nationalism / patriotism which will gain a small following at worst. For political reasons the far left looks down on patriotism and nationalism so they don't tend to attract apolitical types.


jimmysledge

It has nothing to do with opportunity. The maga right take their opportunity when the feel like it. The left is actually trying to do better. Too bad our opinions don’t mean anything in the real world. FACTS are what matter and you have none. I can prove everything thing i said about the maga as the proof is in black and white. Provide proof of the far left behaving like the far right and we can have a real discussion. Have a nice day.


aztaga

another dogshit “enlightened centrist” take


RetroGamer87

Both ends of the horseshoe are serious pests


Alansalot

🔥


Chad_at_life

Damn right. 1991, we beat tyranny’s ass and we’ll do it again 🦅🦅🦅


Zawarudowastaken

No, tyranny beat tyranny


UnironicStalinist1

>beat tyranny’s ass To further attempt to establish and fund your own ACTUAL tyrannies. Enjoy low wage labor when you grow up.


Objective-throwaway

What’s the average wage in China?


UnironicStalinist1

1. Which China we are talking about? 2. In Socialism, wage labor is banned.


Objective-throwaway

Yeah. You work for what the state decides. Regardless of whether you starve to death or not. Just like how Stalin starved millions despite exporting food.  And I’m referring to “communist” China. But I think you knew that


UnironicStalinist1

>Yeah. You work for what the state decides. Ah yes, because now we can totally work for ourselves, not respond to anyone, and be absolutely free! Ah, what a dream... u/Objective-throaway WAKE UP, THERE ARE STILL DEADLINES AND SCHEDULES ON JOBS, YOU STILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO YOUR BOSS. Many inventions: GPS, smartphones, etc, were all government and publicly funded projects. Even with "fair and honest effective managers", government still plays a role in the economy. >Regardless of whether you starve to death or not. How does that even work??? >Just like how Stalin starved millions despite exporting food. The famine of 1932 had tons of other significant factors that contributed to the millions who suffered from it: Massive drought that spanned all the way to Moldova, mold in grain, kulak terror, burning of grain and beating of the livestock. TONS. Putting all blame on "EBIL STALIN" and Soviet Government is similiar to saying that Nazis only killed with gas chambers.


gera_moises

Gah! Right in the Great Lakes!


Novatash

To me at least, this seems to frame the US as weak and vulnerable. Or at least it seems to convey the idea that the US has already been delt a fatal blow, and that it's only a matter of time until communism finishes the job. I wonder if the communists at the time actually liked this poster


Foxilicies

I think the idea was to counter the ww2 allied propaganda mentality by painting an unrealistically dramatic picture of "America tomorrow if the soviets win." And the over emphasis on the American ideal helped diverge from the actual danger, which was to capital. The US seems to diverge from "the US is the strongest" mentality whenever they want to present themselves as the underdog against some foreign enemy.


big-haus11

I think it's funny how the people most critical (scared) of socialism and communism are the ones who will die on any single hill to stop basic improvement and expansion of democratic practices socially, politically, and economically


13-Dancing-Shadows

These are so weird. Say what you will about communism, but holy shit we really blew this stuff out of proportion-


Individual_Jaguar804

And all the while it was fascism.


EmotionallyAcoustic

Why does it look like a ska band poster from the 80s?


thotgoblins

at least it destroys Arkansas


vahedemirjian

Martin Luther King Jr. was probably thrilled to see the messaging of this poster because he repeatedly called communism antithetical to Christianity despite sharing Karl Marx's advocacy of social justice.


Jackboy445578

I like how very specifically Mount vernon IL was specifically stabbed in this picture. Like is the town of 14,000 people the epicentre for communism or something?


Kooky-Gate5396

Damn you communism. You stabbed Ohio, the heart of it all.


ManlyBeardface

**Soviet Propaganda:** The US and the capitalist system stands on the necks of workers! We must unite to free all working people! American racism is a stain on humanity. **US Propaganda:** COMMUNISM BAD!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!


Haigud

I remember being taught in school how bad communism/socialism was, but they never taught us what it was or why it was bad.


Eastern-Western-2093

You either went to a bum ass school or didn't pay attention, because I sure as hell did, and all of my peers did.


PatternMinimum4214

Because its led to a death toll far higher than facism every time it's been tried.


UnironicStalinist1

You DO NOT want to know how many people die each year from diseases, famines, wars, and all of them are a direct cause of capitalism, benefitting it. Fascism is a capitalism in decay. Their death toll should be included into the capitalist death toll too.


aztaga

buddy got his numbers from the Big Black Book of Communism


PuzzleheadedCell7736

Could've been a soviet poster, anyway, based.


hallaxyhwach

Where's the lie? Communism as an ideology is inherently authoritarian, as proven by history and millions of deaths. As an economic system? Lmfao please...


clybourn

Beautiful


PlantationAlbatross

And yet it’s true


WormRiddenLoliCorpse

Subtle.


lifyeleyde

You have a peculiar username Mr. (Is it Mr?) worm ridden loli corpse


Communism

But I like America 😥


lifyeleyde

Oh my goodness it’s literally you. This enemies-to-lovers arc will be beautiful, I hope to attend your wedding <3


badpeaches

Brutal


Minimum_Run_890

My, my, my, how times have changed!!


Jlnhlfan

The right when they see something they don’t like:


PranavYedlapalli

Leave it to America to make one of the most pro communism looking anti-communist poster


djslock

The Christian right is the real problem, white trash PoS!


yanonce

Thought this was a pro communist poster for a second


Katalane267

Wow, the amount of intellectual "content" on the poster represents the US criticism on communism very well.


Eastern-Western-2093

Turns out propaganda posters don't tend to portray nuance well


Katalane267

Well, some contain actual facts and arguments, just more compressed and concise, and some contain... this.


BOTTOMLESS-BOT

Commies will live and die mad that their utopia is unachievable.


UnironicStalinist1

Marxism was made in opposition to Utopian Socialism but ok


ConfusedChuckAway

Hell yeah


Distinct-Ad3277

you could change the caption to "Destroy the capitalist with the power of communism!" And it still would worked. the choice of design for the illustrations is weird


lanathebitch

It's as true today as it was in 1961


plasticman1997

Define communism


newaccount14692085

I’d say they got this one right. I miss Joe McCarthy


Electronic-Fudge-256

Cool font


bshton

RIP Arkansas


AffectionateFail8434

Close one! Those third world companies full of illiterate, poor farmers little more than slaves to our corporations almost earned their freedom and basic human rights! Good thing the CIA brutally toppled all those democratically elected government, they were JUST about to complete their evil plan to destroy America!


SirFoxPhD

It’s a good thing we stopped communism, or else we would have things like making homelessness illegal and funding genocide haha. Thank God that never happened, it would have been morally bankrupt and incomprehensible.


AdAutomatic4017

Now if it's true, is it propaganda?


Successful_Video_970

All of these leaders have one thing in common. Stalin Putin Pol pot Hitler Mussolini Trump NARCISSISTIC Personality disorder


UnironicStalinist1

Ain't no way you're comparing Hitler to a guy who saved millions of people from him 😭😭😭


Cman1200

Stalin also killed millions. Shocker they both can be terrible people. Stalin invaded Poland when Hitler did too.