“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
THE VERY DEFINITION OF COMMUNISM
Yeah, the bolsheviks would just have shot them. The whole family. Yes, kids too. Probably they would have raped them before and/or after. Then set the house on fire.
I mean I get it, but it still feels very disrespectful towards all the eastern europeans killed by bolshevism
In my opinion that is the second layer to this comic. Bolsheviks were pretty autocratic and tyrannical, so comparing their deeds towards left leaning politics today is disrespectful to the real victims.
yeah, I know, I get it. Consciously, I absolutely get it. But subconsciously…
It still somehow strikes the wrong tone in my opinion. I don’t know how one could do it better, I just know that it irks me the wrong way.
Trump is handsome?
Presumably the joke is that the propaganda was written by the billionaires to make you scared enough to vote for them. But since they were writing propaganda anyway, might as well try to convince everyone they are handsome at the same time!
Damn, this post is like a zoo for people not understanding irony and sarcasm
Nah, I got it. I just wanted to double dip with the “Trump ugly” jokes.
The number of people trying to explain that the Bolsheviks weren’t actually like that depress me. Why are they in a political memes community if they don’t know that Trump and Musk are accusing Democrats of being communists based on their pretty milquetoast policies?
I think if it had been placed in America it would have been better received. People don’t expect to have a serious conversation about critical reading skills in a meme community. They’re used to one liners and moving on.
But placing it in America ruins the joke. The whole point is that it was absolutely nothing like that.
Musk is handsome?
He was a 6 or 7 in 2010. Now he’s like a 4 or 5.
Dude…I mean, I can only get so erect.
I don’t think that’s how it went
That’s the joke.
oh. then I don’t get it
That’s a pretty big reach for most people though. To realize that the depiction is of what Trump says is communism and not actually Russian communism. Most people are going to regard this as communist propaganda attempting to cover for Stalin. (They won’t even know Lenin was in charge in 1917) And they will disregard it completely.
They explain the joke in the last panel.
I’m having nightmares every day about the poor billionaires having to pay something slightly more close to their fair share in taxes! When will this horror end?
My take for the comic is that voting for those “communists” will not change anything, and capitalism will still eat us alive.
There has to be some option that is not Bolshevik dictatorship or capitalism with some virtue signaling dressing.
Bullshit. The USSR was nothing like that. Literally none of the panels in this comic is true.
Trade unions negotiating with corporations? What corporations?
Yep. That’s the point of the comic. They could have signposted it better or just set it in America. Trump and company want everyone to believe the Democrats are stalinists. So the comic puts Democrats into 1917 Russia to highlight the differences.
Fuck Trump and Musk, but seriously, this comic is just shit. Whatever you people call communism in the US has nothing to do with what actual communism was or is. The communism had its elites and whoever claims that people were or are equal under communism is just an ignorant. And, most importantly, communism in Soviet Union was just a brutal regime which silenced the opponents by killing or torturing them.
The comic is mocking the idea that Republicans call Democrat policies “communist.” If they were, this is what the Communist Revolution would have looked like.
Okay now I got it, I was second guessing if it happened like that in Russia during the revolution.
Yeah, before I got to the end it kinda looked like tankie apologism.
Pretty sure that’s the point of the comic.
Bruh… What… It was a blood bath followed by the worst recession and one of the worst starvation in History of Russia (1921-1922).
It went from a wealthy powerfull country to the freedom deprived shit hole we know today… It all began in 1917
I think you may have missed the premise: right-wing mouthpieces, at the behest of right-wing billionaires, describing the Democrats modest reforms as “literal communism” is farcical to the point of parody.
Lol, i do get it, but you need to be american to find this farcical…
Anybody else know this is really beyond stupidity to chose Russia History as a satirical base…
You’re missing the point of the cartoon. It’s making fun of the Republicans’ claims that Democrats are literal communists. The joke is in the obviously huge difference between the relatively feeble capitalist tweaks Democrats are proposing and an actual communist revolution.
It’s a very clumsy premise. The first panel should at least be “USA, 2025” instead of “Russia, 1917”.
Then its really badly done… But i guess that it is enough for the average ignorant american who wear t-shirt with Guevara head on it… Lol, pathetic xD
Bro over here dodging the sarcasm like Neo dodging bullets. Like… bro. Bro.
Lol i get the sarcasm, but if the average ignorant american do find this clever, the premise is in reality beyond stupidity for every people with above average IQ and minimal knowledge on Russia History… Pathetic…
The entire point of the comic aside. Russia was way behind the times even for 1917. They still had serfdom and feudal structures. When they went to war for world war 1 they had to have the Lords gather their men-at-arms and there was constant bickering over orders. Supplies were largely done by the lords as well or foraged. There was no central system for manpower or logistics. The Tsar was screwed by his ancestors holding onto a system hundreds of years out of date.
Bruh… Stap… Get your fact straight, even a quick wiki prove you wrong:
Despite all this Russian Empire from the beginning of the reign of Nicholas II, it began to change dramatically in economic terms. It was the fastest growing economy in the world,[3] the average GDP growth was higher than the Western European one, and the volume of production per capita was equal to it.[4] The standard of living also grew high.[5] If the February revolution had not occurred, and subsequently the October revolution, then the pace of economic growth in Russia would only have increased
This is why you don’t go to Wikipedia folks. It’s true they were increasing output. But standards of living were not rising for the common worker and there’s a lot of room to improve GDP when you start from a backwards position. We’ve seen the same thing in post colonial economies after world war 2. A 4% growth of 10 is not better than a 2% growth of 1,000.
And the Army was wildly dysfunctional. They didn’t have enough weapons, ammunition, or food. And it was a major part of why the revolution happened. On the last day the Tsar ordered the army to fire on the crowds, and instead they refused and joined the crowds. Largely due to their treatment.
Bruh… The wiki page is sourced, and the army being old and dysfunctionnal was not specific to Russia only, France had an army in a shitty shape at the beginning of the War too…
The fact that Russia was improving in all aspect before the 1917 revolution and went downhill from here, is undeniable…
The cartoon isn’t about Russia.
The cartoon joke is based on a false depiction of 1917 Russia revolution. It just prove once again how ignorant american are about World History… Pathetic, lol
They need a communist revolution
In the US, republicans, and billionaires, often call the democratic party communists. This is putting the current democratic party’s basic platform in the mouth of a depiction of the bolsheviks, right after the revolution, to prove how ridiculous the claim is. It is very ham-fisted, and the last panel basically beats you with the blunt instrument that is this joke. The fact that you didn’t get it makes you more akin to what your comments further down say, than anything else.
Lol except the premise doesnt work at all, for ignorant american maybe, but for every body else, this is just stupid…
Its like trying to do a joke on how ridiculous it is to say republican are nazi by making a good portrait of nazi regime…
