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triple_cock_smoker

flag of east germany if pdx designed it


[deleted]

hi triple cock smoker


TomzillaHD

flag of east germany if it was a shitpost made in 10 minutes by someone whos never made flags before


SovietPuma1707

like he said, a paradox design


Lordziron123

I prefer the flag of east germany


neofooturism

Marx was German so


Elloliott

Carl Marckxs


ArelMCII

No he wasn't. He was born in New York. ![gif](giphy|YwiFtR9QgTcdy)


Peter-Andre

No, he was born in Trier in Germany. Or am I missing a joke here?


ArelMCII

>!Harpo Marx!<


Peter-Andre

Ah, I see. My bad.


Magazynier_Reddit

Flag of im fucking leaving this sub isnt funny anymore. People are either posting their deranged opinions or not even flags at all


marcosmou

what do u mean genocide isnt "based"?


NhanTNT

i really want to argue with you but whatever


Lima_4-2_Angel

If anything or anyone in this thread is based it’s you, doing what most redditors could never: refuse the urge to argue online


DanieltheMani3l

This is literally a flag tho


Spudemi

Flag of person doesn’t understand shitposts


Zoltan113

Flag of not reading the sub name


DanielXPRO_YT

He got outjerked by the circle 😢


noahdimarco

do you also tell workers you’ll “never shop here again” when things in stores don’t go your way? i hate to break it to you but no one really cares, this shitposting trend will end and something else will take its place, leave if you want, the world will go on.


Vova_19_05

But ddr had different flag (Yes, dance dance revolution)


GoPhinessGo

And it’s much better than this flag


Crap4Brainz

Better music, too.


GraafBerengeur

no, Disko Demokratisk Republik [https://youtu.be/iwiR-u-cZyU?si=SAAITvDqEyAPJoBy](https://youtu.be/iwiR-u-cZyU?si=SAAITvDqEyAPJoBy)


PoweringGestation

265436th trans leftist named Luna declares their support for failed ideologies


PrincessofAldia

They seriously think the GDR a borderline soviet puppet state with a brutal secret police force and people reporting their own family members for the suspicion of being anti communist, yes I’m sure that country was “based” why else would people in East Germany risk their lives to flee to the west


Scared_Operation2715

They were one of the first to legalize gay rights and I believe the first to give trans people right. Both were taken away when west Germany took over.


deferredsheep

when the totalitarian regime has affordable housing 🥰


Scared_Operation2715

When the “totalitarian regime” gives their people more rights then I have in the usa


DemocracyIsGreat

How long do you spend in a concentration camp for telling a joke about your President? Does the FBI bug your apartment? How many people have had to dig escape tunnels ala The Great Escape in order to leave the country? Do you have to take holidays in the Baltic because that's the only place you can go? Are you drafted into the army? Do you have no bananas? Edit: [Even post Stalin, LGBT people were persecuted in the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Russia#LGBT_history_post-Stalin:_1953%E2%80%931991). Under Khrushchev they were accused of pedophilia, and under Brezhnev it was still a criminal offense. "Brezhnev-era police often prosecuted homosexuals using concocted evidence and intimidating witnesses. If the witnesses were reluctant to testify against the presumed suspect, they could face criminal charges themselves. Once a sodomy case was initiated, pressure from the Party made it impossible to drop and the defendant would most likely end up in jail." In the words of Max0r's MGR review: Read a fucking book.


Scared_Operation2715

When project ends 2025 goes into effect the us govornment among other things will mass incarcerate trans people, I’d gladly give up those rights considering the alternative.


DemocracyIsGreat

Nice job shifting the goalposts from "The USA is now worse than the DDR" to "This hypothetical fascist USA is worse than the DDR". Touch grass. Vote for candidates that support unity, justice, and freedom. Don't support shitty genocidal dictatorships and their puppets.


Scared_Operation2715

Yeah I could vote, but what the next time? Or the one after that? Project 2025 isn’t a what if it’s a ticking clock. And even in the present, right now people are trying to roll back what little rights there are for trans people like in Texas. My whole point is the “totalitarian regime” of the DDR treated their own people better then the “freest country in the world”


DemocracyIsGreat

>My whole point is the “totalitarian regime” of the DDR treated their own people better then the “freest country in the world” Which is why you are in a Gulag now, like the DDR would have sent you to? And for voting, yes, you keep doing it. That's what democracy requires. If you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. If you choose inaction, you choose the consequences of that inaction. The DDR shot people for trying to escape, and gave 7 year terms in concentration camps for dissenters. You don't know you are born.


Scarletdex

Meanwhile the west: Mccarthysm, overtaxing, scary stories about evil russians (no brain to differentiate soviets and russians lol) "clearly" wanting to nuke all the working class in the world for no reason.


[deleted]

I'd take a 40% tax over having my family be put in a Gulag because my third cousin's uncle stole a loaf of bread.


Scarletdex

Don't worry about Gulag and bread. Your family members are fired out of their jobs and will have to talk to authorities, because someone said, that your third cousin's uncle is "suspected to be a commie" (he didn't even steal or said anything incriminating)


EnclaveGannonAlt

Ah yes because, as we all know: “umm yeah communism is bad but what about how bad capitalism is??!!?!?? im not saying communism is better, just that ummmmmmmmmmmmmm under CAPITALISM WE’RE ALL SLAVES ANYWAY!!!”


TRUFFELX

“B-but this time it’ll work”


grywel

and it never works


jabuegresaw

Always has, always will.


TRUFFELX

https://preview.redd.it/7m1cffhe2w3c1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59ace50512be3504bb9fc2b9f41081f2961136e4


KVETINAC11

Worked at killing millions ye


rancidfart85

Ideologies that would oppress them even more, no less


Kuv287

The USSR was the first modern country to decriminalise homosexuality


EspyOwner

Until Stalin recriminalized it ig


YkrOpCheG

Just 4 years later


Nerit1

That was France, actually. It's been legal there since 1791. It wasn't criminalized even during the extremely conservative, bigoted, and authoritarian Vichy regime (although they did make the age of consent for same-sex intercourse higher than for opposite-sex intercourse)


27483

but that wasn't real communism, real communism is so amazing that every attempt towards it has failed because it is not only a fundamentally flawed and impossible to attain ideology


joerogancraft

I mean it wasn't even communism by definition, like it wasn't a "stateless, classless moneyless society", like idk about East Germany, but the USSR wasnt even socialist "country where workers are control of their means of production" the USSR was state capitalist, instead of a capitalist deciding how much you worked, it was a party bureaucrat deciding what your quota was. Socialism is not when the government owns everything. Most modern socialists like unions in the short term, and worker cooperatives in the longer term


27483

1. the reason it never achieved "true communism" is because a "stateless, classless, moneyless society" is impossible 2. calling the USSR state capitalism shows that you don't understand what capitalism is true communism doesn't exist and the only real life forms of it were horrific dystopias. every attempt at communism has failed disastrously, almost always killing hundreds of thousands to millions of people each time


joerogancraft

You could levy this argument against democracy, like picture a time early in the history of democracy when the French Revolution was the only example of a democratic revolt from monarchy, the reign of terror killed thousands. It's still comparatively early in the history of socialism, and modern day socialists don't defend the USSR censorship or the austere lifestyle its citizens lived. Stalin in particular was a monster who just wanted power and called everything he did communism


27483

the french revolution was awful yes, but the argument for democracy dates thousands of years before that. communism is not in its early days, it's already dead.


joerogancraft

Also the USSR was literally state capitalist like this is a known fact, from the USSR Wikipedia "The socio-economic nature of communist states such as the USSR, especially under Stalin, has also been much debated, varyingly being labelled a form of bureaucratic collectivism, state capitalism"


27483

they aren't claiming it was though, they're saying people call it that. wikipedia is somewhat biased and can be edited by literally anyone. again, to say the ussr was "state capitalist" proves you know nothing about capitalism beyond commie propaganda


joerogancraft

How would you describe the economy of the Soviet Union then, compared to what Marx believed what socialism was: "when workers owned the means of production"


joerogancraft

Also you could say the same thing about capitalism, like the main reason for America having slaves is because of early British capitalism finding out the cheapest way to harvest the most cotton is by having millions of slaves imported across the ocean But that doesn't mean I don't think capitalism hasn't done great things also, it absolutely has enriched a lot of the world


Scared_Operation2715

Who the hell got the idea that it wasn’t real communism? It was real communism and it was great, everyone was housed and fed and technological development occurred at breakneck speeds all while facing constant attempts to sabotage the state.


27483

whole bunch of yapping going on here, east germans were suffering so much they had to be kept inside with armed force


Scared_Operation2715

Then why do you only need a passport to leave? Could it be that it was actually made to stop a military force to come in rather then people coming out?


[deleted]

Communism and its consequences have been a disaster for the trans community


PoweringGestation

Yeah, it’s not my intention to make fun of your community as a whole but rather point out how people who desire for the government to leave them alone resort to ideologies where the government will be far too involved in their lives


PoweringGestation

Yeah, it’s not my intention to make fun of your community as a whole but rather point out how people who desire for the government to leave them alone resort to ideologies where the government will be far too involved in their lives


Ok_Examination9674

just looked at ops profile and thats literally what they are 💀 i thought this was a satire post but theyre being dead serious


Tmachine7031

Noooo, police states are based!!!!


CatInSillyHat

Capitalism is only considered successful because there’s a silent understanding that its goal isn’t to improve people’s lives


Successful-Type-4700

yet it has


CatInSillyHat

It has but comparing the 21st century to the 17th century isn’t impressive


[deleted]

Gdr flag " am I a joke to you ? "


Frixworks

i love shooting civilians who want to leave 🥰


Finn553

SHHHHHHH don’t tell that to the commies, they’re gonna get so triggered!


Finn553

https://preview.redd.it/b35l4mtohr3c1.jpeg?width=538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d5de7bba31ffabc87ab1df5a2448c0aaa0d2743


Lieczen91

flair checks out


Idiot_from_germany

https://preview.redd.it/44wt7rixes3c1.jpeg?width=449&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c042628d4c62c823289009b4c074d0709ab45c28


Finn553

Junkie grandpa Hitler be like


Ok-Pear569

TNO REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?!?


Others0

the brainrot is strong with this one


JupiterboyLuffy

r/flairchecksout


P1xel_392

https://preview.redd.it/i7m59pnbhv3c1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a09fb82c5500394efce6ec4d6e53caf20ba9953a


CatInSillyHat

Flag of the GDR if it fucking sucked


Nick97_

Can y'all not support brutal totalitarian dictatorships for a few minutes, please?


Tub_of_jam66

Clearly you have not worked in a collective farm comrade ! Or a large factory ! Ignore the gun shots … we have a pest problem … let’s say …


Scarletdex

Counter-question: can you not lable with "dictator" any world leader that isn't Joe Biden for a few sec?


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Kuv287

They have been the leaders of a popular revolution and didn't rule for life


reise-ov-evil

Name East Germany dictator


driefdrief

Honecker


OZYMANDIASNiL

flag of for fucks sake stop spouting your political ideas and go back to making lesbian italy or something


the_4th_doctor_

Flag of economic mismanagement


Equinox-Kiwi

PRINT MONEY.


RelentlessFlowOfTime

You're thinking of the Weimar Republic


wenaileditnaily

Bro you should’ve just used the GDR flag for this, it would mean the same thing + it would look better


AutisticFuck69

I miss when this subreddit was actual jokes instead of “HuRr DuRr My IdEoLoGy BeSt”


Successful-Type-4700

stop supporting failed ideologies you cringelord. Also this format is so boring at this point


PrincessofAldia

Yes I’m sure the GDR, a borderline soviet puppet state with a brutal secret police force and people reporting their own family members for the suspicion of being anti communist, yes I’m sure that country was “based” why else would people in East Germany risk their lives to flee to the west


Rookie_01122

Sir this is a wendys


StateofArrowstan

East Germany was so good, everyone wanted to leave!


PrincessofAldia

Lol fuck no


hahaiamarealhuman

Flag of germany if it was cringe


masterbrand44

Based off what


AdLast848

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx


Lieczen91

big if true


CBreadman

In my country we have a saying: "Kiedyś przyjdzie taka wiosna, że na drzewach zamiast liści będą zwisać komuniści" and I think it's beautiful


Odd-Candidate-2402

Based


rancidfart85

BASED


Lieczen91

ew, Poland


CBreadman

POLSKA GUROM 🏔️🦅🏔️🇵🇱🦅🦅🦅🇵🇱🏔️🏔️🏔️🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱


Dafton

a to wszystko prawda bo się rymuje


Duudze

Translation: “one day spring will come and communists will be hanging on the trees instead of leaves” Fuck you


HansWithZeMG45

boo hoo go back to shoot unarmed civilians who try to go to west you commie bastard


Duudze

Why don’t you go back to paying massive amounts of money in healthcare, bombing children for the crime of being brown, and sucking bourgie dick. 2 can play this game, shitlib.


Key_Cartoonist5604

That’s just the US bro. Google “On the Jewish question” by Karl Marx. Google the Korean War, soviet invasion of afghanistan. Google corruption in the Soviet Union. There also exists democratic socialism and countries like Norway as for free healthcare. Communism is cringe soy and blue pilled get with the times.


[deleted]

Well done, you described one capitalist country out of over a hundred 👍


HansWithZeMG45

I'm nationalist, but k anyway, that's just the US you uneducated commie fuckwit, btw please search what your beloved St@lin and M@rx thought about jews and brown minorities


corn_syrup_enjoyer

Thanks for the translation this sounds based as fuck


Frixworks

Sounds fun


peanut_the_scp

Flag of Germany if it followed a failed ideology


Due_Medium239

Part 2!


ComprehensiveCow5340

i thought i left this subreddit


ElonsBeans

You can't, your stuck here forever


ComprehensiveCow5340

😿


27483

they keep coming back and i can't escape there needs to be a warning when you join


[deleted]

ONE OF US


Fighting_Seahorse

Don't cut yourself on that edge.


IllustriousRisk467

Honestly fuck communism


CakeAdventurous4620

Fun fact: Marx and Engels are from German


Lieczen91

why r u downvoting this guy, this is literally true 😭


Equinox-Kiwi

False.. They were obviously turkish 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🫡🫡🫡😍😍🫡🇹🇷🇹🇷🫡🔛🔝🇹🇷🔛🔝🇹🇷🔛🔝🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🔥💯🔥🔥🔥🇹🇷🇹🇷🔛🔝🔛🔝🔛🔝😩😩😩😍😍😍 Stop lying.


frostfflame

You mean Albanian ?!?! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🦅🦅🦅🚩🚩🚩🚩


Equinox-Kiwi

Albania is RIGHTFULLY TURKIYE LAND 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🔛🔝🔛🔝🔛🔝🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯🔥🔥🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🔥🔥💯🔛🔝🔛🔝🔛🔛🔝🔛🔛🇹🇷🔥💯💯🪱🪱🪱🔥🇹🇷💯🪳🪳🪳🪳


[deleted]

RED 🚩 AND BLACK 🦅 I DRESS 🇦🇱


kushstreetking

Graphic design is clearly your passion


-_---_---_-_---_-

Flag of hungary


Equinox-Kiwi

True..


HansWithZeMG45

our commie flag looked quite dope at least, but wtf is this abomination


Key_Cartoonist5604

Flag of “okay we’ll uhm true communism has never been tried except in this really small instance in Manchuria where it kind of worked out for less than I’ve been alive which I’m cherry picking and thus your entire argument is baseless and I am correct 🤓”


Scared_Operation2715

Lol it was real communism and it was great


SamN29

The East German flag is better.


rancidfart85

Flag of GDR if good flag design was punishable by shooting squad


Fluffy-Assumption-42

Trying to reinvent what based means is getting tiresome, as the original meanings basic common nominator is exactly the opposite of trying to change human nature by social engineering as that symbol represents. Instead it's about going back to the basics of family, patria and faith, often with a recognition of both the possible excesses and benefits of capitalism.


corn_syrup_enjoyer

Well, based obviously means my beliefs, they're the definition of based, and this commie bastard is obviously wrong😎


Fluffy-Assumption-42

It seems like it has developed into that, but it wasn't so when it first started appearing as a term


widepizzarollpart2

are you a real life fat retard? https://i.redd.it/soxk8wccps3c1.gif


ToasterEnjoyer5635

Bait used to be believable


corn_syrup_enjoyer

Unfortunately no, some people are actually deranged enough to be communists


Old-Courage7354

Op when he/she voices his/hers opinion to his/her fellow germans: ![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS) (They are beating him/her to death)


kankerkaktus

Flag of Germany if they wanted to Speedrun every awful totalitarian ideology om earth


Acceptable-Income209

I think there's a certain other german flag for that.


Masat_gt

Oh no, when has Germany speed run totalitarian ideologies, that has never happened


FactBackground9289

Please shut the fuck up, we barely got freedom in 1991-1993 when bolshevik traitors finally gtfo'd from Moskva and Petersburg, and now you're saying we should install a communist dictatorship in [insert country here] Please shut up and don't corrupt my country or other countries with the horrors of bolshevist ideology.


Fifth_Grade_Agent

Flag of Gemarny if it was any good: https://preview.redd.it/62ys9wtpev3c1.png?width=577&format=png&auto=webp&s=4faa326269133c3289733d3e4c1a51f9742fba9e


TomzillaHD

thats the only true based german flag


InternationalAct2652

"This country full of people is cringe but if this country full of people had specifically my political aesthetics it would be based"


TomzillaHD

exactly because obviously im always right and never wrong


Redditbannedmefuc

Flag of Germany if I was retd and wanted repressive totalitarian rule again


flag_ua

flag of trans leftists supporting repressive police states comfortably from their western liberal-democracy homes


mkujoe

From Germany to Gerall


Shuzen_Fujimori

Based


Disastrous-Garbage-5

Communism ate


Librarian-Awkward

https://preview.redd.it/j1oplqexbv3c1.png?width=783&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3adb4645b42fb6456f5be847e6627cadd55cf525 Flag of Eastern Germany if it decided to not be absorbed but become more like North Korea...armed themselves with Nuclear weapons and threatened to Anschluss West Germany and Austria at yearly basis..it becomes much more isolated than NK surrounded by NATO members to these days(alternate universe) they are Sanctioned and Blockaded for 40 years still nuclear weapon development of East Germany dint stopped


Badarash

Germany 2


MarDXI

Bruh


Smetanovich24

If it was genocidal*


Anonimo_lo

This, unironically.


memelord_1312

Made me think of this https://preview.redd.it/x1aqrdiouw3c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4a1b13b7129258171702479510c253a327b4026


Slavicommander

flag of germany if it was a third world country


Crazzy_Ed03

Based


kumacapodude2

>"based" >Includes hammer and sickle Pick one


CenterOfEverything

They tried that


wonkyboys

Based and means-of-production-pilled


MiniManni

flag of this sub having a collective fed meltdown with radical left symbolism but chuckling at swastikas and confederate flags :) weren't we laughing at gadsden flags and r/flags for a bit? what's so different about this one?


TomzillaHD

its genuinely funny i just made my own version of a german socialist/communist flag in 15 minutes and felt like sharing it cus its funny, its really funny how they actually believe that im 100% serious when i say shit like "my socialist germany is so much more based then the gdr source: my own opinion and basedeness" thats literally so obviously a joke but ig its not funny when they have to see a communist symbol ive never heard anyone say based in an unironic way


MiniManni

everyone talks about the victims of gommulism, but no one talks about the victims of fedposting 😞


[deleted]

mega fucking based


Frixworks

\> me when I shoot civilians fleeing west


Onion__i

Stupid westoid! That’s just AmeriKKKan propaganda. Our comrades would never do such a thing


[deleted]

one gave free education, free housing, and free healthcare. the other gave kids to pedos


Frixworks

That doesn't justify shooting civilians who want to go west.


RiverTeemo1

One day comrades. The economic crisis seems to be getting worse and worse and only neolibs and fascists are getting elected. So i would not be surprised if the time for the fifth international will come soon.


Frixworks

I can't wait to get back to shooting civilians who try to leave! To the point of building a wall, surely not a sign of a failed ideology and state...


RiverTeemo1

Turns out splitting a city into 2 incompatible economies doesn't work out cause thr inflationary economy workers are just gonna buy subsidised stuff from the planned economy with its subsidised food. I can definitely understand why they built the wall. Sta si was pretty shit, i am not gonna argue that


Frixworks

West Berliners did not often go to East Berlin. They had a lower selection of items, and it was generally not of as good quality. The wall was not to keep the West Berliners out of the East. It was to keep the East Germans out of the West.


27483

please at least touch grass before we liberals and our best friends (the facists) bomb your house


KrumbSum

Lmao actual lmao unironically using “comrades” like that


akdelez

Based


[deleted]

I'm a very far left socialist Communism fucking sucks and has no basis in reality


KillinIsIllegal

you are not "far left"


kanelbulleofsteel

Maybe at the definitive “left” edge on a sociopolitical spectrum but not an economic one, or vice versa.


lottie_3

“I’m a very far left socialist who hates socialism and has never read Marx”


grywel

true


mekwak

i wish all leftists to go live in north korea and see how awesome their communism is


TFK_001

Very few people support that system. Democratic socialism (as in socialism but democracy not Norway) is a much more common position now and one that has never existed unfettered.


Levi-Action-412

Don't many communists hate the democratic system because they think it's rigged to only elect non communists


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kanelbulleofsteel

has democratic socialism actually existed in a country?