We are literally comparing bad stuff. Did you forget what started this conversation? A statement that progressivism was worse than communism. So yeah, I am comparing the two to find out which is worse. Everything progressivism has done, communism did more of in a crueler manner.Who cares about that? They are both horrible. One doesn't excuse the other. What are you trying to say?
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The ideology that did the bad thing (communism, as it happened in china) is at least as bad as who encouraged it.It was only there in the first place because the people in America like Fauci were trying to do their illegal gain of function research in a country it wasn't banned in.