Lately I've been doing this as a bit: "listen, I'm not an idealist, I believe in practical policies supported by data and the fact is that even at its worst the Soviet GULAG system had fewer prisoners serving shorter sentences than any of its contemporaries which is an incremental improvement that any rational person should be supportive of." Apply it to basically anything any communist government did or does, instant gold.
Lately I've been doing this as a bit: "listen, I'm not an idealist, I believe in practical policies supported by data and the fact is that even at its worst the Soviet GULAG system had fewer prisoners serving shorter sentences than any of its contemporaries which is an incremental improvement that any rational person should be supportive of." Apply it to basically anything any communist government did or does, instant gold.