Notable Communist Governments and Their Human Rights Records:

1. Soviet Union (1922 - 1991)

   • Notable Leaders: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
   • Human Rights Record: Poor

2. China (1949 - Present)

   • Notable Leaders: Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping
   • Human Rights Record: Very Poor

3. Cuba (1959 - Present)

   • Notable Leaders: Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro
   • Human Rights Record: Poor

4. North Korea (1948 - Present)

   • Notable Leaders: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un
   • Human Rights Record: Very Poor

5. Vietnam (1976 - Present)

   • Notable Leaders: Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Phú Trọng
   • Human Rights Record: Poor

6. Laos (1975 - Present)

   • Notable Leaders: Kaysone Phomvihane, Thongloun Sisoulith
   • Human Rights Record: Poor

References: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vdem

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/global

https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/world/the-25-most-influential-communist-figures-of-all-time/

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-seven-most-influential-communist-leaders-ever.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/communist-countries-overview-1435178

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/communism/

https://www.history.com/news/communist-leaders-photos

http://v-dem.net/vdemds.html

https://doi.org/10.23696/mcwt-fr58

History isn’t propaganda

Always cracks me up to see people who champion open source alternatives hate on communism.

This isn’t about “drawing comparisons” this is about how you don’t understand why someone would champion open source software and hate on communism…because of course people hate on fucking communism, you dope.

It’s proven time and time again that communist governments bring suffering to their people. Like, some fucked up shit. Like starvation, inequality, and lack of basic human rights.

Whereas open source software can be educational, build cost effective solutions for people and businesses, and empower people’s lives.

You see the difference?

make millions of people felons overnight

Also wrong. I knew you were going to spout some far right bullshit propaganda.

Here, take some time to educate yourself.

Listen up people - it is okay to evolve our laws as we evolve as people. No one needs a fucking AR-15, and if you do, it should be regulated.

…JFC

You shouldn’t feel that way, because communism has absolutely nothing to do with open source software.

Communism is a political ideology.

Open source software is a licensing technique for creators and developers. Mostly so that no one has to worry about getting sued if they want to implement or modify said software. You think a communist government would even allow the use of open source software over government issued/approved software?

Yeah, but you’re also wrong about the gun rights. They’re trying to enact sensible laws, not strip gun rights.

The most [egregious] recent example is the legality of arm braces.

It’s not egregious, that’s called a sensible conversation.

Why do gun fanatics need these types of guns anyway? What are you hunting, dragons? It’s so cringe to me when gun enthusiasts get all upset about responsible gun laws - they just want to shoot everything and anything with the most firepower they can acquire. God forbid they have to earn the right to own such a weapon.

Democrats believe that we can reduce gun violence while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners. We believe we should expand and strengthen background checks for those who want to purchase a firearm – because it shouldn’t be easier to get a gun than a driver’s license.

That is not taking your precious guns away, it’s requiring you to not be a complete moron before acquiring one. Which is apparently why you have a problem with the proposal.

Yes. You need a reference when you’re talking pure bullshit. None of that unfounded crap is on the democratic agenda. That’s why you can’t cite a single reference.

Bullshit like yours needs to be called out every time.

Why don’t you cite one reference to support your bullshit?

To bear arms.

No they’re not.

Also nobody seems interested in male reproductive rights.

Okay, I’ll bite. Like what?

Also, have you seen how leftist moderators here on Lemmy behave?

Do tell…

I know you mean democrats, but that would be incorrect about the second amendment and freedom of association.

Where’d you read that?

What rights are the left trying to take away?

creates privacy through taking power from the user.

What do you mean by that?

I like this guy

I was basically going to say the same thing, they’ll vote anyway, party over policy. It doesn’t matter what they propose. As long as Democrats disagree with it, their constituents will vote for it, standard team-driven advertising.

Most voters don’t care about politics at all, we just want what everyone else wants - a chance at opportunity, some form of health care and social security, you know, the good life. We can all pretty much agree on that and it’s really not that interesting a topic. So, politicians turn politics into a sports game because that’s what people care about and engage with, sports and competition, our old friend, Ego.

Follow your heart, not your ego.

I made the change from a common thief

To up close and personal with Robin Leach

And I’m far from cheap, I smoke skunk with my peeps all day Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way

I mean, he literally said blood bath for the country. Not really any other way to take that. For his supporters and fearful on-the-fencers they can think up all sorts of literal blood bath scenarios and many figurative interpretations. The Daily Beast is no high bar outlet but he did say what he said.

Absolute gold. And nothing happened, right? Kind of looks like evidence to me.

Dude’s the Predator of the IT world

My goodness bro, have you gotten it to go anything like the promo videos? Word always says “I’m still learning”, Copilot Chat will hit and miss finding files and documents, and any links from a response involving web searches are replaced with the text “An external link was removed to protect your privacy.” The Edge sidebar Copilot now has my company logo and can no longer “see” what I’m browsing. Before my user was licensed the Edge Copilot sidebar was different, the free version I suppose, and could do much more, just not browse my corporate files.

Edit: For example; the Word demo video in this link under business can’t be done. I have nearly this exact use case. I can get it to draft a proposal, with various results, based on a QuickBooks estimate, but the part where you then tell Copilot to modify the formatting isn’t the same as the video, with a Copilot button in the same dialog window as the Keep It button. And when you then summon Copilot from the side bar, you can’t even invoke the file reference action to make it change formatting and layout.