“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.

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.

Plants are green because the sun is green, duh

It’s a 32-34% increase looking at the graph

But you don’t get that percentage from looking at the graph. You get that from looking at the numbers.
The graph height increases by 300% in the last 3 months 9 days.