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More like: People on the internet being critical of the current system, Americans on the internet saying "COMMUNISM BAD" as if USSR style state capitalism is the only other possible option.
How else would it work? You need some power structure that actively forbids a free market and private ownership. And that power will sooner or later be abused.
You can't just imagine some utopia where nobody has to work, and everything is free, and call that communism.
Uhm… who exactly is doing that last part, other than bad-faith actors?
People that don't see any problem with communism? Where the first and obvious problem is that it's inherently (and ironically) a fascist system...