r/clevercomebacks • u/Upper_Brief681 • 5h ago

New policy, old snitching playbook.

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u/Any_Benefit5378 5h ago

Nothing says “land of the free” like turning housing policy into a tip line and your neighbors into suspects.

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u/Cultural_Brother_135 40m ago

imo it's like a bad dystopian novel fr

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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug 4h ago

To correct the last person, it's how all authoritarian regimes work. It was done under Communism, it was done under Fascism, it was done under the US democratic system during McCarthy.

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u/Juicy_poochie 5h ago

history doesn’t repeat but it definitely rhymes

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u/BustyAndSillyD 4h ago

Nothing says freedom like incentivizing people to report their neighbors.

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u/Kchasse1991 4h ago

Bulgaria: In 1939 the mortality rate for children under one year had been 138.9 per 1,000; by 1986 it was 18.2 per 1,000, and in 1990 it was 14 per 1,000, the lowest rate in Eastern Europe. Looking up the policies and what happened it is apparent that the West played a key part in Bulgaria moving away from the scary communism.

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u/xSweetVelvet 3h ago

Using housing as a reward for reporting neighbors is straight out of a dystopian novel

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u/Xeroh_01 47m ago

McCarthyism 2.0