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    NYT Opinion‏Verified account @nytopinion 25 Sep 2017

    For all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream bighttp://nyti.ms/2wNBFqo 

    5:11 PM - 25 Sep 2017
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    3,297 replies 266 retweets 391 likes
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      2. Mean Wee Old Woman Deb‏ @mddebm 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nytopinion

        Out of your f-ing mind? Starved millions, outright murdered thousands, led to policy aborting millions-mostly girls

        21 replies 199 retweets 1,941 likes
      3. Bonny Wright 🐝‏ @miamivandynyu 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @mddebm @nytopinion

        Last month they wrote glowing articles about how swell it was 2 B a woman behind the iron curtain; so, yes, they are out of their F-ing mind

        7 replies 75 retweets 996 likes
      4. Mean Wee Old Woman Deb‏ @mddebm 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @miamivandynyu @nytopinion

        Read it, threw up, used @nytimes to clean up floor.

        10 replies 45 retweets 628 likes
      5. Mike Stackhouse‏ @stack1975 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @mddebm @redlyness and

        There’s an appetite in North America for communist rule. Uneducated perception is it allows laziness and gives you benefits.

        25 replies 76 retweets 525 likes
      6. Bonny Wright 🐝‏ @miamivandynyu 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @stack1975 @mddebm and

        "We pretend to work, and you pretend to pay us." - From the Soviet Union days .

        4 replies 37 retweets 272 likes
      7. Jeff Harper‏ @harperjeff30 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @miamivandynyu @stack1975 and

        That is Communist truth #1. That's why it works so well.

        2 replies 2 retweets 33 likes
      8. Bonny Wright 🐝‏ @miamivandynyu 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @harperjeff30 @stack1975 and

        Like Brezhnev lowering window blind on his stalled train, so he could pretend it was still moving. Communism&Socialism=Potemkim Prosperity

        1 reply 8 retweets 47 likes
      9. Jeff Harper‏ @harperjeff30 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @miamivandynyu @stack1975 and

        LOL....I like that Analogy!

        1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
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      2. Inez Stepman‏Verified account @InezFeltscher 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nytopinion

        NYT opinion next week: for all its flaws, Hitler's Nazi movement bought healthy vegetarian meal planning to the Reich.

        51 replies 370 retweets 1,928 likes
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      2. John Dube'‏ @DubeJohnr 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nytopinion

        Really???? Read this and tell me again how torture, murder and other atrocities made this happen.http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/maos-great-leap-forward-killed-45-million-in-four-years-2081630.html# …

        9 replies 33 retweets 134 likes
      3. Michigandogs‏ @Lcamps601 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @DubeJohnr @nytopinion

        Well see they got to dream big on the way to being tortured and killed.

        1 reply 5 retweets 42 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. MonsterDome‏ @Monster_Dome 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nytopinion

        I fixed the accompanying photo for you.pic.twitter.com/giBLX7m4IU

        5 replies 43 retweets 99 likes
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      2. Alex Smyth‏ @AleximusPrime 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nytopinion

        NYT opinion next week: for all his flaws, Emperor Palpatine sure built a really cool battle station, the Death Star!

        4 replies 10 retweets 89 likes
      3. Alex Smyth‏ @AleximusPrime 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @AleximusPrime @nytopinion

        Here's the image version for those interested. Obviously photoshopped though not very much of a stretch if you think about it.pic.twitter.com/oux0eaugwx

        1 reply 4 retweets 34 likes
      4. Alex Smyth‏ @AleximusPrime 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @AleximusPrime @nytopinion

        Hit like for the random little "S" that didn't get erased... ^^:

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. FRIDERICVS REX‏ @ErnestoUndEd 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @AleximusPrime @nytopinion

        For all his flaws, Emperor Palpatine brought order to the galaxy

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. Alex Smyth‏ @AleximusPrime 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @ErnestoUndEd @nytopinion

        And we had.......peace. :3

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. FRIDERICVS REX‏ @ErnestoUndEd 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @AleximusPrime @nytopinion

        pic.twitter.com/COzs7XUeNJ

        0 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
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