• SeeingRed [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The gun is a metaphor for, among other things, US backed coups. Sanctions against Cuba are another example.

    This is an old meme format where the foreground character shoots the background character, then blames the flaws of the background character on something unrelated to being shot.

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      1 year ago

      The gun is a metaphor for, among other things, US backed coups. Sanctions against Cuba are another example.

      That doesn’t answer the question.

      This is an old meme format

      LOL I know what the meme is.

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            1 year ago

            It really does, the meme is about how Capitalist countries (namely the US) will sabotage Socialist countries, then use that as proof that “communism doesn’t work”. Such as flattening North Korea in the Korean war, or embargoing Cuba.

            If you understand the meme format, it shouldn’t be hard to understand the implication of the meme.

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              1 year ago

              So capitalist countries harmed other countries and hence in the meme capitalism has a gun. Therefore in the meme, communism should also have a gun.

              I asked:

              “Why does capitalism have a gun but communism doesn’t?”

              That question hasn’t been answered.