Kent State Massacre

In 1970, in response to Nixon's widening of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, students throughout the US protested. Nixon sent the National Guard to restore order to the Kent State campus. The resulting consequences changed the course of the war.

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[JuliusIsMe]

@Caturdayz Communism wont work because people are too greedy.

[THEBURNINGTIGERS]

@merchmarine97 Protesting a war and exercising free speech does not make you a domestic enemy, also were in our laws is refusing to disperse punishible by death.

[hasek1616]

@jesse6669 i can see where this is going, so i'm out

[jesse6669]

@hasek1616 your original comment was just untrue, and honestly ironic, communism is a society where greed plays absolutely no role with the citizins, while in capitilist countries people gain wealth and then gain politcal influence often hindering the nations effectiveness far more then any communist scitizen may have ever had

[jesse6669]

@hasek1616 Your implying that these countriels failed because of greed, and as i have already stated i believe that greed played a much smaller role then people would like to think. capitilism is far more greedy, because greed is essential to any capitilist nation. just because these nations have outlasted communist countries does not prove that it was because of greed. i am not deffending communism, the communist countries we saw failed because of poor leadership.

[hasek1616]

@jesse6669 well if you would like an example that a non communist society does a better job managing greed then just looks at countries like the US, canada, britain, france, and the like. Greed leads to the downfall of countries, and so far these countries have been able to stave that off for quite a bit longer than any communist countries

[jesse6669]

@hasek1616 well firstly we were discussing greed, and i also ran out of characters to respond with. i never was even defending communism past the point that the communism-greed argument is retarded and applies to every government. Instead of accepting the fact that greed is why any organized society wont work, people only ever acknowledge it with communism, like its exclusive to communism, even though most people that make this argument live in the most greedy country of all, America

[hasek1616]

@jesse6669 the same thing applies with communism they can get them selves more money, food, and supplies through laws, only with communism the common man (not a government official) has no way to increase his earnings like the communist official did. There is a reason none of the hippie communes in this country lasted. And also, you didn't refute my other examples as to why communism doesn't work, greed isn't the only reason communism isn't successful

[jesse6669]

@hasek1616 "people, mostly government officials on any level will try to get themselves more money" yes that is true, and this is true in almost any government, ESPECIALLY in CAPITALISM as a government official can benefit from laws he passes that benefit his business. if anything communism has alot LESS greed then capitilism, because there are less conflicts of interests in the government.

[hasek1616]

@jesse6669 people, mostly government officials on any level will try to get themselves more money. Plus there is no incentive to work hard to achieve a better life because you are essentially guaranteed that you will have a certain lifestyle when you grow up, and there isn't much that you can do about it. It also breeds dictatorships and corruption, just look at basically any communist state, the people are never very happy

[jesse6669]

@JuliusIsMe its not like its the citizens are sharing at their own discretion, they are just given their income through the government, equaly, the government distributes the wealth evenly. i still have no idea how your statement makes sense, untill you can actualy explain how greed would effect communism realisticly, i will just have to assume that you are mis informed, and as your coments thumbs up show, so are most people

[JuliusIsMe]

@jesse6669 Communism is about sharing. People are too greedy to share. Communism won't work with greedy human beings.