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I mean, for the 2019 election they put forward 2 candidates then we, the European voters, got to vote in the elections for EU parliament, then a third candidate won.

That does not inspire confidence in the Spitzenkandidat system.

True, I didn't find any major publications confirming it. All the articles that do were published on the same day.
I just wanted to provide additional info, which curiously seems to have been disliked by people?

Seven wannabe European Commission chiefs — and one seeking to extend her reign — are going up against each other in the first debate of the EU election campaign.

Who’s going to come out on top? And can anyone beat incumbent Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?

Who cares?
The commission president isn't determined by the EU election but backdoor deals between governments.

It's always good to question unknown sources but Euronews seems to report the same thing:
https://www.euronews.com/2024/04/30/swedish-police-to-investigate-reports-of-information-leaks-to-violent-gangs

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=euronews.com

“Mao wasn’t a communist in 1953 because his country hadn’t completed its first five year plan yet” is one hell of a claim.

One hell of a straw man, you mean.
At what point have I denied that people are communists?
Mao may be a communist and follow a philosophy called communism but China has not established a social order called communism as envisioned by communists.

A country [...] under a revolutionary socialist government is still communist

I would argue that in a world where the terms are not synonymous, socialist countries are in fact socialist, not communist.

at least in so far as its following the roadmap

Following a roadmap to some target literally means that you have not yet achieved that target.
The argument is not that their are no communists, the argument is that they have not established actual communism, therefore the states they govern are not communist states.
Whether or not they want to establish communism does not factor into it.

To claim otherwise would be akin to claiming that a company on a roadmap to profitability is already profitable, while actually still losing money.

I mean, OP asked specifically why comments don't come from

people that never lived in a communist state

So I addressed the non-existence of communist states.

True, there can be smaller communist societies but I think OP was asking more on a USSR level scale and not 12 hippies living on a farm together.

You’re not going to break the Cuban blockade. You’re not going to settle the endless territorial disputes plaguing Vietnam. You’re not going to undo the legacy of generations of apartheid in South Africa overnight. You’re not going to Make the USSR Great Again.

So maybe save yourself some angst and stop trying to tell Nicholas Maduro and Kim Jung Un how to do their jobs

All these "you"s make me think that you might addressing me personally.
I make no claim to solve anything, nor how anyone should do their job.
I have provided an (incomplete) explanation as to what communism is, why it does not actually exist in practice and why therefore people commenting cannot be from a communist state.

Sorry, germans

Naa, basst scho. Wenns'd as brauchst, I vergunn's da.

every “communist” when pushed will take position on atrocities committed by various communists regimes… they gonna do that thing that “fascists” do: “well he really did not do it but if he did, they clearly deserved it”

I have never encountered that argument. Is that something Tankies say?
What I have seen is the often mocked argument, that these regimes were not communist in the first place.
Actual communism has never existed and probably never will.
There are however plenty of communists that will openly denounce stalinism. That is the entire premise of Animal Farm, btw.

Communism is by definition a society without a state, so nobody has ever lived in a communist state and I doubt there has ever been a communist society in recorded history.

the German approach of having silent Sundays

Except if you live near a semi-popular street. Then you still have constant traffic noise.

Plants are green because the sun is green, duh

Employers in Germany have to bear half of the mandatory social security contributions.
This is on top of gross salary and includes mandatory health insurance.

Ach da brauchen sie sich keine Sorgen machen.
Wagenknecht steht fest für linke Positionen wie Nationalismus, Russlandnähe und den Kampf gegen die woken "Lifestyle-Linken".
Keine Chance, dass Rechte eine so ideologisch gefestigte Partei unterwandern.

Für Leute, die den Artikel nicht gelesen haben:

Der Weiterbetrieb von Mastodon sei durch die Entscheidung des Finanzamts aber nicht gefährdet, betont Rochko, da Patreon keinen gemeinnützigen Status voraussetzt und Einkünfte von Patreon nicht als Spenden gelten.
Tatsächlich habe Mastodon seit 2021 keine einzige Spendenquittung ausgestellt.

Nur wenn die Redaktion Hinweise von außen erhalten hätte, dann wäre das ein Anlass für Überprüfungen gewesen.

Tattoo-Studios namens „Asgard“

Countdown bis dem ersten Unionspolitiker die Hutschnur platzt, weil Gesellschaft und Justiz der regressiven Unionspolitik um Jahre voraus sind,
in 3.. 2.. 1..

Die gesamte Spaßpartei FDP ist Satire.

Hey, I've seen this one!