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To paraphrase "The Princess Bride"- you keep using the word "communist". I don't think it means what you think it means.

One can acknowledge the very real harms done by the United States over its history, without also believing that private property is evil and workers should seize the means of production. Can you see how those two things are orthogonal?

Here's the falsifiable version:

- the Indian Removal Act of 1830

- the Trail of Tears

- the several hundred ratified treaties that were broken

- the Dawes Act, and

- the intentional decimation of bison herds from tens of millions to a few hundred by the late 1880s, which some Army and Interior officials at the time openly described as a way to force Plains tribes onto reservations. [1]

Which of those do you think "communists" are fabricating?

1. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/great-americ...



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