History says…this is how it starts: Zohran Mamdani is calling on all New York City residents to set their AC thermostats to 78 degrees to ease pressure on the grid***
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“Every business owner, every resident across the five boroughs, please set your thermostat to 78 degrees to alleviate the stress on our grid”***
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The mayor saying his request is due to emergency preparations as temps are set to rise to 100 degrees in parts of the city.
Mamdani’s administration framed the thermostat guidance as a voluntary community effort to protect grid reliability.
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However, critics say this is a predicable move, the next step in the path towards c*mmunism after voters gave power to a candidate who promised everything for free.
The reason for predictability they say, is because its (socialism) been done repeatedly in the past and has failed every single time.
♦️In collectivist systems: leaders get elected by pledging free or heavily subsidized goods and services, then discover (or create) shortages that ‘require’ the state to start mandating the behavior of residents.
♦️What starts as a polite public appeal to “do your part” for the grid soon turns into official authority.
♦️Non-compliance becomes framed as selfish or harmful to the collective.
♦️History shows how such “requests” turn into rules, fines, or enforcement actions when the people don’t voluntary comply.
Then it always ends in state coercion backed by the power of government. AKA government has full control, and you’ve lost all your rights.
Mass de*th from starvation, execution, or repression accounted for 70-100 million in the 20th century
This list reflects policies of forced collectivization, central planning, abolition of private property, and one-party rule – AKA Zohran Mamdani
♦️Soviet Union (in Ukraine), 1932 – 1933: 7 – 10 million starved due to forced collectivization and grain seizures.
♦️Soviet Union overall (under Stalin and successors): ~20 million total de*ths from famine, purges, Gulags, and repression across decades.
♦️China (Great Leap Forward / Great Chinese Famine), 1958 – 1962: 30 – 45 million died, mostly starved from collectivization, people’s communes, and disastrous central planning.
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♦️China overall (under Mao): Estimates of 40–80 million total de*ths including Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and earlier campaigns.
♦️Cambodia 1975 – 1979: 1.5 – 2.2 million died (~25% of population) from executions, starvation, forced labor, and disease under radical communist policies.
♦️North Korea, 1994–1998 : 240,000 – 3.5 million people starved under communist central planning and isolation.
♦️North Korea overall: Estimates around 2 million deaths from famine, camps, and repression since 1948.
♦️Ethiopia (Marxist regime), 1970s–1980s: ~1 – 2 million died from famine, Red Terror executions, and forced collectivization.
♦️Afghanistan 1979–1989+: ~1.5 million deaths from war, famine, and repression.
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♦️Eastern Europe: Millions fled (East Germany alone ~3.5 million left 1949 – 1961);
Total Eastern Bloc deaths ~1 million from repression and related causes.
♦️Vietnam (post-1975 communist unification): ~1 million de*ths from re-education camps, boat people exodus, and economic policies. Over 1 million fled as refugees.
♦️Cuba (post-1959 revolution): Tens of thousands executed or died in prisons/labor camps; over 1 -2 million emigrated in waves since 1959 due to repression and economic failure.
♦️Venezuela 2010s – present: Over 7 million emigrated due to hyperinflation, shortages, and collapse. Excess de*ths estimated in the hundreds of thousands from malnutrition and lack of medicine.
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