• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    1 年前

    Mexico didn’t build a wall. The Eastern Block did in the cold war. Think the Berlin Wall

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      Both the US and Mexico are capitalist democracies. The meme implies that Capitalists built a wall to keep Communists out.

      It’s an awkward meme that doesn’t make much sense.

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        It doesn’t imply that. It says that (some) capitalist states build walls to keep refugees out (like the US and in a way the EU) while (some) communist states build walls to keep (potential) refugees in (like the GDR)

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          Agreed. And the (probably unintended) irony is that the Berlin Wall was ostensibly built in order to keep the capitalists out. Be careful what you wish for, especially when it’s a wall. They work both ways.

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            You don’t really believe the propaganda of the “Antifaschistischer Schutzwall”. The wall was always to keep GDR citizens in.
            Nobody ever had the intention to keep capitalists out.

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              Just highlighting the propaganda for those unfamiliar with it. Seemed à propos.