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Maddest_Hatta t1_jdgvzdt wrote

Would it be OK if I start waving the National Socialist Party flag if I say "yeah but now nazis have learned from past mistakes and won't kill people from other races"? There is 0 reasons for French people nowadays to wave the USSR flag. If they have ideas how to use communism in a better way, they should come up with a different flag.

I'm very happy for you Americans that you've learned from your mistakes in history.. but the USSR never did. For the countries in Eastern Europe it was 40 years of oppression. Four decades of hunger, labour camps, ethnic cleansings and brainwashing. So forgive me if the sight of that flag makes my blood boil just as much as when I see a nazi flag.

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PilotBurner44 t1_jdgpeiq wrote

One could say the same about the States. We're Forced to pay SS tax that is constantly under threat of failing, that is then paid back at a substantially lower rate than what was paid in. 401k has many vast tax implications, limits, and restrictions, and saving enough with it for a comfortable or even livable retirement is a luxury few middle economic class and lower people have. Lots of people in this country work into their 60s and 70s having financially struggled most of their working life, only to retire and continue to financially struggle for the remainder of their life.

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