I would really, really, REALLY appreciate it if people would fucking realize that the USSR and China are failed attempts at communism. I know it sounds cliche' but real communism has never been achieved. Corruption always wins the day and it stops at the socialism state and usually devolves into state capitalism. The funny thing is it still gets labeled as communism and vilified by the average American as an iron fist authoritarian dictatorship. Look, Stalin was an absolute piece of fucking shit, fucked over the whole Soviet Union and all its territories just to stay in power. Literally said fuck transitioning to communism stage for the people and switched to state capitalism and reaped all the benefits while writing shitty ass theory pretending to be for the working class. Its so fucking egregious and don't even get me started on China with Mao.
Now I was initially indifferent to Rose, thought she was a little underage nutcase Pat Barry was tapping. Whatever, didn't care, decent fighter. I also do respect that Lithuania got royally fucked over by the Soviet Union, but her bringing up fucking communism during a press conference as a mind game tactic and point of contention for a fucking MMA fight pissed me off big time. Not cool, will never be a fan. She literally fucking knows that Zhang can literally NOT say a single critique about her country or she is in deep shit, yet she pulls the "better dead than red" card. Yes, we all know China is basically a dictatorship, but I reiterate it is NOT under true communism. Politics has absolutely no business dipping its wide reaching hand into sports, especially MMA, it sets a bad precedent and its absolute bullshit. Dana White slurping up Trump every chance he gets to line his pockets is already more than I can fucking handle, let alone him massively underpaying his roster.
If people would stop getting so emotional about protecting "muh freedoms!" and do some actual God damn research, they'd realize that nations like the former USSR and China are more state capitalist with some socialist policies enacted as a facade to the people and the rest of the world, and no where near real communism. And news flash: communism is when the means of production are in the hands of the working class and that has never been truly achieved, and it is 20X better than capitalism on paper, which is basically just the government deep-throating the wealthy indefinitely at the expense of everyone who isnt wealthy through mass exploitation and is the #1 reason a simple, preventable pandemic has bought the USA to its fucking knees, which is mostly under the impression Covid is just the "Kung Flu" and has half our government thinking we should transition to a fascist society. God i hate stupidity and misinformation.