• @andrewth09
      link
      910 months ago

      Both the US and Mexico are capitalist democracies. The meme implies that Capitalists built a wall to keep Communists out.

      It’s an awkward meme that doesn’t make much sense.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        410 months ago

        It doesn’t imply that. It says that (some) capitalist states build walls to keep refugees out (like the US and in a way the EU) while (some) communist states build walls to keep (potential) refugees in (like the GDR)

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          210 months ago

          Agreed. And the (probably unintended) irony is that the Berlin Wall was ostensibly built in order to keep the capitalists out. Be careful what you wish for, especially when it’s a wall. They work both ways.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            110 months ago

            You don’t really believe the propaganda of the “Antifaschistischer Schutzwall”. The wall was always to keep GDR citizens in.
            Nobody ever had the intention to keep capitalists out.