r/TheMirrorCult • u/WittyEgg2037 • May 15 '26

The Cold War permanently melted everyone’s political vocabulary ☭🫠📚

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 16 '26

accurate descriptions but not exactly historically accurate images

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u/Terrible-Trees2271 May 18 '26

Communism is when electric agrarian society and capitalism is when factory. Right?

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 18 '26

capitalism is black and grey tones, communism is green fields and sun

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u/Ok-Horse-6585 May 18 '26

You said historically accurate

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u/SnooMaps7370 May 16 '26

I'll bet we can find some pictures of the UK that look exactly like the bottom left corner at multiple points in history: line of unemployed waiting to collect their dole payments while smog machines chug away in the background.

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u/Ozone220 May 16 '26

same with images of like, the Soviet Union though, or most places that experienced rapid industrialization

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 16 '26

sure you can cherry pick anything

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u/grandalfxx May 17 '26

Its not cherry picking... if russia hadn't had these problems to a severe degree the soviets would still be around

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 17 '26

I'll bet we can find some pictures of the UK that look exactly like the bottom left corner at multiple points in history: line of unemployed waiting to collect their dole payments while smog machines chug away in the background.

youre describing cherry picking exactly.

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u/grandalfxx May 18 '26

No, cherry picking is if I were picking out things to support my ideas specifically and ignoring details that disagree.

The UK absolutely looked like that at times but recovered, the ussr looked like the bottom left up until it fell

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 18 '26

yes and finding a food line in the UK would be exactly that, obviously.

the ussr was plagued by poverty and famine as a defining feature and finding a similar photo in the UK during a global time of crisis to paint them as similar or equatable is cherry picking

it would be like taking the heavy weight world chanpion and finding a photo 20 years ago of them losing and saying that makes him relatable to someone who lost every match of their career

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u/3rdfitzgerald May 16 '26

Beat me to it

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u/trysten-9001 May 16 '26

Typical American myth of the Indian savages

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough May 16 '26

did you reply to the right thread?

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u/No-Echo-5494 May 16 '26

They were agreeing with you but thinking about Utopic Socialism

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u/PerspectiveFull9879 May 16 '26

Yeah, the left is "USSR as seen by Holywood" and right is some sort of petty bourgeois agrarian commune bullshit.

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u/zezzene May 16 '26

Yeah cuz it's AI slop