Winter on Fire - Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015) - the one that triggered the KGB lackey Oliver Stone and commie lovers throughout the world

You've given a good hook to address this, even though I disagree with everything you wrote. You start from an anarchic premise according to which the real class tension is the state against the people and from there you go on to deal with communism, as if communism were synonymous with the state, which it is not. Communism is not a philosophy, it is not an economic model, nor is it a form of state organization, it is a culture, a revolutionary development that existed before the Soviet Union and does not depend on any state or government to exist, when they take over a state it is just another basis for action so that the communist movement can act in the world. “Both countries are commie states run by ruling class scum just like every other country today and in the past”. False, one side is highly influenced by communist cadres who seek the total seizure of power by surreptitious means of cultural warfare and sabotage while on the other, it is an internal struggle and has been going on for decades, while in the Russian-Chinese conglomerate the revolution has already been consolidated and their respective states taken over. The two sides are not comparable, the two sides are not ideologically the same. Communism is a very specific phenomenon and has nothing to do with the general condemnation of the ruling classes that have existed, exist or will exist in the future. Truth presupposes order. You speak of an abstract, unlimited, and purely ideal freedom—a freedom that does not exist. This is a total freedom which, in theory, is subject only to each individual’s human will. But if everyone can be equally free, then nothing can be ordered. Hence the collapse of the idea of order, which will inevitably lead to an environment of chaos—one that can only be reestablished through dictatorship. Therefore, the corrupted conception of the idea of freedom necessarily leads to slavery. And it is this false-bottomed freedom that gives rise to liberation movements in various fields (including feminism, which is a movement of liberation and disruption of the traditional female role in society). Revolutionary movements often make use of the banner of liberation. So how do we attain real freedom? By ceasing to treat it in its fetishized and falsified sense—by cultivating truth and removing freedom from the category of principle. “True freedom is called death,” in other words, for your assertion to be valid, you must not exist—which is the same as saying that “freedom only exists when it does not exist.” Religions, when they claim to know what happens after death, are accused of being dishonest and of manipulating people’s fear. But where did you get this certainty that death brings freedom—and not something a thousand times worse? How were you able to catch a glimpse of what happens after we die? When faced with this question, people may respond: “Anything is better than this garbage called life,” but that is an emotional answer and adds nothing. It is born of despair—and the desperate make neither good guides nor good providers of diagnoses about what is or isn’t. "Earth is a lost cause because humans are too idiotic thanks to the primitive reproductive drive". If this applies to the human species in general, does it also apply to you? Or have you placed yourself outside the human species in order to judge it—freeing yourself from the cognitive limitations typical of the very species to which you belong, but which, for some reason, do not apply to you? When it comes to the United States and war, funding is strategically correct—the cost of war should be placed squarely on the shoulders of those who started it. And if there is a strategic path to equip Ukraine with the means to fight a geopolitical and mass-murdering enemy, then the opportunity should be seized to the fullest extent, by supporting those who are willing to fight. This goes beyond even the issue of masculinity itself; using the term "cuck" in this context makes no sense at all. I think you are talking from one of states of the USA. Your state is not communist—it merely has socially and economically destructive, exploitative legislation. As I said, communism is not about economics or statism. I hope your coworker’s son is able to channel the pressures he's under and give his sense of revolt a rational form. In short, communism is not the same thing as the mere existence of a state or political order. Not all ruling elites are or were equal, Government is not an entity that behaves the same way across all eras and places, as if one could claim that supporting government automatically means supporting communists, Government is a machine, you can’t blame machines the same you can’t blame capitalism, which is just an economic system, a tool for profit and distribution of goods. I'm not an anarchist—anarchism is not a valid premise from which to evaluate the communist phenomenon.

@Sant77: All Gov is communism. It's stealing from the productive to hook up the unproductive. The Gov killed Jesus. How is one party not commie while the other is? Both are liars in suits who don't work or produce anything of value. You got speech-checked by what I assume is the red color party. Why you defend the red commie state but the blue commie is the true bad guy? Both are one mafia. Your tax dollars went to pay a lawsuit for Stormy Daniels for example. I just call all theft communism. Plus the female welfare state. Gov is not a machine. Gov is made up of lazy entitled people who steal from others. It will be even more obvious when the cops and military are replaced by android enforcers. Then it's more of a machine I suppose. But humans still run the show. Because most humans given power will be corrupt. That's why there is no hope. Good people do not try to become Gov.

@Sant77: No you are completely correct I guess. I'll just sit here and be quiet until I die. I can't save the world anyways nor do I even care to. There's no hope when other men are convinced that any Gov is good for anything. As opposed to freedom you called anarchy. The thing is it wouldn't be anarchy because criminals and squatters would be shunned. Or hung at high noon instead of kept alive in prison where life is similar to the average job these days. All I can hope for is death and complete non-existence that follows. Or isekai world afterlife. I'll just be checked out from society avoiding spending any money I can as I enjoy my free hobbies tax-free. Other than the power bill, food, and water because they tax our electricity and water for F's sake. All so some fat guy in a suit can buy one million wives as a prostitute harem and give my hard work to my sister the welfare single mother. But I live in a "red state" apparently. With a female governor to top it off. Who wears a red commie suit every time she speaks lol. Where's the maid uniform? She's too old and feminist for that, but you know what I mean.

@Toki: this idea of death and the idealization surrounding it resembles the final speech of the villain of Arcanum, an oldschool rpg. If you have the time and patience to play it, it is a nice choice. Kerghan's speech is grounded on that idea.

@Toki: And government is not the same as communism.

@Sant77: I have seen art for that Arcanum game. Golden Age of PC gaming and awesome visuals better than today's bright and colorful games. Gov is communism though. Taking from the productive to reward the unproductive for free. The only folks who work are men at real jobs after all. Everyone else in Gov for example are just selfish Sloths. Simps also.

@Toki: If it doesn't has the revolutionary mindset, it will never be communism. Society will always reorganize like that, just look after the roman empire collapse and the proliferation of fiefdoms that would take place. The people granted land and resources to those capable of defending the territory and its population against invaders who would kill, loot, and rape. Those first kings and landlords had legitimacy. Thomas Aquinas hit the nail on the head when he commented on the role of the State and its nature.